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AZA2627
Faculty of Arts
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
South Africa School of Social Sciences
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Offered
- Second semester 2016 (Day)
Synopsis
Music, food, fashion, architecture and cinema are just a few of the cultural products that can be studied to analyse contemporary transnational cultural flows which are visible the world over. The unit looks at the implications of globalisation for a variety of cultural phenomena, tracing transitions from local to global cultural practices and investigating specific cases of local consumption of global cultures.
Outcomes
Students successfully completing the unit should have:
- A deeper knowledge of the concepts of modernity and tradition, and the problems of cultural ownership and authenticity;
- Acquired knowledge about the challenges to cultural nationalism by transnational cultural flows;
- Studied some cases of cultural production and its local consumption, and critically analysed material relating to these case studies;
- Improved their oral skills by participating in tutorial debate on specific instances of cultural flows and local identities created through their consumption;
- Improved their written skills;
- Developed independent research skills;
- Developed the ability to critically assess the ideological implications of global cultural flows.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 100%
Workload requirements
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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