Communications and Popular Culture
Rhetoric and Communications · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall and Winter Both, Every Year
RHET-2250 prerequisites
We couldn't read this course's prerequisites into a chain. The wording is under “Requisite courses” below.
Where RHET-2250 counts
Counts toward 3 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:
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Description
This course provides students with the historical, social-political, and cultural contexts for studying contemporary rhetoric and communications. Students look at changing rhetorics of taste, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as new media made art and culture more accessible to the public. Students examine how new processes of mediated distribution of art, and the rise of modern capitalism, changed the discursive strategies for writing about popular culture. Course topics include the rise of photography and the technological reproducibility of images; mass media and the culture industry; technology and globalization; and augmented reality and video games.
Requisite courses
Any section of Academic Writing or exemption from the writing requirement and completion of 24 credit hours [prerequisite(s)].
From the 2026-27 undergraduate calendar. Always verify details on WebAdvisor or with an academic advisor before registering.