BS Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with, or operating through, social phenomena. These include ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Employing cultural analysis, cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes. Cultural studies combines a variety of politically engaged critical approaches drawn including semiotics, Marxism, feminist theory, ethnography, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, social theory, political theory, history, philosophy, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, communication studies, political economy, translation studies, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies and historical periods. Cultural studies seeks to understand how meaning is generated, disseminated, contested, bound up with systems of power and control, and produced from the social, political and economic spheres within a particular social formation or conjuncture. The movement has generated important theories of cultural hegemony and agency. Its practitioners attempt to explain and analyze the cultural forces related and processes of globalization.

Core Courses

  • Art, Community and Public Sphere
  • Museum Matters
  • Introduction to Museums and Materiality
  • Information Communication Technologies in Education
  • A Science of Society
  • Propaganda and activism in Art
  • Theories of Art and Culture
  • Civic and Community Engagement
  • History of Art
  • Introduction to Field Research

Eligibility Criteria

  • A minimum score of 50%  an intermediate or equivalent.
  • They also need to pass an entrance exam.

Scope

Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines how meaning is created in social structures. It draws from a variety of academic fields, including

  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
  • Politics
  • History
  • Economics
  • Philosophy
  • Literature

 

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