Stay Relevant: Incorporating Pop Culture in College Classes

Thursday, January 30, 2025
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Kuykendall 106 Events Room

We teach popular culture as part of our classes in order to maximize student engagement. Students are quite familiar with popular culture, from media, music to the advertising around them, and integrating popular culture into our teaching can add an exciting new dimension to our classrooms. Through popular culture, we can address the issues we study in our research and in which students live much of their lives. 

In this panel we will explore ways to incorporate popular culture into classes, through examples from classes that we teach, such as Asian advertising or popular culture. If you want to engage students through popular culture, this panel will give you ideas on how to use popular culture as a pedagogical tool and model to use in your own classes.

The presenters include Patrick Patterson, specializing in J-pop and advertising, Jayson Chun, specializing in K-pop, anime, and Pop Pacific, and Jade Lum, specializing in video games and Asian Pop Culture.

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Presented by

Patrick Patterson
Professor, Asian Studies, Honolulu Community College

Jayson M Chun
Professor, History, UH – West Oahu

Jade Lum
PhD Candidate, English

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This event is cosponsored by UH Asian Studies and OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).