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Fall 2020 | GWSS 3306 Section 001: Pop Culture Women (17288)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (35 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Contemporary U.S. feminism as political/intellectual movement. Ways in which movement has been represented in popular culture.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in an asynchronous format. There are no scheduled meeting times.
- Class Description:
- Often eschewed as being dumbed-down and trivial, this course takes the subject of 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?
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17288/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 April 2014
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes