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2012-2013 CATALOG
Studies in Popular Culture Minor Checklist
BGS Degree
This checklist is for advising purposes only. Consult your undergraduate catalog or
official degree audit for degree requirements.
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Twelve advanced hours in the minor coursework are required.
A 2.25 cumulative GPA must be maintained in all minor courses.
No grade lower than a “C” will be accepted as credit for the BGS degree.
18 Hours
_____ SOCI 3317 - Popular Culture and Society
Choose 5 advanced courses from:
_____ ANTH 3309 - Cultures Through Film
_____ COMM 4307 - Media Criticism
(Prerequisite: COMM 2338)
_____ COMM 4321 - American Speeches
(Prerequisite: COMM 2338)
_____ COMM 4322 - Rhetoric of Protest Movements
(Prerequisite: COMM 2338)
_____ ENG 3309 (WI) - The Southwest in Film
_____ ENG 3326 - American Drama on Film
_____ ENG 3329 (WI) – Mythology
_____ ENG 3331 (WI) - Literature of Black America
_____ HIST 3343 (WI) - Social and Intellectual History of the United States
since 1865
_____ HIST 4361 (WI) - History of the United States, 1968 to the Present
_____ HIST 4376 (WI) - The History of Texas Music
_____ MC 3355 - Mass Media and Society
(cannot be combined with a Mass Communication minor)
Updated 09/21/2012
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_____ MC 4308 - Women and Minorities in the Media
_____ POSI 4301 (WI) - Politics in Film
_____ SOCI 3324 - Social Stratification
_____ SOCI 3333 - The Sociology of Popular Music
_____ SOCI 3340 - Sociology of Sport and Leisure
_____ SOCI 3366 (WI) - Folkways and Folklore: An Introduction
Updated 09/21/2012