Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 58)
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106-293/393 "Popular Culture" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Ken Gelder.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
- be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
- have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices;
- appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.
Content:
This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p48) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Ken Gelder.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
- be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
- have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices;
- appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.
Content:
This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p48) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Ken Gelder.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
- be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
- have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices; and
- appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.
Content:
This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:106-296 | Prev:106-290
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
Maintained by: Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts.
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