EURO2232 Communication and Culture—Focus [UG]
DICTATORSHIP AND LITERATURE
| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
not available in 2010 |
| Content |
This unit provides students with the opportunity to study the interrelationships between communicative strategies, politics and culture in specific historical contexts of modern Europe and the West. Topics for detailed study are chosen from areas such as (1) Enlightenment and revolutionary literature; (2) development of the European 'public sphere'; (3) communicative cultures in dictatorships, including under Nazism and Stalinism; 'political correctness', diversity of opinion, democracy and freedom of speech in modern Western societies; (4) democracy and web culture, including the historical development of the Web and its contribution to the development of the public sphere, democracy and cross-cultural understanding. Emphasis is laid on the interrelationships of communicative structures with social and cultural factors in selected areas of European history. Choice of topics depends on staff availability. Detailed information on topics for any given year are available from the office of European Studies. The unit can be counted towards a major in European Studies, History or Communication Studies. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an assignment, an essay and tutorial participation.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline |
Contact hours—lectures, workshops and tutorials: 30 hrs (over 10 weeks)
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| Texts | Lists of texts are available from http://www.european.uwa.edu.au/for/students.
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- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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