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American Popular Culture (BA)

The interdisciplinary major in American Popular Culture helps students to assess from a variety of perspectives the icons and ideas they encounter every day, to think critically about the images and assertions of the mass media and commercial culture, and to see the experience of popular culture as it interacts with questions of gender and ethnicity in the American context. Students choose two core classes, four upper-division classes, and four elective classes (including one upper-division elective), from a curriculum organized to explore: critical approaches to popular culture; gender and ethnicity in American popular culture; and popular culture in the arts. Forty units are required, with a minimum of 24 at the upper-division level.

Lower-Division Core Requirement

Choose one lower-division course (4 units).

Senior Core Requirement

Choose one senior course based on departmental offerings (4 units).

Upper-Division Requirements

Choose four courses (16 units), at least one from each of the groups below.

Critical Approaches to Popular Culture

Gender and Ethnicity in American Popular Culture

Popular Culture in the Arts

Electives

Choose four additional courses (16 units) from the lists above or below. One must be an upper-division course in a department you have not already chosen for the major.

 

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