POLS 105 - Globalized Pop Culture

CR: 3
This course explores the spread of globalized pop culture and addresses important questions the phenomenon raises. The popularity of Bollywood films and K-pop music point to cultural, economic, and political changes as new media, global marketing, and human migration make borders increasingly meaningless. Topics will include globalization, changes in the significance of cultural boundaries, and governments’ efforts to export their pop culture as a source of “soft power.” V.4, V.5