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COMM427 Reading Popular Culture

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions COMM327 or ECWG227 or ECWG327 or ECWG427 or WGCO327 or WGCO427
Notes

offered in even numbered years
Combined Units COMM327 - Reading Popular Culture
Coordinator(s) Jane O'Sullivan (josulli@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit introduces approaches to popular culture and the high-low labels imposed upon cultural practices and products. Students will analyse texts and practices (such as film and prose fictions, cultural icons, sport, idealised masculinity and femininity, and body rituals) and examine how these work ideologically to position audiences, readers and participants.
Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Essay 1 40% 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
Essay 2 60% 4000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. understand concepts of culture and the categorisation of cultural products and practices, including issues in defining "popular" culture;
  2. apply theoretical approaches to the analysis of a wide range of popular culture forms, texts and practices;
  3. understand, apply and reflect on accounts of ideology in the construction of national identity and in understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and difference;
  4. identify and evaluate a range of critical subject positions in the study of popular culture and the factors contributing to them;
  5. bring an interdisciplinary scholarly research to their understanding of popular culture texts and practices and issues of identity.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students will understand the application of theoretical approaches to the analysis of selected popular culture texts and practices. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Students will communicate effectively and confidently orally and in written forms. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
Students will have a knowledge of concepts of culture and the categorisation of cultural products and practices. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
Students will critically evaluate information and the search process. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
Students will practice intellectual curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. 		True True True
6 Problem Solving
Students will respond to Problem-Based Learning Scenarios. 		True True
7 Social Responsibility
Students will understand accounts of ideology in the construction of national identity and in understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and difference. 		True True True
   

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