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Name of Institution: University of Denver

Name of First Year Seminar: Teen Grrrl’s and Popular Culture Professor Lindsey Feitz, FYS

Abstract of the First Year Seminar:

This First Year Seminar asks: What is “girl culture?” What role does the media and popular culture play in marketing girlhood and female adolescence in the United States today? How do these messages shape young women’s understandings of themselves and others? To answer these questions, students in this seminar will learn to critically examine representations of girls in popular movies, television shows, maga­zines, and social media. Students will also be asked to apply these concepts outside the classroom, and thus a large portion of this class will be dedicated to working on a service learning project in which DU students will have the opportunity to mentor a teen girl.

Link to Syllabus or PDF of Syllabus:

Contact Feitz@du.edu

http://www.du.edu/studentlife/fys/documents/CourseDescriptions2012WebUpdate.pdf