Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2009-2011 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2009-2011 [Archived Catalog]

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COMS 841 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture


This course is designed to introduce M.A. and Ph.D. students to major works in the study of rhetoric, popular culture, and their relationship. It assumes that forms of popular culture (e.g., popular music, advertising, television programming, popular novels, etc.) are social artifacts that serve an important persuasive function in society. Popular culture, that is to say, provides conceptual and practical frameworks that help to orient us to and make sense of the world around us. Thus, this course will help graduate students to develop a set of theoretical, methodological, and analytical resources for researching and interpreting the persuasive functions of popular culture in specific historical and geographical contexts.

Credits: (4)



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