Section Info: GEOG-232-01

Course Title: Pop Culture and Place

Start Date: 09/09/2026 End Date: 12/22/2026

Term: Fall Semester 2026

Description: This course explores how popular culture shapes the spaces we inhabit, imagine, and remember. Through film, television, music, sports, social media, and built environments, we examine how place, identity, memory, and cultural landscapes are constructed and contested. Using key frameworks from cultural geography, including space and place, landscape interpretation, memory work, representation, and scale, students will analyze popular culture as spatial practice. We will actively engage with popular culture, watching film clips, listening to music, analyzing television episodes, and examining social media.

Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Ashley Allen		ashleyallen@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
09/09/2026 - 12/22/2026	Seminar	Monday	01:30PM - 04:20PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
GEOG0001	GEOG-1: Geography major	This course counts toward the Geography major and minor.
GEOG0001	GEOG-1: Geography minor	This course counts toward the Geography major and minor.

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 20	Enrollment: 20	Available: 0	Waitlist: 6

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.