Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6513ISTMCC-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To use a range of concepts to critically review the relationship between culture and individual and collective identities.
2. To critically evaluate theoretical concepts and assess their usefulness for interrogating relevant analytical case studies.
3. To provide the opportunity for students to undertake critical analysis and evaluation of an appropriate self-selected case study.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate theoretical approaches to the study of culture and identity.
2.
Identify a self-selected theoretical approach to the investigation of a substantive and self-identified analytical case study.
3.
Apply a self-selected theoretical approach to a substantive and self-identified analytical case study.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Descartes and the Cartesian Subject; Subject, hybridity and identity; Power, discourse and identity; The reflexive self, the performative self, the self and symbolic interaction, body modification, new media identities, the production of classed identities, ethnicity, representation, music as a resource of self-identity, media sport and national identity.
Additional Information:Students will be expected to select an appropriate case study for the completion of Assessment 2.