74305 Culture and Identities: Europe and New Zealand
About the course
This interdisciplinary Humanities course examines culture and identities in Europe and New Zealand which are seen as contested dynamic spaces. The ways in which identities are constructed and expressed in arts and the humanities including literature, drama, poetry, film and architecture, are considered, as well as the relationship between identity and history, religion, nation, ideologies and language. Personal identities as cultural concepts are discussed in a series of European case studies and New Zealand references. Ways of analysing cultural identities though a variety of texts and cultural artefacts are considered. You will also study the impact of cultural memory of 20th Century warfare on European and New Zealand identities, the different experiences of these conflicts and how they have shaped and reconfigured European, New Zealand, and other cultures. New Zealand supplementary material focuses on the construction of personal, social and cultural identities within Aotearoa. The course concludes with an investigation of changes to identities in European and New Zealand contexts as the result of globalization, consumerism, and mass media.
This course is available in the following programme:
What's in the course
The course is presented in four blocks:
Block One: Exploring Identities. (An introduction to concepts of personal and cultural identity in relation to the Humanities and the Arts, with reference to philosophy, sociology, social movements, religion, language and everyday speech).
Block Two: The Fluid Borders. (An analysis of issues related to cultural identity in Europe, including the notion that Europe is a cultural construct mapped on to historical and political notions of geographical space, and the relationship between Europe and its ’Other’)
Block Three: War, Culture and Memory. (A study of the impact of the cultural memory of twentieth-century warfare on identities in Europe, and New Zealand, with reference to history, literature, and the visual arts. This examines how culture has recognised the ‘theatre of conflict’, the legacy of the conflicts, and their influence on notions of European-ness and on the reconfiguration of national and other identities)
Block 4: Globalization (A study of changes to cultural identities in Europe and New Zealand as the result of globalization, consumerism and mass media. The influence of postmodern and global identities is explored).
Based on a course from the Open University UK, 74305 further examines the Humanities and Arts disciplines studied in 74206 From Enlightenment to Romanticism
What students learn
Students will be able to
- Demonstrate skills of critical and qualitative textual analysis
- Demonstrate skills of researching and evaluating secondary sources
- Demonstrate knowledge of the historical and cultural significance of the Renaissance
- Recognise and apply generic concepts to a range of contexts
- Demonstrate skills of evaluation, origination and synthesis of ideas.
Prerequisite
74206 From Enlightenment to Romanticism
Assessment
In-course work 100%Fees
New Zealand Student Fee $1,773.00
What do I do now?
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