Critical Theory

Useful Resource Pages:

Introduction
- Week 1: Introduction; Being Blonde
- Week 2: Critical and Cultural Theory Background
Reading Culture
- Week 3: Reading Culture: Approaches to Culture
- Week 4-6: Reading Culture: Semiotics
  - Cultural Theory Concepts for the First Assignment
- Week 7: Interpreting Media
Review and Midterm
- Week 8 - questions for the midterm
Frankfurt School: Culture and Politics
- Week 9 & 10
Sites of Cultural Critique and Identity Production: Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation
- Week 11
Cultural Production and the Place of Technology
- Week 12
Contemporary Critical Theory: Modernism & Postmodernism
- Week 13
Cultural Resistance
- Week 14
Wrap-Up
- Week 15 - Take-home Final Exam in HTML and in PDF format