Cultural Studies Student Presentation

Sejal – Myth Today

Prerna – Introduction: Folk tales of India

Bharat – The postmodern condition

Dhivya – Ideology

Lijoy – Femininity – Masculinity

Aditya – Legal Identity and Culture

Ajay – Imagining the nation

Sudhanva – The Identity question

Amrita – Introduction from CS Reader 3^rd edition

Sheena – Encoding – Decoding

Karuna – The metropolis &mental strife

Nivrithinath – Long bus rides

Glenn – Violence and Translation

Manju – Imagining the nation

Divya – Hyper Architecture

Sinto Mon – The face of the future

B Chacko – Everyday Surveillance: ID cards…

Anu – Blind Intelligence

Thomas – Surveillance after Sep 11, 2001

Ignatius F – The back and white (and grey) of copyright

Aivinor - Urban Transformation & Media Piracy

Prashanth – Obscenity decency and morality

Vineet – Screen Culture

Lily – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Noby - Urban Action Films

Marina S – Introduction: Indian Popular Cinema as Slum’s…

James – Cine-politics: On the political Significance of Cinema …

Sera Kim – Cyberculture

Harina – Postmodern Virtualities

Jeevan – The network society and organizational change

Rahul M – Identity in the Network Society

Rahul Giri – Thinking Cyber Subjectivity: Ideology and the subject

Nelson – The Network Society and Organizational change

J Kiran

Change in Film Analysis Course dates

The course will begin on 9 December rather than on 2 Dec.

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Cultrual Studies Testing pattern and evaluation criteria

Testing Pattern

CIA 2: Research paper proposals (Submission by Dec 8)

CIA 3: Presentation of essays and discussion

Mid Semester Examination: Submission of paper. Should have the first draft, two peer reviewed papers and the final paper (Length: 7-10 pages) At least 40% of the paper (To be submitted by 23 January)

End semester examination: Submission of paper. Should have the first draft, two peer reviewed papers and the final paper (Length: 15-20 pages) At least 40% of the paper (To be submitted by March 12)

The paper should strictly adhere to the standard formats of writing research papers.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated under any circumstance. The student plagiarising will be failed the submission concerned.

Evaluation Criteria:

CIA 2: Understanding of research problem, clarity, structure, language

CIA 3: Understanding of the essays, clarity of presentation, critical reading of the essay

Mid semester: Exploration of the research problem, adherence to research format, originality, language, presentation.

End semester: Exploration of the research problem, adherence to research format, originality, critical insights, language, presentation, extent of research engagement, publishability of the paper is refereed journals.

Extra weight will be given to evaluation if the students manage to publish papers in research journals.

Standard research formats are MLA, APA, Chicago Manual, Harvard. They have specific formats in terms of citation, layout, etc. You need to incorporate them in your writing. You need to follow any one format.

Following links will help you understand it better.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ (Has guidelines on MLA, Chicago and APA styles - Very good source)

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html (for Chicago)

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/harvard.htm (Harvard)
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html (Harvard)

Should you have any suggestions, please email them to me.