Below are the current courses offered for Spring Quarter 2013 as well as the proposed Cultural Studies graduate courses for 2013 - 2014. This schedule is subject to change. Consult the time schedule for the most up-to-date information.
2012 - 2013 Schedule
Spring Quarter 2013
Required Courses
BCULST 502 Cultural Studies Research Practices (Year 1)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Lerum
BCULST 512 Cultural Studies and its Publics (Year 2)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Ashbaugh
Elective Courses
BCULST 584 Topics in Media Culture: Media, Race, Class and Gender
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Harewood, course flyer
BCULST 591 Research Colloquium
Class meets 4/2, 5/7, 6/4 from 4:00-5:30 pm
4/2: Buying and Selling the Serengeti: Safari Tourism and the Cultural Politics of Global Land Grabbing in Tanzania; Ben Gardner
5/7: Being in Love and Writing Poetry; Jeanne Heuving
6/4: Contextualizing Technology Use: Communication Practices in a Local Homeless Movement; Amoshaun Toft
BCULST 598 Directed Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 520 Internship
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 596 Study Abroad
To be arranged
BCULST 599 Capstone Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
2013 - 2014 Schedule
Autumn Quarter 2013
Required Courses
BCULST 500 Formations of Cultural Studies (Year 1)
T/TH 5:45 – 10 pm, Charusheela/Berger
BCULST 510 Engaging Cultural Studies (Year 2)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Lerum
Elective Courses
BCULST 593A Topics in Cultural Studies: The Politics of Living and Dying
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Crane course flyer
BCULST 593B Topics in Cultural Studies: Writing the Americas
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Dowling course flyer
BCULST 591 Research Colloquium
Class meets 10/1, 11/5, 12/3 from 4:00-5:30 pm
10/1: What Caused the Arab Revolts?: Exploring State-Society Relations in the Arab World; Karam Dana
11/5: Reappraisal of the Urban Sprawl in the Metropolis and Detecting its Methodologies: The Case of Seoul Metropolitan Region, Korea; Jungyeop Shin
12/3: Mindful Games: Games and Health; Wanda Gregory
BCULST 598 Directed Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 520 Internship
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 596 Study Abroad
To be arranged
BCULST 599 Capstone Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
Winter Quarter 2014
Required Courses
BCULST 501 Cultural Studies as Collaboration (Year 1)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Krabill
BCULST 511 Portfolio and Professional Development (Year 2)
Meetings to be arranged, Thurlow (and others)
Elective Courses
BCULST 570 Prisons, Politics, and Activism
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Berger, UW Seattle campus
BCULST 584 Topics in Media Culture: Cultural Politics of Popular Music
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Harewood
BCULST 589 Topics in Global Cultural Studies: Culture & Resistance in the Americas
M/W 5:45 – 7:45 pm, Shayne
BCULST 593 Topics in Cultural Studies: Environmental Politics
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Gardner
BCULST 591 Research Colloquium
Class meets 1/7, 2/4, 3/4 from 4:00-5:30 pm
1/7: We are Attica or We are Nothing: Women Radicals and Antiracist Resistance to the Carceral State in the Long 1960s; Emily Thuma
2/4: Re-Mapping Imaginary and Imagined Communities; Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung
3/4: Another ‘History of the Voice’: Researching 'Fans,' 'People,' and 'Citizens'; Susan Harewood
BCULST 598 Directed Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 520 Internship
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 596 Study Abroad
To be arranged
BCULST 599 Capstone Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
Spring Quarter 2014
Required Courses
BCULST 502 Cultural Studies Research Practices (Year 1)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Gardner
BCULST 512 Cultural Studies and its Publics (Year 2)
T 5:45 – 10 pm, Harewood
Elective Courses
BCULST 5xx Sexuality Seminar
M/W 5:45 – 7:45 pm, Lerum
BCULST 5xx Expedition Seattle: Towards and Inventory of Power and Community in the Emerald City
W 5:45 – 10 pm, Anderson
BCULST 591 Research Colloquium
Class meets 4/1, 5/6, 6/3 from 4:00-5:30 pm
4/1: The Astounding Social Geographies of Everyday Life on a Single New York City Street; Christian Anderson
5/6: What do you know about Evolution?: Assessing undergraduate students' conceptions; Becca Price
6/3: Animality and Poetic Voice: from Virginia Woolf's Flush to Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal; Sarah Dowling
BCULST 598 Directed Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 520 Internship
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
BCULST 596 Study Abroad
To be arranged
BCULST 599 Capstone Research
Meetings and faculty to be arranged
* Students are also encouraged to seek interdisciplinary elective courses from Policy Studies.
** This schedule is subject to change.