Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: A survey of theoretical debates central to the emergent discipline of cultural studies. Readings will be drawn from works by Marx, Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Adorno, Barthes, Said, Lyotard, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida. Themes may include semiology, ideology, subjectivity, postmodernism and gender. Offering: 3-0; or 3-0