2005/2006 - Registrar - McMaster University

CSCT 4EL3 , ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATUREAstudy of the ways in which literary t~xtsmediate between cult!Jre and· nature using traditional, sci~ntific, environmentalist, eco-feminist, nativeAmerican, and deep' ecologist approaches.Seminar (two hours); one termPrerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a.Combined Honours program inCultural ,Studies and Critical Theory , ,Cross-list ENGLISH 4EL3.Enrolment is limited. Departmental permission required. ' 'CSCT 4FR3FANTASIES OF THE ORIENT IN, EIGHTEENTH~CENTURY BRITAINThis course explores how eighteenth-cemturYEngland -registered andimagined "the other" through'" the Orient", as well ,as how the 'Ori,ent, shaped emerging literary genres and modes.- Pi",erequisite>Registration in'LeveLlV,of a Combined Honours program inCultural Studies and Critical TheoryCross-list: ENGLISH 4FR3 .Antirequisite: ENGLISH 41=03Enrolment is limited. Departmel7fal permission' required.CSCT 4FT3 THE FAIRY TALE,A study of the fairy tale from the structuralist, psychoanalytic, and so- 'ciological pOints of view, concentrating, on the ,tales of the BrothersGrimm in translation and considering the im"portance of ,fairy tales inacculturation and their symbolic significance.'Seminar {two hours); one term'Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours 'progra:minCultural Studies and Critical Theory ,Cross-list: ENGLISH 4FT3· Enrolment js limited. Departmental'permission required.CSCT4HC3 THE HISTORY OF CULTURAL STUDIESA study of the history of cultural studies from its· origins in the Frankfurt' ,SchOol, through the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,toits:dispersal into distinct modes of academic practice.Seminar {two hours); one term ' , ' 'Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours program in'Cultural Studies and Critical Theory , "Cross-list: ENGLISH 4HC3, ,Enrolment is limited. Depart(71ental permission required.CSCT 4103 ' ",DISLOCATION'AND BELONGING:CANAPIANWRITINGS OF IMMIGRATION AND DIASPORA; Thiscours'e eXamines works by and about people who have movedbetween cultural locations to consider quest'ions of c,ultural a.n'd crossculturalidentity.Seminar (two hours); one term ,", ,Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours program inCultural Studies and Critical TheoryCross-Jist: ENGLISH 41D3Enrolment is ,limited.' Departmental permission' required ..CSCT 4J03 ' CROSSING 'BORDERS: GLOBAL FEMINISMS'This course examines how women's lives are being transformed in achanging global society and the implications of women's changing placesin society for feminist theorY and practice.'Seminar, {two hours); one term 'Prerequisit~: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours program in .· Cultural Studies and Critical TheoryCross-'list: ENGLISH 4J03, WOMEN ST4J03. Enrolment is limited. 'Departmental permission required.This course is administered by Women's Stvdfes.CSCT 40N3 MICHAEL ONDAATJE,This course explores various' approaches to Michael Ondaatje's poetryand, prose; gender, postcoloniality, and interdisciplinarity.· Ondaatje'sengagement with film,pliotography" painting. and music are topics ofparticular interest. 'Seminar (two hours); one term '.Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours program inCultural Studies and Gritical Theory .. Cross-list: ENGLISH 40N3 'Enrolmen't is limited. Departmental permission required.CSCT 4PC3 PSYCHE AND CULTUREThis course explores the psychoanalytic und~rstandirig of cuJture withreference to three.main areas: ideology, gender polarity, and imaginativeculture (the arts and literature).. 'Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours program in cCultural Studies anttl Critical Theory ,Cross-list: ENGLISH 4PC3Antirequisite: COMP'LIT 4603; 4F03Enrolment is limited. Departmental permission required.CULTURAL STUDIES ANDCRIJICAL THEORY '195 /CSCT 4PQ,3 THE PRIMA DONNA IN VICTORIAN'FICTIONThis co'urse scrutinizes the ideqlogical and practical work of the Victorianprima donna in society and on stage by considering her representa-Jion in a variety of media. ',~ Seminar (two hours); one termPrerequisite: R~gistration in LeveL IV of aCombined Honours pmgram in~Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory''Crossi-list: ENGLISH 4PD3Enrolment is ,limited. Departmental permission' required.CSCT 4RR3 THE ROMANCE OF ROMANCEPairs of medieval andniodernromanceswill be studied in the light ofcriti,cal theories of romance, gender and reading.Ser:Tlinar (two hours); one term. 'Prerequisite:Hegistration in Level IV of a Coi:nbinedHonoursprogram inCultural Studies and Critical Theory'Cross-list: ENGLISH 4RR3 . '· Enrolment is limited. Dep(3rtmental permission required.CSCT 4RT3 , TELEVISION AND CONTEMPORARY CULTUREThis seminar studies the cultural artefact called television, providing acomprehensive, overview of various approaches to its study and therequisite theoretical tools to read this important element of contemporary'culture. . ,Seminar (two hours); one term' , . , .Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a'Combined Honours' program~i.nCultural Studies and Critical Theory' .Cross-list: ENGLISH 4RT3Enrolment is limited. Departmental permission required.,CSCT 4SS3 SHAKESPEARE AND, 0 SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERSBy examining works from different genres, this course'explores the· ways gender~xpeCtations shaped women's and men's con.tributions)qpopular'and elite culture in early modem England. .Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a CombinedHonoursprograminCultural Studies and Critical Theory· _' ,C.ross~list: ENGLISH 4SS3Enrolment is limited; Departmental perP7ission requIred.CSCT 4TS3 TORTURED SUBJECTS OF ROMANTICISM, This course explores what the Romantics meant when they spoke of the"self;" an'd how they began to rethink it as both a glowing. ideal and asource of cultural antagonism andresentment.Seminar, (two hours); one term ,', .Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of a Combined Honours pr()gram inCultural Studies and Critical Theory ,Cross-list: ENGLISH 4TS3· Enrolment is ,limited. Departmental permission requ(red. 'CSCT 4UT3 UTOPIAN LITERATUREA 'study of the genre through English literature, from 'its roots in Plato'sHepublic, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to contemporaryliterature. 'Seminar (two hours); one termPrerequisite: Registration in Level ~IVof a Combined Honours program inCultural Studies and Critical TheoryCross-list: ENGLISH 4UT3 !Enrolment is limited. Departmental ;'permisslonrequired.CSCT 4WL3 GLOBALIZATION AND,POSTCOLONIAL FICTION'This coorse examines fictional representations of the ideology and processesof globalization, while also considering how globalization shapesthe production and consumption of postcolonial, culture.Seminar {twQ·hours);one term ' . , ,Prerequisite: Registration, in Level IV of a Combll")ed Honours program inCultural Studies and Critical TheoryCross-list: ENGLISH 4WL3 "Enrolment is limited. Departmental permission required.DRAMAFormer Drama courses are now listed as Theatre & Film (THTR&FLM)courses. Students having credit in Drama courses, may not take' thecorresponding course under the, Theatre· & Filr:n designatio·n. To determinethe Theatre &. Film designation of a former Drama course, pleasesee,below.