CRT 125 — Crit Thinking & Pop Culture
In this course students learn to apply a toolkit of critical thinking strategies to create, analyze, and evaluate arguments about a range of popular culture figures, texts, and artifacts. Exploring the ways in which popular culture becomes a part of individuals’ cultural literacies and schemes of knowledge, students will reflect upon their own interactions with popular culture and the impact these texts have on how they construct knowledge of the world in which they live. Students will also explore a variety of lenses of critical analysis, learning to infuse these lenses into arguments they make. Instructors may theme their sections to focus on particular aspects of popular culture.