Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 62)
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106-430 "Studying Subcultures" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p62) : Next:106-444 | Prev:106-428
Year 4 English.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Ken Gelder.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:
- understand cultural arrangements and identifications - in particular, the ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures;
- appreciate ethnographic problems in relation to the documentation of subcultures;
- understand the politics of representation in relation to subcultural identification;
- understand the formation of subcultural studies as a discipline, and the ways in which histories of subcultures may be written.
Content:
This subject studies texts relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, ethnic or diasporic subcultures, queer cultures, body art cultures and techno-cultures.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p62) : Next:106-444 | Prev:106-428
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p50) : Next:106-444 | Prev:106-428
Year 4 Cultural Studies.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Ken Gelder.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:
- understand cultural arrangements and identifications - in particular, the ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures;
- appreciate ethnographic problems in relation to the documentation of subcultures;
- understand the politics of representation in relation to subcultural identification;
- understand the formation of subcultural studies as a discipline, and the ways in which histories of subcultures may be written.
Content:
This subject studies texts relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, ethnic or diasporic subcultures, queer cultures, body art cultures and techno-cultures.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p50) : Next:106-444 | Prev:106-428
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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