Sociology

Contemporary Popular Culture
Combines readings, viewings, and class discussion of various forms of contemporary culture since the mid-1960s. See, hear, and discuss different genres, such as: popular films and music; design, clothes, or dressing; architecture; magazines; art (folk, street, and commercial); television and MTV; and the new imaging technologies. Topics include: the relationships between popular and populist, pop and mass culture, avant-garde and kitsch; forms of and problems with high and low aesthetics, stereotypes, cultural hierarchy, identity, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and American concepts of age and class. Also offered as AHU 3160.
CSO3160.45 / 4 credits
William Peace
Tues. & Thurs., 9:00 a.m.–12:35 p.m.
Session II: June 10–July 24
Social Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1006

The following courses with CSO prefixes may also be taken for sociology credit:

• Communications:
  CSO1540.60 Introduction to Mass Media and Communications
• Legal Studies:
  CSO3550.20 Crime and Delinquency

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Posted Feb. 20, 2008