A: Key Concepts in History and Society - ARTS4140

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities

Course Outline: Available to enrolled students via Blackboard

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Enrolment in a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences honours program

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

The course will consider important theoretical ideas across the humanities and social science disciplines. It is open to all FASS Honours candidates. Concept selection has been based on queries raised by previous Honours candidates. Topics that may be included: culture and its contradictions; tradition; culture high and low; avant-garde; post-modernism; self and other; orientalism; myth; public sphere; cultural capital; literacy; imagined communities; nation.