Elective

CLIT7020 Introduction to Reasearch Methods

This is a course to introduce master-level students to theory-informed research methods in literary, film, and cultural studies. It gives a survey of the key concepts, methods, debates, and authors as they pertain to the research and analysis of texts, contexts, and world. Questions for inquiry include: How do scholars engage theory and method to examine narratives, discourse, form, genre, ideology, subjectivity, and imaginary? How do analyses of texts, practices, reception, production contexts engage cultural economy, power, politics, and/or historiography? Research methods covered in the course include: narrative analysis, formal analysis, authorship studies, genre studies, discourse analysis, ideological analysis, and ecocritical analysis.