SY2019:04
Youth, Identity and Popular Culture
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: SY1001 or SY1002
Inadmissable Subject Combination: SY3019
26 lectures, 24 tutorials. Second semester.
Staff: Dr G Dawes.
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 rockn’roll: music as a vehicle of empowerment; no future: youth and marginalisation; who are you? youth as multi-layered subjects.
Learning Objectives:
- gain an understanding of the concept of youth as a social construct;
- gain an appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings of youth subcultural studies;
- develop an understanding of the multiple discourses which shape young people’s identities;
- gain an appreciation of the youth as consisting of multiple subjectivities.
Assessment by annotated bibliography (approximately 20) relating to elements of youth culture (30%); seminar presentation (25%); assignment (45%).
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