2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF1003 Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1

20 creditsClass Size: 80

Module manager: Dr Barbara Engh
Email: b.engh@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module introduces critical methods in the arts and humanities. These methods will be developed in relation to key concepts including culture, ideology, hegemony, language, subjectivity, identity, gender and sexuality. These concepts will be studied through the analysis of cultural artefacts and practices. Students will develop an ability to critically analyse a wide range of cultural ‘texts’ with examples drawn from visual and literary cultures, film and music, media and practices of everyday life.

Objectives

Students will develop an ability to critically analyse a wide range of theoretical and cultural texts with examples drawn from visual and literary culture, film and music, media and practices of everyday life. This module aims to develop the skills and methods that critical thinking and practice demand.

Learning outcomes
- an understanding of the basic concepts and theoretical paradigms of cultural analysis, theory and history.
- an ability to apply these concepts and paradigms in the analysis of discursive practices.
- a kindling of historical awareness and of the long history of modernity that informs debates in contemporary cultural studies.
- an understanding of the ways in which accounts of the world are created and how they mediate symbolically between the individual and society (questions of 'representation')
- an understanding of the relations between systems of meanings and relations of social and political power and inequality (questions of ideology).
- basic skills in academic research and writing.

Syllabus

This module introduces critical methods in the arts and humanities. These methods will be developed in relation to key concepts including culture, ideology, hegemony, language, subjectivity, identity, gender and sexuality. These methods and concepts will be developed in relation to canonical readings in cultural studies drawing on writers such as Williams, Barthes, Berger, Freud, Mulvey, Frith and McRobbie.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	2.00	20.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			170.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Attendance at lectures/tutorials and screenings
- Record of attendance kept
- Participation in class discussions.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1 x 2,000 word essay	75.00
Written Work	1 x 1,000 words	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 04/09/2023

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