Culture in the contemporary world 1.2.5-EC-CCW

Course content

1. Definitions and typologies of culture

2. Main research paradigms in Cultural Studies – structuralism, culturalism, poststructuralism, postmodernism

3. Culture and communication, language and social class

4. Culture as mediation and practice, representation and communication

5. Cultural geography: spaces, places, landscapes

6. Culture, power and ideology

7. Cultural identities, cyberculture

8. Cultural resistance, subculture

9. Culture and the body

10. Culture and globalization, consuming culture

Supplementary literature

„The European Journal of Humour Reasearch” http://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org - Humor and Art Attardo, Salvatore 2001 Humorous Texts. A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. Humor Research 6. Berlin, New York : Walter de Gruyter. Chlopicki Władysław and Dorota Brzozowska 2021 „Sophisticated humor against COVID-19: the Polish case” Humor: International Journal of Humour Research 34:2, 201-227. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2021-0015 Laineste, L., & Voolaid, P. (2017). Laughing across borders: Intertextuality of internet memes. The European Journal of Humour Research, 4(4), 26–49. https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2016.4.4.laineste

Student workload

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties total number of ECTS: 2 1 ECTS – 30 hours: class participation 0,5 ECTS - 15 hours: consultations 0,5 ECTS – 15 hours: preparation and home study

Prerequisites

Course objectives: - expanding academic knowledge of terminology and concepts in Culture Studies - acquainting students with a broad range of themes and research orientations in Cultural Studies. - deepening understanding of interrelationshiops between culture and language - discriminating among various types of cultural forms and practices - developing analytical skills of products of culture

Course coordinators

Dorota Brzozowska

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students:

1. know the basic terms and concepts of Cultural Studies (m-W-1/P6S_WG)

2. understand the interdisciplinarity of Cultural Studies and the relations between culture and languge (m-W-1 /P6S_WG)

3. know about the work of cultural institutions, about the cultural products and practices in the contemporary world (m-W-2/P6S_WK)

Skills

Students:

4. can locate, analyze, select, evaluate and use information from various sources and in various media (m-U-1/P6S_UO)

5. can discriminate among various types of cultural forms and practices, analyze them, interpret their meanings with the aid of typical philological methods, recognize their social relevance and their function for historical and cultural formation (m-U-2/P6S_UW)

6. can prepare and deliver an oral/multimedia presentation about a chosen detailed aspect of the course (k_U04/P6S_UK)

Social competences

7. Students take part in cultural life and take advantage of various media to enhance their social competences (m-K-1/P6S_KR)

Assessment criteria

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. In-class discussions and presentations from assigned reading, text analysis - 50% of the final grade (outcomes 1,2, 4,5)

2. Project (multimodal presentation, oral presentation) on a chosen aspect of the course content - 50% of the final grade (outcomes 3,6,7)

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

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