SCAND 173A

Popular Culture in Scandinavia

Scandinavian · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Examination of popular culture in Scandinavia through study of contemporary Scandinavian literature, film, music, and art. Investigation of how issues such as globalization, immigration, and nationalism are portrayed in popular culture in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Discussion of how and why human condition is interpreted through study of cultural expressions and how it is possible—taking literature, film, and art as point of departure—to analyze cultural, historical, and political expression in given piece of art.

P/NP or letter grading.

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