CWB112 Popular Culture: A 21st Century Communication Industry
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| Unit code: | CWB112 |
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| Equivalent(s): | KWB311 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $515 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,772 |
| International unit fee | $3,648 |
Summer:
| Dates | Start 19 Nov 2023 End 22 Feb 2024 |
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| Restrictions | Nil. Cross institutional and single unit students permitted. |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2023, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | CWB112 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KWB311 |
| Coordinator: | Matthew Cipa | matthew.cipa@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is designed to provide you with skills in understanding popular culture/s. It addresses the production of popular culture via a range of texts and mediums and provides you with a framework to critique the operations of popular cultures. Given the increasing discussion of the importance of popular culture in contemporary society, the unit addresses the sites of such discussions and the changing status of popular culture. The unit provides you with an understanding of the notion of ‘popular culture’ and an opportunity to consider a range of cultural productions that have engaged with this term. You will consider a range of popular culture theories and a number of texts in relation to those ideas and will gain an understanding of the position of popular culture within cultural studies discourse.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Recognise the theoretical language of popular culture studies.
- Deploy some theoretical ideas in relation to popular culture texts.
- Appreciate the wide ranging production of popular culture and the influence on contemporary cultural formations.
Content
You will consider a range of texts and genres in this unit. The unit begins with an early twentieth century example of a popular text and includes chick lit, crime, horror, sci-fi, and cross-generic forms. The unit acknowledges the re-visiting of earlier cultural practices (mythology/medievalism in Tolkien).
Learning Approaches
This unit is based on a lecture/tutorial format. Although guest lecturers deliver some material there is a continuing and focused development of ideas about popular culture throughout the unit. The ideas discussed in lectures are expanded in tutorial workshops. You are expected to participate in learning activities and show evidence of engagement in your reflective journal. Reading of the set texts is mandatory. Students should expect to be assessed on any of the works on the reading list.
The online delivery version of this unit may include an option to attend some on-campus tutorials that will assist with Assessment preparation.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning as the unit progresses. This may be formal or informal, in some or all of the following ways:
- through a range of individual and collaborative formative exercises
- consultation with tutors as you complete activities and prepare assessments
- peer-to-peer exchanges, and as you prepare group projects
- communications to all students via the unit Canvas website
- individually, on assessment grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessment items in this unit: an examination, a reflective journal and an essay or creative work. These are designed to focus your learning on foundational theories of popular culture, reflect on your consumption of popular culture and develop your textual analysis skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination
Two short written essays responding to foundational theories of popular culture.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
Reflective Journal examining cultural texts/sites of students' own choosing in relation to theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay or Creative Work
Essay or creative work and rationale based on topics related to the texts in the unit and theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Please check with the QUT Bookshop for a complete reading list.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1912), Tarzan of the Apes, Race Point Publishing.
Disher, Garry (2010), Wyatt, Text Publishing.
Fielding, Helen (1996), Bridget Jones’s Diary, Picador.
Spielberg, Steven (1975), Jaws, Universal Pictures Australia.
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1937), The Hobbit, Harper Collins.
Vandermeer, Jeff (2014), Annihilation, 4th Estate.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2023, Online
| Unit code: | CWB112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KWB311 |
Overview
This unit is designed to provide you with skills in understanding popular culture/s. It addresses the production of popular culture via a range of texts and mediums and provides you with a framework to critique the operations of popular cultures. Given the increasing discussion of the importance of popular culture in contemporary society, the unit addresses the sites of such discussions and the changing status of popular culture. The unit provides you with an understanding of the notion of ‘popular culture’ and an opportunity to consider a range of cultural productions that have engaged with this term. You will consider a range of popular culture theories and a number of texts in relation to those ideas and will gain an understanding of the position of popular culture within cultural studies discourse.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Recognise the theoretical language of popular culture studies.
- Deploy some theoretical ideas in relation to popular culture texts.
- Appreciate the wide ranging production of popular culture and the influence on contemporary cultural formations.
Content
You will consider a range of texts and genres in this unit. The unit begins with an early twentieth century example of a popular text and includes chick lit, crime, horror, sci-fi, and cross-generic forms. The unit acknowledges the re-visiting of earlier cultural practices (mythology/medievalism in Tolkien).
Learning Approaches
This unit is based on a lecture/tutorial format. Although guest lecturers deliver some material there is a continuing and focused development of ideas about popular culture throughout the unit. The ideas discussed in lectures are expanded in tutorial workshops. You are expected to participate in learning activities and show evidence of engagement in your reflective journal. Reading of the set texts is mandatory. Students should expect to be assessed on any of the works on the reading list.
The online delivery version of this unit may include an option to attend some on-campus tutorials that will assist with Assessment preparation.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning as the unit progresses. This may be formal or informal, in some or all of the following ways:
- through a range of individual and collaborative formative exercises
- consultation with tutors as you complete activities and prepare assessments
- peer-to-peer exchanges, and as you prepare group projects
- communications to all students via the unit Canvas website
- individually, on assessment grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessment items in this unit: an examination, a reflective journal and an essay or creative work. These are designed to focus your learning on foundational theories of popular culture, reflect on your consumption of popular culture and develop your textual analysis skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination
Two short written essays responding to foundational theories of popular culture.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
Reflective Journal examining cultural texts/sites of students' own choosing in relation to theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay or Creative Work
Essay or creative work and rationale based on topics related to the texts in the unit and theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Please check with the QUT Bookshop for a complete reading list.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1912), Tarzan of the Apes, Race Point Publishing.
Disher, Garry (2010), Wyatt, Text Publishing.
Fielding, Helen (1996), Bridget Jones’s Diary, Picador.
Spielberg, Steven (1975), Jaws, Universal Pictures Australia.
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1937), The Hobbit, Harper Collins.
Vandermeer, Jeff (2014), Annihilation, 4th Estate.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Summer 2023, Online
| Unit code: | CWB112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KWB311 |
Overview
This unit is designed to provide you with skills in understanding popular culture/s. It addresses the production of popular culture via a range of texts and mediums and provides you with a framework to critique the operations of popular cultures. Given the increasing discussion of the importance of popular culture in contemporary society, the unit addresses the sites of such discussions and the changing status of popular culture. The unit provides you with an understanding of the notion of ‘popular culture’ and an opportunity to consider a range of cultural productions that have engaged with this term. You will consider a range of popular culture theories and a number of texts in relation to those ideas and will gain an understanding of the position of popular culture within cultural studies discourse.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Recognise the theoretical language of popular culture studies.
- Deploy some theoretical ideas in relation to popular culture texts.
- Appreciate the wide ranging production of popular culture and the influence on contemporary cultural formations.
Content
You will consider a range of texts and genres in this unit. The unit begins with an early twentieth century example of a popular text and includes chick lit, crime, horror, sci-fi, and cross-generic forms. The unit acknowledges the re-visiting of earlier cultural practices (mythology/medievalism in Tolkien).
Learning Approaches
This unit is based on a lecture/tutorial format. Although guest lecturers deliver some material there is a continuing and focused development of ideas about popular culture throughout the unit. The ideas discussed in lectures are expanded in tutorial workshops. You are expected to participate in learning activities and show evidence of engagement in your reflective journal. Reading of the set texts is mandatory. Students should expect to be assessed on any of the works on the reading list.
The online delivery version of this unit may include an option to attend some on-campus tutorials that will assist with Assessment preparation.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning as the unit progresses. This may be formal or informal, in some or all of the following ways:
- through a range of individual and collaborative formative exercises
- consultation with tutors as you complete activities and prepare assessments
- peer-to-peer exchanges, and as you prepare group projects
- communications to all students via the unit Canvas website
- individually, on assessment grading forms.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessment items in this unit: an examination, a reflective journal and an essay or creative work. These are designed to focus your learning on foundational theories of popular culture, reflect on your consumption of popular culture and develop your textual analysis skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination
Two short written essays responding to foundational theories of popular culture.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
Reflective Journal examining cultural texts/sites of students' own choosing in relation to theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay or Creative Work
Essay or creative work and rationale based on topics related to the texts in the unit and theories of popular culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Please check with the QUT Bookshop for a complete reading list.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1912), Tarzan of the Apes, Race Point Publishing.
Disher, Garry (2010), Wyatt, Text Publishing.
Fielding, Helen (1996), Bridget Jones’s Diary, Picador.
Spielberg, Steven (1975), Jaws, Universal Pictures Australia.
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1937), The Hobbit, Harper Collins.
Vandermeer, Jeff (2014), Annihilation, 4th Estate.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3