Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 56)
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106-295/395 "Feminist Cultural Studies: Let's Go Shopping" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
- able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field;
- aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
Content:
This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
- able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field;
- aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
Content:
This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
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, p47) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
- able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field; and
- aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
Content:
This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
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, p101) : Next:106-297 | Prev:106-283
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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