Popular Screen Cultures

Undergraduate | 2026

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Your studies will be on-campus, and may include some online delivery
On campus
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Area/Catalogue
MDIA 2012
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Course ID
201037
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Campus
Adelaide City Campus East, Magill
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
6
Course owner
Course owner
School of Comm, Media and Jour
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Course level
2
Work Integrated Learning course
Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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Yes
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University-wide elective course
Yes
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Single course enrolment
Yes

Course overview

Popular Screen Cultures introduces students to an array of popular culture sites and texts, offering an enhanced understanding of how the pleasure of engaging popular culture intersects with questions of gender, sexuality, race & ethnicity, class, age, and other sources of making sense of culture and identity. 

  • Popular culture overview 
  • A focus on TV 
  • Fan studies 

Course learning outcomes

  • Identify relevant critical approaches and thematic readings of popular culture and screen media.
  • Relate sociopolitical concepts such as gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, or class to understandings of popular culture.
  • Structure a critically engaged argument in relation to popular culture.
  • Identify and apply relevant theories to the study of popular culture and screen media.

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

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