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This major develops understanding of the making and circulation of meaning within a culture. It pays particular attention to the construction of cultural values and how they are articulated through social and creative practice.This major is part of a larger course. Information is specific to the major, please refer to the course for more information.

Discover how cultures develop and are reflected in popular texts. Diving into the complexity of culture, you’ll develop critical thinking skills for problem solving and innovation. Through the lens of cultural texts, explore gender, power, and place. 

Bachelor of Arts (English and Cultural Studies)

Health and Wellbeing in Social and Cultural Contexts

Introduction to Cultural Studies

Drugs in Society

Mind, "Madness" and Society: An Introduction to the Sociology of Mental Illness

Popular Music, Culture and Identity

Gender, Crime and Justice

Digital Culture and Everyday Life

Culture, Health and Healing

Health and Society

Sex and Gender Matters

This subject was previously known as Imagining Health in Social and Cultural Contexts.An introduction to sociological and anthropological perspectives on health, wellbeing illness and disability in society; understanding the contribution of the biomedical and social models of health for transdisciplinary practice for nurses and allied health: professionals. Incorporating contemporary, historical, social and cultural perspectives in local and global contexts to identify social determinants of health. Understanding traditional healing and other healing practices within a diverse community to cultural safe, secure and competent care, which is necessary to build individual and community empowerment. Recognising the impact of gender, sexuality, disability, migration, being a refugee, internally displaced person or member of any marginalised population on health. Evaluating humanitarian health care delivery and disaster relief within a human rights and social justice framework to support community development in national and international settings.﻿Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Explore what it means to be healthy and well. You’ll look into factors like gender, income, and education, to find out how they can influence health. Touch on traditional healing. Observe how healthcare professionals respond to challenging situations.

In this subject students will engage with critical race theory and the history of Western expansion through concepts of colonialism, modernity and globalisation. Students will investigate key texts in literature, film and theory to explore the distribution of political and economic power in the specific places in the world throughout history. Through a study of texts, including World and Indigenous texts, this subject investigates critical and aesthetic responses to colonialism.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Decolonising Place

This subject examines key concepts, approaches and debates in the study of gender and sexuality, with a focus on analysing the representation of gender and sexuality in a range of literary and cultural texts. Recent theoretical developments are explored in the context of pioneering work in second- and third-wave feminism, psychoanalysis and queer theory. The subject’s focus on developing critical reading skills and strategies will give students the tools to interpret, evaluate and challenge the reproduction of different gender and sexuality value systems in a range of literary and cultural texts.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Build skills to question and evaluate the ways different texts represent gender and sexuality. In this English course, you’ll practice critical reading and discuss recent ideas related to feminism and queer theory.

Reading Gender

This subject explores general ideas and critical concepts that form the foundations of cultural studies. The subject develops ideas about culture, texts, and modes of power and production. The subject aims to expand student understandings of the complex and interwoven operation of culture through examining a variety of texts through historical and social disciplinary lenses.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

An overview of culture and its relationship to society, power, and identity. You’ll think about how culture is produced, consumed, and interpreted. Delve into readings to explore social and historical contexts. Open your mind to the complexity of culture.

This subject explores different textual representations of the future in terms of the questions they raise about the world today. From science fiction and dystopian classics, through futurology and trends forecasting, to climate change narratives and extinction studies, students will engage with a variety of texts and discourses engaging in the question of the future. The subject will develop skills in analysing the relationships between language, genre and contexts, and explore how textual choices position audiences for particular purposes, shaping attitudes, values and perspectives on contemporary social, cultural and political trends.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Textual Futures

This subject was previously known as Internet and Everyday Life.
For many people, everyday life now involves constant interaction with the Internet via digitally networked platforms and devices. As cyberspace and real space come together, it can be easy to miss the impacts of the Internet on us and on our society and culture. Students will explore how their own experiences and ‘everyday Internet’ may be different from others, and the implications of this for studying digital culture. Through specific topics such as entertainment, politics, sex, and relationships students will analyse digital culture conceptually, towards better understanding how technology and society are intertwined.
Further Information: List of topics is indicative and subject to minor change prior to the start of each Study Period.
Please Note:  If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Explore where digital life ends and real life begins. Identify ways in which every day social activities like dating and praying have become digitised. Look into the causes and consequences of our increasing social connection with the online world.

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