Literature and Popular Culture Learning Outcomes

Students interpret and analyze significance of time, place, class, and culture in which works of literature and/or popular culture were created.

Students describe and analyze the capacity of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, age, generation, and nationality to inspire, inform, and influence writers, artists, and audiences.

Students describe connections between works of literature and popular culture, their authors/artists/creators, and the society from which they emerge, and analyze those interactions from multiple perspectives.

Students discuss how the identities of diverse individuals and communities are developed and portrayed, and how critical representations of self and others occur in works of literature and popular culture.