- Students are to follow the requirements of the Handbook for the year they commenced the course.
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Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies is an innovative interdisciplinary field of inquiry that explores the production and learning of maps of meaning, or cultures, with a particular concern for the operations of power in everyday practice. Themes and topics include; everyday life, global media and cultures, race, sexuality, identities, and the body and emotion. Students learn how to apply a broad and coherent body of knowledge in cultural studies to a range of contexts including a professional environment and as a pathway to further learning. Students gain experience in designing, managing and presenting research projects, working individually and in teams and work in a range of formats including reflective journals and creative writing, briefing papers, blogs and formal reports.
Major Study
The Cultural Studies major requires a minimum of 54 credit points including one core subject at 100 level, both core subjects at 200 level and the core (capstone) subject at 300 level. The remaining subjects can be taken from the list of electives subjects listed in the study program below.
Minor Study
A minor in Cultural Studies will consist of at least 28 credit points from the schedule of the major. It will include either CST 120 or CST 130, as well as CST 234 or CST 240 and CST 350. Students may not cross-count any subjects from the minor in any other minor or major study.
Honours
See Bachelor of Arts Honours
Study Program
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Session |
CORE At least one of the following 100 level core subjects | |||
CST 120 |
The Culture of Everyday Life |
6 |
Autumn |
CST 130 |
Ordinary Lives in a Diverse World |
6 |
Spring |
Plus both of the following 200 level core subjects | |||
CST 234 |
Cultural Investigations |
8 |
Autumn |
CST 240 |
Contesting Cultures |
8 |
Spring |
And the following Capstone 300 level subject | |||
CST 350 |
Culture and the Creative Economy |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
Electives 200-level subjects | |||
BCM 288 |
Transnational Media and Culture Industries |
8 |
Spring |
CST 222 |
Global Television and Cultural Identity |
8 |
Autumn |
CST 288 |
Happiness: investigating its causes and conditions |
8 |
Autumn |
SOC 206 |
Youth Cultures |
8 |
Spring |
Electives 300-level subjects | |||
CST 301 |
Culture and Emotion |
8 |
Spring |
CST 320 |
Diasporic Cultures |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
CST 333 |
Hollywood and Beyond: Genres across Cultures |
8 |
Spring |
CST 340 |
Genre Fictions |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
CST 360 |
Sex, Gender and Sexuality |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
CST 370 |
Critical Race Studies |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
DIGC335 |
Cybercultures |
8 |
Autumn |
SOC327 |
Body and Society |
8 |
Spring |
Themes and Topics that can be studied as part of the Cultural Studies Major are Emotions and Embodiment, Culture and Identities and Global Cultures. Should you wish to learn about any of these particular areas, the Faculty recommends the following list. These combinations of subjects listed below are not defined as Major or Minor Studies and will not appear on the Testamur or Transcript upon Graduation.
Emotions and embodiment
The study of the body and emotions in culture has developed over the past decade into an innovative domain of research and study that represents the cutting edge of cultural studies work. We are learning that emotions are not simply biologically generated phenomena, but rather are defined and enacted by and within the discourses of culture.
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Session |
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CST 228 |
Happiness: investigating its causes and conditions |
8 |
Autumn | |||
CST 301 |
Culture and Emotion |
8 |
Spring |
|||
SOC 327 |
Body and Society |
8 |
Spring |
Culture and Identities
The question of how we understand ourselves and the ways in which that understanding is forged in a cultural context is at the heart of contemporary cultural studies. More has been written about identities in Cultural Studies than any other subject.
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Session |
CST 360 |
Sex, Gender and Sexuality |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
CST 370 |
Critical Race Studies |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
SOC 327 |
Body and Society |
8 |
Spring |
Global Cultures
The processes of globalisation have made the boundaries of culture porous and to some degree enabled the interpenetration of cultural texts and practices to the extent that writers talk about cultural routes in global space rather than cultural roots in locations and place. Global media networks have been central to this process, although the transnational movements of people and the diffusion of vernacular cultural practices also play their part.
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Session |
BCM 288 |
Transnational Media and Culture Industries |
8 |
Spring |
CST 222 |
Global Television and Cultural Identity |
8 |
Autumn |
CST 320 |
Diasporic Cultures |
8 |
N/O 2013 |
CST 333 |
Hollywood and Beyond: Genres across Cultures |
8 |
Spring |
CST 340 |
Genre Fictions |
8 |
Spring |
DIGC335 |
Cybercultures |
8 |
Autumn |
Other Information
Further information is available at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/ or email: fac-arts@uow.edu.au