Pop Culture Curriculum

About Pop Culture Curriculum

The Fulbright-Hays Pop Culture curriculum at SUNY Oswego gives educators and students access to a flexible, global-minded curriculum exploring media, music, film, social trends, and youth culture around the world. Our teaching modules encourage critical analysis of how pop culture shapes identity, values, and social change. Through engaging lesson plans, cross-cultural case studies, and interactive media projects, the program supports students in understanding integrating real-world examples. This curriculum equips educators to bring global pop culture literacy into the classroom and support meaningful dialogue about cultural dynamics in a connected world.

About the Author

Eve Clark Benavides is a professor and chair of the Sociology Department. Her research interests include: globalization and development, global inequalities and social movements, neoliberal economic policies, US popular culture, and how social capital and social inequalities impact local water sustainability on Lake Ontario. She has published three books on the US political economy, Chilean vs Taiwanese development strategies, and women’s social activism in Chile. She is also a co-editor of a recent volume on political economy. She teaches a variety of courses on introductory sociology, globalization; race, class, ethnicity, and gender; prejudice and discrimination; Japanese popular culture; honors methods; and deviance.

Lesson Plan and Accompanying Resources

GLS SOC Japan Pop Culture

Course Presentation and Paper Guidelines Travel Journal Rubric Japanese Pop Culture Power Point Presentation Global Pop Culture Power Point Presentation