ATS2857 · Global cultures

Overview

In this unit you will explore what popular culture can tell us about globalisation and global studies. Film, music, print and digital media, video games, and other forms of popular culture are significant parts of people’s identities and how they experience and shape global flows of knowledge and ideas. You will investigate how people across the globe produce and consume popular culture through the practices and rituals of everyday life. You will examine the ways in which popular culture reflects particular political contexts, and how meanings are recreated as popular cultural products travel across space and time. Through case studies and examples across different languages, places and cultures, you will also explore the politics of popular culture, and identify and analyse how cultural forms challenge and/or reinforce dominant global narratives around inequality, injustice and intolerance.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. explain how the production and consumption of popular culture reflect everyday social and political dynamics;
2. evaluate the role of popular culture in enabling global flows of knowledge and ideas;
3. analyse how global cultures emerge and change across language, time and space;
4. critically reflect on how popular culture can challenge and/or reinforce unequal, unjust and intolerant global narratives;
5. collaborate with peers and develop globally-oriented responses to inequality, injustice and intolerance via popular culture.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.