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IDS 523 - Popular Culture


Course Description: Cross-cultural and semiotic analysis of popular forms of everyday life (food, fashion, fads, entertainment trends, television, movies, music, myths, stereotypes, and icons of mass-mediated consumer culture), with a special emphasis upon thinking and writing critically about popular culture by examining tacit assumptions about how the world works and our place in it as well as the role language plays in shaping reality.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite Courses: None
Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated


ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

Equivalent Courses: None
Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
Additional Course Fees: None
Course Attribute: None








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