CCM350

This course recognizes how elements of popular culture inform and reflect our attitudes, behavior, and society and interrogates how popular culture asserts values and ideology through traditional and emergent media forms (television, radio, social media, video games, etc.). Readings will introduce students to the historical conceptions of popular culture and attend to its evolving relationship to media, technology, and society. By engaging with diverse texts, students will examine popular culture's intersection with various topics such as fandom, citizenship and belonging, and representation. This course attempts to explicate popular culture's role in politics and society and to provide critical skills of interpretation and analysis by encouraging students to reflect upon, praise, problematize, and respond to the ever-present influence of popular culture on the contours of everyday life.

Willamette College

Salem

All Years

Fall and Spring