Cultural Studies is quite popular and dynamic academic field of contemporary culture study. What makes it specific is the emphasis on everyday life experiences of so called ‘ordinary people’. This course is the first part of ‘Cultural Studies’ and its main focus is on various kind of cultural texts. That’s why during the course we will focus on the way we all make sense of such cultural texts as everyday rituals, advertising, TV news, youth subculture, urban architecture or computer games. During the course students will find out how we can make a research on cultural texts. Beside theoretical framework which provides the basic concepts of Cultural Studies (representation, ideology, signifying practices), students will have an opportunity to apply these concepts in a wide range of practical activities and the final media project (photo reportage/social TV commercial).
- Teacher: Mariusz Dzięglewski