2017-2018-1

ANGMIN8-11-2-1

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

ANGMIN8-11, Culture Survey Course

ANGMIN8-11, Culture Seminar

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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This core seminar is designed to further explore conceptualizations of culture as introduced in the Theories of Culture Lecture – a successful completion of which is a prerequisite to the course. The seminar introduces students to various concepts of culture in modernity and late modernity, breaking with the necessity of seeing culture as the “other” of materiality and social life. The eight themes covered will explore the major areas of the study of culture and their concepts and specificities of approach to 'culture'.
Grading Policy Attendance & Participation: 20%; Position Papers (short, weekly writing assignments related to the readings): 40%; End-Term Test: 40%.
Schedule 1. Orientation – Coward, & Ellis: “The Critique of the Sign”, Zizek: “The Big Other does not exist” 2. Popular Culture – Huyssen: “Mass Culture as Woman”, Storey: “Popular Culture as ‘Other’of High Culture” 3. Sociology of Culture – Bourdieu: “The Market for Symbolic Goods” 4. Postcolonialism – Hall: “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies”, Selby: “Edward W. Said: Truth, Justice and Nationalism”, Holas: “Postmodernity, subalternity and border gnosis” 5. Feminist Approaches – Ahmed: “Authorship”, Butler: “’Dangerous Crossings’: Willa Cather’s Masculine Names” 6. Subcultures & Countercultures – Gelder: “Subcultures and Cultural Studies: Community, class, and style at Birmingham and beyond”, Gelder: “Dandyism, tattoo communities, and leatherfolk” 7. Multiculturalism – Philips: “Between Culture and Cosmos”, Phillips: “What’s Wrong with Cultural Difference?”