Critical and Cultural Theory (P00424)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00424

This is the core course for MSc in Cultural Studies and is restricted to students on that programme.

This course provides an overview of key concepts and movements in modern thought with particular attention paid to close reading of writings and thinkers who have been influential for current understandings of culture. Areas to be studied will include liberalism, democracy, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminism. One or two key essays or chapters will be analysed in each weekly seminar. The course encourages students to focus in detail on one specific movement or thinker in their final assessment.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Course restricted to students on MSc Cultural Studies

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
01/10/2008	11:10	13:00	Room 2.05, 18 Buccleuch Place	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	16:10	18:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students should develop the capacity to read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments. They should also acquire a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts. In addition, students should also possess a broad understanding of the main movements and schools in modern thought along with some knowledge of the relevance of pre-twentieth-century critical movements for contemporary theory. After completion of the course students should be able to read further and more widely in literary and cultural theory, having gained the requisite background knowledge and critical vocabulary.