Culture and contemporary world 1.S3.EP.ECS.1

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
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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
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:
In-class activities, lecture and/or presentation, group-based text analysis and discussion, videos; pral/multimodal presentations and Q&A sessions.
E-learning option: using email/UO isc to access materials and assignments, sending work via-email. consultations and written feedback by email or voice call. ICT tools/MSTeams

Field of study

English Philology

Student workload

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties total number of ECTS: 3 1 ECTS – 30 hours: class participation (50% university site/50% online) 0,5 ECTS - 15 hours: consultations 0,5 ECTS – 15 hours: preparation and home study 1 ECTS = 20 h preparation to the final test/essay

Study level

BA level studies

Education profile

Full-time studies academic profile

Type of course

elective courses
elective courses

The semester in which the subject is carried out

semester 2

Mode

(in Polish) Mieszany: realizowany zdalnie i w sali

Requirements

(unknown)

Course coordinators

Term 2022/23-L:

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf
Dorota Brzozowska

Term 2023/24-L:

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf
Stankomir Nicieja

Term 2024/25-L:

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf
Stankomir Nicieja

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

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 - 20% of the final grade (outcomes 4,5)
2. Project (multimodal presentation, oral presentation) on a chosen aspect of the course content - 30% of the final grade (outcomes 3,6,7)
(in the e-learning option: a series of assignments related to topics covered in the course)
3. Written open-ended test or essay - 50% of the final grade - (outcomes 1,2)

Bibliography

Reading list:
obligatory reading used in class:
Barker. 2003. Cultural Studies. Theory And Practice. https://fdocuments.in/document/cultural-studies-theory-and-practice-barker-2003.html

used for self-study:
Chandler, Daniel. 1994-2012. Semiotics for Beginners e-book from http://users.aber.ac.uk
Stokes, Jane. 2003. How to do Cultural and Media Studies. London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Longhurst, Brian, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn, 2008. Introducing Cultural Studies 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education
Walton, David. 2008. Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning through Practice. London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Press and online materials on various aspects of culture, particularly in the Anglo-American world

supplementary reading:
„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

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