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Change, continuity and cultural studies

The development of an alternative humanities curriculum for Vista University, Soweto

Vista University, South Africa, jstar{at}intekom.co.za

• This article on a proposed undergraduate cultural studies curriculum at Vista University (Soweto, South Africa) reflects also on the potential of the subject to analyse and transform its social and educational contexts. Special attention is paid here to outlining the specific economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the national and institutional contexts for this proposed course. Then the aims and shape of the course itself is outlined. Course-planners hope that the course will provide a crucial and critical space for reflection upon and engagement both by teachers and students with the social and educational transformation of post-apartheid South Africa. The multi-generic epistemologies of cultural studies will, it is proposed, help counter discrete disciplinary teaching hardened under apartheid conditions and enable students to rethink culture and cultural policy. •

Key Words: black universities • cultural studies • curriculum transformation • higher education • outcomes-based education • South Africa

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, 405-426 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/13678779020050040301


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