GWSS 3306 is also offered in Fall 2024
GWSS 3306 is also offered in Fall 2023
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GWSS 3306 is also offered in Fall 2021
GWSS 3306 is also offered in Summer 2021
Spring 2017 | GWSS 3306 Section 001: Pop Culture Women (53213)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 209
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Contemporary U.S. feminism as political/intellectual movement. Ways in which movement has been represented in popular culture.
- Class Description:
- Often eschewed as being dumbed-down and trivial, this course takes popular culture seriously for its powerful effects on our lives. Social norms are mainstreamed as never before in this globalized, digital, and corporate era, as we become increasingly inundated with, and immersed in, advertising, modes of surveillance, round the clock news, and entertainment. And yet individuals and communities also have varying degrees of power to shape, reform, and even transform what's ?popular.? This course will examine the relationship between culture and power via popular representations of women. It will ask what popular discourse on gender, race, sexuality, ability, sex, class, species, nation, etc. can teach us about what it means ?to [not] be? and ?to [not] become? a woman. It will ask who controls mass media, to what effect?and on whom? In what ways are we complicit in pop culture, and in what ways?and for what reasons, in which circumstances?might we resist it?if it can, indeed, be resisted? This course approaches our inquiries in three uneven sections: the first seven weeks of class will be spent investigating the field of cultural critique, in order to ascertain the theoretical tools we need to become critical participants in pop culture. The second six weeks of class takes up hegemonic tropes about women, femaleness, femininity, and feminism. The third, brief section of our course is devoted to your final presentations. By the end of our semester, I hope course material and discussion will pique your curiosity about pop culture, and engender new pathways of cultural critique, participation, and transformation. GWSS 3306 satisfies two CLE requirements: Arts and Humanities Core Course and Diversity and Social Justice in the U.S. Theme Course. In addition to articles that can be located on our Moodle site, one book is required: Zeisler & Jervis, eds. Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006. Students will be expected to read all materials, come to class prepared for lecture and discussion, blog, lead two small group discussions, and present a final individual media analysis project.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53213/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 April 2014
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2017 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes