Popular Culture Minor

Department of Communication Arts
Location: Music and Mass Communication Bldg., Room 165
Phone: 931-221-7378

The Popular Culture minor teaches students a host of methods for critically understanding popular culture. As part of this minor students examine things like film, popular music, TV shows video games, social media, sports, and other new and developing forms of popular cultural expression. The minor requires 18 credit hours in Communication. For Professional Communication or Communication Media majors, these courses cannot duplicate required classes. Website: www.apsu.edu/communication/index.php

Required Courses

Lower Division Courses

Total Hours 6

Upper Division Courses

COMM 4980 - Television Culture and Diversity 3
Select three (3) courses from the list below
ART 3240 - Art History of Photography 3
COMM 4300 - Topics in Popular Culture 3
COMM 4470 - Race, Gender, and Mass Media 3
ENGL 340J - Shakespeare on Film and Stage 3
ENGL 340R - Century’s End: Race and Gender at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3
WGS 3060 - Vagina Monologues
WGS 3070 - Women and Film 3

Popular Culture Minor

Required Courses

Lower Division Courses

Total Hours 6

Upper Division Courses

Total Hours 12

Total Hours 18