Essay

Many colleges now offer courses in which students study television programs, comic books, magazines, advertising, and other aspects of popular culture. Critics complain that schools should not replace serious literature and history courses with such fluff. They claim that courses in popular culture present material that is trivial and inconsequential. But the study of popular culture can be just as important, demanding and instructive as the study of traditional subjects.


I don't think popular culture is as valuable as traditional literary and historical subjects. Traditional literary and historical subjects have much more meaning to what would be our popular culture today. Our popular culture doesn't focus on many things besides looks and such. Back then certain things meant much more than they do today.It has  a lot of meaning and more worthy thing to know about than it currently does.


Now a days things don't have to mean much to become popular. Any little thing that a celebrity does becomes popular. I would say back then things were for realistic and were more important. Today things do become popular but sometimes it isn't because they are good. There is a lot of bad media put out there for everyone to see and is not beneficial at all.

Learning about the popular culture, then again, is something that sometimes might be worth it. It would help us out in the future when what we are learning today would be history for people in the future. Learning about our popular culture now will help us advance in the future and to discover new things.

I would consider traditional literary and historical subjects more
 important by far than popular culture. It has more meaning to what was done and is something that has been passed down by generations. Even though popular culture now is more important to most people i think the past is something we should know about. This is because we should know why things are the way they are at the moment and why things were done and so on.

Popular culture as of right now i say would never be as valuable or worthy to the same level as traditional literary and historical subjects. Historical subjects made a big impact in the world. They also made change to what our country is like right now. This is something important to know and meaningful.