PCUL 1050 - Popping Culture: Research Methods for Studying the Popular I

3 hours

An introduction to researching popular culture, this course builds on various approaches in the humanities and social sciences to ask how and why popular culture functions today. Students will develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the relationship between theory and practice in popular culture as they employ content analysis, surveys, discussion groups, semiotic analysis, and other methodologies to form questions about popular culture and begin to interrogate the objects and practices that envelop their everyday lives.