Cultural Studies Major
The Cultural Studies major enables students to undertake a broad study of culture and the ways in which it can be understood. The major allows you to take core units in Media and Communications, English, Art History and Theory, Sociology and Anthropology as well as dedicated Cultural Studies units on topics such as: media and popular culture; youth cultures; everyday cultures; consumer identities and practices; popular genre studies; and critical cultural theory.
Core Units
A major in Cultural Studies requires passes in units totalling at least 36 Senior Credit Points. These must include
plus at least one of the following:
- GCST2606 Genres in Cultural Context Genres in Cultural Context
- GCST2608 Gender, Communities and Difference
- GCST2611 Everyday Cultures (not available in 2009)
- GCST2612 Youth Cultures: Ideas and Images of Youth
and at least two of the following:
- ANTH2626 The City: Global Flows and Local Forms
- ARHT2656 National and Transnational Cinemas
- ENGL2617 Postmodernism (not available in 2009)
- GCST3603 Consumer Cultures
- GCST3604 Cultural Theory
- MECO3605 Media Globalisation (You must have approval from the Department of Media and Communications in order to undertake this unit)
- SCLG2609 Contemporary Cultural Issues
- GCST2603 Animal/Human Cultures
The remaining two units may be chosen from any unit listed above that you've not already counted towards your major or from the following table of cross-listed units. An asterisk (*) means the usual pre-requisites have been waived for this unit. For those units you will need to enrol in person at the Faculty Office rather than online.
For units offered in the School of Languages and Cultures it is the student’s responsibility to ascertain what skills in languages other than English will be required.
If you already commenced your major before 2007 there are transitional arrangements in place to help you qualify for a Cultural Studies or Gender Studies major using units previously listed for the Gender Studies major. Contact the Department for more information if you're confused.
| Cross-listed Units of study available in 2009 |
|
|---|---|
| GCST2602 Suffragettes to Cyborgs |
S1
|
| GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression |
S1 and Summer
|
| GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities and Identities |
S1 and Summer
|
| GCST2609 Cultures of Masculinity |
S1 and Winter
|
| GCST2610 Intimacy, Love and Friendship |
S2
|
| GCST3601 Gender, Race and Australian Identity |
S2
|
| ANTH2625 Culture and Development |
S1
|
| ARHT2636 Contemporary Indigenous Art |
S1
|
| ARHT2655 Modern Cinema: Modes of Viewing |
S2 and Summer
|
| ARHT2656 National and Transnational Cinemas |
S1
|
| ARIN2600 Technocultures |
S1
|
| ARIN2620 Cyberworlds |
S1
|
| ASNS2670 Mass Media in East Asia |
S1 and Summer
|
| ENGL3962 The Text and the Critic |
S1
|
| KOCR2604 Colours of Identity, Indigenous Bodies |
S1
|
| LNGS2617 Cross-Cultural Communications |
S2
|
| PHIL2634 Democratic Theory |
S2
|
| MUSC2622 Music in the Sixties |
S2
|
| MUSC2654 Popular Music |
S1
|
| SCLG2601 Sociological Theory |
S1
|
| SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods |
S2
|
| SCLG2609 Contemporary Cultural Issues |
S2
|
| SCLG2613 Sociology of Childhood and Youth |
S2
|
| SCLG2616 Global Transformations |
S1
|
| SCLG2634 Crime, Punishment and Society |
S1
|
As the Cultural Studies major does not include junior units but in fact draws on junior units offered in other Departments, it is easy to combine Cultural Studies with another major. For example, Cultural Studies can be combined with Gender Studies, Media and Communications, Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Art History and Theory and English. Please contact the Faculty of Arts or the Department’s for further information.