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Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Course CodeGNED-169
Lecture hours per week3
Lab hours per week
Course AvailabilityOpen
Description

What is the vehicle or conduit through which you come to embrace and engage in popular culture? Is it a particular genre of music, a particular program on TV, or social and political movements? For each one of us, it could be one or a combination of things. While there will be a number of topics discussed in the course, one thing to think about is in a pluralistic, cosmopolitan nation such as Canada, where there are competing class, race, identity and gender-based issues, how can there be such a thing as a "popular culture"?

What this course will do, is allow us to explore some of these issues by looking at a range of historical as well as contemporary examples in pop culture including the role of media and globalization. We will also explore the contribution of trends in pop culture, and other related topics.

 

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