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Kristen Rudisill, Chair and Graduate Coordinator 245 Shatzel Hall Phone: 419-372-2796 Email: [email protected] Degree Offered Master of Arts Graduate Faculty Professors

Jeffrey Brown, Ph.D.; Jeremy Wallach, Ph.D. Associate Professors

Becca Cragin, Ph.D; Montana Miller, Ph.D.; Angela Nelson, Ph.D.; Kristen Rudisill, Ph.D.;

Assistant Professors Rebecca Kinney, Ph.D. Adjunct Graduate Faculty Esther Clinton, Ph.D.

The Master of Arts degree in Popular Culture is designed to train scholars in the objective analysis of that part of a culture, both past and present, which has a distinctly popular base of appeal. The Department of Popular Culture has outstanding library and resource support for the graduate program. In 1969, the University established the Browne Popular Culture Library, a non-circulating research library that contains more than 500,000 items from popular novels to television scripts. In addition, the Sound Recordings Archives contains the finest and largest collections of recorded popular music in the United States. Bowling Green State University is the national headquarters for the study of popular culture.

For more information about the Popular Culture MA program, please consult the Popular Culture website at:

http://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/cultural-and-critical- studies/popular-culture.html.

Prerequisites to Graduate Work

Admission to the M.A. program requires a minimum 3.0

accumulative GPA and 3.0 GPA in a specified discipline in which at

least 20 semester hours of work have been completed. Applicants who hold an undergraduate degree in an interdisciplinary program that includes 20 semester hours of work in a single discipline may be admitted upon the recommendation of the graduate committee.

Admission Procedure

Applicants seeking admission to the M.A. program in popular culture should follow the instructions outlined in the “Graduate Admission” section of this catalog.

In addition to submitting the online application, GRE scores, and official transcripts to the Graduate College, applicants must also submit the following paper documents directly to the Department of Popular Culture:

• a department application form for admission to the Master of Arts Program in Popular Culture

• a Statement of Purpose Essay, 2-to-5 typed pages, that describes your motivations for coming to graduate school, what you hope to achieve in Popular Culture Studies, your plans following the receipt of the Master's Degree, and (if requesting an assistantship) your interests in teaching and other skills that may be useful to the Department

• three (3) letters of recommendation written within the past year and sent by the recommender directly to the Department of Popular Culture.

The department application, statement of purpose, and letters of recommendation should be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to:

Graduate Admissions Department of Popular Culture 228 Shatzel Hall

Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403-0190.

For full consideration for admission and funding for the following academic year, applications should be submitted by January 14. Any questions or concerns about the admissions process? Please write to the above address, call 1-419-372-2796, fax 1-419-372- 0330 or email [email protected].

Degree Requirements Master of Arts

Candidates are required to complete a minimum of 32 semester hours of graduate credit beyond the baccalaureate degree. Students must complete the following core requirements:

 POPC 6750 Popular Culture Theory and Methodology;  POPC 6600, Folklore and Folklife;

 three graduate seminars in popular culture; and  one departmental course in international popular culture. Candidates are responsible for mastering the content of a core reading list provided to them at the beginning of their academic program. Students are required to complete a general three- question written departmental examination over the core reading list and the required core courses listed above.

The M.A. degree is offered under Plan I-thesis option or Plan II- non-thesis option. The research track outlined below is only offered under Plan I-thesis option.

Plan I: Up to six semester hours of thesis research credit can be applied toward the degree.

Plan II: In addition to the written examination described above, each candidate must pass a two-hour oral examination over an area of specialization.

Candidates are to create their own advisory committees, in close consultation with the graduate coordinator, composed of a chair from within the Department and at least one other faculty member from within the Department. An optional third member can be from within or outside the Department. All members of the committee must have Graduate Faculty status. In the case of the Plan I-thesis candidates, the committee advises the thesis. In the case of the Plan II-non-thesis candidates, the committee exists to advise, prepare, and evaluate the oral examination over the candidate's area of specialization. Students are expected to have created their committee by no later than the end of the second semester in residence in the program.

Graduate Courses

Please access graduate courses online at

http://www.bgsu.edu/registration-records/courses-and-

classes/class-course-information.html . Graduate courses offered by the Department of Popular Culture use the prefix: POPC.

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