Minor in Popular Culture
The Minor in Popular Culture Studies is available to students registered in a 120 credit hour Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Science program. Students seeking this minor are expected to take a minimum of 21 credit hours beyond the 1000 level, with 6 credit hours at or above the 3000 level and with no more than 9 credit hours taken in a single department. Appropriate courses can be chosen from the following lists.
15 credit hours from:
CTMP2335.03 The Artist and Society
CTMP2336.03/CHIN2052.03 East Meets West in Popular Culture
EMSP2313.03/CTMP2313.03 The Vampire: Modernity and the Undead
EMSP2320.03/GWST2320.03/RELS2420.03 Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
ENGL2006.03 Cultural Studies
ENGL2080.03 Cartoons and Comics
ENGL2085.03 Video Games: Story, World and Play
ENGL2095.03 Narrative in the Cinema
ENGL2231.03 Foundations of Science Fiction
ENGL2232.03 Contemporary Science Fiction
ENGL2235.03 Tolkien: Fantasy and Medievalism
ENGL2238.03 Childrens Literature
FILM2360.03/THEA2360.03 Popular Cinema
FILM2370.03/THEA2370.03 Animated Film
FILM2911.03/THEA2911.03 Stars and Stardom on Stage and Screen
FREN2666.03 The End of the World: From Apocalypse to Zombies
HSTC2500.03 Science Fiction in Film
MUSC2016.03 Topics in Music and Cinema
MUSC2018.03 Popular Music Until 1960
MUSC2019.03 The Rock n Roll Era and Beyond
MUSC2020.03 The History of Jazz
SOSA2270.03 Introduction to Popular Culture
SOSA2271.03 Popular Culture in a Global Context
THEA2400.06 Cave to Caf矇: Costume and Identity from Antiquity to 1700
6 credit hours from:
CRWR3100.03 Songwriting: Creative Writing for Lyric Forms
CTMP3305.03 Modern Film and the Theory of the Gaze
CTMP3322.03 Representations of the Holocaust: Remembrance
ENGL3300.03 TV: Theory and Criticism
ENGL3301.03 Graphic Novels
ENGL3305.03 Fan Culture
FILM4391.03/THEA4391.03 Special Topics in Popular Cinema
FREN3750.03 Popular Literature and the Rise of Mass Culture
FREN3730.03 The Franco-Belgian Comic Strip HIST4250.03 Popular Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1850
HIST4303.03/GWST4303.03 The Birth of Pop: How Visual Culture Makes Meaning
JOUR3560.03 Great Journalists
MUSC3360.03 African-American Vernacular Music
MUSC4354.03 Popular Music Analysis SOSA3105.03 Media and Society
THEA3912.03/GWST3912.03 Gender Theory and Contemporary Performance
For more information, please consult the Academic Calendar (academiccalendar.dal.ca).