Major - Cultural and Social Analysis
Western Sydney University
Major
Code:
M1034.1
Available to students in other Western Sydney University Courses :
YES, if the specialisation is available on your Home campus. Please ensure your course structure allows space for enrolment in the units in this unit set. Students must also meet any pre-requisite requirements. Consult your Course Advisor for further advice.
Cultural and Social Analysis is an interdisciplinary major developing knowledge, research skills and analytic capacities relevant to understanding and interpreting landscapes of cultural diversity and social difference in our contemporary world, both in terms of the broad contours, as well as specific micro-social environments. This major provides grounding in contemporary debates and methodologies in cultural studies and social theory, and draws on various disciplines including history, sociology, communications, and linguistics. Topics include popular culture, everyday urban life, cultural and social impacts of scientific theories and new technologies, multiculturalism, and contemporary spirituality. Study in this area is relevant for work involving commentary and analysis of contemporary social issues and cultural practices (e.g. journalism, teaching, activism) and fields concerned with designing, delivering and evaluating cultural and artistic productions, and education, communication, welfare or health services, in culturally diverse communities.
Major
Structure
Students must complete the compulsory Level 1 unit
and seven units from the following pools with no less than three Level 3 units in order to complete the major.
Note: Not all units will be offered each year. Units will be offered on a rotational basis.
Level 2 Unit Pool
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101967
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Cultural History of Books and Reading
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101980
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Culture, Society and Globalisation
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101986
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International Texts and Contexts
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100964
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Introduction to Film Studies
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100882
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Politics of Sex and Gender
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101917
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Representing Everyday Life in Literary and Visual Cultures
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100291
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Urban Life/Urban Culture
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100298
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Youth Cultures and Moral Panics
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Level 3 Unit Pool
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101981
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Activism, Engagement and Social Change
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101626
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Children's Literature: Image and Text
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101870
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Climate Change and Culture
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102185
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Culture, Discourse and Meaning
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100860
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Emotions, Culture and Community
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102305
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Food: A Cultural History
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101988
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Human Rights and Culture
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101468
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Islam, Media and Conflict
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101985
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Politics, Power and Resistance
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101253
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Public Memory and Commemoration
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101738
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The Art Game: Fraud, Forgery, Theft and Perfidy
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101898
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Violence in Everyday Life
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Please note:
The Level 2 and level 3 units listed below count towards completion of the major for students who may have passed units in the list in 2015 or earlier.
Level 2 units
101409 - Aboriginal Cultural Texts
101408 - Critical Discourse Analysis
100845 - Contemporary Popular Cultures
SS238A - Genres
101251 - Introduction to Psychoanalysis
100273 - New Ethnicities, Old Racisms
G2006 - Race, Community and National Identity in Australia
100884 - Social Inequalities
100886 - Special Topics in Cultural and Social Analysis
100889 - Technocultures
10371 - The Art Museum-from the Prince to the Public
101411 - Theories of Representation
101879 - Women with Muslim Identity
Level 3 units
101295 - Aesthetics
400087 - Applied Critical Methods
100988 - Chaos and Communication
100990 - Cinema, Culture, Memory
100992 - Communication: Power and Practice
100994 - Consumer Culture
100858 - Culture and Globalisation
100998 - Evolutionary Thinking
101844 - Feminist Theories
100999 - Gender at Work
101955 - Honours Foundation
101739 - Literature and Trauma
101732 - Media, The Everyday and Uneven Modernities
101800 - Media, Violence, Protest, Terror
101987 - Postcolonial Australian Cinema
101252 - Psychoanalytic Criticism
101003 - Religion and Culture
101006 - Social Semiotics
101007 - Story Links and Indigenous Knowledge
101832 - Talking Normal: Sociolinguistics and Modern Literature
101008 - Technologies of Racism
101848 - Transnationalism and Migration
101798 - Understanding Freedom