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Living Culture
Undergraduate | MAQ-MMCX1002 | 2024
Previously MAQ-MECX120
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
- 18 weeks
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Living Culture
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- evaluate disciplinary knowledge of the practice of Cultural Studies, in particular, the concepts and thinkers that are central to the field.
- analyse cultural texts and practices from everyday life.
- demonstrate a critical awareness of the material effects of ways of knowing, and a capacity to intervene in those processes.
- demonstrate commitment to the problematisation of inequality.
- synthesise the ideas of others, present ideas in a coherent manner, and offer evidence to support their arguments.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This subject was previously known as CLT110, MECX120 Living Culture.
From modem authority to post-modern multiplicity, from national identity to global fluidity, from passive consumption to interactivity, our understandings of who we are, how we relate to one another and how we identify ourselves have also been transformed. The aim of this unit, and cultural studies in general, is to introduce you to how these changes are related to one another, and how they affect the way we live, play and work.
- Final Essay (40%)
- Annotated bibliography (20%)
- Reflective Writing (25%)
- Participatory task (15%)
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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)
MAQ-MECX120 (Not currently available)
Others
If you have no prijavascript:void(0);or university experience, you should complete BAR100 Academic Learning Skills or COM10006 Academic Literacies: Learning and Communication Practice before starting this subject.
NCCW (pre-2020 units)
CLT110, CUL120, CUL100, MECX120
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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