This course provides a broad introduction to the comparative study of peoples, cultures, and languages from major regions of the world. Topical themes may include health, the environment, language, ...

Cultural studies draw inspiration from the disciplines of both the social sciences and humanities. Students in Cultural Studies explore the vast array of techniques, institutions, and media through ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Key Words is committed to developing the tradition of cultural materialism derived from the founding analysis of culture and ...

The Department of American Cultural Studies provides an interdisciplinary hub for collaboration, creativity, and transformation that informs research, teaching, and community outreach. Our teaching ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

Introduction / W. David Kingery -- Part one. Paradigms for material culture studies. Material/culture: can the farmer and the cowman still be friends / Jules D. Prown -- Part two. Material culture in ...

Classes listed under Cultural Electives, Part A, may also be used to satisfy this requirement, but the same course cannot be used for both requirements (a minimum of 36 semester hours are required for ...

This course is designed to enable students to explore special topics in cultural studies in an intensive graduate seminar setting. See HMS website for descriptions of topics being offered in a given ...

For over three decades, the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been a vibrant hub for intellectual exploration. The center brings together a multidisciplinary ...