Courses and Syllabi
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Cultural Studies Fall 2026
Undergraduate
CULT 320: Globalization and Culture (3 Credits)
Examines cultures in globalization, with special attention to the role of technologies and new media. Provides historical and contemporary contexts for understanding the relationships among circuits of production and consumption; population flows; social inequalities and collective identities; globalizations from "above" and "below;" built and natural environments.Offered by Cultural Studies. Limited to three attempts.
Registration Restrictions:
Students with a class of Freshman may not enroll.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
CULT 390: Topics in Cultural Studies (1-3 Credits)
Topics of current interest in interdisciplinary cultural studies, covering such fields as media, popular culture, political economy, social identities, or regions in globalization. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different.Offered by Cultural Studies. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 9 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 390 - 001: Social Institutions & Culture — Lisa M. Rabin — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T - Horizon Hall 4001
Graduate
CULT 802: Histories of Cultural Studies (3 Credits)
Historical survey of principal works and theories in the development of cultural studies. Notes: This course is designed for PhD level students. Students in a related MA program may take this course as the capstone to their MA as they are about to matriculate into the PhD in cultural studies.Offered by Cultural Studies. May not be repeated for credit.
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program, related master's degree, or permission of instructor.
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Cultural Studies.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 802 - 001: Histories Cult Studies — Alison Landsberg — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T - Innovation Hall 316
CULT 806: Research Seminar in Cultural Studies (3 Credits)
Introduces research methods in cultural studies. Notes: Specific topics vary.Offered by Cultural Studies. May not be repeated for credit.
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to a doctoral; completion of CULT 802, CULT 804.
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Cultural Studies.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 806 - 001: Resrch Sem in Cult Stdy — Paul Smith — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T - East Building 134
CULT 808: Student/Faculty Colloquium in Cultural Studies (1 Credit)
Forum for presentation of original and current research in cultural studies. Notes: Students register for 1 credit per semester over a three-semester period.Offered by Cultural Studies. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 4 credits.
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program.
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Cultural Studies.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Satisfactory/No Credit scale.
This course is graded on the Satisfactory/No Credit scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 808 - 001: Student and Faculty Colloquium — Roger N Lancaster — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R - Innovation Hall 328
CULT 814: Gender and Sexuality (3 Credits)
Investigates notion of gender functions in maintaining and analyzing issues of social and cultural power. Examines conflicting notions of sexuality and their role in cultural signification. Seeks to explicate relationship of sexuality, gender. Notes: This course is designed for the PhD student. Those students not admitted to a PhD program are required to contact the instructor.Offered by Cultural Studies. May not be repeated for credit.
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to a doctoral program, or permission of instructor.
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Cultural Studies.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 814 - DL1: Gender and Sexuality — Roger N Lancaster — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M - Online
CULT 824: Internet Cultures (3 Credits)
Examines internet cultures and their cultural, social, political, economic, and aesthetic implications. Introduces students to scholarly fields like internet studies, social media studies, platform studies, video game studies, critical AI and data studies, influencer studies, celebrity studies, or software studies. Includes traditional emphases from cultural studies, potentially including political economy, women’s and gender studies, race and ethnic studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and decolonialism, ecocriticism, affect theory, and more. Students will explore the ways that communities form online and how they impact their constituents, the way that identities are explored, formed, and represented online, the ideology and political economy of internet technologies, the way that internet technologies shape content creation, and other ways that the internet shapes culture and culture shapes the internet.Offered by Cultural Studies. May not be repeated for credit.
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to a doctoral program, or permission of instructor
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy or Graduate.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
1 Section Currently Scheduled
- CULT 824 - 001: Internet Cultures — Alexander Monea — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W - Angel Cabrera Global Center 1320A
CULT 860: Special Topics in Cultural Studies (3 Credits)
Specialized interdisciplinary topics in cultural theory and analysis. Notes: These courses are designed for the PhD student. Those students not admitted to a PhD program are required to contact the instructor. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic is different.Offered by Cultural Studies. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to a doctoral program, or permission of the instructor.
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
2 Sections Currently Scheduled
- CULT 860 - 008: Spec Topic: Cultural Studies — Denise Albanese — 01:30 PM to 04:10 PM R - Peterson Hall 1106
- CULT 860 - DL1: Critical Ethnography — Roger N Lancaster — 01:30 PM to 04:10 PM T - Online