stc3pcm popular culture and the media
POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MEDIA
STC3PCM
Not currently offered
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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Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects STC3PCM, MST2PCM
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