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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 5-24-2011 |
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HUM225 2011 Fall – 2011 Fall |
LEC 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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Introduction
to Popular Culture |
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Introduction to major topics in the field of popular culture
studies. Includes basic theories, methods, and concepts used to analyze
popular culture texts and practices. Prerequisites: ENG101 or ENG107. Course
Attribute(s): General Education Designation: Literacy and
Critical Inquiry - [L] General
Education Designation: Humanities and Fine Arts - [HU] |
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MCCCD
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HUM225 2011
Fall – 2011 Fall |
Introduction to Popular Culture |
1. Define popular
culture and what it entails. (I)
2. Compare and contrast
the production and consumption of popular culture. (I)
3. Summarize the importance
of the production and consumption of popular culture. (I)
4. Describe what
production and consumption of popular culture entails. (I, III)
5. Explain how popular
culture works on the local, national, and global levels. (I, III)
6. Explain the role of
power in popular culture. (I)
7. Describe major forms
of identity reflected in and influenced by popular culture. (I)
8. Compose critical
analyses of popular culture texts and practices. (II)
9. Explain how images,
artifacts, amusements, physical space, technology, and media involve and work
as popular culture. (III)
10. Demonstrate how popular culture
texts and practices reflect and influence beliefs and values. (I, III)
11. Explain how popular culture
reflects and influences the ways that individuals within societies understand
their relationships with one another. (I, III)
12. Illustrate how power relations
can be seen within popular culture texts and practices. (II, III)
13. Analyze representations of the
major forms of identity in popular culture. (I, II, III)
14. Analyze the use of formulaic
elements in popular culture. (I, II, III)
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HUM225 2011
Fall – 2011 Fall |
Introduction to Popular Culture |
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I. Overview
of Popular Culture
A. Definition
B. Relationship
to Other Categories of Culture
C. Significance
1. Reasons
for Studying Popular Culture
2. Values
and Beliefs in Popular Culture
D. Production
and Consumption
1. Production
2. Consumption
E. Globalization
F. Power
1. Ideology
2. Hegemony
3. Agency
G. Major
Forms of Identity
1. Gender
2. Race,
Ethnicity, and National Identity
3. Social
Class
4. Age
5. Religion
6. Other
H. Relationships
1. Effects
on Popular Culture
2. Defined
by Popular Culture
I. Formulas
1. Myths
2. Genres
II. Analysis
of Popular Culture
A. Reading
About Popular Culture
1. Active
Reading
2. Context
3. Texts
4. Semiotics
B. Writing
About Popular Culture
1. Rhetoric
2. Critical
Analysis
3. The
Process of Writing
III. Major Forms
of Popular Culture
A. Media
1. Advertising
2. Television
3. Literature
4. Film
5. Music
B. Popular
Amusements
1. Sports
2. Games
3. Other
Amusements
C. Appearance
1. Fashion
2. Hairstyles
D. Physical
Objects
1. Art
2. Artifacts
E. Physical
Space
1. Place
and Space
2. Time
and Space
3. Public
and Private Space
F. Technology
1. The
Internet
2. Communities
and Technology