{"id":3074,"date":"2023-07-11T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/?page_id=3074"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:56:36","slug":"bachelor-of-arts-american-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/bachelor-of-arts-american-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor of Arts, American Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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USC Catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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American Popular Culture (BA)<\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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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\u00a0units are required, with a minimum\u00a0of 24 at the upper-division level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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<\/a><\/a>Lower-Division Core Requirement<\/h2>\n
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Choose one lower-division course (4 units).<\/p>\n