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SY2019 - Youth, Identity and Popular Culture
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2012 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
1 |
Administered by: |
School of Arts & Social Sciences |
Topics include youth as a concept; a question of power youth as problems and victims;
youth and multiple transitions; consuming passions: the mass globalisation of youth
culture; youth subcultural formations; the invisible female? girls and subcultures;
style as an identity marker in subcultures; re-making the body and fashion; fear and
loathing: resistance, dance and the body; its only rocknroll: music as a vehicle of
empowerment; no future: youth and marginalisation; who are you? youth as multi-layered
subjects.
Learning Outcomes
- develop an understanding of the multiple discourses which shape young peoples identities;
- gain an appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings of youth subcultural studies;
- gain an appreciation of the youth as consisting of multiple subjectivities;
- gain an understanding of the concept of youth as a social construct.
Assumed Knowledge:
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To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points
(four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level
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Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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SY3019 |
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