ARCH 434:Popular Culture in Ghana
Credits:
3
The course examines the influence of global processes, including industrialization, capitalist expansion, transformational migration, environmental change, and international tourism on the life-ways of Ghanaians. The nature, origin, meaning and effects of specific trends and patterns of communication, and behaviour related to the performing arts, religion, funerals, and fashion, among others, on the construction of identities will be identified and analyzed critically.