Honors Institute
Honors Courses
Media Studies |
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| MDIA 11H :: HONORS INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR CULTURE | 4 Units | |||||
| Overview, history and critical analysis of popular culture as a window for understanding American society. Theories and methods of analyzing artifacts of popular culture. Overarching themes: history/social theories of popular culture; popular culture as a product of American multiculturalism; the relationship between a commodity culture and intellect/artistry; philosophical/ethical issues surrounding popular culture. The honors section offers deeper theoretical content, assignments that require more sophisticated cognition/critical thinking, more rigorous assessment, and an additional summative project. | ||||||
| Advisory: Not open to students with credit in F A 1 or MDIA 11. | ||||||
| Repeatability: Not Repeatable. | ||||||
| 4 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory. (60 hours total per quarter.) | ||||||
| 17³Ô¹Ï GE Area: Humanities | ||||||
| Transferability: CSU and UC | ||||||
| Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at: foothill.edu/transfer/forms/current_transfer_ge_guide.pdf | ||||||
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