HU 150 - Introduction to Cultural Studies

4. Cultural Competence: Understand diverse interpersonal and cultural perspectives through analysis of scholarly or creative works

1. Students will identify and explain theoretical frameworks and modes of criticism in cultural studies such as psychoanalytic, Marxist, poststructuralist, postmodern, postcolonial, critical race, critical disability, feminist / gender, lesbian / gay / queer, new historical, and ecocritical.
2. Students will analyze and interpret a diverse body of literary, performing, and visual arts using concepts offered by theoretical and critical approaches in cultural studies. (GELO 3) 
3. Students will discuss and analyze social identities theorized in cultural studies such as class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sex, sexuality, ability, and nationality. (GELO 4)
4. Students will explain and evaluate political, economic, religious, and philosophical values and value systems theorized in the field of cultural studies.
5. Students will explain and analyze social relations and interactions of concern to the field of cultural studies such as familial, communal, national, colonial, imperial, international, global, cyber, and virtual. 
6. Students will discuss and analyze environments, settings, and spaces theorized in cultural studies, namely rural / agrarian, suburban, urban, industrial, preindustrial, postindustrial, utopian, dystopian, developing / developed world, cyberspace, virtual, fantasy, and outer space.
7. Students will identify and analyze their values, identities, relationships, and environments using the tools of cultural studies.

    a. Overview of the Field

II. Cultural Theory(ies) 

    a. Key Thinkers

    b. Key Concepts

III. Theoretical Frameworks / Schools of Criticism

   a. Psychoanalytic

   b. Marxist

   c. Postmodern

   d. Postcolonial

   e. Critical Race

   f. Critical Disability

   g. Feminist / Gender

   h. Lesbian / Gay / Queer

   i. New Historical 

   j. Ecocritical