120074 SE Advanced Cultural Studies SE (Modul) = Cultural/Media Studies SE (MA) = SE Kulturwiss./BA-Arbeit (2011S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 07.02.2011 00:00 to Su 20.02.2011 23:59
- Registration is open from We 23.02.2011 00:00 to Tu 01.03.2011 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2011 23:59
Details
max. 18 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 07.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 21.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 28.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 04.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 11.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 02.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 09.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 16.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 23.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 30.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 06.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 20.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 27.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Since the early twentieth century youth has been the focus of extensive sociological, cultural, and political concern. The concepts of 'youth culture' and 'youth subculture' have been used with various degrees of success to analyse young people's individual and collective identities and behaviour. This course surveys the nature, impact and value of key strands in this scholarship. It begins by considering the development of theories of adolescence in the early twentieth century, together with the analysis of urban subcultures produced at the University of Chicago. Attention is then given to the explosion of youth culture and the commercial youth market during the 1950s and 1960s, and to the development of various 'countercultural' movements during the late 1960s and 1970s. Particular consideration is given to the various cultural studies approaches developed by theorists working at the University of Birmingham (UK) and to subsequent examples of contemporary subcultural and 'post-subcultural' theory and research encompassing issues of generation, gender and ethnicity.
Assessment and permitted materials
Active participation and regular attendance; seminar paper (10.000 words), oral presentation and an essay to be written in the last teaching unit.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
To familiarize students with the history and significance of 'youth culture' and 'subculture' as analytic concepts; to familiarize students with various strands of subcultural theory in sociology and cultural studies; to review a variety of historical and contemporary
youth subcultures as well as the concepts and methods used to study them; and to develop students' understanding of how and why youth subcultures emerge, exist, and change.
youth subcultures as well as the concepts and methods used to study them; and to develop students' understanding of how and why youth subcultures emerge, exist, and change.
Examination topics
Reading list
Austin, Joe and Willard, Michael (eds) (1998) Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America, New York, New York University Press.
Bennett, Andy (2003) Cultures of Popular Music, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Bennett, Andy and Kahn-Harris, Keith (eds) (2004) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Gelder, Ken (ed.) (2005) The Subcultures Reader, London: Routledge - this anthology contains many useful readings for the course. Copies will be available in the university bookshop.Hall, Stuart and Jefferson, Tony (eds) Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain, London, Hutchinson, 1976.
Hebdige, Dick (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen.
Jenks, Chris (2004) Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social, London: Sage.
Muggleton, David (2000) Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style, Oxford, Berg.
Nayak, Anoop (2003) Race, Place and Globalization: Youth Culture in a Changing World, Oxford: Berg.
Skelton Tracey and Valentine, Gill (eds) (1998) Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures, London: Routledge.
Willis, Paul (1994) Common Culture, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.Further key readings will be made available for each topic.
Bennett, Andy (2003) Cultures of Popular Music, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Bennett, Andy and Kahn-Harris, Keith (eds) (2004) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Gelder, Ken (ed.) (2005) The Subcultures Reader, London: Routledge - this anthology contains many useful readings for the course. Copies will be available in the university bookshop.Hall, Stuart and Jefferson, Tony (eds) Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain, London, Hutchinson, 1976.
Hebdige, Dick (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen.
Jenks, Chris (2004) Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social, London: Sage.
Muggleton, David (2000) Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style, Oxford, Berg.
Nayak, Anoop (2003) Race, Place and Globalization: Youth Culture in a Changing World, Oxford: Berg.
Skelton Tracey and Valentine, Gill (eds) (1998) Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures, London: Routledge.
Willis, Paul (1994) Common Culture, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.Further key readings will be made available for each topic.
Association in the course directory
Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: 426/428, 436/438, 721-723, 821, BA14, MA6;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0194
Code/Modul: 426/428, 436/438, 721-723, 821, BA14, MA6;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0194
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