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Apr 27, 2024
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Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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COM 225 - Consumerism, the Media, Popular Culture and the Environment (4 Cr.) (GEN. ED. #11) (LER–ENV)
This course will examine the relationship between culture and environment. We will focus on how the mass media and popular culture create and perpetuate the mythology of the American Dream and the “good life”—with all its material abundance and consequent wastefulness. How does our culture talk about various forms of consumption? What is the relationship between the media, cultural and political elites, corporate entities, and the consumer? How do we, as an audience, receive, internalize, and operationalize these messages? And how can we escape the mantra of “more is better”? The course will include a strong experiential component meant to encourage students to live in more sustainable ways. Prerequisites: , , college writing proficiency, and sophomore standing; or permission of instructor. Fall semester. Peroutka
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