Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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HARVARD offers a scattered array of courses in popular culture: two first-year seminars, a tutorial in Social Studies, a seminar in Women's Studies and a smattering of classes in the Anthropology, History and VES Departments...
...such courses popular just because students want to sit around and discuss Donald Duck...
According to critics, the appeal of popular culture studies is academic laziness. Walsh says that "there is an assumption that the level of discussion is not very high...that studying popular culture is an excuse to sit around and do nothing...
...they read and write? In part, because of the tremendous explosion of television--a key subject of study in popular culture courses...
Whether we like it or not, popular culture dominates our society. If we refuse to recognize and study its influence, we risk subjecting ourselves to its control...