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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Arts and Social Sciences

Pre-requisites

have completed three of the following units: HUM00270 - Doing Cultural Studies HUM00272 - Space, Place and Travel HUM00274 - EcoCultural Studies HUM00273 - Borderlands: Identity, Culture and Belonging SOC10400 - Gender, Sexuality and Culture COM20001 - Sensory Cultures

Unit aim

Provides students with an opportunity to pursue in depth a topic of particular interest to them arising from theoretical or practical issues raised in earlier units of the Cultural Studies Major. Cultural study methods will be used to carry out a substantial research project. Research projects will be closely supervised and can be undertaken independently or as a group activity.

Unit content

  • Doing cultural studies research
  • An introduction to cultural studies research techniques and methods
  • Project conception
  • Relating form, style and content
  • Ways of presenting final report

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate an understanding of cultural studies research methodology
2 engage in a cultural study related to identity and/or power relations
3 identify a research area of interest and corresponding methodologies
4 critically reflect on the research process
5 undertake a literature search focusing on the area of the research topic
6 propose, then carry through, a major research project
7 demonstrate oral and/or written skills in communicating research findings.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of cultural studies research methodology
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. engage in a cultural study related to identity and/or power relations
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. identify a research area of interest and corresponding methodologies
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. critically reflect on the research process
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  5. undertake a literature search focusing on the area of the research topic
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  6. propose, then carry through, a major research project
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  7. demonstrate oral and/or written skills in communicating research findings.
    • GA1:
    • GA4: