Syllabus LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES.docx

Proram Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

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Lecturer:

Literature and Cultural Studies
IG 547
2
5
Students taking this course are required to have satisfactorily
completed Foundations of Linguistics (Semester 2) and
Foundation of Literature (Semester II) with minimum grade of
C.

Eki Qushay Akhwan (2026)

Objectives
Upon completing the course students are expected to be able to (1) understand and use
literature and cultural studies tools (concepts and theories) to make out how meanings are
produced, reproduced, and circulated, (2) use them to analyze and reveal the meanings
hidden in cultural phenomena and practices and in literary works as cultural artifacts, and (3)
critically scrutinize the social, cultural, and political significance of the revealed meanings to
empower themselves and the people around them.
Course Description
This course guides the students to read and examine literature and cultural studies concepts
and theories with the objective of enabling them to use them as tools of analysis to reveal
meanings hidden in the cultural phenomena and literary works.
Considering the breadth and the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts and theories of
literature and cultural studies and the limited number of credit hours, this course will only
cover the following concepts:
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.

The Signs: aspects of signs, signs and systems, and interactions of
signs.
The Text: texts and textualities, genre and intertextuality, and
narrative.
The Medium: the medium and mediation, myths and imagery,
realism and stereotypes.
Ideology: power relations and hegemony.
Subjectivity and Identity: cultural identity, identification, and the
subject.

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The course will emphasize the practical application of the concepts as tools of analysis by
providing the students with models of analysis and texts and cases upon which they can
apply their understanding of the concepts.
Learning Activities
Reading, questions and anwers, discussions, lecturing, modeling, practice.

Media
Whiteboard, Computer and LCD with internet connection, DVD player.
Evaluation
Grading elements
- Individual assignment
- Group assignment
- Mid-term test
- Final test

20%
20%
30%
30%

Grading scale
A
86 – 100
B
71 – 85
C

56 – 70
D
41 – 55
E
< 40
Weekly Syllabus
Sessio
n

Topics

Sources

1 Syllabus overview and introduction to Literature
and Cultural Studies
2 Signs and aspects of signs.
3 Signs and systems

4 Interactions of signs
5 Text

6 Genre and Intertextualities
7 Narrative

1. Handout
2. Culler (1997, 42 –
54)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
7 – 14)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
25 – 43)
2. Bertens (2001, 54 –
57)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
44 – 66)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
67 – 87)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
88 – 110)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
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111 – 131)
2. Culler (1997, 82 –
93)
8 Mid Term Test
9 Medium and mediation
10 Ideology
11 Ideology and hegemony
12 Identity and the subject
13 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
14 Post-colonial Criticism and Theory
15 Sexuality, Literature and Culture

1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
132 – 154)
1. Thwaites et al. (1994,
155 – 171)
1. Bertens (2001, 79 –

116)
1. Culler (1997, 108 –
132)
1. Bertens (2001, 171 –
192)
1. Bartens (2001, 199 –
216)
1. Bertens (2001, 217 –
235)

16 Final Test
References
Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. (Abingdon: Routhledge, 2000)
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory, The Basics. (London: Routledge, 2001)
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction. (London: Oxford
University Press, 1997)
Leitch, Vincent B. (General Editor) et al. The Norton Anthology of Theory and
Criticism. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)
Lodge, David and Nigel Wood (Eds.). Modern Criticism and Theory, A Reader
(Second Edition). (Essex: Pearson Education Ltd., 2000)

Storey, John. Cultural Studies and The Study of Popular Culture. (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, Ltd., 1996)
Thwaites, Anthony, Lloyd Davis, Warwick Mules. Tools for Cultural Studies: An
Introduction. (Melbourne: MacMillan Education Australia Pty. Ltd., 1994)

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Sessions

Topics

1 Syllabus
overview
and
introduction
to Literature
and Cultural
Studies

2 Signs and
Aspects of
Signs

Objectives

At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to:
- have the
idea about
the course
coverage
and
requiremen
ts;
- understand
and be able
to state in

their own
words what
Literature
and
Cultural
Studies is
in terms of
its history
and
traditions.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the

concepts of
sign,
content,
codes,
format,
address,
context,

Learning
Activities
-

-

Evaluation

Lecturi
ng,
questio
ns and
answer
s.

-

lecturin
g,
discussi
ons.

-

-

Sources

Questio
ns and
answer
s.

-

Questio
ns and
answer
s
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

-

-

Handou
ts
Culler
(42 –
54)

Thwait
es et al
(7 – 14)

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-

-

3 Signs and
Systems

and
functions;
find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.

At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
signifier,
signified,
significatio
n,
difference
and value,
synchrony
and
diachrony,
paradigm
and
syntagm;
- find

-

Lecturi
ng,
discussi
ons

-

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

1. Thwite
s et al
(25 –
43)

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4 Interactions
of Signs

examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
metaphor
and
metonymy,
connotation
and
denotations
;
- find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate

-

Lecture
ing and
discussi
on

-

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

1. Thwite
s et al
(44 –
66)

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5 Text

their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the Lectureing and
sessions,
discussion
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
text, social
texts and
social
meanings,
textual
analyses
and
production,
text
analysis
practice;
- find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the

-

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

1. Thwite
s (67 –
87)

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6 Genre and
Textuality

7 Narrative

concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
textual
relations,
genre,
generic
change and
dialogism;
- find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain

Lecturing and
discussion

-

Lectureing and
discussion

-

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

1. Thwite
s (88 –
110)

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing
a short
essay
of

1. Thwite
s (111 –
131)

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-

-

in their
own words
the
concepts of
narrative
structure,
narrative
negotiation
s, etc.;
find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.

8 Mid-term test
9 Medium and
At the end of the Lectureing and
Mediation
sessions,
discussion
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
mediation
and selfeffacement,
media selfinterest and
community,

about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

-

Questio
ns and
answer;
Writing a short
essay of about
200 words on
their reading of
a text.

1. Thwite
s (132
– 154)

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10 Ideology

myths of
community,
visual
media and
technology,
and
realism;
- find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the Lectureing and
sessions,
discussion
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
ideology
and power,
ideology
and
hegemony,
conflict and
contradictio
n;
- find

-

Questio
ns and
answer
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words
on their
reading
of a
text.

1. Thwite
s (155
– 171)

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11 Ideology
and
Hegemony

12 Identity and
the Subject

examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read
ideology in
texts.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the
concepts of
ideology,
hegemony,
Marxist
literary
theory,
feminism,
and gender
and race
theories;
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
the

Lectureing and
discussion

-

Questio
ns and
answer;

1. Bertens
(79 –
116)

Lectureing and
discussion

-

Questio
ns and
answe;
Writing
a short
essay
of
about
200
words

1. Culler
(108
-132)

-

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13 New
Historicism
and Cultural
Materialsm

14 Postcolonial
Criticism

concepts of
the subject,
representati
on v.
Production,
psychoanali
sis, group
identities,
pervasive
structure;
- find
examples
from day
to day
experiences
,
phenomena
, and
objects to
illustrate
their
understandi
ng;
- read texts
with the
concepts
they have
learned.
At the end of the
sessions,
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
New
Historicism
and
Cultural
Materials;
At the end of the
sessions,
students are

on their
reading
of a
text.

Lectureing and
discussion

-

Questio
ns and
answer

1. Bertens
(171 –
192)

Lectureing and
discussion

-

Questio
ns and
answer;

1. Bertens
(199 –
216)
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and Theory

15 Sexuality,
Literature
and Culture

expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
Postcolonia
l studies,
orientalism,
colonized
and
colonizer,
subaltern.
At the end of the Lectureing and
sessions,
discussion
students are
expected to be
able to:
- understand
and explain
in their
own words
lesbian and
gay
criticism,
the
production
of
sexuality,
queer
theory,
homosexua
lity as
cultural
matrix.

-

Questio
ns and
answer;

1. Bertens
(217 –
235)

16 Final Test

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