DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Welcome to the BS Cultural Studies Programme, the first of its kind in Pakistan!

Cultural Studies researchers theorize the creative forces that shape the lived reality of people in the 21st century. Drawing on a range of practices, Cultural Studies researchers investigate values, beliefs and belongings, cultural processes and cultural objects, economic and social relations, institutions and identities. Cultural Studies is an emphatically interdisciplinary area of inquiry that intersects the humanities, science studies, the social sciences and the arts. The Cultural Studies Department draws on a range of methods and critical theories and offers opportunities to break down conventional divisions between academia and activism, and, between theoretical critique and cultural production. What distinguishes Cultural Studies from other disciplines is its approach to study culture and the arts through multiple disciplinary methods to get at the complexity of cultural forms that are embedded within power structures, issues of social justice and cultural change.

This programme is aimed primarily at preparing theoretically sound professionals, and future academicians who have a specialization in South Asian visual and material culture and its pertinent issues and perspectives. The programme is designed to develop conceptual rigor, critical theoretical and analytical skills, with a thorough immersion in the analysis of development in the national and regional cultural institutions and the arts; as well as their contemporary theoretical debates.

With this set of knowledge and skills, graduating students will be able to make valuable societal contributions. They will be able to (a) seek admission in any relevant higher education programme (b) compete in the careers of arts, humanities, print/ electronic media, social/ cultural/ environmental development, and cultural policy.

Foundation Semesters

1st Semester

2nd Semester

3rd Semester

4th Semester

5th Semester

6th Semester

7th Semester

8th Semester

Thesis 15 credits

* Student can drop one departmental elective to opt for the elective offered by other departments from 3rd to 6th Semester

Elective Courses

From 3rd semester onwards, a student will be able to choose elective courses from within his/her department and from other departments with the help of assigned advisor. Each Elective Course will be of 2 credit hours.