Important: Be sure to keep a copy of all your work. Keep these copies until the unit is over and you have received your final grade from the University. 

Late Assessment Penalty

Unless a special consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply -- two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date -- and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (including weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submission will be accepted for timed assessments -- e.g. quizzes, online tests etc. 

Assessment Grades

Work submitted for this unit will be graded according to the standards outlined in the following table.

Grade	Range	Status	Description
HD	85-100	Pass	Provides consistent evidence of deep and critical understanding in relation to the learning outcomes. There is substantial originality, insight or creativity in identifying, generating and communicating competing arguments, perspectives or problem solving approaches; critical evaluation of problems, their solutions and their implications; creativity in application as appropriate to the program.
D	75-84	Pass	Provides evidence of integration and evaluation of critical ideas, principles and theories, distinctive insight and ability in applying relevant skills and concepts in relation to learning outcomes. There is demonstration of frequent originality or creativity in defining and analysing issues or problems and providing solutions; and the use of means of communication appropriate to the program and the audience.
CR	65-74	Pass	Provides evidence of learning that goes beyond replication of content knowledge or skills relevant to the learning outcomes. There is demonstration of substantial understanding of fundamental concepts in the field of study and the ability to apply these concepts in a variety of contexts; convincing argumentation with appropriate coherent justification; communication of ideas fluently and clearly in terms of the conventions of the program.
P	50-64	Pass	Provides sufficient evidence of the achievement of learning outcomes. There is demonstration of understanding and application of fundamental concepts of the program; routine argumentation with acceptable justification; communication of information and ideas adequately in terms of the conventions of the program. The learning attainment is considered satisfactory or adequate or competent or capable in relation to the specified outcomes.
F	0-49	Fail	Does not provide evidence of attainment of learning outcomes. There is missing or partial or superficial or faulty understanding and application of the fundamental concepts in the field of study; missing, undeveloped, inappropriate or confusing argumentation; incomplete, confusing or lacking communication of ideas in ways that give little attention to the conventions of the program.

Lectures will be held on Thursday at 10am in room 220, 4 Western Road.  Tutorials are also held at various times on Thursdays.

For up-to-date lecture and tutorial times and classroom locations please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au.

Lectures will be made available via Echo360, which you may access through ilearn. The lectures will also be streamed live.

The readings for this unit may be accessed through the Leganto link in ilearn.

Tutorials for this unit begin in Week 1.

1. What is culture? What is cultural studies?

Week 1 Introduction: What is Cultural Studies?

Sardar, Z. and Van Loon, B. (1997) Cultural Studies for Beginners, Cambridge (UK): Icon, pp.4-9. 

Week 2 Introduction: From Humanism to Poststructuralism

Sullivan, N. (2012) ‘Humanism and Poststructuralism’ – notes for CUL120

 

2. Thinking about culture: key concepts for cultural analysis

Week 3  Subjects, Bodies, Selves

Mansfield, N.  (2000) 'Foucault: the Subject, and Power', Subjectivity: Theories of Self from Freud to Haraway, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, pp. 51-65.

Week 4   Performance/Performativity

Horanyi, R. (2013) 'Performance and Performativity', in A. Elliot (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory, London: Routledge pp.374-396.

Week 5   Place/Space

Johnson, R. (et al) (2004) 'Making Space! Spatial Dimensions in Cultural Research', The Practice of Cultural Studies, London: Sage, pp.104-118.

 

3. 'Who do you think you are?': culture & identity

Week 6  Gender

Bradley, H. (2012) 'What's in a Name? Meanings and Usages of Gender', Gender, 2nd ed.,  London: Polity Press, pp.15-35.

Week 7 Sexuality

Weeks, J. (2010) 'The Invention of Sexuality', Sexuality, 3^rd ed., London: Routledge, pp.12-45.

Week 8 Disability

Goodley, D. (2011) 'Introduction: Global Disability Studies', Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, London: Sage, pp.1-21.

Week 9 Race

Hall, S. (1997) 'The Spectacle of the Other', Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp.239-261.

 

4. Living Culture: issues and challenges

Week 10  Nature/Culture

Rose, D.B. (2011) 'Environmental Existentialism', Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, pp.42-52.

Week 11 Technoculture

Bell, D. (2006) 'Thinking about Technology and Culture',  Science, Technology and Culture: Issues in Culture and Media Studies, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp.39-58.

Week 12 and 13 No Classes