The Lantern - New pop culture minor brings pizazz to OSU

Published: July 21, 2007, 12:14 pm

Although most people watch the ABC series "Lost" for the drama, action and adventure, Jared Gardner views it to brilliantly engage in complex analyses of the structure and hidden meaning behind the series. "It's hard to watch tv these days," Gardner said. "Watching shows like 'Lost,' means I have to take notes." Gardner, an associate professor at Ohio State, coordinated a new undergraduate interdisciplinary popular culture studies minor to help OSU students make those same analyses. "The study of popular culture allows them (students) to experience connections between the skills and training they are receiving in their majors and the world they will be navigating for the rest of their lives," Gardner said. He said the minor was designed to help students bridge the gap between the popular, public and material cultures of students' daily lives and the cultures that are traditionally studied.... Read

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