106-064 Contemporary Cultural Studies

Formerly available as 106-290/390. Students who have completed 106-290 or 106-390 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites.

This subject introduces students to some of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies ranging from studies of mass culture to 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.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words or an equivalent in image/sound text negotiated with the subject coordinator.

A subject reader will be available.

• S During (ed.), The Cultural Studies Reader. 2nd edn, Routledge, 1999.