SY2019 - Youth, Identity and Popular Culture

Credit points:	03
Year:	2018
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	College of Arts, Society & Education

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

• appraise the multiple discourses which shape young people's identities;
• differentiate the theories which underpin the study of youth culture;
• deconstruct the concept of youth so it is analysed as a heterogeneous social cohort.

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 23-Aug-2018
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Glenn Dawes
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	presentations (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2018
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Glenn Dawes
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	other exams (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (50%).

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