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Instructors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.133
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
2,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
The lecture concludes with a 30-minute take-home exam in the final session. A mock exam will be made available during the semester.
Contents:
This lecture aims at providing students with a solid understanding of key elements in cultural theory from the relations of culture and power conceptualised by philosophers such as Gramsci and Foucault to contemporary developments. Students will relate theoretical terms to past and current media phenomena, institutions and practices as well as to social and political issues. In the process they will develop an understanding of theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
This interactive online lecture will familiarise students with the basic theories of cultural studies. It will define the field and the meanings of culture first and then discuss theories connected with power, ideology, and identity - including those of gender, sexuality, race, and class.
Students will be asked to read one key text (usually an essay or an extract from a longer work) in each session.
Recommended reading list:
Simon During, Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2005.
Simon During, The Cultural Studies Reader. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2007.
Michael Ryan, ed. Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Malden, Mass. et al.: Blackwell, 2008.
Digital teaching:
The course will be conducted in an online format (via the Learning Management System called JGU-LMS Moodle in asynchronic and synchronic weekly seminars):
https://lms.uni-mainz.de/moodle/login/index.php
If you have registered for the course, please go to L133 on JGU-LMS Moodle, which is where you will find all announcements, information and materials for the course including a central forum for questions and answers regarding the course organisation.
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