UC SANTA BARBARA

Undergraduate - Spring - 2025

FAMST 192CT – CULTURAL THEORY

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Spring - 2025
192CT
5
Film and Media 96 with a grade of C or better.

Description

This course introduces students to theoretical approaches and frameworks that are crucial to understanding our social and cultural contemporaneity. Topics include ideology and social determination; knowledge and power; history, memory, and trauma; postcolonial/decolonial critique; neoliberal globalization; biopolitics; risk and precarity.

Bhaskar Sarkar

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Research Interests