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SOC 214 - Gender and Pop Culture

Three Credits
Spring 2012

This course will introduce students to the role popular culture has in creating gender norms and expectations. Viewing gender as “socially constructed” this course seeks to critically investigate how ideas about gender are created and resisted through popular culture. The course focuses on how cultural understanding of masculinity and femininity circulate in popular culture. Various pop culture genres are considered including advertising, television, film, and children’s media.