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GCST4209: Key Thinkers in Cultural Studies
2023 unit information
Based on a close reading of individual authors, this unit introduces students without in-depth background in cultural theory to key thinkers for contemporary cultural studies. Students will learn how theoretical fields as Western Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, science studies, and environmental thinking have shaped the development of cultural studies. They will also develop skills for relating cultural research to the cross-disciplinary traditions of structuralism and poststructuralism as these have been taken up in different intellectual contexts around the world.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Gender and Cultural Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the significance and place of literary, cultural, critical and social theories in the development and practice of cultural studies
- LO2. understand the central ideas in the work of influential theorists within the field
- LO3. engage closely with complex theoretical texts to understand their key claims, arguments and interventions
- LO4. demonstrate an understanding of the problematics that particular theoretical approaches are concerned with and how they may be used to understand, reframe or address specific situations
- LO5. distinguish between the priorities, concerns and affordances of different theoretical approaches and assess their strengths and limitations in different situations.
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