ProgramCIP 30.2601

Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis

An interdisciplinary program that focuses on the analysis and critique of culture in its varied forms, including values, ideas, belief systems, and expressive acts, and the relationship between cultural forms, everyday life, and structures of power. Includes instruction in anthropology, communications, history, literary studies, philosophy, political economy, and sociology, as well as recent theories and methodologies such as semiotics, deconstruction, postcolonial studies, gender theory, and ethnography.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Analysis.