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Education and Popular Culture EDUC 438 (4)
What is the connection between popular culture and education? Using the concept of "societal curriculum," students will study the representation of socially constructed differences in movies, music videos, cartoons and toys produced for and/or consumed by youth to examine how these constructions reproduce or challenge existing norms and power relations in mainstream society. Prerequisite: 60 units. Students may not take this course for further credit if same title has been taken under a Special Topics course number.