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CUL100: Text, Image, Culture |
In the last 30 years, our understanding of culture has been radically transformed. The aim of this unit is to give students an accessible overview of these changes. Problems to be studied are: the relationship between 'high' and 'popular' culture; how we make 'meaning' from texts; the influence of gender, class, sexuality, race and ethnicity on the production and consumption of texts; and the ways texts construct, deconstruct and reconstruct us as individual 'subjects'. Students will learn the key ideas and terminology of recent debates, while working with a wide variety of texts. Media to be discussed include literature, film, TV, the visual arts and music. This unit is designed as an introduction to recent developments in critical and cultural studies, but it would be of value to anyone interested in the current reconsideration of the humanities and social sciences in general.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
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D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year
(On Campus session: No session. X availability for GradCert/Dip in CCS students only)
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year
(On Campus session: No session. X availability for GradCert/Dip in CCS students only) |
| Staff Contact: |
Dr Nikki Sullivan |
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Department of Critical and Cultural Studies |
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