UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Cultural Studies Program

CROSSLISTING of GRADUATE COURSES  -- FALL 2010 (AY2011)

Faculty interested in cross-listing a graduate-level course with the Cultural Studies Program for FALL 2010 should do 2 things by [Check back for exact date in February 2010]:

1.      Email the Cultural Studies administrator, Karen (cultural@pitt.edu ; 412-624-7232), providing the COURSE NUMBER, TITLE, AND COURSE DESCRIPTION (description should be appealing to Cultural Studies audiences);

2.      Email your departmental administrator. 

PLEASE NOTE: We ask faculty to submit courses consonant with the profile of the program. This typically includes the exploration of issues such as:

• the relationship between culture and politics;
• study of culture across national boundaries and disciplines;
• the formation of disciplines and intellectual institutions;
• the production of texts;
• cultural antagonisms and crises

n. b. When submitting your course description to our Executive Committee for vetting, please remember to submit a description that has a Cultural Studies audience in mind.

It is critical for the program's coherence and graduate-student interest that we avoid listing courses that do not address these issues.  This would typically exclude traditional survey courses, courses on the life and work of a great artist, introductory literature courses, etc.

By cross-listing a graduate-level course with the program, you are considered by the program to be a member of the Cultural Studies faculty for three years.   Cultural Studies faculty:

• receive notification of Cultural Studies sponsored and co-sponsored events through its listserv;
• participate in reading groups;
• are invited to attend and to organize guest seminars;
• serve as faculty participants in the annual Graduate-Student Colloquium and other events;
• may be asked to stand for election to the Fellowship Committee, which annually selects two Cultural Studies PhD students for advanced research fellowship support.
• May be asked or elected to serve for one year on the Executive Committee of the Program

For more information on the program, please see our website at http://www.pitt.edu/~cultural/.  If you have additional questions, please get in touch with the program director, Giuseppina Mecchia.  She can be reached at mecchia@pitt.edu or 412-624-5222.