Bourbon Street, New Orleans

These courses cover a range of “texts” from global mass culture including popular fiction, advertising, television, popular music, popular magazines, and cyberculture. They emphasis methods of analyzing these texts and examine questions they raise about the nature of popular culture in America and/or around the world. These courses explore what these products of culture have in common, what distinguishes them from other cultural artifacts (such as those of high culture and folk culture), and the political and social implications of those differences.

Dr. Lucas has offered the following studies in culture: