ATS2857 Global cultures
Faculty of Arts
ATS2857 Global cultures is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2027 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2027
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
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Requisites
Before ATS2857
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS2857
No unit lists ATS2857 as a prerequisite in the 2027 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: Must have passed 24 credit points of Level 1 units
Overview
In this unit you will explore what popular culture can tell us about globalisation and global studies. Film, music, print and digital media, video games, and other forms of popular culture are significant parts of people’s identities and how they experience and shape global flows of knowledge and ideas. You will investigate how people across the globe produce and consume popular culture through the practices and rituals of everyday life. You will examine the ways in which popular culture reflects particular political contexts, and how meanings are recreated as popular cultural products travel across space and time. Through case studies and examples across different languages, places and cultures, you will also explore the politics of popular culture, and identify and analyse how cultural forms challenge and/or reinforce dominant global narratives around inequality, injustice and intolerance.
Offerings in 2027
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Learning PortfolioPortfolio30%
- Multimedia PresentationPresentation25%
- Case studyWritten25%
- Interactive Oral Assessment (IOA)Demonstration20%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
explain how the production and consumption of popular culture reflect everyday social and political dynamics;
- 2
evaluate the role of popular culture in enabling global flows of knowledge and ideas;
- 3
analyse how global cultures emerge and change across language, time and space;
- 4
critically reflect on how popular culture can challenge and/or reinforce unequal, unjust and intolerant global narratives;
- 5
collaborate with peers and develop globally-oriented responses to inequality, injustice and intolerance via popular culture.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Lectures12 hours
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachEnquiry-based learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where you apply your knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but students need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
This unit engages you in enquiry-based learning, where you will be encouraged to use your own knowledge to develop and engage in a process of enquiry, study and research to identify areas to be investigated and an approach to doing so.
Learning resources
Required resources
This unit requires access to a laptop that meets minimum specifications (https://www.monash.edu/esolutions/students/bring-your-own-device-byod). Free specialist software is available via MoVE (https://www.monash.edu/learning-teaching/innovation/learning-technologies/move).
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Lucas Santos
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Lucas Santos
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2857?
ATS2857 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2857 offered?
In 2027, ATS2857 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is ATS2857?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS2857 have an exam?
No. ATS2857 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Intercultural Studies
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 4
- Study abroad
- Available
- Handbook years
- 20262027