The Cultural Studies BDP teaches students to analyze the construction of images and artifacts, narratives, and identities, and their effects on social life. Its interdisciplinary approach offers methodologies with which to study culture defined in the broadest possible sense, from high art, to baseball and other leisure activities, to the practices of everyday life—all understood within a variety of social, historical, and national contexts.
Cultural Studies offers ways to study our own lives, asking questions relevant to our everyday encounters with differences and similarities, power and oppression, values and desires, pain and pleasure. Five areas of study provide students with vantage points for analyzing images, customs, and artifacts in the world around them:
An interdisciplinary faculty panel helps students choose courses, participate in faculty research projects, and find internships with local cultural organizations, from museums and theatres to film societies and oral history projects.
“The BDPs are the most supporting, structured, and above all, rewarding when it comes to making undergraduate academics an in-depth experience, an experience that will not only help you expand your horizons, but will add value to your degree.”