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Making Meanings

Undergraduate | CUR-MCA100 | 2020

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Identify how cultural groups agree upon shared meaning. Break down ideology as a concept. Know more about common-sense knowledge and how cultures form it. Question power structures. Explore contemporary approaches to critical analysis

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

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Making Meanings

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. evaluate different forms of critique in terms of the extent to which they challenge common sense understandings of the world
    2. analyse the production of knowledge and common sense within specific institutions and relations of power
    3. use critical skills and concepts for the purpose of interpreting a variety of texts, disdegrees and genres
    4. identify and communicate complex ideas in a variety of formal and informal genres.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

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