School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Cultural Matrix
  • Unit Code

    CMM2115
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jessica Ceri TAYLOR

Description

The main aim of this unit is the investigation of the study of Popular Culture from a Cultural/Media Studies perspective. It seeks to provide a detailed summary of the developments and the key theories that have been used to explore Mass/Popular Culture in contemporary times. The unit will offer a broad discussion that ranges from Benjamin to Baudrillard; from a Structuralist to Post-structuralist perspective; from Modernity to Postmodernity.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse Mass and/or Popular Culture using major developments in cultural theory.
  2. Apply a theoretical position from cultural theory to an aspect of Mass or Popular Culture.
  3. Discuss the key concepts and theoretical positions concerned with Mass and/or Popular Culture.

Unit Content

  1. Discourse, historical and social context of popular culture.
  2. Myth, mass culture industry, and interpellation.
  3. Neoliberalism.
  4. Post-industrialisation, technology, and experimentation.
  5. Theories of modernism.
  6. Theories of postmodernism.
  7. Theories of postructuralism.
  8. Theories of structuralism.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, screenings, forums, workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopIn Class Activities20%
ExerciseTutorial Question30%
EssayEssay50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Cultural Matrix
  • Unit Code

    CMM2115
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jessica Ceri TAYLOR

Description

The main aim of this unit is the investigation of the study of Popular Culture from a Cultural/Media Studies perspective. It seeks to provide a detailed summary of the developments and the key theories that have been used to explore Mass/Popular Culture in contemporary times. The unit will offer a broad discussion that ranges from Benjamin to Baudrillard; from a Structuralist to Post-structuralist perspective; from Modernity to Postmodernity.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse Mass and/or Popular Culture using major developments in cultural theory.
  2. Apply a theoretical position from cultural theory to an aspect of Mass or Popular Culture.
  3. Discuss the key concepts and theoretical positions concerned with Mass and/or Popular Culture.

Unit Content

  1. Discourse, historical and social context of popular culture.
  2. Myth, mass culture industry, and interpellation.
  3. Neoliberalism.
  4. Post-industrialisation, technology, and experimentation.
  5. Theories of modernism.
  6. Theories of postmodernism.
  7. Theories of postructuralism.
  8. Theories of structuralism.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, screenings, forums, workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopIn Class Activities20%
ExerciseTutorial Question30%
EssayEssay50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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