Popular Culture

3 credits

Taking an ethnographic approach, this introductory course examines representations of popular culture in mass media, music, film, advertising, consumer goods, and leisure. The course is particularly concerned with ways in which popular discourses and practices are implicated in the reproduction of, and resistance to, dominant values, norms and ideologies. ***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***