Critical Cultural Studies

This program prepares graduates with theoretical, critical, and practical knowledge in cultural institutions and aims to supplant and help develop the Palestinian and Arab cultural field with graduates that can employ their grounding in critical knowledge. It seeks to root critical knowledge in diverse cultural fields and link this critical stance with sites of production and an in-depth understanding of various forces at play in such production. This is especially relevant in the context of Palestinian and global struggles against all forms of hegemonic and discriminatory discourse and practices.

 

A. Compulsory courses: (15) credit hours consisting of the following courses:

Code, and Course Number

Course Name

Prerequisite

CCST6300

Research Methods in Critical Cultural Studies 

 

CCST6310

Theoretical Issues in Critical Cultural Studies

 

CCST6320

The Modern City: Knowledge, Space, and Experience

 

CCST6330

Modern Representations of Culture

 

CCST7300

Formulating and Analyzing Cultural Policies

 

 

B. Elective courses: (15) credit hours out of the following courses:

Code, and Course Number

Course Name

Prerequisite

CCST6340

Capitalism and Culture: Forms and Practices

 

CCST6350

Theoretical Approaches on Violence

 

CCST6360

Racism and Otherness: Manifestation and Practices

 

CCST6370

Language, Law, Archive

 

CCST6380

Contemporary Visual Culture

 

CCST7110

Field Visits for Cultural Institutions

 

CCST7210

Academic and Critical Writing Skills

 

CCST7310

Palestinian Cultural Scene

 

CCST7320

The dialectic of power and resistance: an anthology of contemporary art and literature

 

CCST7330

Propaganda in the information age

 

CCST7340

Colonial and Post-colonial Studies: Ethnographic Approaches

 

CCST7350

Selected Critical Readings from Africa and Latin America

 

CCST7360

Nationalism, State, and Identity Politics

 

CCST7370

Selected Readings in Contemporary Critical Studies

 

CCST7380

Special Topic

 

 

 

C. Track A or Track B: 6 credit hours.

Track

Code, and Course Number

Course Name

Prerequisite

Track A

CCST8600

Thesis

Minimum of 15 Credit hours, including (CCST6300،CCST6310)

Program Committee Approval

Track B

CCST8300

Seminar- I

Minimum of 15 Credit hours, including (CCST6300،CCST6310)

CCST8310

Seminar- II

Minimum of 15 Credit hours, including (CCST6300،CCST6310)
 
  • Completion of the bachelor’s degree from a recognized university with the appraisal “good” at the very least;
  • The program reserves the right to require the prior completion of compensatory courses by specific admitted students, in keeping with the academic bylaws governing graduate studies.
  • Accepted applicants are expected to sit for an English language test whose result will determine whether the applicant needs to take a remedial course of 3 credit hours in English. The remedial course must be taken before the third semester of enrolment in the Program, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the School of Graduate Studies at Birzeit University.