Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Music in Pop Culture

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

COMM1081

City Campus

Undergraduate

335H Applied Communication

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2006,
Sem 1 2007,
Sem 1 2008,
Sem 1 2009

COMM1081

City Campus

Undergraduate

345H Media and Communication

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2010,
Sem 1 2011,
Sem 1 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 1 2014,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 1 2016,
Sem 1 2017,
Sem 1 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 2 2023,
Sem 1 2024,
Sem 2 2024,
Sem 1 2025,
Sem 2 2025

Course Coordinator: Dr Kat Nelligan

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1712

Course Coordinator Email: kat.nelligan2@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 9, Level 4

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

For students enrolled in the Pop Culture Major or Minor: Successful completion of COMM2633 Introduction to Pop Culture

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.


Course Description

This course examines the role, significance and influence of music in popular culture. You will engage with contemporary issues, historical events and key genres in music.You will also consider how music and musicians are represented within diverse cultural forms, such as television, the media, and online. In addition to providing a broad interdisciplinary perspective, the course encourages you to reflect on music as a popular cultural phenomenon, and to reimagine the role and possibilities of music in everyday life.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

For students in the Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry). This course contributes to the following BP047 program learning outcomes:

  • Employ a body of theoretical knowledge and skills to respond to the multi-skilled nature of the changing music industry
  • Analyse and evaluate music practices and theories in local, national and global communities and industry contexts
  • Identify, evaluate and critically analyse cultural, historical and theoretical practices which contextualise your professional practice and further study


Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

CLO1: Identify and interpret key historical events and genres in relation to music in popular culture.

CLO2: Describe a variety of theoretical perspectives and use these to identify and critique the relationship between music, society and popular culture.

CLO3: Evaluate the role, significance and influence of music within its cultural context.

CLO4: Examine issues in popular music studies and how these are addressed by theorists and practitioners.



Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in learning that involves a range of activities such as lectures, tutorial class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery of this course will be face to face on campus. Please check Canvas regularly for changes in location or in case a particular class needs to move online for a specific week.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

A list of weekly learning resources (such as books, journal articles and web resources) will be provided by your lecturer via Canvas. You will also be expected to seek further resources relevant to the focus of your own learning.

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes.

Assessment Tasks

  • Assessment Task 1: Tutorial group presentation (Group) (30%), [CLOs 1,2,3 & 4]
  • Assessment Task 2: Critical Discussion Video (Individua) (30%), [CLOs 1, 2 & 3]
  • Assessment Task 3: Academic Essay (Individual) (40%), [CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4]

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.