I took this class in the fall of 2010 which Dr. Helene Strauss (who is no longer at McMaster, so I won't talk about her abilities as a professor).

I loved this class! One thing I liked so much was that the amount of material we covered was so broad. We spent some time going over...

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I just took the course this term and I found it to be far less interesting than I had anticipated. I'm probably not the only one who walked out of the course not knowing what cultural studies was...at all. While Dr. Dean was a great professor, this was not a great or easy course by any means.

As for the culture jamming assignment, I completely agree with Easter. Although the assignments were marked by the just the prof and head TA, there should have been an explanation or comment for my mark at least.

Ugh. Awful course, would not recommend to anyone.

Hi,
I am a new student who just registered in Eng 1CS3. I was wondering how much of the course is composed of writing and how much of it is composed of reading. What types of texts do you read?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!