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 mmer Courses 2011FALL-WINTER 2011-2012 courses in OshawaCUST 1000Y (previously CUST 100): Introduction to the study of Modern Culture is taught by a team of Department staff and is taken by all students majoring in Cultural Studies. Though the content of this course changes from year to year, it generally begins with an introduction to the concept of culture before turning to the investigation of a wide range of materials exploring methods of study which help us to understand the contemporary cultural landscape. Students are introduced to a multiplicity of ways in which the tradition of cultural theory suggests avenues for reflection on how culture at once informs, and is informed by, social, political, subjective, and aesthetic concerns. Instructors: CUST 2025Y – Oral narrative The world of voice, oral thought, the spoken story, and literature without texts. Emphasizing myth
CUST 2035Y (previously CUST 235): Media and society serves as an introduction to the history, sociology and critical interpretation of contemporary mass-communicated culture, both as an overall formation and with reference to such specific elements as the newspaper press, advertising, network TV and recorded popular music. The course excludes CUST/ SOCI 240. There is a one-hour lecture and seminar weekly. Instructor: TBA and staff. CUST 3045Y: World Music( previously CUST 345): Through a focus on African and Afro-diasporic musics (from West African drumming to blues, and calypso) we will consider the problematics of “world music,” a category that raises issues of globalization and hybridity. We will examine selected musical traditions, mapping the complex, interactive networks of musical performance, pleasure, and politics. Field trip fee: $45. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including CUST 2045Y (245) or permission of the instructor. Instructor: TBA
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