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Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture
Cultural Mediations
Location Dunton Tower 1424
Telephone 520-2177
Fax 520-2564
Email icslac@carleton.ca
The Institute
Director of the Institute: Christopher Faulkner
Supervisor of Ph.D. Studies: Paul Keen
The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and
Culture offers a program of study and research leading to
the Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Mediations.
The Department of English Language and Literature, the
Department of French, the programs in Art History, Film
Studies and Music of the School for Studies in Art and
Culture, and the program in Comparative Literary Studies
participate in the doctoral program.
Doctor of Philosophy
The program is designed to support work in cultural theory
of the twentieth-century and the analysis of a variety of
cultural practices across and between the participating
disciplines. The program addresses those issues in cultural
theory of the twentieth-century that inform
interdisciplinary work today in literature, film, music, art
and new media: the nature of the text and textuality; the
nature of representation, interpretation, meaning and
affect; cultural identity and hybridity; the role of
technologies of production and reception; the formation of
the subject and modes of subjectivity; the functioning of
ideology; the meaning and ethics of cultural value. Specific
works of literature, film and other cultural practices,
including new media, will be studied in relation to
questions of theory.
There are four fields of study in the program:
- Literary Studies
- Visual Culture
- Musical Culture
- New Technologies
Admission Requirements
The normal requirement for admission to the Ph.D. program in
either a full-time or part-time capacity is an M.A. (or a
recognized equivalent) in a discipline appropriate to the
interdisciplinary strengths of the program. A GPA of 10.0 (A-)
or better is normally required of course work completed at
the Master's level.
Appropriate disciplines might include English or French
Literature, Art History, Film Studies, Music, Comparative
Literature, Anthropology, Canadian Studies, Communication,
Geography, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Gender Studies.
Program Requirements
Students admitted to the Ph.D. program in Cultural
Mediations are required to complete a total of 10.0 credits
as follows:
- 1.0 compulsory credit, 25.611
- 1.0 credit chosen from 25.612, 25.613, 25.614, 25.615
- 0.5 compulsory credit, 25.690
- 1.0 additional credit
- 2.0 comprehensive credits
- 4.5 dissertation credits
Language Requirements
Upon graduation, each student is expected to be proficient
in one language (preferably French) in addition to English.
Additionally, students will be expected to deal with all
material that is their primary object of research in its
original language. The graduate supervisor should be
consulted about the fulfillment of language requirements.
Comprehensive Examinations
Students are required to pass two written comprehensive
examinations. Each comprehensive has a 1.0 credit value:
- The first comprehensive will be a general examination
of the broad range of cultural theory of the twentieth-
century;
- The second comprehensive will be a discipline specific
examination from one of the following four areas of
specialization chosen by the student: Literary Studies;
Visual Culture; Musical Culture; New Technologies.
Thesis
All students are required to complete a thesis in partial
fulfillment of the requirements of the degree offered by the
program. The thesis must be defended at an oral examination.
All students will be required to prepare, present and defend
a thesis proposal before proceeding to the writing of the
thesis. The proposal will be discussed and defended before
the members of the thesis advisory committee at an oral
defense chaired by the graduate supervisor.
The program appoints a doctoral thesis advisory committee,
the chair of which shall be the student's thesis supervisor.
The committee will consist of at least three members of the
university faculty, at least two of whom will be core (or
associate) faculty in the program. The advisory committee
shall determine when a thesis may go forward for
examination.
Academic Standing
Doctoral students must normally obtain a grade of B- or
better in each course counted toward the fulfillment of the
requirements of the degree.
Guidelines for Completion of the Doctor of Philosophy
Full-time Ph.D. students are expected to complete their
requirements within six calendar years. Students who
undertake the program by a combination of full-time and part-
time study must complete their degree requirements within an
elapsed period of eight calendar years, as set out in this
Calendar under the General Regulations.
Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given
year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings,
please consult the Registration Instructions and Class
Schedule booklet published in the summer.
F,W,S indicates term of offering. Courses offered in the
Fall and Winter are followed by T. The number following the
letter indicates the credit weight of the course: 1 denotes
0.5 credit, 2 denotes 1.0 credit, etc.
- Cultural Mediations 25.611T2
- Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity in Cultural Theory
This course will address the theory and practice of
interdisciplinary studies of culture. Attention will be paid
to those issues in cultural theory of the twentieth-century
that inform interdisciplinary work today in literature,
film, music, art and new media.
- Cultural Mediations 25.612F1,W1,S1
- Issues of Cultural Identity and Hybridity
This course will look at specific examples of Western and
non-Western cultural practice that raise questions about the
personal and social consequences of differential cultural
relations. Emphasis will be less upon the discreteness of
the cultural practices in question and more upon their
heterogeneity and hybridization.
- Cultural Mediations 25.613 F1,W1,S1
- Issues of Cultural Mediation and Representation
This course will examine how works from different cultures
or works in the same or different media from the same
culture pose questions about the nature of representation,
interpretation, meaning and affect. Emphasis will be upon
the relation between social intelligibility and textual
features.
- Cultural Mediations 25.614 F1,W1,S1
- Issues of Subjectivity and Difference
This course will concern itself with understanding the
theory of the subject and its relations, with examples from
specific cultural practices in literary studies, film,
music, art, popular culture and new media.
- Cultural Mediations 25.615 F1,W1,S1
- Issues in the Technologies of Culture
This course concerns the role that technology plays in
changing models of literacy, visuality and aurality. The
technologies of the cultures of print, vision and sound will
be discussed through specific examples of cultural practices
in various media.
- Cultural Mediations 25.690 T1
- Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Students will be introduced to a range of methods of
inquiry, procedures and practices across related
disciplines, using both traditional and electronic research
tools, as preparation for the doctoral dissertation,
practices of academic publishing, conference presentations,
and private and public sector writing and research
protocols.
- Cultural Mediations 25.691 F1,W1,S1
- Directed Readings in Cultural Mediations
This tutorial is designed to permit students to pursue
research on topics chosen in consultation with members of
faculty and the graduate supervisor.
- Cultural Mediations 25.692 F1,W1,S1
- Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
This in-class course offers selected topics in
interdisciplinary studies of culture not available in the
regular course offerings.
- Cultural Mediations 25.693 F1,W1,S1
- Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
This in-class course offers selected topics in
interdisciplinary studies of culture not available in the
regular course offerings.
- Cultural Mediations 25.694 F1,W1,S1
- Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
This in-class course offers selected topics in
interdisciplinary studies of culture not available in the
regular course offerings.
- Cultural Mediations 25.697 F2,W2,S2
- Comprehensive I
This comprehensive will be a general examination of the
broad range of cultural theory of the twentieth-century as
it informs interdisciplinary work today and the historical,
intellectual and cultural frames of reference that this work
invokes.
- Cultural Mediations 25.698 F2,W2,S2
- Comprehensive II
This comprehensive will be a discipline specific examination
in a specialized area of study chosen by the student in
consultation with the graduate supervisor. Students will
choose from one of the following five comprehensive areas:
Literary Studies; Visual Culture; Musical Culture; New
Technologies.
- Cultural Mediations 25.699 F,W,S
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- Ph.D. Thesis
Master's Level Courses
Students may take the equivalent of 1.0 credit at the
Master's level.
Other Programs
Students may take the equivalent of 0.5 credit in a related
program. Students should contact the supervisor of graduate
studies for approval.
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