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   Cultural Studies Upper Level Courses 2009-2010
  Cultural Studies course offerings will vary from year to year.  The schedule detailing times and instructors can be found here .

Cultural Studies analyzes culture and produces new forms of understanding in regard to cultural objects, texts, ideas, and practices. Cultural Studies is concerned with    representation, cultural production, and the practices of everyday life. As an interdisciplinary practice it involves the study of  certain specific concerns:  the construction of racial, gender, national, class, or sexual identities; the experience of power; and the issues of social change.

The Cultural Studies major empowers you as a critic and theorist of both historical and contemporary cultural activities. You will take Cultural Studies courses along with courses from other disciplines like English, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies, etc,  that flow within the following three streams: 

1. Media Studies draws from studies of communications, film, and television to examine how different forms of representation alter being whether in print, film, television, Internet,or emergent digital technologies.
2. Global Cultural Studies examines the impact of colonialism and globalization on forms of cultural production and representation, transnational cultural relationships, and the formation of local and global identities.
3. Critical and Cultural Theory provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for the study of cultural production, representation, and practices in consideration of effects on class, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and power.

The undergraduate program in Cultural Studies enjoys an affiliation with UBC Vancouver's Centre for Culture, Identity and Education http://ccie.educ.ubc.ca/ccieassociates.html .

For more information, contact Dr. Daniel Keyes at daniel.keyes@ubc.ca

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