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106-083 Subcultural Studies | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-430. Students who have completed 106-430 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Ken Gelder |
Prerequisites | Usually admission to fourth year Honours see Honours entry |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject studies texts and events relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, ethnic or diasporic subcultures, queer cultures, body art cultures and techno-cultures. Students will understand how identification can occur through the subcultural frame; they will also examine ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures. Students will be encouraged to read subcultures both textually and sociologically. They will also analyse subcultural studies as an historically-framed discipline, beginning with late 19th century ethnographies and developing through the Chicago School and the Birmingham tradition. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 5000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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