Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is a discipline focussing on the nature of culture and its current transformations. At Swinburne, Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary major, consisting of core subjects from Philosophy & Cultural Inquiry and the choice of a diversity of subjects from a range of other disciplines. This has the advantage of providing students with a rigorous foundation in the theoretical debates taking place within cultural studies, together with a wide choice of other subjects pertaining to practical cultural issues.

Subjects comprising the degree come from Philosophy & Cultural Inquiry, Media Studies, Literature, Politics, Psychology, and Asian Languages and Cultures. Students are provided with the means to comprehend and critically analyse the diverse components and media of culture: science, literature, film, television, popular culture, print, electronic media etc., the relationship between these, and the relationship between different cultures of different regions, nations and ethnic groups.

Students may construct their degrees to focus on their particular interests, such as: literature and film as cultural phenomena, cultural politics, the problematic relationship between cultures in a globalised world, the problems associated with the disintegration of traditional cultures and the search for new foundations for beliefs, science and philosophy as cultural phenomena.

Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
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