Popular Culture and Everyday Life (MCC235)

Points: 

4

Enrolment Options: 

Murdoch: S1-internal, S1-external

[see Teaching Periods and Census Dates] 

Description: 

Develops an awareness of critical themes, research methods and forms of writing appropriate to the study of 'everyday life'. Topics covered include suburbia, shopping, food, sex and urban space. Students will be introduced to major traditions of thinking about the everyday and sensitised to the major forces which are moulding everyday life in the twenty-first century. They will also have the opportunity to develop skills in research with possible applications across the academy, government, industry and the media.

Contact time: 

Lectures/tutorials: 2.5 hours per week.

Prerequisites: 

Nil.
Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.

Exclusions: 

Students who have completed COM235 Culture and Everyday Life may not enrol in this unit for credit.

Notes: 

Graduate, Postgraduate and Honours students should enrol in the higher-level code for this unit.

Used in these Courses: 

Gender and Cultural Studies (BA)

Used in these Minors: 

Cultural Literacies

Popular Culture and Everyday Life (MCC535)

as for MCC235, except as follows

Points: 

4

Enrolment Options: 

Murdoch: S1-internal, S1-external

[see Teaching Periods and Census Dates] 

Prerequisites: 

Enrolment in an Honours, Graduate or Postgraduate course.
Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.

Exclusions: 

Students who have successfully completed MCC435 Popular Culture and Everyday Life may not enrol in this unit for credit.