SY2019:03
Youth, Identity and Popular Culture *
| Townsville | HECS Band 1 |
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2.
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 tutorial participation (20%); essay (30%); examination (50%).
* Offered in odd-numbered years