Cluster: Popular Culture
Popular culture is a vital area of study that offers new insights into our history, beliefs, diversity, emotional make-up, and socio-economic relations. Study of popular culture is an interdisciplinary approach aimed at understanding how culture links the individual and society. This cluster of courses will enable students to see everyday life with new eyes by teaching them the habits of critical thinking and query into what they would otherwise take for granted.
Cluster Coordinator: Grace Dillon
Office: NASCC 140B
Phone: 725-8144
E-mail: dillong@pdx.edu
Sophomore Inquiry: Popular Culture
(UNST 254)
In this course, students begin to study popular culture through observation, reflection, description, and critical thinking in order to gain a deeper understanding of the popular myths surrounding everyday life. Students focus on several forms of popular culture and engage in discussion and interpretation individually and in-group work.
This SINQ leads to the Popular Culture Cluster.
Approved Cluster Courses:
Academic Year 13-14
Note: Courses listed below are all Approved Cluster Courses for the 2013 - 2014 year. If you are looking for listings for 2012 - 2013, they are archived here.
| ANTH 300U | Modern World in Anthropological Perspective |
| ANTH 330U | Anthropology of Folklore |
| BST 424U | African American Culture in Cinema |
| BST 427U | African American Films and Film Makers |
| COMM 312U | Media Literacy |
| COMM 314U |
Persuasion |
| COMM 336U |
Metaphor |
| COMM / WS 337U |
Communication and Gender (crosslisted with WS 337U) |
| COMM 362U | Bollywood Cinema |
| COMM 370U | Debate and Forensics |
| CS 345U | Cyberculture: The Internet and Popular Culture |
| CS 348U | Digital Media and Society |
| ENG 305U | Topics in Film |
| ENG 306U | Topics in Literature and Popular Culture |
| ENG 307U | Science Fiction |
| ENG 309U | American Indian Literature |
| ENG 330U | Jewish and Israeli Literature |
| ENG 332U | History of Cinema and Narrative Media I |
| ENG 333U | History of Cinema and Narrative Media II |
| ENG 334U | Topics in Film Genres and Movements |
| ENG 335U | Topics in Film and Literature |
| ENG 367U | Topics in American Literature and Culture |
| ENG 373U | Topics in Literature, Race, and Ethnicity |
| JST 333U | Israeli Culture and Society |
| MKTG 340U | Advertising |
| MUS 355U | Jazz History |
| MUS 360U | The Guitar: History and Music |
| MUS 361U | History of Rock Music I |
| MUS 362U | History of Rock Music II |
| PHE 455U | Film and Health |
| PS 318U | Media, Opinion and Voting |
| TA 305U | Understanding Theater |
| TA 331U | Understanding Movies |
| TA 362U | Contemporary Dance 1920 - Present |
| TA 366U | Dance in Film: Early Years through 1940's |
| TA 367U | Dance in Film: 1940's to Present |
| TA 370U | Topics: Theater, Media and Culture |
| TA 384U | Amer. Cinema and Culture I |
| TA 385U | Amer. Cinema and Culture II |
| WS 308U | Topics: Gender, Literature & Popular Culture |
| WS / COMM 337U | Communication and Gender (crosslisted with COMM 337U) |
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