MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


COS4209

Re-thinking human studies: after postmodernity

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

J Finkelstein

12 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis Undertaking study of human societies always involves difficulties; the recent debates around modernity and postmodernity have intensified these. We are now confronting the questions, can the disciplines in human studies say anything significant? Has the postmodernist's influence on defining what is knowledge and what is data influenced empirical studies? Have mass media communications changed the social field and destroyed the focus of disciplines concerned with human culture? Has feminism forced a re-conceptualisation of human studies? What new ethical issues have emerged in the investigation of human culture, and how do these affect the role of the researcher?

Assessment Written (6000 words): 60% + Written (2 x 1500 words): 20% each

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