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PBL (Problem-Based Learing) is a student-centered learning process in which students autonomously and collaboratively construct their own problems related to class topics. PBL aims to cultivate students’ abilities to extend and improve their knowledge by practicing how to develop appropriate questions according to their own everyday experiences. In PBL class, students, as self-directed learners, design their own problems and produce their own plans to solve those problems. Many studies show that PBL is an effective teaching method that helps students internalize learning and leads to greater comprehension. This article is a case study of an implementation of PBL model into undergraduate and graduate courses on popular narrative, based on “Understanding British and American Popular Narrative” courses. Popular narrative includes various forms of narratives which are produced and consumed through the commercial media. We forge our identities and the images of common world mainly through the everyday consumption of popular narratives. Those courses consist of four modules under which students constitute their own questions: (1) the ethics of popular narrative (2) the aesthetics of popular narrative (3) popular narrative and the market (4) popular narrative and literature. PBL provides an effective structure for discovery that helps students develop their own critical awareness of the problematic nature of mass culture they consume in everyday life.

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