Cultural Analysis & Theory
Winter 2016
STONY BROOK WEST CAMPUS
CCS 101.01
INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA & CULTURAL STUDIES
An examination of mediated images and how they characterize and shape our everyday lives. Students
learn how to recognize, read, and analyze visual media (which may include: film, television, advertising,
photography, music videos, art, graphic design, machinima, and web-based images) within the social,
cultural, and political contexts of cinema and cultural studies.
DEC: B
SBC: ARTS, HUM
3 credits
LEC-01 TWTF 1:30PM-5:55PM
CLT 121.01
CHEM 128
M. UMUT
DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN LITERATURE
Through discussion of representative contemporary and classical texts, this course addresses the topic of
how human beings have chosen to live with the one certainty of their existence, its eventual conclusion in
death, and how various images of afterlife or denial of its possibility have shaped those choices.
DEC: B
SBC: CER, HUM
3 credits
LEC-01 TWTF 9:30AM-12:55PM
WST 103.01
SBS S328
J. KAMPFF
WOMEN, CULTURE, AND DIFFERENCE
An introductory humanities survey focusing on women's traditional association with the home and men's
association with public life and how writers, artists, philosophers, and religious thinkers have reflected
upon those relationships over the past 150 years. Through lectures and critical analyses of novels, poetry,
art, philosophy, and religious texts, the course explores how changing intellectual, artistic, and religious
precepts have affected gender identity and different genres in the humanities.
DEC: G
SBC: CER, HUM
3 credits
LEC-01 TWTF 1:30PM-5:55PM
WST 291.01
PHYSICS P112
N. HAMIDI
INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST THEORY
An introductory survey of historical and contemporary interdisciplinary theories used in Women's and
Gender Studies. Theoretical debates on sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, knowledge, discourse,
representation are among the topics to be considered. The course will provide a strong theoretical
foundation for further studies in Women's and Gender Studies.
DEC: G
SBC: ESI, HFA+
3 credits
LEC-01 TWTF 5:30PM-8:55PM
PHYSICS P112
A. KNOX
Cultural Analysis & Theory
WST/SOC 340.30
Winter 2016
SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION
A study of the links between biological reproduction and the socioeconomic and cultural processes that
affect and are affected by it. The history of the transition from high levels of fertility and mortality to low
levels of both; different kinship, gender, and family systems around the world and their links to human
reproduction; the value of children in different social contexts; and the social implications of new
reproductive technologies.
This course is offered as both SOC 340 and WST 340.
DEC: H
SBC: STAS
3 credits
LEC-30 ONLINE
WST/SOC 371.30
P. LAL
GENDER AND WORK
Gender differences in workforce participation and occupational attainment as they have changed
throughout U.S. history. Covers such topics as historical changes in workforce participation; economic,
legal, and social factors affecting employment; career options; and pay equity. Readings and lectures
focus on the historical and contemporary experience of American men and women, including differences
by ethnicity and class. This course is offered as both SOC 371 and WST 371.
DEC: K
SBC: SBS+
3 credits
LEC-30
ONLINE
H. GIRMA
STONY BROOK MANHATTAN
CCS 101.60
INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA & CULTURAL STUDIES
An examination of mediated images and how they characterize and shape our everyday lives. Students
learn how to recognize, read, and analyze visual media (which may include: film, television, advertising,
photography, music videos, art, graphic design, machinima, and web-based images) within the social,
cultural, and political contexts of cinema and cultural studies.
DEC: B
SBC: ARTS; HUM
3 credits
LEC-60 TWTF 8:30AM-12:55PM
CLL 215.60
SB MANHATTAN
B. STRANG
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
An introduction to ancient Greek religion, literature, and art. Special emphasis will be given to the
presentation of myth in Classical Greek literature as well as to the influence of classical mythology on
later literature, art, and philosophy. Not for credit in addition to CLS 215.
DEC: I
SBC: HUM
3 credits
LEC-60 TWTF 5:30PM-8:55PM
SB MANHATTAN
A. DEGER
2
Cultural Analysis & Theory
Winter 2016
WST 399.60: TOPICS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY: QUEER(ING) CINEMA
This course examines queer cinema, including independent and “New Queer Cinema,” art house and
European cinemas, global and transnational cinemas, and classic Hollywood cinema. We will apply a
variety of queer theories to the films in order to more profoundly understand our objects of study—the
films themselves—while simultaneously using our objects to better understand the theories/practices. As
we unpack assumptions about sexed bodies, gender identities, sexual identities, and sexual desires, we
will examine the ways in which films and filmmakers uphold and/or subvert the status quo in regards to
gender and sexual norms. May be repeated as the topic changes.
DEC: G
SBC: HFA+
3 credits
LEC-60 TWTF 1:30PM-4:55PM
SB MANHATTAN
J. SCHAEFER
3