Course overview
From vinyl collections and community gardens to bodybuilding and streetwear cultures, this course invites students to make the familiar strange by exploring often-overlooked sites of everyday life. Students will develop an understanding of how everyday cultures, as rich sites of meaning, have transformed over time and continue to shape identity, pleasure, power and resistance in the present. Through a deep engagement with theoretical perspectives and guided ethnographic fieldwork, students will develop practical research skills for observing and interpreting everyday life and its cultural practices.
- Thinking about the everyday
- Researching the everyday
- Sites of everyday culture and contestation
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
- Critically engage with cultural theories and ethical research practices to effectively present preliminary findings from an independent case study.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 24413
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 21
Class number 29264
Section SE03
Size 24
Available 18
Class number 29942
Section LE01
Size 55
Available 40
Magill
Class number 24415
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 24414
Section SE02
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29999
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 29
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