Introduction to cultural studies 3224-D2WKUL
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Type of course
Learning outcomes
Brief description: Characteristics of cultural studies as a scientific discipline in Poland and abroad and defining the position of science in culture among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Colloquial, valuating and critical understanding of the term ‘culture’ and its scientific interpretation.
Full description: The aim of the course is to introduce students the scientific understanding of the term ‘culture’, the basic texts in the field of cultural studies and the most important issues about the sciences of culture. The starting point is scientific concepts of the ancient philosophers and first scientific schools of 19th and 20th centuries. Then the principles of the main scientific research directions like Evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism are discussed. The curricula also cover the relations culture-language, culture-individual, culture-civilisation, culture and its transformation.
Course contents: The concept of culture. Culture and nature. Cultural Studies as a research discipline. Various aspects of culture: continuity and variability, social ties, the individual way functions in culture. The symbolic dimension of culture: communication, cultural codes, myths, customs. Tradition and memory in culture. Issues of multiculturalism and the mutual infiltration of cultures. The problem of national minorities. The situation of culture in the globalising world.
1. Introduction to the subject area. Defining the concept of culture – selected definitions and their analysis.
2. Basic concepts and ideas of cultural studies.
3. Defining a human in the categories of culture.
4. Structuralism – structural anthropology.
5. Feministic outlook on the culture.
6. Culture and language.
7. The lingual view on the world.
8. Relations between the generations.
9. Forming social individual – a human in relations with other humans.
10. Social changes in Western civilisation .
11. High culture, popular culture and mass culture.
12. Global changes in the world.
Assessment criteria
The Subject ends with an oral examination on the basis of the material from the lectures and suggested texts
Bibliography
Bibliography:
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