TELEVISION AND POPULAR CULTURE

Catalog description

This course interrogates the productive and reflective roles of television within popular culture. Emphasizing the development of greater media and television literacy through critical thinking/writing, students will analyze television as a medium, an institution, a foundation of cultural knowledge and source of entertainment. The course introduces definitions of popular/mass culture, the role of audience, the influence of globalization, and the mutual influential relationships among media and popular perceptions of race, gender, class, and sexuality.