There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module equips you with the theoretical and practical tools you need to engage with core cultural studies ideas including: materialism/s; workplace cultures, popular culture; subjectivity and identity; mobilities theory, signifying practices and semiotics; gender; and cultural change and diversity. You will undertake two central projects through which these ideas are explored. These are: material cultures (e.g. tracing the origins of manufactured objects, thereby analysing the integrated nature of modern supply chains and globalised working lives) and working lives (e.g. exploring cultural studies theorizing through the prism of the gig economy). Together, these projects will enable you to synthesise and apply to business contexts the more theoretical cultural studies content you have learned. This module aims to raise as many questions as it answers, providing intellectual tools with which you can engage in life-long learning and analytical inquiry of all things ‘cultural?, continuing long after graduation.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Synthesise and reflect on theoretical framings from cultural studies.

LO2: Critically analyse broad cultural trends and specific socio-cultural problems in business-related settings.

LO3: Critically reflect on and analyse specific socio-cultural problems in business contexts in light of theorizing from cultural studies.

LO4: Compose and justify theoretically informed solutions to socio-cultural problems in business-related settings.