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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-290/390 Contemporary Cultural Studies

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

This subject introduces students to some of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies ranging from questions around 'culture and society' to studies of mass culture, feminist, ethnographic and postcolonial cultural studies. These theoretical traditions will be our resource to be used by students to produce detailed and specific studies of contemporary cultural practices. By apprehending the diverse national and international tendencies in cultural studies, students will engage with some of the significant problems of the cultures we inhabit.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.

  • S During ed, The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge.
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