Mar 28, 2024  
2019-20 University Catalog 
    
2019-20 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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WGS 2124 - Romance, Gender, and Popular Culture


1 Course Unit(s)
Examines how forms of American popular culture—television, film, novels—shape our understanding of romance with respect to gender, sexuality, race and class. Analyzes the construction of gender in relation to the ideology of romance, with a focus on the wedding-industrial complex and heterosexuality as ritualized practice in popular culture and society. Examines how popular culture is created and experienced and how we can engage critically with our roles as producers and consumers of culture.

General Education Requirement(s): IV
Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None



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