Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Requirement Designation:
Humanities Exploration
Description
Due to television and new media (Internet, blogging, YouTube), popular culture has become a dominant social force in today's world. This course will study the media that bring us popular culture, the products of popular culture, and the celebrities--movie stars, singers, and athletics--who function as the gods of popular culture.