Gender & Popular Culture

Catalog description

WS 3331 : Gender and Popular Culture (3-0) "Gender and Popular Culture" aims to train students to think critically about popular culture and to achieve cultural literacy by studying, evaluating, and interpreting primary texts of popular or mass culture productions, such as advertising, television, music videos, popular music, and film. Students' study of popular culture is guided by secondary texts by experts who write extensively about the philosophy, values, and impact of popular culture on society. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.