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HIST228 Australian Popular Culture

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History or Australian Studies
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of on-campus lectures, seminars and film screenings.

This unit raises fundamental questions about analysing aspects of popular culture in Australia, examining such matters as sport, leisure, “popular” arts, media and entertainment, humour and social rituals. The unit is designed to examine how general principles of popular cultural formation have been manifested within Australia and analyses the production and maintenance of such cultures. The focus is on the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ people, the sum of their cultural practices, mores, values and ideas.

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