5-2 Activity: Reflection: Self In this activity, describe how critical analysis skills have affected your framework of perception. Next, describe how examining your bias might change how you interact with popular culture. Finally, explain how critical analysis skills can impact your academic or professional life.
Choose a popular culture example of your choice. Then explain how the popular culture example you chose could broaden an outsider’s understanding of the cultures or people that engage with it.
4-2 Activity: Critical Analysis: Engage Overview For this activity, you will consider how your popular culture example could expand our understanding of different cultures and people. You will also suggest ways that critical analysis can be used to meet personal and professional goals. This activity contributes to your draft of the critical analysis section of […]
Write 3,000 words essay explaining, is popular culture progressive or reactionary?
Popular Culture and the Media You are expected to apply the analytic skills that you have learned in the course as you research a major topic or issue in the area of popular culture and write a scholarly essay on it. This essay should be approximately 3,000 words in length, and should include notes and […]
Choose a film or song from popular culture that contains some form of religious symbolism. Explain the religious themes, meaning, and/or symbolism that exist within the film/song.
Religious Symbolism Choose a film or song from popular culture that contains some form of religious symbolism. Try to choose one you like and are familiar with on a personal level. Explain the religious themes, meaning, and/or symbolism that exist within the film/song. Based on your opinion, why do you think religious elements were used […]
Reflect on one or two of the popular culture artifacts that you are working with for your final project, and consider ways that you access the artifacts and what challenges others might have accessing them.
Cultural Post a 250-word response in which you: Reflect on one or two of the popular culture artifacts that you are working with for your final project, and consider ways that you access the artifacts and what challenges others might have accessing them. For example, can they be enjoyed by people in another community or […]
Explain the role of the web/technology in providing a shared popular culture experience. Analyze how access affects the shared experience.
Culture. Post a 250-word response in which you: Describe how much control production companies or/and governments have over access to popular culture. Explain the role of the web/technology in providing a shared popular culture experience. Analyze how access affects the shared experience.
Select an ethnic group other than the one they primarily identify with and which is represented in the current population of Southeastern Louisiana.
Project Assignment Class Project:. Southeastern Louisiana is a highly diverse region whose social landscape has been shaped through migration, colonization, forced displacement, and human trafficking during the last 10,000 years. Today, New Orleans and its surrounding areas are home to people with cultural roots in all continents. For this project, students will select an ethnic […]
Watch the provided video in its entirety and then write your opinions about how it relates to the class topic(s) and how it is (or isn’t) relevant given the challenges we are facing in today’s historical moment.
Symbolism & Propaganda in Popular Culture Part A watch the provided video in its entirety and then write your opinions about how it relates to the class topic(s) and how it is (or isn’t) relevant given the challenges we are facing in today’s historical moment. Write your opinion in a friendly way, not a formal […]
Explain specifically and explicitly TWO ways in which your selected source article or popular culture object attempt to make cultural meaning of our shared world and society?
Required Template for Blog Analyses Produce a full and in-depth evaluation and analysis of a selected popular culture object (I.E.: song, podcast, album, TV show, episode, series, movie, sports, games, fashion, etc.) using an additional source article (several sources are recommended in the syllabus) and the course textbook. Paragraph 1: Introduce Your Selected Source Article […]
Read the book “An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US” and prepare notes that should be single-paragraph spaced.
Coursework: An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US Read the book “An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US” by Jenn Brandt; Callie Clare. For chapters 3-10, take down notes that should be single-paragraph spaced. Your notes should include key terms, concepts, theories/theorists, and trends. Write your notes out directly from the text. however, […]