British youth subcultures

studia pierwszego stopnia

English Philology

profil akademicki

fakultatywne

Realizowany zdalnie

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of hours: 30

total number of ECTS: 2

1 ECTS - 30 hours of class participation

1 ECTS - 25 hours preparation; 5 hours consultations with the teacher

Course description

The course introduces students to the traditional British youth subcultures.

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.

9. The New Romantics.

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Methods of instruction/ forms of activity:

multimedia presentation, discussion, individual work, multimedia project, ICT tools/MSTeams

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.

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)

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)