Popular Culture: From Blackface to Black Panther
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Overview
Subject area
ENGL
Catalog Number
349
Course Title
Popular Culture: From Blackface to Black Panther
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Description
In this course on popular culture, students will assess from a variety of perspectives the origins and development of American and/or global popular culture. Students will critically analyze the ideas produced by popular culture and mass media in various forms and industries, including but not limited to popular music and video, television, film, theater, visual art, radio, sports, fashion, and advertising, each of which shape our most powerful institutions, the social world, and individual lives. A guiding question the course asks is how does popular expression from a variety of cultures and industries shape our understanding of narrative, specifically in the production of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, region, and social class? We will focus on what popular culture offers to us that other modes of expression do not, and consider the subversive potential of popular forms. Finally, students will learn how to place popular culture within its social, political, economic, and historical contexts. Instructor may focus upon a particular genre within popular culture, or a specific icon.
Typically Offered
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Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
019528