SY2019 - Youth, Identity and Popular Culture
[Offered in odd-numbered years]
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| 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: | To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | SY3019 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2011 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Glenn Dawes. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (30%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.