Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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COMS 3660 - Cultural Studies and Beer
This course is designed to provide a cultural studies approach to beer, a common commodity in the United States and abroad. Specifically, this course examines how communication influences and is influenced by the production, consumption, representation, and distribution of beer, and how communication intersects with issues of identity in beer choices in the processes. Students study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding this intersection of communication and an important artifact of public culture. The course requires students to think critically about their own and others’ interaction with beer.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze commodity production of beer through a cultural studies analysis.
- Students will be able to examine the nature and function of messages regarding common commodities or beer at the individual, interpersonal, community, and social levels.
- Students will be able to demonstrate the capacity for independent, reflective thought in writing in the analysis of communication surrounding commodities of beer.
- Students will be able to explain how messages influence our worldviews, behaviors, and choices on a daily basis in the realms of production, distribution, representation, consumption, and identity of beer.
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