本课目的是希望思考中国的社会转型，发展矛盾，政治控制与文化研究理论的之间的互动与复杂性。文化研究是一个西方学界对应后工业社会的消费主义、战后的意识形态、左翼思潮变成国家政权、个体和社会结构的关系，还有对解放、社会运动、公民社会的进一步反思而产生的一个学科。如何把这些课题，放在在中国大陆和它非常不一样的历史、政治、和社会环境中即是本科的重点。 课程分几个阶段。在第一部分，我们阅读七十，八十年代几个大众文化议题。然后进入90年代，我们一起探讨在中国改革过程的几个发展矛盾，包括城乡分化、阶级和性别关系的重新构成、中国成为世界工厂等一系列问题。在这些巨变中，大众意旨什么？文化是谁的文化？体现了什么价值观？大众文化现象与互联网与微博媒体的再现如何应对，挑战，或颠覆政治控制或发展论述，然后重新思考文化研究在当代中国社会的意义。

CULS5220 Cross-Dressing and Hong Kong Cinema 性别易装与香港电影
 

This course is designed to investigate the cross-dressing and the gender-crossing of Hong Kong cinema in comparison with Western filmmaking. We will study the cross-dressers and their visual representations in both Chinese and Western cinema. Issues addressed include the historical construction of cross-dressing, the redefinition of masculinity and femininity of transvestites, the queer spectatorship of audience reception, gay and lesbian identities, homophobia and heterosexism, transsexualism and the discourse of AIDS. What we are going to interrogate is how clothes make gender and sexuality in cinematic representation and stage performance especially in martial arts genre and opera film.
这个课程从「性别易装」的角度出发，来回於心理学、社会学、符号学、电影理论、表演研究等范畴，研讨「性别易装」的历史建构，重新辨别男女易服者的阳刚与阴柔气质，并从酷儿观照的位置分析多元性别流动的面貌，同时跟西方易服电影比较，观察彼此在视觉呈现上的文化异同；我们寻求理解的不单是衣服和装扮如何影响性别的外观与身份认同，而且还集中讨论电影与舞台演出的美学风格，看男变女、女扮男、亦男亦女、非男非女、反串再反反串等种种不可思议的性别形态。

CULS5317 Xiqu and Performing Culture 戏曲与表演文化
 

To help student to understand the richness of Xiqu, this course is aimed at introducing its essential artistic teatures. We will study its contemporary development trends, as well as the mutations and transplantations of Xiqu’s elements in other performing art and cultural practices. Besides, we will learn the aesthetics concepts in Xiqu, and discuss its difficult and exciting developments, especially when Xiqu faces different kinds of performing culture. We will end the course with the thinking of the interrelationship between artistic development or reservation and governmental policy of Xiqu in Hong Kong
本科特为对「戏曲」艺术及其变异和延伸再现有兴趣的同学而设，旨在介绍戏曲的基本艺术特色，并关注当代戏曲发展以及其他艺术媒体对戏曲元素的挪用和移植情况。期望让同学既能膫解戏曲特色，进而观察不同的地方戏曲与该地方文化的关系，尤其关注香港戏曲的情况。因应近年西九龙文娱艺术区与永久性粤刻表演场地的论争，本科将会讨论政府文娱政策对香港戏曲的发展或保存所引起的波澜，以及探讨政策制定与艺术发展的互为影响。

CULS5408 Mass Media and the Transformation of Modern Society 大众媒体与现代社会的转型
 

The rise of mass media and modern social imaginaries has become the historical landmark of modernity. This course probes the interrelationship between mass media and social imaginaries in modern and post-modern ages. It traces the cultural consequences of various communication technologies and their relation to various conceptions of modern public spaces.
大众媒体和现代社会想像的崛起，业已成为现代性的历史地标。本课程主要探究现代与后现代时期大众媒体与社会想像之间的互动关系。我们尝试探索各种沟通科技所带来的文化效应，并进而追溯这些文化效应与各种现代公共空间构想之间的关系。

CULS5413 User-Generated Content and Digital Culture 用户创造内容与数位文化
 

This course is designed to introduce digital culture in web 2.0. It aims to engage learning of cultural activities that takes place in social networking setting. User-generated content is the main form of cultural text that we will examine in this course. The course begins with an understanding of basic theories in cultural studies. Students are expected to understand the fluid nature that culture becomes in the globally connected internet world. The course secondly introduces concepts that are recently developed in the study of user-generated content. It introduces emerging cultural concepts including creative labor, produsage, mashup, convergence, participatory creativity, networked community, remixed culture, copyleft and controlled regulation. The course also includes specific case discussion on how user-generated content is studied in the field of digital humanity. The approach of this course emphasizes lecture, discussion of reading materials, student presentation and applied media practice in student projects.
本课程主要介绍网络2.0时代的数位文化，目的在於学习发生在社交网络里的文化活动。用户创造内容是本课主要学习的文化文本。课程始於对文化研究领域里一些基本理论的理解，期望学生能理解到在全球关联的网络世界里文化本质已经变得更具有流动性。本课也会介绍用户创造内容研究范畴里一些新近发展的概念，主要是新出现的文化概念，例如创意劳工、造用、糅合、聚合、参与式创意、网络社群、混杂文化、反版权和监管规则。本课还包括对怎样在数位人文学领域研究用户创造内容进行特定的个案讨论。课堂形式主要为讲课、讨论、学生报告和媒体应用与实践。