Cultural Studies

Major/Minor/Specialisation !104-AA-SPC+1013 (2009)

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Year and Campus:	2009

Coordinator

Dr Chris Healy
clhealy@unimelb.edu.au

Contact

Room 104, Ground Floor, Old Arts Building
University of Melbourne
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Overview:	The minimum entry requirement for cultural studies honours is completion of all the requirements for the BA, with completion of a major in cultural studies, and an average grade over the second/third year subjects within the major equivalent to at least an H2B (70%). Students undertaking pure honours in cultural studies must complete: Cultural Studies Thesis (37.5 points); and Five honours subjects in cultural studies from the list below (62.5 points). Students undertaking combined honours in cultural studies and another program must complete: Cultural Studies Thesis (37.5 points); and Two honours subjects in cultural studies from the list below (25 points); and Three honours subjects from the combining program (37.5 points). or Honours thesis from the combining program (37.5 points); and Two honours subjects from the combining program (25 points); and Three honours subjects from the list below (37.5 points).
Subject Options:	Cultural Studies Honours Subjects Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: 106-512 Cultural Studies Thesis Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50 102-511 Imaging Australian Spaces Semester 2 12.50 106-402 Cultural Policy and Power Semester 1 12.50 106-404 Memory Cultures Semester 2 12.50 106-409 Celebrity Cultures Not offered in 2009 12.50 106-428 Media, Politics and Cultural Diaspora Not offered in 2009 12.50 106-430 Subcultural Studies Semester 2 12.50 106-432 Cultural Studies in Asia Not offered in 2009 12.50 106-436 Queer Theory Ten Years On Not offered in 2009 12.50 106-448 Theorising the Spectator Not offered in 2009 12.50 106-403 Reading the Subject: Freud/Fiction/Lacan Semester 2 12.50 106-469 The Athlete's Body as Sign and Text Not offered in 2009 12.50 107-458 Screen Affect: Culture, Bodies, Emotion Semester 2 12.50 107-470 The Carnivalesque and the Cinema Not offered in 2009 12.50 107-405 Spectacles: Museums to Theme Parks Not offered in 2009 25.00 107-409 Indigenous Photography, New Media, Film Not offered in 2009 12.50 107-436 Postcolonial Visual Art Semester 2 12.50 131-551 Gender: Representations and Histories Semester 1 12.50 131-471 Postcolonial and Indigenous Histories Semester 2 12.50 136-532 Reading Texts in Social Theory Not offered in 2009 12.50 136-430 Theories of Modernity Semester 1 12.50 102-512 Australian Cosmopolitanisms Semester 1 12.50 136-528 Medicine and Culture Semester 2 12.50
Related Course(s):	Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)

Overview:

The minimum entry requirement for cultural studies honours is completion of all the requirements for the BA, with completion of a major in cultural studies, and an average grade over the second/third year subjects within the major equivalent to at least an H2B (70%).

Students undertaking pure honours in cultural studies must complete: