Course Description
This course examines the patterns and processes of American popular culture. Topics include the geography of sports, music, television, movies and popular architecture.
This class is designed to introduce students to spatial thinking via popular culture. Although the class may address "fun" topics such as rap music or stock car racing, this course approaches these subjects with all due academic seriousness.
The ability to understand and analyze various components of our everyday culture is an important skill, one critical to your success in other courses and outside the university. The primary objective of this course is to provide you with a variety of conceptual tools unique to geography that will help you better understand the world around you.
