Anytime you get to talk about movies, TV, books, music, and sports for a living, it's a pretty good thing.
I'll be teaching this course in fall 2017, and we'll look at a wide variety of topics, including vampires, Batman Returns, The Big Bang Theory, rap, Harry Potter, and sports. And that's just a sample!
Besides being a lot of fun, the class is also an important one because of the critical-rhetorical lens it applies to the exploration of pop culture. The course introduces key theoretical, methodological, practical, and political strands to explain and respond to pop culture through rhetoric. The point of looking at pop culture in this way is to expand perspectives and challenge abuses of power in common messages.
The class will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2-2:50 p.m., during the semester. It's open to both undergraduates and graduate students. Come check it out.
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