School of Liberal Arts: Cultural Studies
2008-2009 Academic Year
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FREN 301 Franco Women Writers in Translation
HISB 312 West African Culture and Society
HISB 322 Africa and Hollywood: Myth, Romance, and Savage Imagery
HISU 381 Southern Folk Culture
LAST 301 The Cultural Heritage of Latin America, Discovery to Independence
LAST 302 The Cultural Heritage of Latin America, Independence to Present
SPAN 483 Hispanic Literature Topics in Translation: Renaissance Performances
of Gender; Spanish Performances of the Subject; Culture and Technologies in
Spanish America; Anatomies of Melancholy
A cluster area of concentration consists of three courses (from at least two
different departments) focused around an issue or problem in culture that
demands interdisciplinary study. The cluster areas enable sustained analysis of
how these problems or issues have been represented in specific historical and
social contexts. Currently, the cultural studies cluster areas of concentration are:
Performances of Culture
This cluster allows students to investigate the role of performance as a way of
representing important values and beliefs about the world. Courses address the
creation and interpretation of performances in institutionalized theatre, festivals,
political events, storytelling circles, etc. By examining the performative
dimensions of, for example, racial stereotypes and national identities, these
courses explore ways in which cultural status and values are represented for and
by individuals through performances in both aesthetic and social contexts.
(Three of the following):
CLAS 320 Greek Religion
ENLS 483 Race, Class, and Gender: Primitivism and Modernism; Machine
Dreams
ENLS 484 Performance Studies
MUSC 335 Music in Contemporary Society
SPAN 483 Hispanic Literature Topics in Translation: Renaissance Performances
of Gender; Spanish Performances of the Subject
Natures, Technologies, Cultures
This cluster examines how the intersection of the natural/human and the
technological/human have been represented in scientific, medical, philosophical,
aesthetic, and other discourses. Courses in the cluster area explore how a range of
popular and scholarly scientific discourses and technologies have influenced how
people think about and represent human bodies, diseases, and ways of organizing
and understanding nature. Other courses focus on how technologies such as
handwriting and computers have been represented and interpreted as extensions of
or substitution for the natural and the human.
(Three of the following):
COMM 426 Contemporary Culture and the Body
ENLS 483 Race, Class, and Gender: Machine Dreams