CRITICAL THEORY
- Course
- COMM610 - CRITICAL THEORY
- Department
- Communication and Media Studies - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 10
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This course is designed to study, in the context of ground texts; what is critical theory and how it is being analyzed in today’s world by different approaches. In that respect, the texts those philosophers will be examined especially Marx, Kant and Hedel, Lukacs, Nietzsche, Fromm, Marcuse, Freud, Adorno and Habermas.
CRITICAL THEORY
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Course outcomes
- 01 Students will be able to comprehend critical theories.
- 02 Students will be able to discuss the fundamental texts of the critical theories.
- 03 Students will be able to analyse the structures behind the modern societies.
- 04 Students will be able to interpret the main refractions within modernism.
- 05 Students will be able to analyze the factors behind postmodern approaches.
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction: The “Critical” in Critical Theory |
| Week 2 | Marxist Origins: Ideology & Power, Emancipation & Change |
| Week 3 | Frankfurt School: Formation and Development |
| Week 4 | The Culture Industry: Critical Theory and Aesthetics |
| Week 5 | Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis |
| Week 6 | Habermas and Reformulation of the Foundations of Critical Theory |
| Week 7 | Critical Theory and Frankfurt School: Student Presentations |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exam Week |
| Week 9 | Critiques of Frankfurt School |
| Week 10 | Critical Theory as a Paradigm and Method |
| Week 11 | Contemporary Reconceptualizations of Critical Theory |
| Week 12 | Critical Theories of Communication I |
| Week 13 | Critical Theory and International Relations |
| Week 14 | Rethinking Critical Theory: Student Presentations |
| Week 15 | Final Exam Week |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Stephen Eric Bronner (1994). Of Critical Theory and its Theorists. Blackwell Publishers.
- 02 David Held (1980). Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. London: Hutchinson.
- 03 Tom Bottomore (2002). The Frankfurt School and its Critics. Routledge.
Learning Outcomes
- L01 Students will be able to comprehend critical theories.
- L02 Students will be able to discuss the fundamental texts of the critical theories.
- L03 Students will be able to analyse the structures behind the modern societies.
- L04 Students will be able to interpret the main refractions within modernism.
- L05 Students will be able to analyze the factors behind postmodern approaches.
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