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Cultural Contexts: Communities and Cultures in Action
Undergraduate | MAQ-MECX350 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
View information for 2019 course intakeGather up what you've learnt across your cultural studies and think about how you can extend that knowledge. Reflect on your methodologies and approach. Explore cultural studies' legal arenas. Direct your skills towards a new research project.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- -
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Cultural Contexts: Communities and Cultures in Action
About this subject
At the end of this subject students will be able to:
- apply cultural studies research questions and methods to chosen contexts, including cultural representations, policies and relevant texts of associated community groups
- develop critical and analytical skills that enable students to identify key problems or issues within a field, research the chosen field and gather relevant information and propose strategies for creative solutions using culturally appropriate methods of communication suited to that context
- reflect critically on their own experiences and use those experiences as a source of information for further cultural studies research.
- Cultural studies and research
- Critical whiteness studies
- Critical legal studies
- Ethics
- Somatechnics
- Australian cultural studies
- Performance studies
- Research
This subject was previously known as CLT370 Cultural Contexts.
This subject gives cultural studies students an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned - about what kinds of research questions cultural studies asks, the methodologies it uses and the theoretical frameworks it deploys. Students explore the ways cultural studies can be used beyond undergraduate study - for further research, such as Masters or postgraduate research, and for understanding workplaces or other domains of cultural practice.
- Assignment 1 (20%)
- Assignment 2 (30%)
- Assignment 3 (50%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- MAQ-MECX321-Racialised Punishment and the Construction of Nation
MAQ-CLT310 (Not currently available)
and one of
- MAQ-MECX340-Genre Writing
MAQ-CLT330 (Not currently available)
MAQ-CLT340 (Not currently available)
and one of
- MAQ-MECX322-Screening (Ab)normal Bodies
MAQ-CLT320 (Not currently available)
MAQ-CLTX300 (Not currently available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-CLT370 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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