Critical Theory

Useful Resource Pages:

• Critical Theory
• Contemporary Culture
• Continental Philosophy

Weekly Schedule & Class Pages

• Introduction
  
  • Week 1: Introduction;
    Being Blonde
  • Week 2: Critical
    and Cultural Theory Background

• Reading Culture
  
  • Week 3: Reading
    Culture: Approaches to Culture
  • Week 4-5: Reading
    Culture: Semiotics
  • Week 6: Interpreting
    Media

• Review and Midterm
  
  • Week 7

• Frankfurt School: Culture and Politics
  
  • Week 8-9
    
    
• Sites of Cultural Critique and Identity Production: Gender, Race,
  Class, Sexual Orientation
  
  • Week 10

• Cultural Production and the Place of Technology
  
  • Week 11

• Critical Theory and Place/Space
  • Week 12 
• Contemporary Critical Theory: Traditionalism, Modernism & Postmodernism
  
  • Week 13

• Cultural Resistance
  
  • Week 14

• Wrap-Up
  
  • Week 15