Subcultures and Alternative Culture 2300-SUB-OG

During the Seminar the following issues will be discussed:
- the subculture, the contestation, the counterculture, the alternative culture - problems of defining;
- the counterculture of the sixties - the origins, declared and realized value, forms of contestants activity;
- heritage of the counter-culture;
- the punk - the origins of this youth movement, anti-ideology/anarchism, the forms of activity in Poland and in the world;
- the punk's music as a medium of expressing specific topics, values and attitudes;
- "punk is dead"? - the movement today;
- subcultures of the violence and deconstruction (e.g. member of a 1970s Polish subculture inspired by the criminal underworlds, skinheads, "football supporters" ("hooligans") , drugs in subcultures);
- the alternative culture - constructive action (e.g. art - alternative theatre, fine arts; fan groups: e.g. "riders" , capoeira and martial arts, ecologists, fans of RPG games; the feminism);
- music as a passion, the expression and choice of lifestyle and attitude (the reggae, the heavy-metal, the grunge, the Gothic style, the techno, the clubbing and its music);
- other issues, often chosen by students: the New Age, religious sect, the satanism, the polish religious youth organization: "oaza" and "szpakowisko"; contemporary subcultures in Asia, in the Ukraine, in Russia and Western Europe;
- the topic finishing the seminar will be: "Do subcultures exist in our time? If so - what today do mean "subcultures"? What kind of subcultures exist today and how are they functioning? If don't exist - what makes contemporary youth create groups?"