Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 58)
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106-290/390 "Contemporary Cultural Studies" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-281
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Chris Healy.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand the basic approaches of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies;
- have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce small-scale specific studies of contemporary cultural practices;
- appreciate the analytical scope and theoretical importance of the study of contemporary culture.
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.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-281
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-270
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Chris Healy.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
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.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
* Note that CONTACT, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS, RECOMMENDEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-270
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-281
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Chris Healy.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand the basic approaches of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies;
- have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce small-scale specific studies of contemporary cultural practices; and
- appreciate the analytical scope and theoretical importance of the study of contemporary culture.
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.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-293 | Prev:106-281
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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