SCRN2200
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course introduces students to various scholarly frameworks, theories and perspectives on popular culture. Students are encouraged to analyse the complexities of popular culture and its social and cultural function. Popular culture offers a way of examining societal attitudes, values and ideologies across time and geography. It also plays a powerful role in shaping societal attitudes, values and ideologies. Popular Culture and Society explores how gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and other socially codified markers of identity are represented in popular culture and how popular culture potentially impacts audiences. In this course students will explore the many competing theories, methods, concepts and frameworks that surround, explain and situate popular culture, examine popular culture examples and case studies, and discuss critical issues such as ethics, politics and histories.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Newcastle City Precinct
- Semester 1 - 2024
Online
- Semester 1 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): FMCS2200. Students who have successfully completed FMCS2200 are not eligible to enrol in SCRN2200.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Describe the relationship between popular culture and society.
2. Illustrate the significance of concepts such as gender, class, race and ideology to popular culture.
3. Construct a critical argument regarding the issues surrounding popular culture at an intermediate level.
4. Combine scholarship with original analysis in a popular culture case study.
Content
This course focuses on the relationship between popular culture and society. Topics may include:
- Postfeminist and post-racial culture
- Fans, fandoms and audiences
- Affective capitalism and consumerism
- Reality TV
- Celebrity, politics and power dynamics
- Intersections between race, gender and class
- Representing queerness
Requisite
This course replaces FMCS2200. If you have successfully completed FMCS2200 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
80 units at 1000 level
Assessment items
Essay: Essay
Project: Podcast
Quiz: Online Quiz
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct
Seminar-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s)
Semester 1 - 2024 - Online
Seminar-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s)
Course outline
- SCRN2200 - Semester 1, 2024 (Ncle) (PDF, 193.7 KB)
- SCRN2200 - Semester 1, 2024 (Online) (PDF, 218.8 KB)
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