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British youth subcultures

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Course ID: 1.2.5-Z-EC-BYS
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (0232) Literature and linguistics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: British youth subcultures
Name in Polish: British youth subcultures
Organizational unit: Faculty of Philology
Course groups: (in Polish) Studia niestacjonarne
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: English
Study level:

BA level studies

Field of study:

English Philology

Education profile:

academic profile

Type of course:

elective courses

Mode:

Online

Student workload:

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of hrs: 30

total number of ECTS: 2

1 ECTS - 30 hours in class

1 ECTS - 25 hours preparation; 5 hours consultations

Short description:

Course description

The elective course introduces the students to the traditional British youth subcultures.

Full description:

Course objectives:

acquainting students with the terminology, research methods, and interpretive strategies used to analyse spectacular youth subcultures; a historical overview of 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 classroom activity:

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

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

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 methods and 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)

Classes in period "Winter semestr 2023/2024" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-02-29
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Class, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, Tomasz Gornat
Group instructors: Tomasz Gornat
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