Category Archives: Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008
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Welcome to the Spring 2008 Semester!
Posted on March 5, 2008 by mrgord in Essay Writing 1, Spring 2008, Media English, Spring 2008, Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008, Understanding English: Listening and Speaking 1 (Day), Spring 2008, Understanding English: Listening and Speaking 1 (Night), Spring 2008.Content — including your syllabus and any homework information for the first week of classes — is coming soon! Check back in a day or two! Thanks!
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Get the Syllabus Here
Posted on March 5, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.I handed out the syllabus for this class earlier this week, but if you need to get a copy, you can download it in PDF format.
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Homework for Next Week
Posted on March 6, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.Hi all, Next week (week 2, the 11th and 13th of March), we’ll be discussing and defining the notion of “Popular Culture” and I’m going to give you a lecture and presentation on two examples of the role of genre and character-archetypes in popular culture using two examples — one Korean and the other American. […]
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Genre & Archetypes Lecture, Lost Handout (For Season 1, Episode 8)
Posted on March 12, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.Here are two things from today’s class: Genres & Archetypes Lecture Powerpoint Handout for Preparation & Discussion — Lost, Characteres, Archetypes, and Genres (PDF) Make sure you’ve read and figured out who is who, as well as what you think the different archetype names mean, by Thursday, March 13th. We’ll be watching Lost (Season 1, […]
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Stranger in the Village
Posted on March 19, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.I mentioned that I would update by adding some reading that I’ll be expecting you to do for the first Discussion Panel. I’m going to announce the date of the panel on March 20th, but anyway, it’s a good idea to start reading the essay now. It’s called Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin. […]
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Homework & Preparations for March 25th/27th & April 1st
Posted on March 21, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.Here’s what’s up for the next couple of weeks: On March 25th, I’ll be finishing up my lecture on Genre in 괴물 and then we’ll be watching the Spike Lee film Bamboozled (IMDB, Wikipedia, subtitle file in case anyone wants to “read the script” beforehand). If you’re not familiar with Spike Lee, I envy you […]
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Panel Discussions
Posted on March 23, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.A few people have asked me to expand a little on the subject of the Panel Discussions part of the course. Each student will be required to participate in a Panel Discussion event. These will usually, but not always, be held on the Tuesday class meeting. The Panelists will be expected to prepare for a […]
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The Gwaemul Analysis
Posted on March 31, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.Someone emailed me on Sunday to (correctly) point out that I haven’t yet posted my analysis of 괴물. The problem is that I haven’t got enough room on the server that hosts this site. I am currently looking into some other place where I can host the file, and as soon as I find one […]
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괴물
Posted on April 1, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.Here’s that powerpoint I promised you! The Host character archetype / genre analysis (powerpoint) On April 1st, we’ll be watching the remainder of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, discussing Blackface minstrelsy, stereotypes and archetypes, and doing a related exercise in class. On April 3rd, there will be a panel discussion about James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” […]
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Panel Discussions Schedule
Posted on April 1, 2008 by mrgord in Understanding English and American Popular Culture, Spring 2008.April 3rd: On James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” and Bamboozled Hyo Im Kim, Hye Jung Lim, Naomi Tsai, Holly Chuang April 10th: Anxieties of Influence: How “The Other” (Black, White, Western, Japanese) Has Affected Korean Pop Culture Ji-Woong Lee, Min-ji Kim, Chahwan Ryu, KyungHee Park April 17th: POTUS: What’s The West Wing Really About? […]
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