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Minor in Cultural Studies
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Professor Chua Beng Huat

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REQUIREMENTS

Students must read and pass a minimum of six modules (24 MCs) from the list of Cultural Studies Minor modules, which include:
  1) XD3101 (compulsory module)
  2) At least two modules at level-2000
  3) At least two modules at level-3000 (including XD3101)
  Notes:
 

All modules read in fulfillment of the minor requirements should be graded. Modules taken on Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis may not be counted towards the minor requirements.

  Students will be allowed to use up to 8 MCs to meet the requirements for both the minor and a major or another minor, at the same time.  However, the credits for these modules will be counted ONCE.  FASS students will still need to fulfill the MCs required for the UE outside major requirements.
  Please refer to FASS website for specific guidelines governing Minor Programmes offered by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

The following modules have been approved for retrospective recognition and they can be used as a partial fulfillment of the minor requirements:

COMPULSORY

XD3101 Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies

LEVEL 1000

GEK1046 Introduction to Cultural Studies

LEVEL 2000

CH2292A Understanding Modern China Through Film (in English)

HY2236 Media in the 20th Century and Beyond

JS2216 Postwar Japanese Film and Anime

NM2201 Intercultural Communication*

NM2210 Aesthetics of New Media*

SC2214 Mass Media and Culture

SC2220 Gender Studies

GE2224 Geographies of Social Life

SC2217 Sociology of Tourism

SE2212 Cities and Urban Life in Southeast Asia

HY2227 Technology & Culture in the Asia-Pacific

HY2232 From Samurai to Sony: History of Japan

SC2210 Sociology of Popular Culture

SC2215 The Sociology of Food

LEVEL 3000

EN3235 Representations of Asians in the US

JS3216 Japanese Film and Literature

JS3225 Japanese Mass Media

SN3274 South Asian Cinema

EN3245 Feminism: Text & Theory

GE3206 Gender, Space and Place

GE3224 Cultural Landscapes

SN3261 Exile, Indenture, IT: Global South Asians

PH3220 Philosophy of Culture

EN3262 Postcolonial / Postmodern Writing


*

NM2201 Intercultural Communication
[Old Code and Title: IF2201 Culture and Communication]

* NM2210 Aesthetics of New Media
[Old Code: IF2210 Aesthetics of New Media]

 

 

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