What you can do with Cultural Studies.

Skills Learned in Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies classes are designed to help students learn to look at a wide array of material through various lenses for the purposes of analysis, including but not limited to Novels, Short Stories, Music, Film, Articles, Advertisements, Visual, and Audio Media. Students are then expected to communicate and discuss in class and with peers their thoughts and views on such topics. Through lessons and discussions, students develop highly applicable skills for everyday life beyond the classroom.

Transferable and Employable Skills:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Visual Analysis
  • Researching and writing
  • Organization
  • Project Management
  • Leadership
  • Written and Spoken Communication
  • Analysis and Interpretation of information
  • Team Work
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • And so much more

How do these skills support other aspects of learning?

Cultural Studies is not limited to any one particular field of study, while a lot of the material used can be unique to our department the lenses certainly are not. In discussions students often bring up knowledge learned in other departments, skills and knowledge learned in History may help to put context to the time and space surrounding a topic, Psychology might add context to the thought process of a main character in a Speculative Fiction novel, Sociology might add context to the world with which the author was creating a story in. While outside ideas may lend to furthering our discussions within Cultural Studies, these discussions and ways of thinking also work in reverse as well. When studying in other fields the knowledge application and understanding of lenses can aid in discussion as well as knowledge absorbed. All the above skills are extremely valuable in other fields of study as well.

What is Cultural Studies used for?

As discussed, the application of knowledge and skills learned within the program really lend themselves to other fields of work and study, but you might be wondering what kind of work uses the skills learned in Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies can be a great field of study to use as a springboard into others, or can be used all on its own in some of the following job fields.

  • Law
  • Journalism
  • Teaching/Lecturing
  • Research
  • Library Science
  • Communications
  • Archivism
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Social Work
  • Publishing and Writing
  • Advertising
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Policy and Governance
  • Environmental