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Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature B.A.Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
College of Liberal Arts
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, discourse and power.
The CSCL major strives for a broad, international scope, ranging widely across history and geography. The central focus is on the cultural mechanisms through which a society's ways of knowing, value systems, and individual and collective identities are generated, disseminated, challenged, and reinvented. The goal of the program is to produce critical and self-critical readers prepared to actively participate in the intellectual conversations and social struggles that shape global culture in our time.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 4 semester(s) of
any second language.
with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department
or college.
Students must complete a minimum of 10 courses for the major: 2 introductory (1xxx) courses, plus 7 upper-division courses. To allow for flexibility, the tenth course may be taken at any level. At least one upper-division course in the major must be writing intensive.
Note for CSCL/CL/CSDS topics courses (3910, 5910), directed studies (3993, 4993, 5993), and internships: students may count a maximum of 3 toward the major, with no more than two in any one category (two topics courses; two directed studies/internships). Such courses may count as electives without prior approval, or as major courses with prior written approval from the CSCL undergraduate adviser or director of undergraduate studies. For both internships and directed studies, students work with a faculty member of their choice to complete and submit a Faculty/Student Contract outlining the goals and scope of coursework. The course number of the internship or directed study should be selected appropriate to the home department (3993, 4993, or 5993).
In exceptional cases, courses from other units may be substituted for department major courses if approved by the undergraduate adviser or the director of undergraduate studies. All major coursework must be taken A-F.
Students may earn a B.A. or a minor in cultural studies and comparative literature, but not both.
Beginning fall 2012, all incoming CLA freshmen must complete the appropriate First Year Experience course sequence. Specific information about this collegiate requirement can be found at: http://class.umn.edu/degree_requirements/index.html
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 1301W - Reading Culture: Theory and Practice
[AH, WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
CSCL 1401W - Reading Literature: Theory and Practice
[LITR, WI]
(3.0 cr)
CSCL 1201W - Cinema
[AH, WI]
(4.0 cr)
or
CSCL 1501W - Reading History: Theory and Practice
[HIS, WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
CSCL 1921W {Inactive}
[AH, WI]
(4.0 cr)
Major Courses
Take at least one course from at least three of the four sub-fields: Discursive Practices and Genres, Subjectivity and History, Ideologies and Disciplines, and Critical Theories and Methods. The remaining two courses can be taken in the sub-fields, or in any CSCL 3xxx. Note: some students may have to take additional electives to reach the minimum 32 credits required for graduation.
Take 5 or more course(s) from the following:
The Subfields
Take 3 - 5 course(s) from the following:
Discursive Practices and Genres
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 3251 - Popular Music and Mass Culture
[AH]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3310W - The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
[CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3120 - Poetry as Cultural Critique
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3231 - Comedy: Media, Politics & Society
[AH]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3221 - On Television
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3212W - Documentary Cinema: History and Politics
[AH, CIV, WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3122 - Movements and Manifestos
[LITR]
(3.0 cr)
·
Subjectivity and History
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture
[DSJ, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation
[HIS, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3334 - Monsters, Robots, Cyborgs
[LITR]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3335 - Aliens: Science Fiction to Social Theory
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3472 {Inactive}
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3130W - Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory: 1700 to the Present
[LITR, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
Ideologies and Disciplines
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 3210 - Cinema and Ideology
[AH]
(4.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3211 - Global and Transnational Cinemas
[GP]
(4.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3322 - Visions of Nature: The Natural World and Political Thought
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3979 {Inactive}
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
Critical Theories and Methods
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 3425W - Critical Theory and Social Change
[AH, DSJ, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3323 - Science and Culture
[AH]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3412W - Psychoanalysis
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3413W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3111W - Close Reading
[LITR, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3117 - Concepts of Literary Study
[LITR]
(3.0 cr)
·
Remaining Coursework
Take 0 - 2 course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 3xxx
·
Take additional courses from the subfields.
Electives
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 1xxx
·
CSCL 2xxx
·
CSCL 3xxx
·
CSCL 4xxx
·
CSCL 5xxx
Take 2 or more course(s) from the following:
·
CSCL 4xxx
·
CSCL 5xxx
Senior Project
The senior project requirement is fulfilled by completing one of the following options as part of the 32-credit graduation minimum:
(1) Completion of a project within a directed study (CSCL 3993, 4993, 5993)
(2) Completion of a project within a 3xxx or 4xxx course (arrangement with instructor)
(3) Completion of coursework, including substantial writing, in any CSCL 5xxx course
(4) Completion of an Honors thesis or project
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