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AMST 2020 Popular Culture in the United States, 1950--Present

Course description

AMST 2020 treats the period from 1950 to the present as we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and music. We try to better understand the ways in which popular culture shapes and/or reflects American values. The course also depicts popular culture as “contested terrain,” the place where social classes, racial and ethnic groups, women and men, the powerful and less powerful, seek to “control” images and themes. Topics include: The Honeymooners and 1950s television, soap operas; “gross-out” movies; Elvis; the Beatles and Guns ’n Roses; gothic romances; and People Magazine and USA Today.

AMST 2020 001-LEC

Class number: 1008
Class dates: June 22-July 31, 2009
Final exam dates: Will be provided by instructor (see Final Exams)
Days/times: Distance Learning
Credit: 4
Grade option: GRD or SUS
Instructor: Altschuler, G. (gca1)
Max. enrollment: 50
To enroll: Enrollment for this class is closed.
Computer requirements: This is a Distance Learning course. Please review the computer hardware and software requirements before enrolling.

Tuition and fees

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