AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

AMER513

Course Code: AMER513
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to focus on popular culture as the culture of mass appeal, responding to the experiences and values of the majority in America,
will be able to contrast popular culture with the so-called "high" culture in terms of form, function and evaluation,
will be able to analyze American popular culture by focusing on issues like the power of the people and regional characteristics.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

Building upon theories of popular culture, this course will study the development of popular culture and mass culture in the United States, emphasizing questions about what "culture" means by examining such cultural realms as music, literature, theater, and film and their dissemination through various technological "media."

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: Studying Popular Culture
2^nd Week	Studying Media and Advertising
3^rd Week	Studying Media and Advertising
4^th Week	Textual Analysis of War: Capitalism and the Media
5^th Week	Textual Analysis of War: Capitalism and the Media
6^th Week	Student Presentations
7^th Week	Student Presentations
8^th Week	Pop Music and the Production Machine
9^th Week	Pop Music and the Production Machine
10^th Week	Engineering Audiences
11^th Week	Racing and (De-)Classing Women/ Making (Real) Men
12^th Week	Student Presentations
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Popular Culture and Media Education

Recommended or Required Reading

Angus, Ian H., and Sut Jally, eds. Cultural Politics in Contemporary America. London: Routledge, 1989.

Dean, John. American Popular Culture: La Culture Populaire Americaine. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1992.

Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 1989.

Gans, Herbert J. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. New York: Basic, 1980.

Hebdige, Dick. Subcultures. London: Methuen, 1977.

Inge, M. Thomas, ed. The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood , 2002.

Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Project	1	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	10	10
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Project	1	60	60
Article Presentation	2	25	50
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

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