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• ENG-507: Cultural Studies/ Fall 2023
  

  ENG-507: Cultural Studies/ Fall 2023

  

  Course Teacher: Ariful Islam Lasakar ( MAIL)/ Assistant Professor/ Department of English

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    This course will enable students to engage in critical analyses of culture in relation to class, ethnicity and gender. They will also gain insights into power structures, identity politics and hegemony on the one hand, and consumerism, agency and subcultural practices on the other

    
    This Introduction to Cultural Studies will be relevant to students interested in popular culture and the cultures of everyday life. The course will focus on key thinkers in Cultural Studies as well as the ways identities are constructed and maintained through everyday practices and engagement with material culture.

    
    
  • Course Title: ENG-507: Cultural Studies Page
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    Mini Course OUTLINE/ Topics to study: Cultural Studies
     
    (Students will have two classes for each part). Teacher may curtail the syllabus/ course outline according to the availability of time. It also depends on the quality of students. The idea is to make them think about the selected topics and basics of culture)
     
    1.      Discussion about culture and Cultural Studies
    2.      Cultural studies and its criticism: different angles
    3.      The idea about (Very briefly) world culture and Bangladeshi culture
    4.      Culture and its varieties: Low Culture vs High Culture
    5.      Orientalism and Culture
    6.      Culture, power and hegemony: Relationship with culture and power
    7.      Representation and Culture: Stuart Hall Theory
    8.     Stuart Hall: “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” and “Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward and Forward at Cultural Studies”  
    9.      ‘Gender Formation’ and ‘Class formation’ In a particular cultural situation and their relationship
    10.   Paul Smith: “Looking Backwards and Forwards at Cultural Studies”
    11.  Culture and Consumerism
    12.  Summing Up

     

    
    

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  • Exam Strategy and Marks Distribution File
  • Course Outcomes File
  • Submitting Presentation Slides Assignment

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    Dear Students/ Scholars,
    
    Please  submit your presentation slides here as an attachment : 
    
  • Question Paper Forum

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    :: Write Down you Opinion on the Mid term question Paper :: 

  • :: Answer The Following Questions :: Quiz

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    What is culture to you? Does any part of your culture embarrass you?-Why?  Why do we need to respect the culture of other people and countries? - (Explain in your own words.)

    
    

    (N.B. DO NOT COPY) 

• Topic 1
  

  Topic 1

  • WHAT IS CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES File

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  • Studying Culture and Cultral Studies File
  • Introduction to Cultural Studies (YouTube Video/Lecture) URL

    What is Cultural Studies? Who are the Important figures ? What are the different  Issues of Cultural Studies?
    

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  Topic 2

  • :: Characteristics of Culture :: File

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  • :: Lecture on Characteristics of Culture:: URL

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  Topic 3

  • :: Stuart Hall and Representation:: File

    
    

  • :: Stuart Hall's Lecture on Media Representation :: URL

    
    

  • :: PPT Representation:: File

    
    

  • "Forum Discussion" :: Culture and Cultural Studies ::

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    1. What is Culture? Why Cultural Studies is so important? ( Maximum 10-14sentences/ 4 paragraphs/ your own answer with a quotation will be highly eavaluated)

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  Topic 4

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  • :: Reception Theory / ( Click Here):: File

    
    

  • :: Encoding Decoding and Representation Lecture:: URL

    
    

  • :: Importance Reception theory :: Forum

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    1. Why is Reception theory important?-describe?

• :: Class Recordings ::
  

  :: Class Recordings ::

  

  • Class of 22 May June 2020 : Popular Culture URL

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jOMmrfWAif1X2NZgBtiyE1SsMGvrmBey/view?usp=sharing
    

  • :: Semiotics/ Formation of Sign and Representation Theory 15 June 2020 :: URL

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_0TiZq1QuhIBPDR91jY42FlEu6yNUM1/view?usp=sharing
    

  • :: Mass Culture/ Popular Culture : Hall's Ideology and Representation June 18 2020 URL

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1CzgMWw4_PHsqA2JEW5lzXenTAoDHeF/view?usp=sharing
    

  • :: Characteristics of Culture and Cultural Studies 30 May 2020:: URL

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewdV3r3lrzQUTTeOLfrbUqBT9HLyx1cy/view?usp=sharing
    

  • :: Introduction Lecture On Culture May 18 2020 :: URL

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0HPa4Eu2BQBMLoIKE9L8269mZ7ks5Uc/view?usp=sharing
    

  • :: Record on popular culture/ mass-culture/subculture/impact: 29 June 2020 URL

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  • JULY 8 URL

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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RTjolzGJLGogyU2j9JrmP_jV1C5ITMh8/view?usp=sharing
    

  • JULY 20 URL

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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qof6EjrjlpeEfrwQUrF0h6qBqkEoiaNC/view?usp=sharing
    

  • JULY 27 URL

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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfiZuQfvozSZhODUugLkR6ayGfG1IVbG/view?usp=sharing
    

  • 10th August/ Marx and cultural Studies URL

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  • :: Interview/ Presentation :: URL

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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ynIzqxVA5v35Cq1J5mvGSf1A05FA6LC_/view?usp=sharing
    

• Topics 6: Characteristics and Elements of Culture
  

  Topics 6: Characteristics and Elements of Culture

  • Characteristics of Culture File

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  • :: Characteristics of Culture :: URL

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• Topic 7
  

  Topic 7

  • MID-TERM Summer 2020 Assignment

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    a. What is your opinion about typical gender roles and stereotypes that you seen in Bangladesh  ( Write in your own words/ Max. word limit 350 words) 
• Topic 8 : Gender and Its Formation and Politics of Class Struggle::
  

  Topic 8 : Gender and Its Formation and Politics of Class Struggle::

  
  

  • :: Sex, Gender and Culture :: File

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  • :: Gender Development / PPT slide :: File

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  • :: Women/Gender/ Inequality:: File

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  • :; Culture and Gender/ PPT :: File

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• :: Topic 9 : Marxism and Culture/ Question of Ideology ::
  

  :: Topic 9 : Marxism and Culture/ Question of Ideology ::

  
  

  • :: Marxism/Culture/Ideology File

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  • :: Louis Althusser ideology :: File

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  • :: YouTube Lecture/Conflict Theory :: URL

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• Topic 10: QUIZ 3
  

  Topic 10: QUIZ 3

  • ::QUIZ:: Assignment

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• TOPIC 11 :: FINAL EXAMINATION SUMMER 2020
  

  TOPIC 11 :: FINAL EXAMINATION SUMMER 2020

  • FINAL EXAMINATION /CULTURAL STUDIES Assignment

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