COMM 2725 — Popular Communication

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ICusually offered: summertypical days: M/ThBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Offers students an opportunity to engage with a specific genre, using historical and critical methods, to better understand this reciprocal relationship between a people and their moment. Successful completion of this course enables one to recall, compare, and give examples of key concepts and theories in popular communication; understand how the popular shapes and is shaped by its people; understand the historical context of a popular genre; critically analyze a genre with respect to social, economic, and political values and events; and demonstrate proficiency in communicating one's analyses. Genres of popular communication—be they self-help books, speculative fiction, or fashion blogs—reflect the aspirations and fears of a people at their moment in history. Simultaneously, popular communication shapes people’s sense of identity, purpose, and worth.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Summer B 20241253083%5.0
Fall 202413030100%0.0
Summer B 20251243080%6.0
Spring 202613030100%0.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 55% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 55% · F 0%

Common patterns: MR (55% of sections), async (45% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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