1233    TR 1:00-2:15   JH A106
9486    TR 1:00-2:15   BH 231

This course will lay a foundation of skills and knowledge which will
help students to understand the various styles, practices and
contexts in which contemporary popular culture can be analyzed and
understood. It will enable students to relate the consumption of
popular texts to theories of audience reception, and to have a basic
understanding of the ways in which generic conventions function in
popular culture. The course will also enable students to explore the
way popular culture functions in the construction of subjectivities,
through reference to such examples as cartoons, graphic novels,
movies, popular fiction, pop art, television shows and tabloid
newspapers.