Topic: Designing a Critical Popular Culture Module
Format: Minimum: 1000 words (approx. 4 pages, double spaced). Maximum 1500 words. APA, Chicago or MLA citation style, 12 pt font, standard margins
Description:
Was there a topic within Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture that you really loved and want to learn more about? Are there pop culture references that you’ve come across during this semester that you think would fit well into a theme that we covered?
Is there a topic or intersection that we didn’t cover that you’d like to explore and propose as a potential weekly module? For the final exam, you will be designing a weekly module, following the format used in this course, described below.
Side Note: you completed the following work for this course: Sex Ed Assignment, Picture Books and Fierce Listening, Indigenous Resurgence.
For the final exam:
Students are asked to submit a course module proposal with the following format/components:
Topic – Create an interesting and descriptive title that identifies the topic you want to present. It should be explicitly connected to an intersectional feminist analysis of Representation and Pop Culture.
Key Themes –
Identify at least 3 key themes you are exploring in your module.
Discussion of the building blocks of cultural analysis, consideration of the impact of stereotypes and how stereotypes are resisted and disrupted. The importance of learning histories of representation, including histories of trans representations.
Explaining prison abolition as a feminist concern, surveillance as a method of state regulation, criminalization of racialized otherness, and using a documentary to picture the chain of destruction that results in mass incarceration.
What is “Intersectional” Analysis? How does an intersectional framework shape how we do cultural critique? How is popular culture produced and how does capitalism shape the culture industry?
Sex Education in Popular Culture.
Art as resurgence, limits of a liberal politics of recognition, cultural expressions, virtue signalling & the limits of a performative politics of decolonization.
Representations of disability, supercrip representations, the social, medical & disability justice models of disability analysis.
Representations of friendships in popular culture, what can feminism tell us about friendships, how does patriarchal heteronormativity limit our imagining of friendship? How might we think about friendship as solidarity and collective action against white supremacy, colonialism and capitalist heteropatriarchy?
Questions –
Pose 3-5 questions that will be explored using the readings and other resources that you have chosen. See Weeks 4 and 12 of the course syllabus for examples. (LISTED BELOW IN BLUE)
What is “Intersectional” Analysis? How does an intersectional framework shape how we do cultural critique? How is popular culture produced and how does capitalism shape the culture industry?
Representations of friendships in popular culture, what can feminism tell us about friendships, how does patriarchal heteronormativity limit our imagining of friendship? How might we think about friendship as solidarity and collective action against white supremacy, colonialism and capitalist heteropatriarchy?
Readings –
Choose 3 new readings related to the topic and themes you have chosen for your module. For each reading, you are expected to include: a full reference using APA, MLA or Chicago citation style and including the source location, and 2 written paragraphs that
1) summarize the main argument of the reading and
2) explain why you chose this reading and how it supports your themes.
Other Resources –
Choose 3 other new resources* related to the topic and themes you have chosen for your module. These could include podcasts, interviews, poetry, short films, songs, blog posts, etc. and should complement your readings in exploring the themes. For each resource you are expected to include as many identifying details as possible and source location , and 1-2 written paragraphs that
1) describes the resource and 2) explains why you chose it and how it supports your themes.
*For this section, resources can be non-academic, but not from course materials.
Presentation and @ENGAGE:
In 1-2 paragraphs, describe how you would present your 6 resources e.g. in what order and why, then propose an @ENGAGE discussion forum opportunity that poses a question and online engagement activity for students.
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