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:
鈥⒙燙TMP 2335.03: The Artist and Society
鈥� CTMP 2336.03/CHIN 2052.03: East Meets West in Popular Culture
鈥� EMSP 2313.03/CTMP 2313.03: The Vampire: Modernity and the Undead
鈥� EMSP 2320.03/GWST 2320.03/RELS 2420.03: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
鈥⒙燛MSP 2480.03/HIST 2750.03: The Pirate and Piracy
鈥� ENGL 2006.03 Cultural Studies
鈥⒙燛NGL 2040.03: Mystery and Detective Fiction
鈥� ENGL 2080.03: Cartoons and Comics
鈥� ENGL 2085.03: Video Games: Story, World and Play
鈥� ENGL 2095.03: Narrative in the Cinema
鈥� ENGL 2231.03: Foundations of Science Fiction
鈥� ENGL 2232.03: Contemporary Science Fiction
鈥� ENGL 2235.03: Tolkien: Fantasy and Medievalism
鈥⒙燛NGL 2236.03: Fantasy after Tolkien
鈥� ENGL 2238.03: Children鈥檚 Literature
鈥� FILM 2360.03/THEA 2360.03: Popular Cinema
鈥� FREN 2666.03: The End of the World: From 鈥淎pocalypse鈥� to 鈥淶ombies鈥�
鈥⒙燞IST 2401.03/THEA 2401.03: Cave to Castle: Dress from Prehistory to 1450
鈥⒙燞IST 2402.03/THEA 2402.03: Castle to Caf茅: Dress from 1450 to 1700
鈥� HSTC 2500.03: Science Fiction in Film
鈥� MUSC 2016.03: Topics in Music and Cinema
鈥� MUSC 2018.03: Popular Music Until 1960
鈥� MUSC 2019.03: The Rock 鈥榥鈥� Roll Era and Beyond
鈥� MUSC 2020.03: The History of Jazz
鈥� SOSA 2270.03: Introduction to Popular Culture
鈥� SOSA 2271.03: Popular Culture in a Global Context
鈥� THEA 2400.06: Cave to Caf茅: Costume and Identity from Antiquity to 1700
6 credit hours from:
鈥� CRWR 3100.03: Songwriting: Creative Writing for Lyric Forms
鈥� CTMP 3305.03: Modern Film and the Theory of the Gaze
鈥� CTMP 3322.03: Representations of the Holocaust: Remembrance
鈥� ENGL 3300.03: TV: Theory and Criticism
鈥� ENGL 3301.03: Graphic Novels
鈥� ENGL 3305.03: Fan Culture
鈥⒙燛NGL 4801.03: Topics in Popular Culture
鈥⒙燛NGL 4840.03: Queerness in Detective Fiction
鈥⒙燛NGL 4890.03: Indigenous Graphic Novels
鈥⒙燜ILM 3370.03/THEA 3370.03: Animated Film: Technologies
鈥⒙燜ILM 3915.03/THEA 3915.03: Stars and Stardom on Stage and Screen
鈥� FREN 3730.03: The Franco-Belgian Comic Strip
鈥� FREN 3750.03: Popular Literature and the Rise of Mass Culture
鈥⒙燞IST 3402.03/THEA 3402.03: Baroque to Bustles: Dress from 1700 to 1900
鈥⒙燞IST 3403.03/THEA 3403.03: Bustles to Boardroom: Modern Fashion from 1900
鈥� HIST 4250.03: Popular Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1850
鈥� HIST 4303.03/GWST 4303.03: The Birth of Pop: How Visual Culture Makes Meaning
鈥� JOUR 3560.03: Great Journalists
鈥� MUSC 3360.03: African-American Vernacular Music
鈥� MUSC 4354.03: Popular Music Analysis
鈥� SOSA 3105.03: Media and Society
鈥� THEA 3912.03/GWST 3912.03: Gender Theory and Contemporary Performance
For more information, please consult the Academic Calendar (academiccalendar.dal.ca).