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Living Culture

Undergraduate | MAQ-MECX120 | 2018

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Engage with examples of radio, film, literature and photography from across the past century. Think critically about notions of colonialism and inequality. Interrogate recent changes in the type of cultural output consumed by groups.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Prior study needed
Duration
-

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Living Culture

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will have developed the following skills:

    1. demonstrate knowledge of the practice of Cultural Studies, in particular, the concepts and thinkers that are central to the field
    2. engage critically with cultural texts and practices from everyday life
    3. demonstrate a critical awareness of the material effects of ways of knowing, and a capacity to intervene in those processes
    4. demonstrate commitment to the problematisation of inequality
    5. engage with the ideas of others, present ideas in a coherent manner, and offer evidence to support their arguments.

Entry requirements

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-CLT110 (Not currently available)

Others

If you have no prior university experience, you should complete BAR100 Academic Learning Skills or COM10006 Academic Literacies: Learning and Communication Practice before starting this subject.

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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