Major - Cultural and Social Analysis
Western Sydney University
Major
Code:
M1052.1
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Bachelor of Creative Industries
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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 successfully complete 80 credit points as follows
Please note all Bachelor of Arts students including Pathways to Teaching, Dean’s Scholars and double degrees must complete the structure under the heading Bachelor of Arts.
Please note all Bachelor of Creative Industries students including double degrees must complete the structure under the heading Bachelor of Creative Industries.
This specialisation is available to students in other Western Sydney University courses. If the specialisation is available on your campus, the course structure allows space for enrolment in the specialisation and pre-requisite requirements can be met, please follow the structure under the heading Bachelor of Arts. Consult your Course Advisor for further advice.
Note: Not all units will be offered each year. Units will be offered on a rotational basis.
Bachelor of Arts Students
Arts students must complete the four compulsory units below and must complete four units from the Level 2/Level 3 unit pool with a minimum of 2 units at Level 3. See below.
Compulsory Units
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101979
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Understanding Visual Culture
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Bachelor of Creative Industries Students
Creative Industries students must complete their Introduction to Major unit as part of the core requirements of the course, prior to enrolling in this major.
Creative Industry students must complete the three compulsory units below and must complete five units from the Level 2/Level 3 unit pool with a minimum of 2 units at Level 3. See below.
Compulsory Units
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101979
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Understanding Visual Culture
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Pool Units
Bachelor of Arts students must complete four units from the list below, with a minimum of 2 units at Level 3. Bachelor of Creative Industries students must complete five units from the list below, with a minimum of 2 units at Level 3.
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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102425
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Digital Humanities and Research Methods (UG)
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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 - Choose at least two
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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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102479
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Cultures of Crime and Punishment
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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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102789
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Philosophy of Race and Racism
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101985
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Politics, Power and Resistance
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101987
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Postcolonial Australian Cinema
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101848
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Transnationalism and Migration
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101898
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Violence in Everyday Life
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Please note
The Level 2 and 3 units listed below count towards completion of the major for students from 2015 or earlier, who may have previously passed these units.
Level 2 units
101409 - Aboriginal Cultural Texts
101408 - Critical Discourse Analysis
100854 - 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
101252 - Psychoanalytic Criticism
101253 - Public Memory and Commemoration
101003 - Religion and Culture
101006 - Social Semiotics
101007 - Story Links and Indigenous Knowledge
101832 - Talking Normal: Sociolinguistics and Modern Literature
101008 - Technologies of Racism
101738 - The Art Game: Fraud, Forgery, Theft and Perfidy
101798 - Understanding Freedom
The Level 3 unit listed below counts towards completion of the Major for students who successfully completed the unit in 2019 or earlier.
100961 - Humanities Internship