Goucher College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
Goucher College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

COM 316 - Making Sense of Popular Culture (4 Cr.)

(GCR RPP) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Popular culture: We eat, breathe, wear, play, learn, and live it. From McDonald’s to MTV, this course traces the postwar development of American popular/consumer culture, emphasizing its penetration into and ubiquity in our everyday lives; its influence on self, group, and national identity; its place in the establishment of our contemporary sense of community; and its global reach. The course addresses issues of race, gender, class, and other factors that are both shaped and reflected by popular culture myths, icons, and formulas. Prerequisites: COM 105  and COM 232 , and sophomore standing, by the beginning of the course; or permission of instructor. Variable semesters. Zurawik.