MLG1216: Cultural Studies

Dear students, welcome to the module Cultural Studies! We are Dr. Isaie Nzeyimana and Janvier Murenzi, your instructors.

Cultural Studies has become a well-established, exciting, and/but somewhat loose field of inquiry. It is acknowledged that the current interest in culture has replaced that of society. But the move was already observable in the late XIX th century and thought of as an instrumental (political) reinvestment.

This module is not intended to debate the value of the move and turn into a systematic critique of society, neither trying to watch the watchman, the established order. Its profile is rather humble but still deepening: it is designed from the potential of General Philosophy and of Ethical thought to select and come to terms with the central concepts, systems of thought, cultural practices and contexts that contribute(d) to make Rwanda a viable society.