Contemporary Topics in Psychology: Popular Culture

BSPY340 - Contemporary Topics in Psychology: Popular Culture

Credits: 3

Courses offered under the designation contemporary topics focus on how popular culture reflects and interprets psychological content and how the general media, in turn, influences individual, group and system behavior. Students will consider psychological theories regarding a specific work of literary and/or film fiction. Specific topics of study will be archived on the William James College website. This course is considered writing intensive and interdisciplinary and qualifies as a general education humanities or social science elective.