本課程的目標在於使學生瞭解「文化研究」（Cultural Studies）的主要理論、處理的議題、觀察的對象、使用的研究方法，以及相關議題與論述方法在文學批評上的應用與實踐，並將所學應用在自己所感興趣領域的研究中。聚焦探討的範疇與議題為：
1. 知識與權力: 結構主義、後結構主義
2. 文化認同: 主體、歷史建構
3. 文化地理學: 空間、城市、地方、全球化
4. 後現代文化: 擬像、懷舊、大眾文化、雅俗

The purpose of this course is to enable students to understand the main theories of "cultural studies", the questions they deal with, the subjects they observe, the research methods they use, as well as the application and implementation of related topics and argumentative methods in literary criticism, and to apply what they learn to study in their fields of interest. The scope and topics focused on the exploration are:
1. Knowledge and power: structure theory, rear structure theory
2. Cultural recognition: subject, historical structure
3. Cultural geography: space, city, place, globalization
4. Postmodern culture: statues, old, general culture, elegant and vulgar

教師自編講義

羅鋼、劉象愚。〈前言：文化研究的歷史、理論與方法〉。《文化研究讀本》。北京：中國社會科學出版社，2000。

Teacher's self-editor

Root steel, Liuxiang is foolish. 〈Preface: History, Theory and Methods of Cultural Research〉. "Reading of Cultural Research". Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2000.