Popular Culture

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Popular culture is the culture known and shared by most people in a society. In this course, students will investigate the mass media and contemporary forms of popular culture in the United States and what these say about American society, will look at the elements of American popular culture that have made their way into other societies across the globe, and will come to understand what popular culture says about values, beliefs, and norms of American culture and others. Pre-requisite: COM 101 or MMS 101. (Offered every even spring term.)