CMLT C151: Introduction to Popular Culture
C151 (Section #14967): TR 11:15-12:30
C151 (Section #14968): TR 1:00-2:15
Both sections satisfy Cultural Studies and A&H requirements

“Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.” -Andy Warhol

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. This 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.