ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Expository Class: 10 Interactive Classroom: 10 Total: 20
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Optional subject of the CULTURAL INDUSTRIES specialty.
The aim is for the student to come into contact with the ideas proposed from the field of so-called "cultural studies" which, under the name of Cultural Studies, are fully consolidated in broad scientific and university spaces, mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world, although they are in a most incipient phase in Spain and other European countries.
We will address aspects of global society, such as identity and the concept of nation or race, colonialism and multiculturalism, media criticism, popular culture (comics, best-sellers, jazz, pop, etc.) and semiotic studies on the arts. visuals. We will pay special attention to the most significant features that make up modern multicultural societies in the English-speaking world.
It will be studied how a community of thinkers who address the issue of global society is being articulated, as well as how this is translated into different artistic manifestations, especially cinema and literature.
The student must be able, at the end of the course, to analyze orally and in writing a critical judgment about an artistic or thought work representative of contemporary culture.
1. Contemporary culture.
1.1. Global culture and identity
1.2.- Global cities
1.3. Postmodernity
2. Languages and globalization.
2.1.- Plurilingualism.
2.2. Global languages: English.
3. Postcolonial world.
3.1.- From the end of history to the clash of civilizations.
3.2. Postcolonial/decolonial studies.
Lins Ribeiro, Gustavo. Postimperialismo. Cultura política en el mundo contemporáneo. Madrid: Gedisa, 2003.
McRae, John and Vethamani, Malachi Edwin, ed. Now Read On. A Course in Multicultural Rreading. Usa and Canada: Routledge, 1999.
Meidani, Rexhep. Las trampas del Estado-nación / Rexhep Meidani. Madrid : Siddharth Mehta Ediciones, 2007.
Miller, Toby e George Yúdice. Política Cultural. Madrid: Gedisa, 2004.
Quayson, Ato. Postcolonialism. Theory, Practice or Process?. USA: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2000.
Reynoso, Carlos. Apogeo y decadencia de los estudios culturales. Una visión antropológica. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2000.
Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, Santiago. En torno a los márgenes: ensayos de literatura poscolonial. Madrid : Minotauro Digital, 2008
Sanghera, Sathnan. Empireworld. How British Imperialism has Shaped the Globe. Viking. 2024.
Venn, Couze. The Postcolonial Challenge. London: Sage, 2006.
Walder, Dennis. Post-colonial Literatures in English. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1999.
Warnier, Jean-Pierre. La mundialización de la cultura. Madrid: Gedisa, 2002
Yúdice, George. El recurso de la cultura. Usos de la cultura en la era global. Madrid: Gedisa, 2002.
- Con01: Know in depth the essential features that define the present time and the main challenges
of today's world.
- H/D03: Critically evaluate the available materials on the realities of culture as a product of
a specific time, space, ideology and interpretative current and depending on its format.
- Comp08: Competence to read, interpret and produce academic texts of a certain complexity and
relevant to cultural management, both in community languages and international languages
10 hours of lectures and in-person master class and 6 hours of synchronous virtual teaching, transmitted by the institutional videoconferencing tool (MSTeams). All resources and materials used (presentations, videos, diagrams, texts, sources,...) will be uploaded to the virtual classroom.
The mandatory tasks will focus, along with the rest of the teaching activities, on the preparation of a folder/dossier, which will be presented for discussion with the teacher and subsequent evaluation.
The teaching staff must adequately attend to the inquiries made by the students by sending a response email within a period of no more than 48 hours of school days and their resolution before seven school days, as long as the teaching staff is not enjoying a leave of absence.
First and second try (percentages of scores for each activity):
-Active participation in in-person or virtual sessions: 10%
- Tasks delivered in Campus Vitual (including a dossier): 50% (there will be an additional period for deliveries corresponding to the second try in July)
- Text analysis and short questions, in a mandatory final written exam, on the theoretical and practical contents taught: 40%
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades” will apply.
HOURS + (PRESENTIALITY in %)
Theoretical teaching 8 100%
Asynchronous activities 8 0%
Tutoring 6 0%
Exam 2 100%
Personal work of students 51 0%
NOTE: For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions contained in the "Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and review of qualifications" will apply.
Preparation and delivery of tasks in Virtual Campus, within the deadline.
Resolution of doubts in tutorials.
Readings and online documentaries on the topics covered.
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Jesus Varela Zapata
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 982824715
- varela.zapata [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 18:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 14 |
| 06.04.2025 16:00-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 14 |
| 06.27.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 14 |