Module Descriptors
CULTURE AND IDENTITY (VLE)
FTVR70273
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 7
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 12
Independent Study Hours: 138
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 70%
- COURSEWORK - REVIEW weighted at 30%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Demonstration of informed understanding of key issues covered; appropriate application of relevant theory; evidence of familiarity with important texts; skill in producing critical, coherent and structured arguments.
A Coursework Essay will assess [Learning Outcomes 1 and 3]
A Coursework Review will assess [Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3]
A Coursework Essay will assess [Learning Outcomes 1 and 3]
A Coursework Review will assess [Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3]
Module Indicative Content
This module examines the social and cultural processes generating the production of diverse contemporary identities and the decentring of traditional and modern identities. The module aims to critically explore the cultural forms and practices produced and consumed in the expression of these unsettling identities, and the emergent meanings which are contested and transmitted. Seminars will be organised around themes such as postcoloniality, sexual identities, new social movements, the spatial location of identity, corporate identities, identity and material culture, memory, class, consumption, gender and the body, techno-identities, and national and cosmopolitan identities.
Module Texts
Rosamund Billington et al (1998) Exploring Self and Society (Macmillan)
Ian Craib (1998) Experiencing Identity (Sage)
Tim Edensor (2002) National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Berg)
Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (eds.) (1996) Question of Cultural Identity (Sage)
Paul du Gay et al (2000) Identity: A Reader (Sage)
Deborah Lupton (1998) The Emotional Self (Sage)
Richard Jenkins (1996) Social Identity (Routledge)
Anthony Giddens (1990) Modernity and Self-identity (Polity)
John Rajchman (ed) (1995) The Identity in Question (Routledge)
Madan Sarup (1996) Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World (Edinburgh)
Kathryn Woodward (1997) Identity and Difference (Sage)P.du Gay and S. Hall (1996) Cultural Identity (Sage)
Ian Craib (1998) Experiencing Identity (Sage)
Tim Edensor (2002) National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Berg)
Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (eds.) (1996) Question of Cultural Identity (Sage)
Paul du Gay et al (2000) Identity: A Reader (Sage)
Deborah Lupton (1998) The Emotional Self (Sage)
Richard Jenkins (1996) Social Identity (Routledge)
Anthony Giddens (1990) Modernity and Self-identity (Polity)
John Rajchman (ed) (1995) The Identity in Question (Routledge)
Madan Sarup (1996) Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World (Edinburgh)
Kathryn Woodward (1997) Identity and Difference (Sage)P.du Gay and S. Hall (1996) Cultural Identity (Sage)
Module Learning Strategies
The course will follow a series of smaller individual modulettes, each of which has a specific specialism and is overseen by an academic specialist. Learning will be accomodated through on-line discussion, reading and assimilation of on-line articles and mandatory readings, visual and aural stimuli, mini lectures and student discussion.
Module Resources
On-line Blackboard resources
On-line journals
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
On-line journals
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.