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FILM 308 Popular Cultures Units: 3.00
Students will examine recent popular culture trends, practices, styles, theories, and artifacts. Through creative assignments, online discussion, online research and readings, students will engage in creative critique of the power of the popular to shape our identities, ideologies, and cultural arrangements.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Seminar, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 236/3.0 or FILM 240/3.0 or FILM 260/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the tools of academic critical analysis of a specific form of popular culture.
- Build capacity and knowledge base to become critical consumers of popular culture including the media and popular cultural practices.
- Create an enhanced understanding for students of their own consumption of popular culture.
- Develop ability to analyze various forms of popular culture and their significance according to theoretical perspectives and concerning selected issues.