Popular-Culture
- Analyze the relationship of popular culture with your own sense of identity
- Complete the Final Project Worksheet
REQUIRED READINGS
Throughout this course, you will complete Milestones that will help you develop your Final Project, due in Week 5. Week 1—Final Project Planning Download the Final Project Worksheet from the Learning Resources.Save your time - order a paper!
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Order Paper NowComplete the worksheet and submit for the Week 1 Assignment to the Doc Sharing area of the course navigation menu. (Note: It will be helpful to retain a copy of the Final Project Worksheet, because you will refer to it throughout the course.) Select one of the following social issues: ï‚· Race/ethnicity ï‚· Sexuality ï‚· Gender ï‚· Social and economic class ï‚· Violence ï‚· Indecency/free speech Once you have selected your issue, research how this issue is approached in the field of popular culture. Refer to the Learning Resources and the Walden Library Course Guide for this class. (Note: In Week 3 you begin adding to the class resources through the Student-Contributed Resource Assignment.) Look for popular culture artifacts to analyze. You need two from a variety of categories. Any combination will work as long as no more than two artifacts are in the same category. Select your popular culture artifacts from the following categories:
ï‚· Film
 Episodic moving image (TV shows—may be broadcast or streamed)
ï‚· Music
ï‚· Music videos
ï‚· Fashion
ï‚· Advertising
ï‚· Animation (general animation/cartoons such as Disney or Warner Brothers, or genre-specific animation such as Japanese anime)
ï‚· Food
ï‚· Printed material (books, magazines, manga, comic books, or graphic novels)Respond by typing directly into the boxes provided below. Please keep this worksheet, because you will refer to it throughout the term.
For the Final Project, you will complete a
1,500- to
2,000-wordpaper that looks deeply at a single social issue across multiple popular culture artifacts.
Choose one of the following social issues:
- Race/ethnicity
- Sexuality
- Gender
- Social and economic class
- Violence
- Indecency/free speech
My chosen issue is:
I am interested in this issue because (100–150 words): Include one reference to an academically relevant source, either from our classroom, the Walden Library, or Google Scholar, that speaks to your interest in the issue.
Select artifacts from the following categories:
- Film
- Episodic moving image (TV shows—may be broadcast or streamed)
- Music
- Music videos
- Fashion
- Advertising
- Animation (general animation/cartoons such as Disney or Warner Brothers, or genre-specific animation such as Japanese anime)
- Food
- Printed material (books, magazines, manga, comic books, or graphic novels)
Using the resources available in the classroom, the Walden Library, or Google Scholar, identify at least two quotes, listing full reference details that speak to at least two of the above categories and your chosen issue. Following the examples provided below, fill in the information on the quotes you have identified.
Quote 1: Source information: Author name. (Publication date). Document name or title of the website page. Publishing information including URL if relevant.
Quote 2:
Source information: Author name. (Publication date). Document name or title of the website page. Publishing information including URL if relevant.