Intersectionality in Popular Culture

Catalog description

(also COM 2220 ; formerly Media, Culture and Society) This course is designed to give students a theoretical, as well as practical, experience with issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality as they manifest in mediated artifacts of popular culture. The course is taught from a cultural studies perspective where students will gain skills in critical analysis and media literacy. Concepts of power, privilege, justice, representations, hegemony, consumption, and resistance will be woven throughout course readings, films, assignments, and discussions. In addition, this course is based on the premise that popular culture is never simply diversion or entertainment. Instead, it provides us with stories, images, and scripts that enables us to imagine and practice femininities, masculinities, and sexualities.