ENGL 2207 - Introduction to Culture and Media Studies

Credits: 3

This course introduces students to the field of media and cultural studies. Students will be exposed to critical approaches that have shaped the fields of media and cultural studies including Marxist criticism, feminist criticism, critical race studies, post-colonial criticism, post-modern criticism, and queer studies, among others. In particular, students will study the works of cultural critics such as Theodor Adorno from the Frankfurt school, Guy Debord from the situationist international, as well as post-modern and neo-Marxist scholars like Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson. Students will further familiarize themselves with the birth and intellectual development of cultural studies in the United Kingdom, as well as the United States. Prereq: ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1102, and ENGL 1105 lecture hours 3