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Located in the heart of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago is a unique and vibrant place to learn. With over 120 years teaching creative students, Columbia graduates are prepared for exciting careers in the visual, performing, media and communication arts. Columbia offers Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees as well as Certificate programs.
The Cultural Studies program explores culture in its richly varied forms and processes from an interdisciplinary perspective. The program seeks to help students understand aesthetic, political, social, and economic relationships between cultural production and reception. It also considers the civic dimension of cultural practice by viewing these practices from standpoints of ethics and social justice. And, finally, it strongly emphasizes the active involvement of all forms of cultural knowledge and social action in the everyday life of local and global communities.
Columbia College’s innovative program in Cultural Studies includes rigorous course work in theory and praxis: integrating theoretical analysis with cultural production. Students will complete a series of core courses in the major as well as advanced seminars in Cultural Studies; a broad range of elective courses drawn from each of the three schools in the College, including arts, media and foreign language courses; and have the opportunity to complete either a yearlong Capstone Research Thesis or a yearlong Capstone Internship in Cultural Studies. These intensive Capstone experiences provide a bridge between a student’s formal undergraduate education, preparing them for future employment or graduate school. Participation in study abroad is highly recommended, particularly through the major’s exchange program with the University of East London.
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