Mapping Everyday Cultures

Course aim

To develop students’ understanding of theoretical frameworks for everyday life and its cultural practices; to facilitate students’ exploration of specific consumption sites, drawing on strategies associated with ethnographic research.

Course content

Conceptual accounts of everyday life eg those of LeFebvre, de Certeau, Appadurai; specific sites of for analysis eg suburban houses and gardens; food, meals and restaurants; holidays, travel, tourism; popular music and videos; critical concepts for analysis of sites eg power, identity, consumption/consumerism, ‘style’, myth, memory, utopia, pleasure, resistance and ‘everyday life’ itself; researching everyday life eg through interviewing; the ethics of ethnographic approaches.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
COMM 1033	Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 13 weeks
Seminar (Seminar / Workshops )	2 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Project Report, Short Paper

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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