James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2021

SY2019 - Youth, Identity and Popular Culture

Subject Description

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

Subject Assessment

• Participation > Class participation - (20%) - Individual
• Written > Essay (including multi-draft) 1 - (50%) - Individual
• Written > Poster - (30%) - Individual

Note that 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.

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

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