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 106-290 Contemporary Cultural Studies

Note

Available as 106-390 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Chris Healy

Semester

2

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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