1. Course Outline

2. Schedule

3. Human Inquiry and the Social Sciences

4. Background:

   Human Communication in the Critical Theory Tradition
   Human Communication in the British Cultural Studies Tradition

5. Notes on and Synopses of Selected Readings:

   Raymond Williams, Society and Culture
   Roland Barthes, The Rhetoric of the Image
   Stuart Hall, Encoding and Decoding
   Richard Dyer et al., Soap Opera and Women
   Janice A. Radway, Reading Reading the Romance
   Erica Carter, Alice in the Consumer Wonderland
   Ken Plummer, A Sociology of Stories
   Edward Said, Orientalism
   Nicholas Garnham, The Cultural Industries
   Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and Consumer Society

6. Supplementary Notes: Elements of Semiology

7. Major Assignment: Research Paper

8. A Guide to the Presentation of Research

9. Detailed Marking Code

10. Preparing for the Final Exam

11. Cultural StudiesResources

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