Cultural Studies - JKM127

• Title: Cultural Studies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Soukup, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Martin Soukup, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JJM240
• Is incompatible with: JJM240

Annotation

Last update: SOUKM7AF (17.07.2023)

The subject of the course is an introduction to the study of culture, especially from an anthropological perspective. The course will address not only the basic topics (language, cultural change, social constructivism, etc.), but will also focus on some specialized issues (drawing as a research tool, etc.). The course also includes an introduction to the use of ethnography as a research methodology. In the course, the lecturer builds on his field experience gained in New Guinea, the Philippines and India.

Course completion requirements

Last update: SOUKM7AF (01.10.2023)

Final examination: test; test combines open question with multiple-choice type questions.

Literature

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (14.01.2020)

BIBLIOGRAPHY - FURTHER READING

ALASUUTARI, P. Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. London: Sage, 1995

DURING, S. (Ed.). The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Rouledge, 1999

DURING, S. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London: Rouledge, 2005

ELLIOT, D. - CULHANE, D. (Eds.). A Different Kind of Ethnography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017

GRAY, A. Research Practice for Cultural Studies. London: SAGE, 2003

O’SULLIVAN, T. et al. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London/New York: Routledge, 1994

STOREY, J. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. New York: St. Martin Press, 1996

SYNNOTT, A.  The Body Social. London: Routledge, 1996

WELSCH, R. - VIVANCO, L. Asking Question About Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016

WILLIAMS, R. Keywords. London: Fontana, 1983

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: SOUKM7AF (01.10.2023)

Final examination: test; test combines open question with multiple-choice type questions.

Syllabus

Last update: SOUKM7AF (17.07.2023)

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: The Concept of Culture.

Week 3: Culture and Nature.

Week 4: Language and The linguistic landscape

Week 5: Cultural construction of Gender

Week 6: Drawing as a research tool

Week 7: Photography and its Objectivity

Week 8: Culture Change, Migration, and Globalization

Week 9: Colonialism and the Question of Veiling.

Week 10: Who owns culture?

Week 11: Doing fieldwork - ethnography

Week 12: Final Summary