Popular Culture and American Nature
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Course Description
Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-century American creation of nature. How Disney, the products of his studio, and other primary and secondary texts see environmentalism, science, popular culture, and their interrelationships.
Grading Basis
ROP - Letter or Credit/No Credit
Min
5
Max
5
Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?
No
Course Component
Colloquium
Enrollment Optional?
No
This course has been approved for the following WAYS
Social Inquiry (SI), Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry (AII)
Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?
No
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HISTORY254
is a
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for: