AHT2207 - Popular culture - 2017

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Department of Fine Arts

Coordinator(s)

Professor Rex Butler

Unit guides

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2017 (Day)

Notes

This unit was formerly coded TAD2207

Synopsis

Popular Culture offers a history of popular culture from the late 18th century when the idea first arose through to the present. The course also offers a survey of the most important methodological approaches to popular culture. Topics touched on range from Immanuel Kant's theorisation of the "Fine Arts" to the folk music of Bob Dylan. The course concludes with the speculation that the era of popular culture is now over with the rise of the internet.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. identify the long historical debate between high and popular culture;
  2. elaborate certain important interventions in this debate (Kant, Herder, Adorno, Bourdieu);
  3. demonstrate an ability to use this knowledge to consider and discuss contemporary art.

Assessment

Assignment 1,500 words (40%)

Research essay 2,500 words (60%)

Workload requirements

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours and 9 hours of independent study or equivalent.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Prerequisites

12 credit points at first year level in Art History and Theory, or Theory of Art and Design, or Visual Culture, or permission from Unit Coordinator

Prohibitions

TAD3207, TAD3217, AHT3207