CCB106 Popular Culture
This unit will not be available for enrolment until 2027. Details including the unit outline and fee information will be available from October 2026.
| Unit code: | CCB106 |
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| Equivalent(s): | CWB112 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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The products, practices, and pleasures of popular culture are frequently dismissed as being superficial, unserious, or unimportant. This unit, however, celebrates popular culture as a contested and shifting phenomenon that permeates everyday life. Far from mundane, popular culture is charged with a political valence that reflects—and shapes—our lives. This unit further develops conceptual framework(s) and analytic tools to critically evaluate the texts, artefacts, and/or practices of popular culture. In completing this unit, students will understand how the communication industries produce and circulate popular culture, and will be able to critique the politics of pleasure that frame the consumption of mass culture.
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