Communication And Cultural Studies

COURSES OFFERED

The following postgraduate courses are available:

• Doctor of Philosophy
  
• Honours Master of Arts by Research
  
• Honours Master of Arts (Cultural Studies)*
  
• Master of Arts (Cultural Studies)*
  

* Note: No new enrolments in 2000 in the Master of Arts or Honours MA in Cultural Studies.

CCS will continue to offer subjects at Postgraduate level for:

• students currently enrolled in the MA (Cultural Studies) by coursework;
• students enrolled in Honours MA (Cultural Studies);
• students enrolled in other MA courses for which the CCS subjects are recommended.
  
  
  CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
  

The following areas of research are available to candidates for the degrees of Honours Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.

• Aboriginal writing and culture
  
• Alternative and community theatre/drama
  
• American cinema history
  
• American studies
  
• Australian literary culture
  
• Australian screen studies
  
• Canon formation and literary history
  
• Censorship
  
• Cinema studies
  
• Colonialism and Colonial cultures
  
• Communication studies
  
• Critical and Cultural theories
  
• Cross-cultural and inter-ethnic studies
  
• Cultural differences
  
• Cultural Policy Studies
  
• Decolonising theories
  
• Electronic cultures
  
• Fantasy and utopian writing
  
• Feminist critical theory
  
• Gender and genre
  
• Gender studies
  
• Globalisation
  
• Hypertexts and computer-produced multimedia
  
• Identity politics
  
• Indigenous film, television and theatre
  
• Law and media
  
• Law and Cultural Studies
  
• Media studies
  
• Multicultural critical studies
  
• New information technologies
  
• Popular culture
  
• Popular literature
  
• Pornography
  
• Post-colonial women's writing
  
• Publishing studies
  
• Race and ethnicity studies
  
• Radical, alternative and independent cinema
  
• Screen theory, practice and criticism
  
• Sexuality and representation
  
• Subjectivity and identity
  
• Television cultures
  

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Time Limits

A full-time candidate shall complete the Doctoral Dissertation in not less than four (4) consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, and not more than eight (8) consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, from the date of registration.

A part-time candidate shall complete the Doctoral Dissertation in not less than six (6) consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, and not more than twelve (12) consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, from the date of registration.

Length of Dissertation
The Doctoral Dissertation shall be a minimum of 80,000 words in length.

Candidates for the PhD degree enrol in CCS999.

HONOURS MASTER OF ARTS BY RESEARCH

Entry to the Degree
Entry to the degree is normally from the BA Honours. Students having a degree with Class II division ii or higher will normally be accepted into the Masters Honours program.

Qualification Requirements
Students who do not have an Honours degree in an appropriate area may be admitted to the Masters Honours program by completing a 'Master of Arts (Preliminary)'.

Master of Arts Preliminary
Students enrolling in the Master of Arts (Preliminary) will normally be required to take six subjects chosen from the subjects on offer in CCS400 (Communication and Cultural Studies Honours) and Postgraduate coursework subjects. Students who do not have a background in critical and cultural theories should include CCS990 Critical and Cultural Theories in their programs.

Time Limits
A full-time candidate shall complete the Honours Masters Dissertation in not less than two consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, from the date of registration.

A part-time candidate shall complete the Honours Masters Dissertation in not less than three consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, and not more than eight consecutive sessions, not including Summer sessions, from the date of registration.

Length of Dissertation
The Honours Masters Dissertation shall be approximately 50,000 words in length.

Candidates for the Master of Arts (Honours) degree enrol in CCS999.

HONOURS MASTER OF ARTS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
(Students please note: there will be no intake into this course in 2000)

The Masters courses in Cultural Studies (Master of Arts and Honours Master of Arts) involve interdisciplinary programs that bring together teaching and research from Communication and Cultural Studies, Sociology, English and Science and Technology Studies. They aim to provide graduates with knowledge and critical skills that will benefit them across a range of disciplines and professions. (Administered jointly by Communication and Cultural Studies and Sociology.)

The objectives of this program are to provide students with the appropriate analytical skills to enable them to:

• comprehend and engage with the central critical and theoretical issues (both historical and contemporary) in the field of Cultural Studies;
  
• stage critical readings of texts and cultural practices;
  
• analyze the relations of power that structure culture and knowledge;
  
• understand the critical re-evaluation of categories of value governing traditional hierarchies of knowledge structured by class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality;
  
• appreciate the consequent reappraisal of minority cultures, the practices of everyday life and cultural artifacts traditionally placed outside the purview of scholarly study (for example, kitsch and cultural ephemera, shopping centres, graffiti, popular music, etc) as well as the more mainstream cultural formations.