stc3pcm popular culture and the media

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MEDIA

STC3PCM

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Credit points: 15

Subject outline

Popular Culture and the Media is an introductory subject to the ideas, histories, theories and debates about culture in contemporary society. In this subject students will use a number of specific concepts and approaches drawn from debates about culture over the last 200 years to investigate such phenomena as for example, sports, TV medical shows, children's culture, popular romance and detective novels. Seminars consist of selected readings, screenings and discussion of case studies. It draws on some of the debates about culture and its relationship to power, politics, morals, pleasure and commercialization and economics from the Industrial Revolution to the present time. Throughout students are required to consider and investigate their own cultural formation and cultural origins in relation to the broader debates, which are considered in the seminars.

FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorJohn Benson

Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes

Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG

Exchange StudentsYes

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Incompatible subjects STC3PCM, MST2PCM

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