GCST2601 - Introducing Media and Popular Culture

Undergraduate - Senior

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UoS Description:

This unit of study will introduce students to the discipline of Cultural Studies through the analysis of media and popular culture. The unit of study will draw on a range of interdisciplinary theories in order to explore how contemporary media and popular culture is analysed within Cultural Studies, including focus on magazines, advertising, cinema and televisual genres, popular music and video, and the internet.

UoS Learning Situations:

Lectures, Tutorials

UoS Assessment:

1500 word textual analysis; 2500 word essay; Tutorial participation

Prerequisites:

18 junior credit points

Prohibition:

WMST2001

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