Five Week Intensive Summer Program in Critical Theory at UC Irvine

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of our Summer Program in Critical Theory at UC Irvine as part of a special collaboration with Tsinghua Unviersity’s School of Journalism and Communication. It is a great opportunity for International Students who want to immerse themselves in English in a content rich environment that deals with the fundamentals of Critical Theory for Communications, Journalism and the study of Film and Contemporary Media.

Please help us spread the word to your colleagues and graduate and undergraduate students who want to study with UC Irvine faculty  for five weeks at UC Irvine this summer:

https://ce.uci.edu/criticaltheory/

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need more information.

Schedule of Topics:

Week 1: Culture Industry and Critical Theory

Week 2: Modernity and Post-Modernity

Week 3: Public Spheres: Print, Radio Television and Social Media

Week 4: Pleasure and Popular Culture: Gender, Spectatorship and Fan Culture

Week 5: New Media, New Economy: Social Media and its Discontents