American history and culture as viewed by those who made it. Topics vary from semester to semester. Topic for Fall 2020: Gender and Sexuality in American Popular Culture. Popular culture and mass media are primary forums through which Americans construct notions of race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. This course explores identity construction in relation to commercial media in the U.S. from the 1970s through the present. Effective Summer I, 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.