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Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies. Instructor: Dr. Liza Das, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. This course targets students and faculty of institutions offering undergraduate engineering programmes. It provides a general introduction to the field of Cultural Studies which has emerged as the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences today. It incorporates both the views of culture as a way of life and as a contested site for human discourse and action. Knowledge of key concepts and approaches will equip students to understand and articulate themselves as cultural beings and not simply technologists. As an interdisciplinary course, it will be beneficial to students opting for several HSS courses offered by all engineering colleges and the IITs at the undergraduate level. Universities offering master degree programmes in Cultural Studies can use the content for an introductory course. (from nptel.ac.in)

Understanding Cultural Studies


Introduction
Lecture 01 - Understanding Cultural Studies
Lecture 02 - Understanding Cultural Studies (cont.)
Lecture 03 - Evolution and Culture
Lecture 04 - Evolutionary Psychology
Lecture 05 - The Modern Mind: Its Origins
Lecture 06 - Memetics
Lecture 07 - Cultural Theory: Structuralism
Lecture 08 - Marxism
Lecture 09 - Marxism (cont.)
Lecture 10 - Poststructuralism
Key Concepts
Lecture 11 - Subjectivity
Lecture 12 - Identity
Lecture 13 - Ideology
Lecture 14 - Ideology (cont.)
Lecture 15 - Representation
Lecture 16 - Representation (cont.)
Lecture 17 - Power
Lecture 18 - Discourse
Lecture 19 - Gender
Lecture 20 - Gender (cont.)
Sites
Lecture 21 - The Body
Lecture 22 - Space
Lecture 23 - Time
Lecture 24 - Development
Lecture 25 - Language
Lecture 26 - Ethnicity, Race and Nation
Lecture 27 - Globalisation
Lecture 28 - Consumption
Lecture 29 - Consumption (cont.)
Lecture 30 - Biology
Culture Industries, Cultural Forms
Lecture 31 - Culture Industry
Lecture 32 - Commodity
Lecture 33 - Media
Lecture 34 - Television
Lecture 35 - New Media
Lecture 36 - Science, Technology and Culture
Lecture 37 - Cyberculture
Lecture 38 - Cultural Policy
Lecture 39 - Critiquing Cultural Studies
Lecture 40 - Conclusion

References
Cultural Studies
Instructor: Dr. Liza Das, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. This course provides a general introduction to the field of Cultural Studies.