Introduction to English: Reading Culture
English · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall and Winter Both, Every Year
No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Description
This course explores the role that culture, as a set of practices encompassing a range of texts, events, experiences, and social institutions, plays in everyday lives. Students interpret cultural forms and practices such as written texts, film, television, visual and performance art, music, and electronic media - and the institutions that shape them. May be of special interest to students who plan on pursuing further work in Cultural Studies.
Note
To meet the prerequisite for Upper-Year English, students taking this course should also take ENGL-1000(3).
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