Cultural Studies Minor: 18 Semester Hours

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Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field in which the traditional concerns of the humanities and social sciences intersect. Cultural Studies’ understanding of “culture” includes objects and practices (popular or mass culture, for example) not normally associated with the definition of culture as art or taste. Cultural Studies is devoted to the interpretation of cultural productions (for example: architecture, film, fashion, food, popular music, architecture, and cityscapes) as texts worthy of serious study.

This minor introduces students to the history of cultural theory, including the Frankfurt and Birmingham Schools, and the methodologies employed in the discipline of Cultural Studies. The study of cultural theory will borrow from various disciplines, including anthropology, folklore, feminism, film, philosophy, and photography. Students will also learn to use a critical interpretive vocabulary in analyses of cultural productions.

WHY MINOR IN CULTURAL STUDIES?

• Cultural Studies is an innovative and emerging interdisciplinary field that encourages the critical study of diverse cultural texts and phenomena, including film, literature, music, and the visual arts
• The Minor invites students to create personalized focused areas of study that allow individual students the opportunity to pursue specific areas of interest
• 6 of the 18 credits can be used toward both the minor and a major; if you are majoring in such fields as English, History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology, or Economics, the Minor is easy to complete, and you can use your Cultural Studies’ concentration area to augment your major filed of study
• You may have taken classes in your General Education coursework that you could use toward your Cultural Studies concentration area

Required Core Credits: 9 semester hours

• ENG 238 Introduction to Folklore (3)
• ENG 347 Cultural Studies (3)
• ENG 495 Advanced Cultural Studies [Variable Topics Course] (3)

Required Elective Credit: 9 semester hours selected to form the student’s designated focus area

Interested? Contact Michael Kramp (Michael.Kramp@unco.edu) 351-2130; Ross Hall 1190A)

Dr. Michael Kramp
Director, Cultural Studies Minor
Department of English
Ross Hall 1190A
501 20th St.
Campus Box 109
Greeley, CO 80639
970-351-2130
970-351-3378 (fax)

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