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英文課程概要
English Course Description |
The term ‘Culture Studies’ is now well known as the title of an important set of theories and practices within the humanities and social sciences. As a subject, the word ‘culture’ in cultural studies is not artifice and manners; the preservation of Sunday best, rainy afternoons and concert halls. It is the very material of our daily lives, the bricks and mortar of our most commonplace understandings. What we wear, hear, watch and eat; now we see ourselves in relation to others; the function of everyday activities such as cooking or shopping: all of these have attracted the interest of cultural studies. So we can say this field is dedicated to the study of cultural processes and especially of popular culture. While the field is now achieving recognition, it is not a discrete or homogeneous formation, nor is it easy to define. In this course, we try, through the process of defining and delineating ‘Culture Studies’, as well as understanding its fundamental theories and history, to bring a thorough comprehension to this inter-disciplinary field. This course will introduce important theoreticians in culture studies like:Richard Hoggart、 Ramond Williams、E. P. Thompson、Stuart Hall and their relevant treatises. In addition, many key concepts in culture studies and their roots of thought will also be introduced, including: Ferdinand de Saussure’s theory of language, Roland Barthes and Semiotics, Louis Althusser and the notions of ‘overdeterming’ and ‘ideology state apparatus’. Antonio Gramsci and the notion of ‘ideological hegemony’, Michel Foucault and the notion of ‘discourse’, Jacques Lacan and the post-Freudian notion of ‘subjectivity’. It also includes studies in culture transformation in the context of globalization, post modernism and post-colonialism with a goal of increasing student awareness of cultural studies as a continuing field of study. |
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