Focussing on fun and politics in everyday life, this course offers a general introduction to major theories, approaches and issues in the study of popular culture and cultural studies. Empirical analysis will focus on the trans-national nature of selected cases from contemporary Indonesia, where creative appropriation of traditions from Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are fused in various forms with local adoptions of Western modernism, Chinese, Japanese or Korean pop cultures.
Three inter-related areas of interest will run throughout the course, and will serve as the course's foci: (a) questions of the location of specific studies of fun and popular culture in the broader mapping of the study of cultural politics in general; (b) questions concerning moral judgements of fun activities, and their significance to specific local, national and trans-national politics of identity among the ordinary population in everyday life; (c) comparative perspectives of the connections, contrasts, or parallels among the different cases from Indonesia and some other Asian societies.
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Workload
Four days a week Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Friday from 27 July to 14 August. 10.30am - 12.30pm.Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $2604 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $3576 |
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Winter Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1715 | 27 Jul 2015 | 31 Jul 2015 | 31 Jul 2015 | 14 Aug 2015 | In Person | N/A |
