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2019-2020 Archived Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Archived Catalog

ENGL-261 Readings in Popular Culture

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into RDNG-030 (ACSR-030), completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of RDNG-016 or ACLT-074 with a minimum grade of 3.0. Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ENGL-101  or ENGL-103  with a grade of 2.0 or higher.
This course will give students an increased ability to identify and comment upon the ways that popular culture both shapes and reflects the desires of citizens and consumers. By looking critically at a range of popular artifacts including literary/cultural criticism short stories aritcles essays photos songs films and television episodes students learn to read them more critically and actively. At the end of the semester students should be able to explain the social historical political and cultural contexts surrounding popular culture and the ideologies it carries including the ways it is exported to and influenced by other cultures and groups.

Course Outcomes
1. The course will be a forum for discussing the historical, political, social, and theoretical contexts of those artifacts in the huge and complex animal that we call popular culture…. By the end of the term, you should be able to a) read more actively b) identify the criteria you use for assessing and reacting to a text c) explain the social, historical, political, and cultural contexts making American popular culture an impo1iant subject of study