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Module Title |
Perspectives on Culture
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Module Code |
CM102
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School |
School of Communications
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Online Module Resources
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| Module Co-ordinator | Dr Debbie Ging | Office Number | C179 |
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Level |
1
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Credit Rating |
5
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Pre-requisite |
None
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Co-requisite |
None
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Module Aims
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The aim of this module is to provide students with a critical and structural approach to theories of culture. The high art tradition of art as aesthetic excellence will be studied and subsequent attempts will be made to open out the understanding of culture in more democratic or popular directions by exploring folklore and cultural nationalism, anthropological approaches, semiotics and structuralism, subcultures, feminist cultural theory and postmodernism.
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Learning Outcomes
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Students will learn how to reflect upon and critique cultural artifacts and practices, including their own, taking into account the social, historical and political contexts in which cultural practices occur and are understood. They will gain an insight into how the diverse theories and approaches to culture connect and conflict, thus forming a comprehensive overview of the main debates in this field.
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Indicative Time Allowances
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Hours
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Lectures |
24
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Tutorials |
36
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Laboratories |
0
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Seminars |
0
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Independent Learning Time |
15
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Total |
75
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Placements |
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NOTE
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Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.
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Indicative Syllabus
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1. What is Culture?
2. Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field
3. The Culture and Civilization Tradition
4. Anthropological Approaches to Culture
5. The Frankfurt School and the Culture Industries
6. Semiology, Structuralism and Post-structuralism
7. READING WEEK
8. Subcultures
9. Feminist Theories of Culture
10. Cultural Identity, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
11. Postmodernism and Cultural Theory
12. Revision / guest lecture
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| Assessment | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | Examination Weight | 0% |
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Indicative Reading List
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Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Paladin Books, 1973.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Bourdieu, Pierre (trans. Richard Nice). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, 1986; Harvard University Press, 2002.
Curran, James and Gurevitc, Michael (Eds.) Mass Media and Society. London; New York: E. Arnold, 1991.
During, Simon. The Cultural Studies Reader (2nd edition). Routledge, 1999.
Featherstone, Mike (Ed.) Cultural Theory and Cultural Change. London; Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1992.
Hebdidge, Dick. Subculture: the Meaning of Style. London: Methuen, 1979.
Milner, Andrew and Browitt, Jeff. Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction (3rd edition). Routledge, 2002.
Muggleton, David. Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style. Berg Publishers, 2002.
Storey, John (Ed.). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
Strinati, Dominic. An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (2nd edition). Routledge, 2004.
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Programme or List of Programmes
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| BSSA | Study Abroad (DCU Business School) |
| BSSAO | Study Abroad (DCU Business School) |
| CS | BA in Communication Studies |
| ECSA | Study Abroad (Engineering & Computing) |
| ECSAO | Study Abroad (Engineering & Computing) |
| HMSA | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) |
| HMSAO | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) |
| SHSA | Study Abroad (Science & Health) |
| SHSAO | Study Abroad (Science & Health) |
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