國立中興大學教學大綱
課程名稱 (中) 當代文化中的全球化議題(8004)
(Eng.) Contemporary Culture and Globalization
開課單位 跨文化學程
課程類別 選修 學分 3 授課教師 廖卓豪 等
選課單位 跨文化學程 / 博士班 授課使用語言 英文 開課學期 1142
課程簡述 Globalization was, and still is, an important force in shaping the contemporary world. This class examines globalization critically, offering students the opportunity to engage with this phenomenon from a cultural perspective. We will read across disciplines such as economics, sociology, anthropology, and urban studies, with the aim of borrowing concepts for cultural analysis. One goal is to develop a grasp of key concepts that circulate as part of the ongoing debate on globalization; another is to learn to read and analyze cultural texts, broadly construed.

This year's class is co-taught by Song Hwee Lim and Zhou Hau Liew.
先修課程名稱
課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標 核心能力 配比(%) 教學方法 評量方法
Students will learn how to engage with globalization critically from a cultural perspective.
習作
講授
討論
書面報告
出席狀況
口頭報告
作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容
第1週 2/24 Introduction
第2週 3/3 Culture matters

Hall, Stuart (1980) “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms.” Media, Culture & Society 2: 57-72.
Williams, Raymond (1983) Introduction to Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana Press, expanded edition, pp. 11-26.
第3週 3/10 Time and Temporality

Crang, Mike (2011) Chapter 24, “Time.” In John A. Agnew and David N. Livingstone (eds.) Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage, pp. 331-343.
Duffy, Enda (2009) Introduction, “The Adrenalin Aesthetic: Speed as Culture.” In The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 1-16.
第4週 3/17 Three takes on slow cinema

Lim, Song Hwee (2014) Introduction to Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 1-10.
Schoonover, Karl (2012) “Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Laboring Body, the Political Spectator, and the Queer.” Framework 53 (1): 65-78.
第5週 3/24 Space and Place

Agnew, John (2011) ”Space and Place.” In John Agnew and David Livingstone (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. Los Angeles and London: SAGE, pp. 316-330.
Mathews, Gordon (2011) Chapter 1, “Place.” In Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 7-55.
第6週 3/31 Walking in the city

de Certeau, Michel (1988) “Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 91-110.
Morris, Brian (2004) “What we talk about when we talk about ‘walking in the city’.” Cultural Studies 18 (5): 675-697.

第7週 4/7 Midterm assignment

第8週 4/14 Reading the city

Cole, Teju (2011) Open City. New York: Random House, pp. 3-21.
Cole, Teju (2012) “The City as Palimpsest.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOq2HWveVok
第9週 4/21 Imagined cities

Benjamin, Walter (1935) “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century.”
Sardar, Ziauddin (2000) The Consumption of Kuala Lumpur, London: Reaktion Books, pp. 75-123.
第10週 4/28 Global cities: Hong Kong

Guest lecture by Sam Mak, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, NCHU
第11週 5/5 Global cities: Seoul

Bae, Fiona (2022) Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style.
Yun, Jieheerah (2017) Globalizing Seoul, The City’s Cultural and Urban Change. Oxford and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20.
第12週 5/12 Guest lecture by Jaeho Kang, Department of Communication, Seoul National University

Kang, Jaeho (2025) “The Techno-Sublime of Media Spectacle: From Screen-Interface to Screen-Scape in Seoul’s DDP” , Society, Spaces, Screens, Sarah Bassett et.al. (eds.) AMPS Proceedings Series 41.1: 153-162
Kang, Jaeho (2022) “Whither Transnationality? Some Theoretical Challenges in Korean Wave Studies”, International Journal of Communication 16: 3310-3328.
第13週 5/19 Culture as soft power

Chua, Beng Huat (2012) “Pop Culture as Soft Power.” In Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 119-143.

Lim, Song Hwee (2022) “Introduction: Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method.” In Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-23.
第14週 5/26 Affect

Hemmings, Clare (2005) “Invoking Affect: Cultural Theory and the Ontological Turn.” Cultural Studies 19 (5): 548-567.
Williams, Raymond (1977) “Structure of Feeling.” In Marxism and Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 128-135.
第15週 6/2 Inequality and Neoliberalism

Dorling, Danny (2015) “Conclusion: Towards a Fairer Society” and “Afterword.” In Inequality and the 1%. London and New York: Verso, pp. 159-193.
Teo, Yeoyenn (2015) “Differentiated Deservedness: Governance through Familialist Social Policy in Singapore.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 3 (1): 73-93.
第16週 Student presentations
自主學習
內容
   02.閱覽產業及學術相關多媒體資料
   03.製作專題報告

學習評量方式
Readings: We will close read excerpts of theoretical texts together in class, and students should read them with the week’s theme in mind. Some weeks will also feature a cultural text like a novel, film, or documentary for discussion.

Attendance and participation: Students are expected to attend every class and participate in class discussion. (20%)

Midterm paper: Students will curate 2 texts that pertain to one of the concepts discussed in the previous weeks, and write a short curatorial note (500-800 words) that explains their choices. These texts can be films, documentaries, YouTube videos, or newspaper reports. The main goal is just to exemplify and discuss the concept. (20%)

Presentations: Students will discuss an issue pertinent to the theoretical readings to class and do a 10 to 15 minute presentation. (25%)

Final paper: Final paper on a topic relevant to the course. (35%)

*Syllabus subject to change.
教科書&參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
PDFs and online essays.
Some books are available in the library.
課程教材(教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址)

課程輔導時間
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