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2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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HIST 163 - Popular and Material Culture

Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Food; dance; handcrafts; the rise of mass culture and mass media in the post-industrial era. Special attention may be given to the tools and objects of everyday life, popular amusements and recreations, folklore and popular literature, advertising and the cult of personality, the commercialization of sex, and the Internet revolution.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
(Formerly American Popular and Material Culture.)




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