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Apr 20, 2024
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COMS 8310 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture
This course introduces students to major works in the study of rhetoric, popular culture, and their relationship. It assumes that forms of popular culture (e.g., popular music, advertising, television programming, popular novels, etc.) are social artifacts that serve an important persuasive function in society. Popular culture provides conceptual and practical frameworks that orient individuals to the world. Thus, this course will help graduate students to develop a set of theoretical, methodological, and analytical resources for researching and interpreting the persuasive functions of popular culture in specific historical and geographical contexts.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Evaluate the quality of published studies of popular culture phenomena.
- Explain the relationships among popular culture phenomena, rhetoric, and fans’ meaning-making practices.
- Identify the theoretical influences in published studies of popular culture phenomena.
- Understand the theoretical foundations of the rhetorical study of popular culture phenomena.
- Write a convention paper analysis of a popular culture phenomena using a rhetorical perspective.
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