Cluster: Popular Culture
Popular culture is a vital area of study that offers new insights into our history, beliefs, diversity, emotional make-up, and socio-economic relations. Study of popular culture is an interdisciplinary approach aimed at understanding how culture links the individual and society. This cluster of courses will enable students to see everyday life with new eyes by teaching them the habits of critical thinking and query into what they would otherwise take for granted.
Cluster Coordinator: Grace Dillon
Office: NASCC 140B
Phone: 725-8144
E-mail: dillong@pdx.edu
Sophomore Inquiry: Popular Culture
(UNST 254)
In this course, students begin to study popular culture through observation, reflection, description, and critical thinking in order to gain a deeper understanding of the popular myths surrounding everyday life. Students focus on several forms of popular culture and engage in discussion and interpretation individually and in-group work.
This SINQ leads to the Popular Culture Cluster.
Approved Cluster Courses:
Academic Year 11-12
*Courses listed below are all Approved Cluster Courses. The links beside the course titles are for documentation purposes.
| ANTH 300U | Modern World in Anthropological Perspective |
| ANTH 330U | Anthropology of Folklore |
| BST 424U | African American Culture in Cinema |
| BST 427U | African American Films and Film Makers |
| COMM 312U | Media Literacy |
| COMM 314U |
Persuasion |
| COMM / WS 337U |
Communication and Gender (Crosslisted with WS 337U) |
| COMM 370U |
Debate and Forensics |
| COMM 410U |
Topics in Popular Media |
| COMM / WS / PSY 410U |
Women in Contemporary Film (Crosslisted with WS/PSY 410U) |
| COMM 410U |
Movies Look at TV |
| COMM / USP 410U |
Information Cities (Crosslisted with USP 410U) |
| COMM / TA / WS 410U |
Gender and Difference in Popular Media (Crosslisted with TA/WS 410U) |
| COMM 412U |
Empirical Theories of Mass Communication |
| COMM 420U |
Political Communication |
| COMM 422U |
Critical Theories of Mass Communication |
| COMM 427U |
International Communication |
| COMM / WS 452U |
Gender and Race in the Media (Crosslisted with WS 452U) |
| CS 345U |
Cyberculture: The Internet and Popular Culture |
| CS 348U |
Digital Media and Society |
| ENG 305U |
Topics in Film |
| ENG 305U |
Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: Film and Social Justice |
| ENG 306U |
Topics in Literature and Popular Culture |
| ENG 307U |
Science Fiction |
| ENG 309U |
American Indian Literature (when content is appropriate) |
| ENG 330U |
Jewish and Israeli Literature |
| ENG 332U |
History of Cinema and Narrative Media I |
| ENG 333U |
History of Cinema and Narrative Media II |
| ENG 335U |
Topics in Film and Literature |
| ENG 373U |
Topics in Literature, Race, and Ethnicity |
| ENG / FL 448U |
Ursula K. LeGuin (Crosslisted with FL 448U) |
| FL / ENG 448U |
Ursula K. LeGuin (Crosslisted with ENG 448U) |
| HUM 399U |
African Diasporan Dance in the Americas |
| MKTG 340U |
Advertising |
| MUS 355U |
Jazz History |
| MUS 360U |
The Guitar: History and Music |
| MUS 361U |
History of Rock Music I |
| MUS 362U |
History of Rock Music II |
| MUS 399U |
Modern Music Technology |
| PHE 455U |
Film and Health |
| PS 318U |
Media, Opinion and Voting |
| PSY / COMM / WS 410U |
Women in Contemporary Film (Crosslisted with COMM/WS 410U) |
| TA 305U |
Understanding Theater |
| TA 331U |
Understanding Movies |
| TA 362U |
Contemporary Dance 1920 - Present |
| TA 370U |
Topics in Theater, Media and Culture |
| TA 384U |
Amer. Cinema and Culture I |
| TA 385U |
Amer. Cinema and Culture II |
| USP 457U/COMM 410U |
Information Cities (Crosslisted with COMM 410U) |
| WR 399U |
Modern Travel Writing |
| WR 416U |
Screenwriting |
| WS 308U |
Cultural Studies in Literature: Divas in Drama (Crosslisted with ENG 308U) |
| WS / ENG 308U |
Cultural Studies in Literature: Native American Women's Literature/Writers (Crosslisted with ENG 308U) |
| WS / COMM 337U |
Communication and Gender (Crosslisted with COMM 337U) |
| WS / PSY / COMM 410U |
Women in Contemporary Film (Crosslisted with PSY/COMM 410U) |
| WS / COMM 452U |
Gender and Race in the Media (Crosslisted with COMM 452U) |