About This Major
An interdisciplinary program that focuses on the analysis and critique of culture in its varied forms, including values, ideas, belief systems, and expressive acts, and the relationship between cultural forms, everyday life, and structures of power. Includes instruction in anthropology, communications, history, literary studies, philosophy, political economy, and sociology, as well as recent theories and methodologies such as semiotics, deconstruction, postcolonial studies, gender theory, and ethnography.
Program Examples
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Theory and Analysis
Related CIP Codes
- 16.0104
- Comparative Literature., 30.3601
- Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature., 05.0212
- Comparative Group Studies
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 30.2601
- CIP Family
- 30
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