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<TITLE>CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL STUDIES </TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd year
<COORDINATOR>Chris Healy.
<SEMESTER>Second semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will:
<ul>
<li>understand the basic approaches of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies;
<li>have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce small-scale specific studies of contemporary cultural practices;
<li>appreciate the analytical scope and theoretical importance of the study of contemporary culture.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to traditions of scholarship in cultural studies from 'culture and society' work to critiques of mass culture, feminist, ethnographic and postcolonial cultural studies. Its aim is to apprehend the diverse national and international tendencies in cultural studies in order to engage with the significant problems of the cultures we inhabit.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>During S ed <i>The Cultural Studies Reader </i>Routledge
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<RECOMMENDEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Frow J and Morris M <i>Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader</i> Allen &amp; Unwin
<ATEXT>Hebdige D <i>Subcultures: The Meaning of Style</i> Methuen
<ATEXT>Turner G ed <i>Nation, Culture, Text. </i> <i>Australian Cultural and Media Studies </i>Routledge
</RECOMMENDEDTEXTS>
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<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd year
<COORDINATOR>Chris Healy.
<SEMESTER>Second semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
<ul>
<li><b>Objectives: </b>Students who complete this subject successfully will:
<li>understand the basic approaches of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies;
<li>have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce small-scale specific studies of contemporary cultural practices;
<li>appreciate the analytical scope and theoretical importance of the study of contemporary culture.
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<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to traditions of scholarship in cultural studies from 'culture and society' work to critiques of mass culture, feminist, ethnographic and postcolonial cultural studies. Its aim is to apprehend the diverse national and international tendencies in cultural studies in order to engage with the significant problems of the cultures we inhabit.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>During S ed. <i>The Cultural Studies Reader</i> Routledge
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<RECOMMENDEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Frow J and Morris M <i>Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader </i>Allen &amp; Unwin
<ATEXT>Hebdige D <i>Subcultures: The Meaning of Style </i>Methuen
<ATEXT>Turner G ed <i>Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies</i> Routledge
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<POINTS>16.7
<COORDINATOR>Chris Healy.
<SEMESTER>Second semester.
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will:
<ul>
<li>understand the basic approaches of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies;
<li>have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce small-scale specific studies of contemporary cultural practices; and
<li>appreciate the analytical scope and theoretical importance of the study of contemporary culture.
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<CONTENT>This subject introduces students to traditions of scholarship in cultural studies from "culture and society" work to critiques of mass culture, feminist, ethnographic and postcolonial cultural studies. Its aim is to apprehend the diverse national and international tendencies in cultural studies in order to engage with the significant problems of the cultures we inhabit.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
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<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>During S ed <i>The Cultural Studies Reader</i> Routledge
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