Time: Monday Wednesday 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Location: Clark 218
All culture is mediated—that is, cultural creations and communications not only REFLECT beliefs but also AFFECT beliefs. This course offers a framework for acquiring and enhancing your techniques of cultural analysis. We will concentrate on the analysis of American popular culture, moving beyond a celebration of the popular arts and entertainment TO ANALYZE American values, concerns, dispositions, and expectations as they are expressed, encoded in, and influenced by the various forms of popular media. Popular culture serves an important function in the exploration, articulation, and communication of our culture, influencing the acculturation process, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes challenging accepted norms of belief and behavior. During the course of the semester we will explore historical, sociological, anthropological, economic, psychoanalytical, political, and aesthetic approaches to a variety of cultural artifacts.
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