POPULAR CULTURE (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Explain the concept of culture, cultural studies, and popular culture; Explain the theory of cultural studies and popular culture; Analyze popular culture cases and phenomena with theories of cultural studies and popular culture.

Topics:

1. Introduction 1;
2. Introduction 2;
3. History of Popular Culture;
4. Representation and the Production of Social Reality;
5. The Production of Popular Culture;
6. The Consuming Life;
7. Identity and the Body;
8. Identity, Community and Collectivity;
9. Subcultures and Countercultures;
10. Space, Place, and Globalization;
11. Popular Culture in the 21th Century.