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Class Detail:
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FA 2010
American Culture
AMCULT
103
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First Year Seminar in American Studies
Section
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Literatures of U.S. Empire
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Course Note:
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This course is designed to introduce students to a wide variety of topics and issues in American Studies in a seminar format from a Humanities perspective. It enables students to have contact with regular faculty in a small-class experience and to elicit their active participation in the topics under discussion.
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Credits:
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3
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Requirements & Distribution:
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HU
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Other:
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FYSem
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Waitlist Capacity:
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unlimited
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Consent:
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With permission of instructor.
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Najita,Susan Y
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(real time availability for all sections)
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The year 1893 marked not only what the historian Frederick Jackson Turner called the closing of the American frontier; it also marked a renewed expansionism of U.S. control beyond its continental boundaries. By 1898 — with the annexation of the Philippines, Hawai’i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam — the U.S. had secured its military presence over new overseas locations. This course introduces students to the study of U.S. empire through the literature written from within its borders as well as from its geographical and cultural margins. We will compare the complex histories and experiences of U.S. economic, military and colonial presence in Asia, the Pacific, and the Southwest.
Requirements include: midterm paper, final research paper, journals, quizzes, oral presentation.
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
Search for Syllabus
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 9780140434880
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Typee : a peep at Polynesian life, Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891., Publisher: Penguin Books 1996
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Required
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ISBN: 9780295952895
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America is in the heart : a personal history, Author: Bulosan, Carlos., Publisher: Univ. of Washington Press 1993
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Required
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ISBN: 9780803299177
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American Indian stories, Author: Zitkala-Sa., Publisher: Univ. of Nebraska Press Repr. 2003
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Required
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ISBN: 0143104918
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Ceremony, Author: Leslie Marmon Silko., Publisher: Penguin Books [30th anni 2006
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Required
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ISBN: 9780824811723
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All I asking for is my body, Author: Murayama, Milton., Publisher: University of Hawaii Press 1988
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Required
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ISBN: 0449238520
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Tales of the South Pacific, Author: James A. Michener., Publisher: Fawcett Crest 1974
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Required
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ISBN: 0679722165
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Video night in Kathmandu : and other reports from the not-so-far East, Author: Pico Iyer., Publisher: Vintage Books 1st Vintag 1989
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Required
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