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The American Popular Cultures minor allows students to explore how popular culture reflects and challenges American cultural values, practices and norms and institutions. The courses focus on the study of technologies and material culture, production of popular culture, consumption practices and the role of popular culture in creating and disseminating ideologies. Students graduating with a minor in American Popular Cultures will be well-suited to think critically about the complex role of popular culture in our lives.
- TAMST 220 Introduction to Popular Culture
- TAMST 410 Studies in U.S. Popular Culture (Students are required to take this course as the culminating experience at the end of the minor coursework.)
- TAMST 250 Science Fiction in American Culture
- TAMST 430 Queer Performances
- TAMST 440 Gender and American Childhood
- TAMST 450 Monstrous Imagination
- TARTS 311 History of Rock and Roll
- TARTS 314 Rap Music, Identity and Culture
- TARTS 404 Art in a Time of War
- TARTS 411 History of Jazz
- TARTS 480 Contemporary Art and Society—1945 to Present
- TCOM 247 Television Studies
- TCOM 258 Children and Television
- TCOM 312 Nature, Inequality and Popular Culture
- TCOM 347 Television Criticism and Application
- TCOM 440 Advertising and Consumer Culture
- TCOM 453 Critical Approaches to Mass Communication
- TEGL 271 American Indians in Film
- TFILM 201 Film Studies
- TFILM 444 Crime Narratives and Society
- TFILM 481 Film Theory and Aesthetics
- TFILM 483 Film Directors (5, max. 10)
- TFILM 485 Media Genres (5, max. 10)
- THIST 333 Early American Music, Art, Literature and Theater
- THIST 336 Black, Labor and Protest Music in Historical Perspective
- THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective
- TLAX 250 Images of Latinos/as in the Movies
- TLAX 376 Latin American Film
- TLAX 441 Mexican Cinema and Society
- TLIT 406 Children's and Young Adult Literature
- TLIT 438 American Folklore
- TSPAN 361 Mexican Film
- TSPAN 374 Hispanic Culture through Film
- TWOMN 251 Popular Culture and Gender
- TWRT 382 Writing Popular Fiction
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
- Film and Television
- Game Design
- Post-graduate Studies
- Teaching
- Writing
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To declare an American Popular Cultures minor, you must have earned a minimum of 45 credits and declared a major. Declare the minor by completing the Request to Declare/Change a Major or Minor form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
For an American Popular Cultures minor, you must complete 25 credits; 15 credits must be upper-division (300–400 level) courses. All courses in the minor must be completed with a cumulative 2.0 GPA.
