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Cultural Contexts - CUL350
This unit provides students with an opportunity to undertake advanced and engaged cultural studies research. Student focus on critically informed ethnographic research and theory-based cultural studies. All students attend a number of campus-based seminars which reflect on key theoretical debates and methods in cultural studies and allow discussion and reflection on research methodologies. A key theme is reflection on the way in which cultural research can engage with contemporary critical debates within academic and non-academic contexts. The exploration of experience, discourse, space and narrative is tied to observation and participation within self-directed exercises and research projects. Students are required to integrate critical and cultural research with everyday experiences, from cultural phenomena and political debates, to personal and social settings including leisure activities and the workplace. Critical ethnographic and theoretical research prepares students for application of critical literacy to social contexts, for advanced research practices and for postgraduate study. Students exercise problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills and creative thinking, while learning to interact and contribute within a professional context, either as academic researchers or beyond the academy.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day MQC2 Day - Macquarie City Campus Study Period 2, Undergraduate, Day, July to October |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Anthony Lambert |
| Prerequisites: |
6cp in CUL units at 300 level |
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| NCCW(s): | CUL309 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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