Depth and Breadth of Knowledge

Depth and Breadth of Knowledge 1) Identify and explain central concepts, theoretical approaches, and methodologies in cultural studies and draw upon them to critically examine and analyze contemporary cultural, social, and political formations, often including the critical analysis of creative and artistic cultural products and productions 2) Relate cultural practices to social and political realities using interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary models, and identify social justice issues including but not limited to anti-racism, decolonization, gender equity, anti-poverty, anti-ableism 3) Critically evaluate key concepts, theoretical approaches and assumptions in scholarly and popular literature to assess and to question received knowledge about cultural formations 4) Outline connections between everyday events, culture, politics, and social justice issues, preparing to become global citizens 5) Theorize innovate approaches to the study and practice of culture by questioning and reworking already existing investigative paradigms to generate new ways of knowing and perceiving the world 2) Successful completion of thesis requirements, including production and community work where appropriate 3) Attendance and participation at CUST Graduate Seminars and Cultural Studies Speaks events 2) Successful completion of comprehensive examinations 3) Successful completion of thesis requirements, including production and community work where appropriate 4) Attendance and participation at CUST Graduate Seminars and Cultural Studies Speaks events 1) Recognize and describe the sociology of language or the capacity of social semantics to encapsulate, challenge, and alter the prevailing relations among economy, politics, culture, and society 2) Gain confidence in making, refining, changing, describing, defending and practicing one s own 1) Articulate and make us of a range of cultural studies research and praxis models 1) Distinguish key approaches to the study of culture and their application to interpreting social and cultural change 2) Narrate the genesis and progression of cultural studies through identification and description of key theorists, theories, and subject areas 3) Articulate the diversity of ways cultural production, consumption, and meaning shape everyday life 4) Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies to new situations and practices relevant to your everyday experience 5) Recognize and value at a professional level both the complexity of knowledge and the potential 1) Identify the genealogy and variety of community-based research approaches 2) Critically reflect upon your own practice and that of others using ethical interpretations of concepts such as Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the

Research and Scholarship 1) Develop theoretical and methodological repertoires based in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields relevant to cultural studies, leading to the creation of rigorous research or creative or activist projects 2) Identify and create knowledge(s) via written analysis, project components, and creative or activist approaches to complex issues 3) Establish effective approaches for analyzing current cultural, social and political situations from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives 4) Compare and combine methodologies from the arts and social sciences 5) Engage with difference and with opposed methodologies with confidence and flexibility 6) Explore new methodologies, and challenges to existing methodologies, e.g. from Indigenous knowledges 7) Produce original research and cultural products of a quality to satisfy the peer review process, merit publication and/or production, and to move the field(s) forward 1) Successful completion of thesis requirements 1) Successful completion of qualifying examinations Successful completion of thesis/project requirements 1) Engage with cross-disciplinary and multimedia genres and discourses that seek to define the contemporary human condition 2) Determine the unique role of the humanities and the potential for skepticism to illuminate that which has been obscured or only partially comprehended by respective disciplines 1) Characterize, objectively appreciate, and/or critique a given scholar s methods or methodologies 2) Gain confidence in making, refining, changing, describing, defending and practicing one s own 3) Make use of the art of the good question 4) Begin to inhabit the field of cultural studies with ethical and intellectual integrity from both personal and professional standpoints 1) Articulate and make us of a range of cultural studies research and praxis models 2) Take leadership roles in developing and implementing scholarly artistic and activist initiatives such as organizing panels, guest lectures, and seminars 1) Distinguish key approaches to the study of culture and their application to interpreting social and cultural change 2) Narrate the genesis and progression of cultural studies through identification and description of key theorists, theories, and subject areas 3) Conceptualise, design, critique, and implement research for the generation of new knowledge, applications, or understandings 4) Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies to new situations and practices relevant to your everyday experience 5) Recognize and value at a professional level both the complexity of knowledge and the potential 1) Critically reflect upon your own practice and that of others using ethical interpretations of concepts such as 2) Conceptualise, design, critique, justify and implement a CBR project 3) Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the

Professional Capacity and Autonomy 1) Combine intellectual and political analytical skills into employable models, demonstrating the transferable skills necessary for employment both within the academy and in a broad range of fields, including non-state and noncapitalist settings, such as autonomous art production, community activism, and non-governmental organizations 2) Exercise initiative, responsibility, and accountability, demonstrating a high level of decision-making ability in complex situations 3) Demonstrate the capacity for creation of research models and for communication of issues, ideas, and conclusions in cultural studies using ethical and responsible models 4) Act as ethical leaders in a diverse range of settings in local and global communities with strong skills in noncolonial methods of knowledge sharing and production 1) Successful placement of students in academic and other jobs, as well as creative and activist contexts, which apply skills learned in the degree program, and/or admission to doctoral degree programs 2) Successful completion of training activities during Orientation Week 3) Submission of applications for internal and external funding and scholarships/fellowships 4) Participation in teaching (TA), supervision, and mentorship experiences 5) Development of academic/professional/activist/artistic networks (e.g., attending conferences; serving on unit, universitywide, and external committees; engaging in collaborative research) 6) Successful completion of required SGS 804: Course in Research Ethics 1) Successful placement of students in academic and other jobs, as well as creative and activist contexts, which apply skills learned in the degree program, and/or placement in postdoctoral studies 2) Successful completion of thesis requirements 3) Successful completion of SGS 804: Course in Research Ethics 4) Successful completion of training activities during Orientation Week 5) Submission of applications for external funding and scholarships/fellowships 6) Presentation of research at scholarly conferences 7) Teaching (TA and TF), supervisory, and mentorship experiences 8) Development of academic/professional/activist/artistic networks (e.g., attending conferences; serving on unit, universitywide, and external committees; engaging in collaborative research) 9) Participation in peer review processes 1) Explain and interrogate complex national and global forces and processes, particularly those whose significance we cannot yet master 2) Continue to draw upon your own curiosity towards innovative discovery within your work and field at large 2) Characterize, objectively appreciate, and/or critique a given scholar s methods or methodologies 3) Gain confidence in making, refining, changing, describing, defending and practicing one s own 4) Apply professional level skills in reading, writing, and speaking in a scholarly manner 5) Make use of the art of the good question 6) Begin to inhabit the field of cultural studies with ethical and intellectual integrity from both personal and professional standpoints 1) Nurture the development of, and participate in, intellectual, creative, and political communities 2) Demonstrate high levels professional standards and ethics in a variety of areas 3) Take leadership roles in developing and implementing scholarly artistic and activist initiatives such as organizing panels, guest lectures, and seminars 1) Conceptualise, design, critique, and implement research for the generation of new knowledge, applications, or understandings 2) Recognize and value at a professional level both the complexity of knowledge and the potential 1) Enter into debates surrounding key terms to CBR paradigms such as research, community, participation, and action 2) Critically reflect upon your own practice and that of others using ethical interpretations of concepts such as 3) Conceptualise, design, critique, justify and implement a CBR project 4) Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the 5) Participate in environments characteristic of a CBR approach

Communication Skills 1) Present in written, oral, and alternative/creative formats, a conceptual understanding and methodological competence that indicates that they can employ established techniques of research and inquiry to create and interpret knowledge within the broad field of cultural studies 2) Write and speak effectively in different communication contexts in order to analyze cultural, scholarly and social/political issues 3) Communicate ethically, responsibly and effectively as local and global citizens who promote equity and social justice goals 4) Garner support from a diverse range of sources (e.g. monetary, administrative, community) for the development and implementation of original research and cultural production 2) Successful completion of thesis requirements 3) Attendance at CUST Graduate Seminar 4) Presentation of research in a public forum 5) Publication of research 6) Teaching (TA), supervision, and mentorship of undergraduate students 7) Service on unit, university-wide, and external committees 8) Community work and cultural production 2) Successful completion of qualifying exams 3) Successful completion of thesis requirements 4) Attendance at Cultural Studies Speaks Graduate Seminar 5) Presentation of research at scholarly conferences 6) Participation in question and answer periods at scholarly events 7) Publication of research 8) Teaching (TA and TF), supervision, and mentorship of undergraduate students 1) Recognize and describe the sociology of language or the capacity of social semantics to encapsulate, challenge, and alter the prevailing relations among economy, politics, culture, and society 2) Explain and interrogate complex national and global forces and processes, particularly those whose significance we cannot yet master 3) Continue to draw upon your own curiosity towards innovative discovery within your work and field at large 2) Characterize, objectively appreciate, and/or critique a given scholar s methods or methodologies 3) Gain confidence in making, refining, changing, describing, defending and practicing one s own 4) Apply professional level skills in reading, writing, and speaking in a scholarly manner 5) Make use of the art of the good question 1) Nurture the development of, and participate in, intellectual, creative, and political communities 2) Demonstrate high levels professional standards and ethics in a variety of areas 3) Articulate and make us of a range of cultural studies research and praxis models 1) Articulate the diversity of ways cultural production, consumption, and meaning shape everyday life 2) Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies to new situations and practices relevant to your everyday experience 1) Identify the genealogy and variety of community-based research approaches 2) Enter into debates surrounding key terms to CBR paradigms such as research, community, participation, and action 3) Conceptualise, design, critique, justify and implement a CBR project 4) Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the

Awareness of Limits of Knowledge 1) Recognize and articulate their individual location in the social world in order to critically examine the limits this places on their knowledge 2) Appreciate the contested and complex nature of knowledge within cultural studies and engage honestly and thoroughly with difference 3) Assess the strengths and limitations of interdisciplinary itself 4) Appreciate the necessity of being informed, critical, self-reflexive and openminded in their attempts to advance the field of cultural studies 5) Continually engage with their own limits and boundaries of knowledge and values towards constructing anti-racist, decolonial, gender equity, anti-poverty, and anti-ableist communities 1) Successful completion of thesis requirements, which include a review of literature, an oral defense before an interdisciplinary committee 2) Attendance at CUST Graduate Seminar 1) Successful completion of thesis requirements, which include a review of literature, an oral defence before an interdisciplinary committee, and may involve project work with cultural practitioners and community-based theorists and activists 1) Investigate the contemporary human condition towards determining how pedagogies, institutions, and disciplines create conditions of possibility 2) Continue to draw upon your own curiosity towards innovative discovery within your work and field at large 1) Recognize and value at a professional level both the complexity of knowledge and the potential 1) Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the

Application of Knowledge 1) Investigate avenues of research in cultural studies by applying existing bodies of knowledge to new questions or in new settings 2) Analyze and build investments in social justice including but not limited to anti-racism, decolonization, gender equity, anti-poverty, anti-ableism 3) Develop active rather than passive or consumptive relationships with received knowledge(s) about cultural practices, with attention to gender, race, and social justice 4) Construct and combine new contexts for cultural production and perform interventions in cultural fields using a range of interdisciplinary tools, scholarly, artistic/creative and activist 5) Undertake a detailed investigation and analysis of a specific cultural issue in order to consolidate the findings of recent research and indicate questions and issues to be explored further 6) Convert their knowledge(s) into teachable formats for various communities at the local, national, and international scholarly, artistic, and/or political levels 1) Successful completion of thesis requirements 1) Successful completion of qualifying examinations 2) Successful completion of thesis/project requirements 3) Application for internal and external awards 4) Application for internal and external grants 5) Presentation of research at scholarly conferences 6) Publication of research, showing of cultural production work, involvement in community-based actions 7) Development of research tools and products 1) Engage with cross-disciplinary genres and discourses that seek to define the human condition 2) Determine the unique role of the humanities and the potential for skepticism to illuminate that which has been obscured or only partially comprehended by respective disciplines 2) Characterize, objectively appreciate, and/or critique a given scholar s methods or methodologies 3) Gain confidence in making, refining, changing, describing, defending and practicing one s own 4) Apply professional level skills in reading, writing, and speaking in a scholarly manner 5) Make use of the art of the good question 6) Begin to inhabit the field of cultural studies with ethical and intellectual integrity from both personal and professional standpoints 1) Demonstrate high levels professional standards and ethics in a variety of areas 2) Articulate and make us of a range of cultural studies research and praxis models 3) Take leadership roles in developing and implementing scholarly artistic and activist initiatives such as organizing panels, guest lectures, and seminars 1) Distinguish key approaches to the study of culture and their application to interpreting social and cultural change 2) Narrate the genesis and progression of cultural studies through identification and description of key theorists, theories, and subject areas 3) Conceptualise, design, critique, and implement research for the generation of new knowledge, applications, or understandings 4) Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies to new situations and practices 1) Enter into debates surrounding key terms to CBR paradigms such as research, community, participation, and action 5) Critically reflect upon your own practice and that of others using ethical interpretations of concepts such as 6) Conceptualise, design, critique, justify and implement a CBR project Position your own activities analytically within relevant theoretical literatures with specific attention to the