AR35R: Graduate Colloquium in Cultural Studies
Note: All classes will be held on Fridays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Faculty of Humanities Graduate Conference Room
Semester 1
| Week |
Topic |
| Week 1 |
What is Culture? |
| Week 2 |
Introduction to Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory. |
| Week 3 |
Introduction to Caribbean Cultural Theory and Theorists: Creolization, Hybridization, Resistance. |
| Week 4 |
Historiography of Caribbean Cultural Studies: Social History to Cultural History to Cultural Studies and its effects on Scholarship. |
| Week 5 |
Colonial Theory |
| Week 6 |
Postcolonial & Postmodernist Discourses |
| Week 7 |
Caribbean Postmodernist Discourse |
| Week 8 |
Negotiating Spanish Caribbean Identity
Idea Paper (10 pages – 10%) due, no later that 2pm |
| Week 9 |
The French Caribbean Perspective |
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