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AMST101 Popular Culture in AmericaDescription:
This course introduces students to the varieties of popular culture in America, including popular literature, live entertainment, radio, movies, and television. In-depth case studies of such particular forms of popular culture as humor and music are included. In class viewing and listening accompany case studies.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: None. | A Lecklider | May 27-Jul 8 | W-1-056
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 056
| TuTh | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 1643 | $825 | |
AMST101 Popular Culture in AmericaDescription:
This course introduces students to the varieties of popular culture in America, including popular literature, live entertainment, radio, movies, and television. In-depth case studies of such particular forms of popular culture as humor and music are included. In class viewing and listening accompany case studies.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: None. | J Tessitore | Jul 15-Aug 21 | W-1-042
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 042
| TuTh | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 2407 | $825 | |
AMST205 The FiftiesDescription:
This course covers the period from the end of World War II in 1945 to President John F Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, focusing on the social, political, economic, and cultural trends of the era. Topics include the Cold War, the atomic age, McCarthyism, the early civil rights movements, the Fifties family, rock 'n' roll, the Golden Age of television, automobile culture and the growth of the suburbs, and the Beat movement.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: None. | F Danker | May 28-Jul 9 | W-1-058
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 058
| MW | 10a-1p | 3 | 1936 | $825 | |
AMST206 The SixtiesDescription:
The course focuses on protest and the role of youth. Who protested and why? Was the phenomenon of the sixties an aberration or part of a larger radical tradition in America? What was the impact on the seventies? Readings are drawn from the works of participants in the student, black, feminist, and peace protest movements, from the intellectuals who defended and attacked them, and from the growing body of retrospective, analytic, and historical literature which attempts to explain what really happened in that tumultuous decade.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: United States. | P Atwood | May 28-Jul 9 | W-2-127
Wheatley Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 127
| MW | 6-9p | 3 | 1644 | $825 | |
AMST210 American Dreams/American Realities: Men and Women in Society and Culture 1600–1860Description:
Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830–1860). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and "women’s place"; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: United States. | J Hess | May 27-Jul 8 | W-1-010
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010
| TuTh | 6-9p | 3 | 1938 | $825 | |
AMST212G The United States In The EightiesDescription:
This course examines the politics and experiences of President Reagan’s "morning in America," including family life, work, and organized labor; changes in the pattern of wealth and poverty; the enlargement of the role of the media in culture and politics; and US interventions in Central America and elsewhere. The course may be counted toward the American studies major or minor. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self assessment, collaborative learning, information technology.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None. | P Chassler | May 27-Jul 8 | W-1-056
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 056
| TuTh | 10a-1p | 3 | 1642 | $825 | |
AMST215 America on FilmDescription:
This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of "The American Experience" and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: United States. | R Goff | Jul 14-Aug 20 | W-1-009
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 009
| MW | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 1645 | $825 | |
AMST278L U.S. Documentary PhotographyDescription:
This course examines U.S. documentary photographs as constructions of the past that articulate the social and political assumptions of their times. We will assess the impact of these photographs on their contemporary audiences and how they have shaped Americans’ collective memories of such events as the conquest of the West, mass immigration, the Great Depression, and 9/11.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: None. | P Raub | Jul 14-Aug 20 | W-2-124
Wheatley Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 124
| MW | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 2410 | $825 | |
AMST310 Television in American LifeDescription:
The American experience with television and its cultural, political, and economic implications. Topics include technological innovation, entrepreneurship, the changing cultural content of "prime-time" programming, and public broadcasting cable system capabilities.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None. | K Lindsey | Jul 15-Aug 21 | W-1-040
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 040
| TuTh | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 1646 | $825 | |
AMST375 Best Sellers in American SocietyDescription:
"Best sellers" have shaped American views of science and nature; molded American business behavior; affected Americans' notions of the past and their expectations of the future; and shaped public perceptions of gender, class, race, and ethnicity. In this course, we will read popular works, both fiction and nonfiction, published over the past century and a half and discuss the ways in which these books have influenced our images of our society and ourselves. The best sellers we will examine are those which were extremely popular with large sections of the public and/or influential in changing public opinion on major social issues. Readings for the course include Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone with the Wind, The Power of Positive Thinking, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and the novels of Stephen King.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: United States. | P Raub | Jul 14-Aug 20 | W-2-123
Wheatley Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 123
| MW | 6-9p | 3 | 1647 | $825 | |
