This course addresses various implications of culture and cultural presence, the complex relation between and within different cultures, society, politics and literature. In doing so, it addresses the discursive aspects of culture while investigating the production of ideology and power and how they are conditioned, distributed and consumed in contemporary media, and other forms of art and cultural productions (e.g: films, literary works, music, television shows and so on). It will hence highlight the key questions of the meaning making process in the era of capitalism and reflect onto the continuously evolving transnational situations through the lenses of cultural studies. The students will be acquainted with the core issues and different theoretical debates of cultural studies and are expected to grow with a critical awareness as well as ability to critically analyze cultural materials using updated frameworks of cultural studies.