AMST 2020

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AMST 2020
Popular Culture in the United States, 1950 to the Present

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course treats the period from 1950 to the present as we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and music. We try to better understand the ways in which popular culture shapes and/or reflects American values. The course also depicts popular culture as "contested terrain," the place where social classes, racial and ethnic groups, women and men, the powerful and less powerful seek to "control" images and themes. Topics include The Honeymooners and 1950s television; soap operas; "gross-out" movies; Elvis; the Beatles, and Guns 'n Roses; gothic romances; and People Magazine and USA Today.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16574 AMST 2020   LEC 001

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  • 16868 AMST 2020   DIS 201

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  • 16869 AMST 2020   DIS 202

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  • 16870 AMST 2020   DIS 203

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  • 16872 AMST 2020   DIS 204

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