Minor in Popular Culture Studies

This minor is available to students registered in a 120 credit hour Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences) program.

A minimum of 21 to a maximum of 27 credit hours beyond the 1000 level, with six credit hours at or above the 3000 level, and with no more than nine credit hours taken in a single department. Appropriate courses can be chosen from the following list.

• 15 credit hours from:
• CRWR 3100.03: Songwriting: Creative Writing for Lyric Forms
• CTMP 2335.03: The Artist and Society
• CTMP 2336.03/CHIN 2052.03: East Meets West in Popular Culture
• EMSP 2313.03/CTMP 2313.03: The Vampire
• EMSP 2320.03/GWST 2320.03/RELS 2420.03: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
• EMSP 2480.03/HIST 2750.03: The Pirate and Piracy
• ENGL 2006.03: Cultural Studies
• ENGL 2080.03: Cartoons & Comics
• ENGL 2085.03: Video Games: Story, World and Play
• ENGL 2095.03: Narrative in the Cinema
• ENGL 2231.03: Foundations of Science Fiction
• ENGL 2232.03: Contemporary Science Fiction
• ENGL 2235.03: Tolkien: Fantasy & Medievalism
• ENGL 2238.03: Children's Literature
• ENGL 3305.03: Fan Culture
• ENGL 4003.03: Indigenous Graphic Novels
• FILM 2370.03/THEA 2370.03: Animated Film
• FREN 2666.03: The End of the World, from Apocalypse to Zombies
• HIST 4250.03: Popular Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
• HIST 4303.03: The Birth of Pop: How Visual Culture Makes Meaning
• HSTC 2500.03: Science Fiction in Film
• MUSC 2016.03: Topics in Music and Cinema
• MUSC 2018.03: Popular Music Until 1960
• MUSC 2019.03: The Rock'n'Roll Era and Beyond
• MUSC 2020.03: The History of Jazz
• SOSA 2270.03: Introduction to Popular Culture
• SOSA 2271.03: Popular Culture in a Global Context
• SOSA 3105.03: Media and Society
• THEA 2360.03: Popular Cinema

• six credit hours from:
• CTMP 3322.03: Representations of the Holocaust: Remembrance
• CTMP 3305.03: Modern Film and the Theory of the Gaze
• ENGL 3300.03: TV: Theory & Criticism
• ENGL 3301.03: Graphic Novels
• FREN 3750.03: Littérature industrielle, roman populaire et roman de consommation. - Popular Literature and the Rise of Mass Culture
• FREN 3730.03: La bande dessinée franco-belge - The Franco-Belgian Comic Strip
• JOUR 3560.03: Great Journalists
  MUSC 3360.03: African American Vernacular Music
• MUSC 4354.03: Popular Music Analysis
• THEA 2400X/Y.06: Cave to Café: Costume and Identity from Antiquity to 1700
• THEA 2911.03: Stars and Stardom on Stage and Screen
• THEA 3912.03/GWST 3912.03: Gender Theory and Contemporary Performance
• THEA 4391.03: Special Topics in Popular Cinema

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