2023
Studies of Culture
Name: Studies of Culture
Code: LLT13514L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Literature
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To understand the founding principles and development of the notion of Culture and its disciplinary frontiers in modernity.
To provide critical and analytical consciousness of the complexity and value of Culture;
To know the moments and main schools of thought that generated Cultural Studies;
To provide a critical perception of the modern and contemporary human cultures;
To provide students the necessary competences that acknowledge Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary project, which operates in the intersection of Culture with other social and material signifying practices.
Students must acknowledge the challenges of the contemporary cultural context grounded on core historical developments. They will have acquired the capacity of critical and reflexive communication to think and to write about History, Society and Culture; they will also have acquired the knowledge about the importance of cultural questions as a support for the intelligibility of the contemporary world.
To provide critical and analytical consciousness of the complexity and value of Culture;
To know the moments and main schools of thought that generated Cultural Studies;
To provide a critical perception of the modern and contemporary human cultures;
To provide students the necessary competences that acknowledge Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary project, which operates in the intersection of Culture with other social and material signifying practices.
Students must acknowledge the challenges of the contemporary cultural context grounded on core historical developments. They will have acquired the capacity of critical and reflexive communication to think and to write about History, Society and Culture; they will also have acquired the knowledge about the importance of cultural questions as a support for the intelligibility of the contemporary world.
Contents
1. Towards a definition of Culture: foundations and developments
2. Culture as a conception of the world and as a problem
3. The human culture and the notion of cultural elements
4. The tradition of Culture and Civilization
5. From literary to cultural studies a new paradigm
6. Culture and society new contexts of experience
7. Culture and representation new signifying practices
8. The grammar of Cultural Studies
8.1. Identity and gender; race and nation
8.2. Popular culture, mass culture and industries of culture
8.3. A new World Order
8.3.1. Modernity and Post-Modernity
8.3.2. Multiculturalism and Post-Colonialism
8.4. Culture and Discourses
8.4.1. Globalization and Communication
8.4.2. Local Cultures and the Modern World
8.4.3. Visual Culture; the media
2. Culture as a conception of the world and as a problem
3. The human culture and the notion of cultural elements
4. The tradition of Culture and Civilization
5. From literary to cultural studies a new paradigm
6. Culture and society new contexts of experience
7. Culture and representation new signifying practices
8. The grammar of Cultural Studies
8.1. Identity and gender; race and nation
8.2. Popular culture, mass culture and industries of culture
8.3. A new World Order
8.3.1. Modernity and Post-Modernity
8.3.2. Multiculturalism and Post-Colonialism
8.4. Culture and Discourses
8.4.1. Globalization and Communication
8.4.2. Local Cultures and the Modern World
8.4.3. Visual Culture; the media
Teaching Methods
Teaching is based on in-class collective sessions prepared with the previous readings that arise debate and dialogue around the topics of the syllabus, as well as their full understanding. The rising autonomous work of the students is crucial and their commitment outside formal classes and process of teaching and learning, namely in the individual or group project development within the proposed contents. Assessment follows the norms of the University Regulations. It is preferably continuous (2 tests or 1 test and project in any situation each is worth 50%). Students can also sit exam 100%. (1st, 2nd , extraordinary and special call).
Teaching Staff
- Ana Clara de Sousa Birrento Matos Silva [responsible]
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