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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. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Ken Gelder |
Prerequisites | Usually admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in English or Cultural Studies, see Honours entry. |
Semester | Not Offered (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. The subject asks students to explore the ways identification can occur through the subcultural frame; to examine ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures; to read subcultures both textually and sociologically. On successful completion of the subject students should be able to 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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