This course explores the role that culture, as a set of practices encompassing a range of texts, events, experiences, and social institutions, plays in everyday lives. Students interpret cultural forms and practices such as written texts, film, television, visual and performance art, music, and electronic media - and the institutions that shape them. May be of special interest to students who plan on pursuing further work in Cultural Studies. Note: To meet the prerequisite for Upper-Year English, students taking this course should also take ENGL-1000(3).