Pandemic Pop Cultures

Course Number: 82-281

Fulfills "Contextual Thinking" Gen Ed requirement.

Living through a global pandemic is new, challenging, and downright difficult. And yet, pandemics have existed for centuries. What might we gain from viewing our current reality through cultural and historical lenses that focus on stories from around the world that attempt to explain pain, family, medicine, humor, and even division? This course is designed to investigate the narratives of pandemic within a global context focusing on the humanistic and cultural, such that through this analysis we might arrive at a more robust understanding of our current times. We will concentrate on stories as communicated through media sources, literary texts, journals, and art in order to better situate our own ways of thinking.

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Units: 9
Prerequisite(s): None