Popular Culture Cluster

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: CH 117Q
Phone: 725-8144
E-mail: dillong@pdx.edu

Sophomore Inquiry: Popular Culture

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 08-09

ANTH 300U    Modern World in Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 300W    Modern World in Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 330U    Anthropology of Folklore
ENG 305U    Topics in Film
ENG 305U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture
ENG 305U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: War Culture and Film
ENG 305U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: Film and Social Justice
ENG 305U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: History of Cinema 2
ENG 306U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: American Fiction in Film
ENG 306U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture (e.g., Fiction and Film, Practice of Everyday Life)
ENG 306U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: Politics in the 50's
ENG 306U    Topics in Literature and Popular Culture: Cyber/Hyper Literature
ENG 307U    Science Fiction
ENG 308U    Topics in Gender, Literature & Popular Culture
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature (when content is appropriate)
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Diva's in Drama
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Children's Golden Literature
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Beat Literature
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Intro to Asian-American Literature
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Literature of the Holocaust
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: 1950's Cultural Literature
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Judiac Literature
ENG 308U    Gay and Lesbian Fiction
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Native American Women's Writers
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Native American Women's Literature
ENG 308U    Literature and Medicine in the Community
ENG 308U    Media Folklore
ENG 309U    American Indian Literature (when content is appropriate)
ENG 410U    Folklore and Mass Media
ENG 448U    Major Figures in Literature: Philip K. Dick
ENG 448U    Major Figures in Literature: Ursula K Le Guin
ENG 448U    Major Figures in Literature (when content is appropriate)
JPN 410U    Japanese Anime: Memory, Nostalgia and Future
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
PHE 455U    Film and Health
PSY 410U      Women in Contemporary Film
SP 314U    Persuasion
SP 337U    Communication and Gender
SP 370U    Debate and Forensics
SP 399U    Off Hollywood
SP 399U    Film Studies I
SP 399U    Film Studies II
SP 399U    International Film History
SP 399U    American Cinema/American Culture
SP 399U    The Fifties: Media and Culture
SP 399U    Film Studies III: Documentary and A.G. Film
SP 410U    Topics in Popular Media
SP 410U    Alternative Media
SP 410U    Women in Contemporary Film
SP 410U    Movies Look at TV
SP 410U    Information Cities
SP 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
SP 422U    Critical Theories of Mass Communication
SP 427U    International Communication
SP 452U    Gender and Race in Media
TA 305U    Understanding Theater
TA 361U    Contemporary Dance 1920 - Present
TA 370U    Topic: 1950's Media & Culture
TA 370U    Topic: American Cinema/Culture
TA 370U    American Cinema/Culture
TA 370U    American Cinema/American Culture
TA 370U    American Cinema/American Culture II
TA 370U    Shakespeare and Film
TA 370U    Gangster Films/Music
TA 370U    Film Stardom
TA 370U    Sex, Violence and Popcorn
TA 370U    Topics in Theater, Media and Culture

TA 399U    Documentary and A.G. Film
TA 399U    Film Studies I
TA 399U    Film Studies II
TA 399U    International Film History
TA 399U    Understanding Movies
TA 399U    American Cinema/American Culture
TA 399U    The Fifties: Media and Culture
TA 399U    Off Hollywood
TA 399U    Shakespeare and Film
TA 410U    Alternative Media
TA 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
TA 469U    Women Theater and Society
USP 457U    Information Cities
WR 399U    Modern Travel Writing
WS 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Diva's in Drama
WS 337U    Communication and Gender
WS 410U    Women in Contemporary Film
WS 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
WS 452U    Gender and Race in Media