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FA 2012
American Culture
AMCULT 103 - First Year Seminar in American Studies
Section 004
America Reads

Course Note:

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.

Credits:

Requirements & Distribution:

Other:

FYSem

Waitlist Capacity:

unlimited

Consent:

With permission of instructor.

Advisory Prerequisites:

Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.

Repeatability:

May not be repeated for credit.

Meet Together Classes:

HISTORY 197 - 1st Year HU Seminar, Section 003

Primary Instructor:

Kelley,Mary C

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We all read, sometimes to command a subject, sometimes to take imaginative journeys. We do the same when we write. What do books reading, and writing mean in our lives? We will examine how the book as physical artifact has shaped the way in which we read. We will investigate representations of reading in various historical contexts and the cultural prescriptions they convey. We will survey numerous sources for evidence of the practices and preferences of actual readers. We will also address current debates in the history of the book, including the relation between print and digital. We will ask ourselves what it means to be reading and writing in the midst of a digital revolution.

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