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Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Minor

Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
College of Liberal Arts
  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2013
  • Required credits in this minor: 18
Courses in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL) pursue questions and ways of knowing that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Students study culture as a set of complex connections and interrelations: between texts and everyday life, ideas and the material world, and discourse and power.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Students may earn a B.A. or a minor in cultural studies and comparative literature, but not both.
Preparatory Courses
CSCL 1001W - Introduction to Cultural Studies [AH, DSJ, WI] (3.0 cr)
or CSCL 1101W - Literature [LITR, WI] (3.0 cr)
or CSCL 1201W - Cinema [AH, WI] (4.0 cr)
or CSCL 1301W - Reading Culture: Theory and Practice [AH, WI] (3.0 cr)
or CSCL 1401W - Reading Literature: Theory and Practice [LITR, WI] (3.0 cr)
or CSCL 1501W - Reading History: Theory and Practice [HIS, WI] (3.0 cr)
or CSCL 1921W {Inactive} [AH, WI] (4.0 cr)
Minor Courses
Take 14 or more credit(s) from the following:
· CSCL 3xxx
· CSCL 4xxx
· CSCL 5xxx
 
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CSCL 1001W - Introduction to Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Culture is a site of struggle, over meanings, values, history, and reality. This course introduces students to cultural studies as a conceptual, interpretive, and interdisciplinary approach to the role that culture plays in defining reality and to the possibilities for contesting those definitions. Through exploring the rituals and practices of culture that shape our perceptions of the world, often in ways we take for granted, the course seeks to develop a critical understanding of the relationships between individual and society, representation and reality, as well as theory and practice.
CSCL 1101W - Literature (LITR, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
What is literature? Today the term literature embraces all things printed, from fiction to nonfiction to advertising (yes, even your junk mail), from highbrow to low. This course will take a comparative view of the term literature as well as its ideas, practices, and forms. Given that literature historically has been tied to writing, to print, or to the book, what does it mean to study literature today?in an age when the book (and possibly print itself) may be vanishing?
CSCL 1201W - Cinema (AH, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: ArtH 1921W/CSCL 1201W/SCMC 120
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to the critical study of the visual in modernity, presented through sustained analysis of the cinema and cinematic codes. Emphases on formal film analysis and major film movements and conventions in the international history of cinema. Students develop a vocabulary for formal visual analysis and explore major theories of the cinema. *Students will not receive credit for CSCL 1201W if they have already taken SCMC 1201W, CSCL 1201V, SCMC 1201V, ARTH 1921W, CSCL 1921W, CSCL 1201 or SCMC 1201
CSCL 1301W - Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (AH, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
CSCL 1401W - Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (LITR, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
CSCL 1501W - Reading History: Theory and Practice (HIS, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.