Course Offerings for 2025-2026

Elective Courses

CAST elective courses examine the complex forces involved in the shaping of cultural processes, forms of subjectivity and modes of social inclusion and exclusion. You will explore:

• How power and politics are embedded in cultural systems.
• How socio-economic forces and popular culture are intermeshed.
• How categories such as gender, race, class, sexuality, and (dis)ability are socially constructed.
• How language, bodies, affect, and memory are culturally constituted and contested.

Over the course of your studies, you deepen your appreciation for how political and ethical agency is possible - and why it is vitally important - in our globalized world.

Elective course offerings vary from year to year. They include:

• CQ609: Theorizing Decolonization
• CQ610: Race, Gender and Imperialism
• CQ613: Nostalgia and Exile: Memory, History and Identity
• CQ616: Exit Democracy
• CQ617: Past Violence and Public Actions: Art, Literature, Politics
• CQ618: Biopolitical Theory
• CQ621: The Social Body
• CQ622: Sexual Politics: Sex, Agency, and Power
• CQ625: Ethics, Affect and Embodiment
• CQ628: Embodiment and Alterity
• CQ630: Risk, Media and the Politics of Anxiety
• CQ631: Cultural Studies in Theory and Practice
• CQ632: Hybrid Discourses, Discourses of Hybridity
• CQ633: Power, Hegemony and Resistance
• CQ634: Visuality and Cultural Analysis
• CQ635: Social Theory and Contemporary Film
• CQ636: Global Musics and Social Justice
• CQ638: Trans*: Reality vs Ideology
• CQ640: Special Topics in Globalization, Identity and Social Movements
• CQ641: Special Topics in Body Politics
• CQ642: Special Topics in Culture and Representation