Discipline ID
8c6cc18f-a222-48fa-b32e-f6dd2519e1a6

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YOUTH AND POPULAR CULTURE
Country
Australia
Host Institution
University of Melbourne
Program(s)
University of Melbourne
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Education
UCEAP Course Number
123
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
YOUTH AND POPULAR CULTURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
YOUTH & POP CULTURE
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures. It examines contrasting approaches to identity (e.g. developmental, sociological, feminist, post-structuralist) and contemporary debates about the place of popular culture and the media, and entertainment industries in children and young people's lives. The course analyses how children and young people appropriate and colonise symbols, meanings, images, and styles from different popular cultural media. Topics include the uses of cultural commodities in children and young people's construction of gendered, classed, and racialized identities; childhoods, global capital, and multinational companies; the role of the Internet; children and young people as cultural consumers and as cultural producers.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
EDUC30067
Host Institution Course Title
YOUTH AND POPULAR CULTURE
Host Institution Campus
Melbourne
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Education
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EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Country
Korea, South
Host Institution
Yonsei University
Program(s)
Yonsei University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Education
UCEAP Course Number
131
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
UCEAP Transcript Title
MULTICULTURAL EDU
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course responds to the need of the Korean society to campaign for education reform in order to address social issues that result from the increasing multi cultural characterization of Korea. In particular, this course is aimed at: helping recognize and challenge biases and notions of race, culture, language, social justice, and multi cultural education; increasing the awareness levels on the problems and opportunities that multiculturalism brings to the society; and building the capacity to exercise affirmative action and leadership in theoretical and practical ways. The theoretical approach is done by immersing into schools of thought that help explain the multicultural state of Korea, while the practical is done by conducting a community project, which deals with a social issue or phenomenon that relates to both multicuturalism and education or multicultural education in Korea. The project prompts the students to investigate a problem, project, or program in the community and analyze it extensively using a rubric that is proposed and agreed upon in class. 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
EDU4135
Host Institution Course Title
EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Education
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