Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, December 14, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001121401u.htm

Cornell Online Course Surveys Half a Century of American Popular Culture
By BROCK READ

Popular culture, writes Glenn C. Altschuler, is "contested terrain" -- in which social and economic groups struggle to make their marks on society. In "Popular Culture in the United States, 1945-Present," a course he teaches online, as well as in the classroom at Cornell University, Mr. Altschuler and his students explore how Elvis Presley, The Honeymooners, and westerns reflect and influence the changing face of America....

 



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