Course

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Week 1 Introduction to Culture Week 2 Introduction to Key Concepts (pg. 1-16) Week 3 Key Concepts (continued) Week 4 Questions of Culture and Ideology (pg. 17-34) Week 5 Questions of Culture and Ideology (continued) Week 6 Culture, Meaning, Knowledge (pg. 35-41) Week 7 Postmodernism (pg. 43-60) Week 8 Postmodernism (continued) Week 9 Sex, Subjectivity and Representation (pg. 63-80) Week 10 Sex, Subjectivity and Representation (continued) Week 11 Youth, Style and Resistance (pg. 81-97) Week 12 Youth, Style and Resistance (continued) Week 13 Review

Description:

This course introduces to key concepts in cultural studies. There is an elementary look at ‘classic’ texts in cultural studies –Kant, Marx, Freud– and then there is a move to the establishment of cultural studies as a discipline, looking at texts from the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham School, Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz and others. The rest of the course charts the areas modern Cultural Studies cover, looking at topics such as (new) media, consumption cultures, cyborgs, post-modernism, gender studies, etc.

Evaluation strategy:

 

• Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative)
• Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative)

 

Teaching/Learning approach:

Students will learn to differentiate key concepts of cultural analysis and familiarize themselves with its various research methodologies. The introduction to cultural analysis will inform the student’s understanding of cultural phenomena. S/he will learn to take a critical approach to the cultural sphere

Target Group(s) :

• culture educators, historians, language educators, HE students

Assessment Methods:

 

• Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative)
• Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative)

 

Competences: Intercultural awareness, Communication, Networking, Creativity, Ctitical thinking

Subject: Language, Pedagogy and didactics, Professional development

Certification: Yes

Competence Oriented Approach:

 

• Apply knowledge in practice
• Adapt to new situations
• Work autonomously
• Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
• Respect natural environment
• Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
• Be critical and self-critical
• Advance free, creative and causative thinking

 

European Dimension Guaranteed:

The course is also offered to exchange programme students.

Documentation Certification: yes

Date/s of the Course:

• from 2019-10-01 to 2020-02-28

Course Website: https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600154633

Name of the organising institute: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Website: https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600154633

Where to apply:

Aikaterini Gouleti

Laboratory Teaching Staff, School of English Language and Literature

agouleti@enl.auth.gr

EQF level: 6

ECTS/ECVET Points: 6