FAST-US-7 (TRENAK15) U.S. Popular Culture Survey is an elective
course in both the FAST and English Translation curricula. Students must
have completed US-1 Intro to American English
and US-2 U.S. Institutions Survey before US-7.
As US-7 is an intermediate-level course, registration priority will go to
students who have completed their Basic Studies.
US-7 focuses on aspects of U.S. (and, to some extent, Finnish) popular
culture from both linguistic and substantive perspectives, covering
folklore and folkways, humor, sports, popular literature, brand names and
consumer behavior, media patterns and personalities, and the
interrelationships of brand and trade names with changing demographic and
popular culture concepts, as well as other popular phenomena in American
culture. Evaluation for a range of 2-8 ECTS credits will be via a course
exam with an optional student project or research paper.
Students should subscribe to the USA7-L
course e-mail list.
