RAD2001 Popular Culture

This introductory, Internet-based course will examine recent North American popular culture including trends, fads, styles, theories and the cult of the new. This course will explore our perceptions of culture, the trivialization of society and how the media has inexorably helped to shape today's values. Students will, through on-line research, assigned readings, and participation in self-directed learning, critically study popular culture's place in North American society concentrating on their decade of choice. One dictionary definition of popular culture is the "totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought." That definition allows us great freedom and scope.

Theme 3: Social and Cultural Understanding

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