Course overview
Through a cultural lens this course will advance students’ understanding of theoretical frameworks for interpreting and analysing everyday life and its cultural practices and, through ethnographic research approaches, facilitate students’ exploration of specific consumption sites. Students will develop case studies of everyday life by drawing on theorists such as Ahmed, Bourdieu, de Certeau and Foucault, coupled with some fieldwork experiences. Topics such as suburban houses, gardens, food, technology, and fashion will be examined to understand how they developed historically, and continue to shape identity, resistance and pleasure in the present.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop cultural readings of familiar sites and practices of everyday cultures in the past and the present
- Demonstrate an understanding of history as a resource for questioning contemporary ideas of everyday life
- Identify and apply complex theoretical concepts in the study of everyday life cultures
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice by conducting primary ethnographic research
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 29942
Section LE01
Size 55
Available 55
Class number 24413
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29264
Section SE03
Size 24
Available 24
Magill
Class number 29999
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 24415
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 24414
Section SE02
Size 30
Available 30
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