Pacific Pop Culture

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Discuss significant contemporary Indigenous artists, performers, authors, musicians, meme makers and other producers of popular culture.
  2. Articulate the way Indigenous people and communities consume and subvert popular culture.
  3. Engage critically with colonial representations of Indigenous people
  4. Describe contemporary Indigenous Australian political creativity.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• MAQ-ABSX1000-Introducing Indigenous Australia

Others

Pre-requisite: 40cp at 1000 level or above including ABSX1000

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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