Discuss how television both reflects culture, and also manipulates it.
Explain the role of International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in harmonization. How is the board created? In other words, how does this support convergence?
August 5, 2017Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
August 5, 2017Course Project Overview
Your Popular Culture Project, a portfolio of different assignments, will serve to integrate the main themes of this course:
- How television both reflects culture, and also manipulates it.
- The role Hollywood films play in shaping the popular culture.
- The many aspects of popular culture in everyday life and social history.
- Social issues and major problems in American Popular Culture.
To achieve this, we will be looking at different eras of recent American History through the lens of television and via mass media. For your course project, you will analyze a film, a popular song, a television series/ show, a magazine or newspaper article, and one website from a particular period in history that we will cover in the course. You will then research the media product itself, and the time in American history when it was created, to see the relationship between the media, popular culture, and American history.
In each media analysis piece, you will discuss the social issues present within both the media you are discussing (film, tv show, article), and the ways in which these social issues were communicated to American audiences through the media piece being analyzed. These social and cultural issues include, but are not limited to: sexism, the feminist movement, civil rights, environmental protection, gangs, terrorism…etc. The point of this final project is to have a completed portfolio at the end of the course, which includes assignments that are all connected through social issues in recent American History.
