Cultural Studies and Beer

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide a cultural studies approach to beer, a common commodity in the United States and abroad. Specifically, this course examines how communication influences and is influenced by the production, consumption, representation, and distribution of beer, and how communication intersects with issues of identity in beer choices in the processes. Students study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding this intersection of communication and an important artifact of public culture. The course requires students to think critically about their own and others’ interaction with beer.