Universität Wien

120011 VO Approaching Cultural Studies (2025W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
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Tu 09.12. 15:00-16:30 Hörsaal B UniCampus Hof 2 2C-EG-02

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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 08.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Monday 13.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Monday 27.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Friday 07.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 12.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 19.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 26.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 03.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 10.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 17.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 07.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 14.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 21.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course introduces students to theoretical approaches, key methods, and selected issues relevant to the study of culture and in particular the role of contemporary media such as film, radio, and television as an object of cultural studies. We discuss how culture is created, preserved, and transformed and analyse its changing meaning and role in societies across time and place. Major focal points of the course include the historical development of culture, concepts of culture in different national contexts, oral tradition, folk culture, popular culture, the rise of modern mass-culture and post-modern neo-liberal consumer culture, culture in relation to ideology and subversion, the culture industry, cultural memory, cultural icons, and cross-cultural representations of the Other. The aim of the course is to equip students with a critical toolkit to understand how culture is made and consumed through a range of forms (oral, written, intangible and material, aural and visual), investigating dynamics of representation, knowledge, and power in relation to identity constructions.

Assessment and permitted materials

The course will be assessed by one written final exam (in person). The exam will be on site, consist of two parts, 30 questions, 60 minutes; Part I: 25 multiple choice (25 points); Part II: 5 open questions (15 points); Hilfsmittel/use of study aids not permitted.

Pass Rate: 60% (24 points out of 40)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular attendance of lectures; critical awareness of theoretical and methodological concepts and key issues covered in class and with the set readings; successful completion of the exam (with no supportive material).

Pass Rate: 60% (24 points out of 40)

1: 100 – 90%
2: 89,99 – 80%
3: 79,99 – 70%
4: 69,99 – 60%
5: 59,99% and below

Examination topics

The examination is based on all the material covered on the course.

Reading list

Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn, Introducing Cultural Studies, New York: Routledge, 2016.

John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, New York: Routledge, 2024.

Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, London: Penguin Books, 2016.

Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, New York: Routledge, 2001.

Milja Radovic, Transnational Cinema and Ideology: Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths, New York: Routledge, 2018.

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Towards a Third Cinema, Cineaste, 4:3, 1970-71.

Astrid Erll, Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory, Cultural Memory Studies, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2010.

Association in the course directory

Studium: EC 124;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0272

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