Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 680C - Cultural Studies And Composition
| Effectivity: | 08/20/2007 - 12/15/2007 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Cultural Studies &Comp |
| Description: | Cultural studies can be considered as a series of interrelated (and interdisciplinary) practices working towards reading, theorizing, diagnosing, politicizing, and responding to culture. This course will explore these various trajectories as they have emerged in 19th/20th century theoretical work on culture. First, we will focus on selected primary texts that inform contemporary cultural studies, including readings in Nietzsche, psychoanalysis, the Situationist International, and the Frankfurt and Birmingham Schools. Next, we will read some texts integral to the consolidation of cultural studies proper in America (Grossberg, Nelson, and many more). We will single out important issues such as ideology, identity politics, pop culture, thematics of difference, urbanization, subcultures, and so on. Then we will turn to texts that attempt to bridge rhetoric and composition and cultural studies straightforwardly (Berlin, Brodkey, Bizzell, etc.) or skewedly (Ulmer, Sirc, Edbauer, etc.), which will also address bringing cultural studies into the writing classroom (i.e., what does a cultural studies composition class look like; what kinds of work and writing does it produce?). Lastly, we will consider some critiques of cultural studies and explore ways of re/conceiving what cultural studies is or could be today. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
