Macquarie University

Advanced Research in Cultural Studies - CUL350

This unit provides students with an opportunity to undertake advanced and engaged cultural studies research. Student research projects are focused around one of the following research methods: research based around fieldwork in a workplace; critical ethnographic research; and theory based cultural studies research. All students attend a number of campus based seminars which reflect on key theoretical debates and methods in cultural studies and allow discussion and reflection on research methodologies. A key theme is reflection on the way in which cultural research can engage with and intervene in contemporary critical debates within academic and non-academic contexts. In addition, fieldwork based research requires at least 60 hours spent in observation or participant observation, while theoretical research requires an equivalent period of self-directed research. Work based research enables students to integrate critical and cultural research with the everyday experience of the workplace. Critical ethnographic and theoretical research prepares students for advanced research practices at Honours and postgraduate level. Students exercise problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills and creative thinking, while learning to interact and contribute within a professional context, either as academic researchers or beyond the academy.

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