Students will receive an updated or corrected course syllabus at the first meeting of the course.
Modern education is text-oriented.
We spend years learning how to read and write. The aim is to equip ministers and lay Christians so that they can better understand and engage the influences of popular culture in the lives of those they seek to evangelize and disciple. To understand how and why popular culture is produced in its dominant forms. To learn how to analyze specific practices or objects of popular culture, especially films, television and advertising. To develop a theologically-grounded response to popular culture, a Christian framework through which to interpret and engage particular movies, television shows and other manifestations of popular culture.