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CHRTC 241

Catholicism and Pop Culture

3 units

Summer 2026

Topics

  • What is popular culture?, How do we talk and think about pop culture? Going my Way
  • Fulton Sheen
  • Dan Brown’s the Davinci Code & William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist
  • Spotlight and Mrs. Davis
  • Understand historical contexts, key arguments, and uses of media to represent Catholicism and Catholics
  • Evaluate information in multiple forms – oral, written, visual, digital
  • Make reasoned, well-supported, and coherent arguments about media representations of Catholicism
Winter 2026

Topics

  • Course intro, What is pop culture?
  • Talking about pop culture, Going my Way
  • Fulton Sheen, The Exorcist
  • The Name of the Rose
  • Davinci & Spotlight
  • Spotlight & Mrs. Davis
  • The Two Popes & Conclave
  • Christian Media
  • Christian Music
  • Catholics and Social Media
  • Understand historical contexts, key arguments, and uses of media to represent Catholicism and Catholics
  • Evaluate information in multiple forms – oral, written, visual, digital
  • Make reasoned, well-supported, and coherent arguments about media representations of Catholicism
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