Critical Theory

Useful Resource Pages:

• Critical Theory
• Contemporary Culture
• Continental Philosophy
• Jae Jerkins' "Humanities Themes in Film" Page
• Course Wiki

Weekly Schedule & Class Pages

• Introduction
  • Week 1: Introduction; Being Blonde
  • Week 2: Critical and Cultural Theory Background
    
    
• Reading Culture
  • Week 3: Reading Culture: Approaches to Culture
  • Week 4-5: Reading Culture: Semiotics
    • Cultural Theory Concepts for the First Assignment
  • Week 6: Interpreting Media
    
    
• Review and Midterm
  • Week 7
    
    
• Frankfurt School: Culture and Politics
  • Week 8-9
    
    
• Sites of Cultural Critique and Identity Production: Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation
  • Week 10
    
    
• Cultural Production and the Place of Technology
  • Week 11
    
    
• Critical Theory and Place/Space
  • Week 12
    
    
• Contemporary Critical Theory: Traditionalism, Modernism & Postmodernism
  • Week 13
    
    
• Cultural Resistance
  • Week 14
    
    
• Wrap-Up
  • Week 15 - take home final exam