Course description
* A thesis subject (37.5 points)
* Five elective subjects (62.5 points)
A total of 100 points - subjects are 12.5 points each, unless indicated otherwise.
Thesis subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-512 Cultural Studies Thesis
Topics selected in consultation with the coordinator. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-402 Cultural Policy and Power
This subject introduces students to cultural policy studies as a distinct domain of cultural studies. It examines the stakes involved in defining and operating within cultural policy studies by working through the characterisations of creative indust... Semester 1 12.50
106-404 Memory Cultures
The aim of this subject is to explore a theoretical history of remembrance in contemporary culture. We will begin by considering the massive transformations in cultural memory brought about by modernity. From this starting point we will consider the ... Semester 2 12.50
106-409 Celebrity Cultures
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-428 Media, Politics and Cultural Diaspora
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-430 Subcultural Studies
This subject studies texts and events relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, neo-pagans, sexed subcultures, bohemias, underworlds, body art cultures and virtual communities. The subject asks stu... Semester 2 12.50
106-432 Cultural Studies in Asia
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-436 Queer Theory Ten Years On
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-448 Theorising the Spectator
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
102-511 Imaging Australian Spaces
This subject allows students to examine the ways in which Australian space has been represented in a variety of cultural forms. The subject explores how these spaces - conceived in a visual, literary and physical sense - have developed, and how these... Semester 2 12.50
102-512 Australian Cosmopolitanisms
"Australian Cosmopolitanisms: Beyond Multiculturalism" explores a range of effects resulting from the traffic across national boundaries of culture, capital, people and ideas. Unlike some programmes t... Semester 1 12.50
106-403 Reading the Subject: Freud/Fiction/Lacan
The subject provides an introduction to the basic tenets of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and some of the challenges and criticisms they have attracted. It examines the influences of psychoanalysis on representations of subjectivity and... Semester 2 12.50
107-409 Indigenous Photography, New Media, Film
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-405 Spectacles: Museums to Theme Parks
This subject will not be available in 2009 25
107-458 Screen Affect: Culture, Bodies, Emotion
This subject will explore visual representations of culture: aesthetic, affective, and political to explore the various levels of affect. Affect is a core concept in interpretive visual methodologies, involving the analysis of bodies within contextua... Semester 2 12.50
107-470 The Carnivalesque and the Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-471 Postcolonial and Indigenous Histories
This seminar critically examines the scholarly phenomenon of postcolonialism in relation to the recovery and writing of Indigenous and colonised histories, and the related political struggles of Indigenous peoples around the world. The seminar will b... Semester 2 12.50
131-551 Gender: Representations and Histories
What is gender and why does it matter? In this seminar we will explore how this concept emerged and the multiple meanings it has taken on in academic inquiry and everyday life. Representations of gender will be examined in both theoretical and histor... Semester 1 12.50
136-528 Medicine and Culture
Over the ages people have deployed various methods - metaphysical, magical or the pure empirical - to combat the ravages of disease. Bloodletting, cupping, leaching, doses of highly poisonous chemicals, blisters, copious draughts of mineral water, hy... Semester 2 12.50
136-532 Reading Texts in Social Theory
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
