Cultural Studies Major
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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.
A major in Cultural Studies requires passes in units totalling at least 36 Senior Credit Points. These must include
- GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture
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: - ANTH2628 Migration and Migrant Cultures (not available in 2009)
- ARHT2656 National and Transnational Cinemas
- ENGL2617 Postmodernism (not available in 2009)
- GCST3603 Consumer Cultures
- GCST3604 Cultural Theory
- MECO3605 Media Globalisation
- 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.
| GCST2602 Suffragettes to Cyborgs | GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression |
| GCST2609 Cultures of Masculinity | GCST2610 Intimacy, Love and Friendship |
| GCST3601 Gender, Race and Australian Identity | GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities and Identities |
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ANTH2622 Ethnographic Film* |
HRTS3001 Heritage Museums and the Public Sphere* |
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ANTH2626 The City: Global Flows and Local Forms* |
HSTY3672 American Freakery* |
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ANTH2625 Culture and Development* |
HSTY3601 History of Travel and Tourism* |
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ANTH2662 Jamaican Popular Culture* |
HSTY3684 Culture of Empire* |
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ARHT2636 Contemporary Indigenous Art* |
KOCR2604 Colours of Identity, Indigenous Bodies* |
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ARHT2655 Cinema and Spectatorship* |
LNGS3694 Language and Identity |
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ARHT2671 Orientalism and Visual Culture* |
LNGS2617 Cross-Cultural Communications* |
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ARHT2657 Contemporary Hollywood* |
PHIL2634 Democratic Theory* |
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ARIN2600 Technocultures* |
PRFM3610 In the Zone: Sport as Performance |
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ARIN2620 Cyberworlds* |
RLST2626 Witchcraft, Paganism and the New Age* |
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ASNS2670 Mass Media in East Asia* |
SCLG2613 Sociology of Childhood and Youth* |
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ENGL3962 The Text and the Critic |
SCLG2601 Sociological Theory* |
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ENGL2635 Contemporary American Literature* |
SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods* |
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FRNC3693 Intellectual Movements Since 1945* |
SCLG2616 Global Transformations* |
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FRNC3805 French Popular Culture* |
SCLG2634 Crime, Punishment and Society* |
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.
