British youth subcultures 1.2.5-EC-BYS
Course objectives:
acquainting students with the terminology, research methods and interpretive strategies used to analyse spectacular youth subcultures; acquainting students with a historical overview of traditional British youth subcultures.
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Course content:
1. Subculture - theoretical background.
2. Style, bricolage, homology.
3. Folk devils & moral panics.
4. The Teddy Boys.
5. The Rockers & the Mods.
6. The Skinheads.
7. Punk.
8. The Goths.
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Methods of instruction/ forms of activity:
multimedia presentation, discussion, individual work, multimedia project, ICT tools/MSTeams
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Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes acc to PQR 2019
Knowledge:
1. Student knows the basic terms used in an analysis of youth subcultures such as class, style, homology, bricolage, and other significant concepts employed in research of the subject (k_W02/P6S_WG)
2. Student understands the role and place of youth subcultures in their political, economic, and aesthetic contexts (k_W03//P6S_WG)
Skills:
3. Student can recognise the overall characteristics and specificity of various youth subcultures in their environment (k_U02/P6S_UW)
Social competences:
4. Student is capable of embracing and contesting new cultural phenomena (k_K03/P6S_KO)
Assessment criteria
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:
1. Active participation in classes - 30% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)
2. Multimedia project - 70% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3)
Marking criteria:
60% - 70% - 3.0 (barely informative; poor/limited sources; numerous errors)
71% - 75% - 3.5 (adequately informative; sufficient sources; some errors)
76% - 85% - 4.0 (informative; interesting sources; few errors)
86% - 90% - 4.5 (superior knowledge; diversified sources; few errors)
91% - 100% - 5.0 (superior knowledge; excellent use of multimedia; no
errors)
Bibliography
Reading list
Baddeley, Gavin. Street Culture: 50 Years of Subculture Style. Plexus, 2015.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. Routledge, 1979.
Supplementary reading
Hall, Stuart, and Tony Jefferson. Resistance Through Rituals. Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. Routledge, 2006.
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