CULT 100 Themes in Culture and Identity
- Introduction to Media Studies
This course is designed for students who want to have an introductory understanding of contemporary media culture. Throughout an inter-disciplinary approach to the key theories and methods in media studies, the course aims to analyze and discuss the process of media culture. The production, circulation, representation, and consumption of the media in society will be examined by everyday examples.

CULT 101 The Ideas of Culture in Historical Perspective
- Introduction to Cultural Theories
This course introduces students to the history of concepts of culture as symbolic practices from a cultural studies perspective. The course explores how concepts of culture have been debated and defined by looking at such examples as popular music, cultural heritage, global tourism, and cosmetic surgery.

CULT 401 Topics in Media Studies
- Critical Internet Studies
This course examines recent cultural theories and case studies of the Internet. By discussing the question of identity on the Internet from a cultural studies perspective, the course explores how new technologies are integrated into our everyday lives and how new forms of identity in virtual worlds are articulated with social relations in real worlds.

CULT 410 Asian Cinema
- Trans/Asian Cinema
This course aims to explore how a set of recent cinematic imaginations and practices in East Asia represent the dynamics of local cultures and identities. In particular, power relations and cultural meanings in the representation and reception of East Asian cinema will be examined throughout the course. For the purpose, Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean feature films since the mid 1990s which have initiated new waves in East Asian cinema will be viewed and discussed under the theme of history, modernity, nationhood, gender, and social class.