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Cultural Studies

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GCST3638 Nature, Culture Power

Credit points: 6
Teacher/Coordinator: Please refer to the unit of study outline for individual sessions https://www.sydney.edu.au/units
Session: Semester 1
Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week
Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1x3000wd essay (55%), tutorial participation (10%).
Pre-requisites: 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or Gender Studies
Prohibitions: GCST2631
Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Faculty: Arts and Social Sciences

Understanding our place in a changing environment is a 21st century priority. This unit uses feminist, decolonising, and multispecies, frameworks to investigate how environmental problems are shaped by intersecting factors of gender, race, sexuality, ability, economic status, and colonialisms. Drawing on examples such as climate change, toxic contamination, resource extraction, and biodiversity loss, this unit examines the material and conceptual links between human and non-human natures, and cultural, political, economic and social forces.

 24/01/2022

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Cultural Studies

Major
A major in Cultural Studies requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core unit
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 18 credit points of 3000-level units
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor
A minor in Cultural Studies requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core unit
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective unit
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

1000 level units of study
Core
GCST1601
Culture, Power, Identity 		6      Intensive February
Semester 1
Selective
GCST1602
Sex, Gender, Culture 		6      Intensive July
Semester 1
GCST1603
Screen Cultures and Gender: Film to Apps 		6      Intensive February
Semester 2
GCST1604
Race, Diversity, Difference 		6      Semester 2

2000 level units of study
Core
GCST2630
Consumer Cultures 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Media Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Education, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Work, or Law
N GCST3603
Semester 1
Selective
GCST2603
Animal/Human Cultures 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level
Semester 2
GCST2605
Representing Race and Gender 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Cultural Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Gender Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Diversity Studies
Semester 1
GCST2612
Youth and Youth Culture 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Media Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Education, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Work, or Law
N WMST2012
Intensive July
Semester 2
AMST2606
Stand Up USA: American Comedy and Humour 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Cultural Studies
Semester 2

3000 level units of study
GCST3604
Using Cultural Theory 		6    P (12 credit points at 2000 level Gender and Cultural Studies) or (12 credit points at 2000 level Digital Cultures)
Semester 2
GCST3631
Gender, Communities and Belonging 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies
Semester 1
GCST3634
The Social Life of Policy
This unit of study is not available in 2022

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender and Cultural Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies
N GCST2632
Semester 1
GCST3637
Cultural Politics of Difference 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or Cultural Studies
Semester 2

Interdisciplinary project unit of study
If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact 		6    P Completion of at least 90 credit points

Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December

 Intensive December
Semester 1
Semester 2
GCST3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
This unit of study is not available in 2022

 6    P Completion of at least 90 credit points
N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major

Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December

 Intensive December
Semester 1
Semester 2
GCST3998
Industry and Community Project 		6    P 72 credit points
C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
Intensive February
Intensive July
Semester 1
Semester 2
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