Course Description
How schools should respond to popular culture especially in terms of literacy teaching and learning. Popular culture celebrates an end to elitism built on subjective notions of taste. It consists of everyday practices that connect a group of people to each other in particular times and places.
Athena Title
Popular Culture Lit Classrooms
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 8330
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will: 1. trace the origins of the term popular culture and its intersections with literacy 2. identify and study in depth one or more common theoretical frames that embrace popular culture in literacy classrooms 3. read and discuss key research studies and conceptual pieces that connect popular culture to students' literate identities 4. prepare a manuscript that is ready for submission to a peer- reviewed journal on this question: To what extent, and in which manner should schools respond to popular culture, especially in terms of literacy teaching and learning?
Topical Outline
1. Theoretical frames for popular culture 2. Fandom and fan fiction 3. Gendered issues 4. Zines vs. magazines 5. Blogs that connect to curricular content 6. Audiences for popular culture 7. Global popular media (e.g. anime, manga and hip-hop) 8. Forums for communicating popular culture (social networking sites, chatting, text messaging) 9. Social identities constructed through popular culture 10. Videos and gaming 11. Popular culture viewed through a critical medial literacy lens 12. Semiotic power of multimodal pop culture websites 13. Limited access to popular culture through the Internet inside schools 14. 21st century texts mediated by popular culture
Syllabus
Public CV