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Class Detail:
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WN 2013
American Culture
AMCULT
103
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First Year Seminar in American Studies
Section
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Environmental Literatures of Empire
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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 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 in 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 with particular focus on how imperialism and colonialism were part of a larger set of cultural values and attitudes toward the natural world and about the relations between human beings and the natural world. Topics include militarism, settler colonialism, globalization, slavery and labor, among others. Course Requirements: No data submitted Intended Audience: No data submitted Class Format: No data submitted
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Course Syllabi
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 0520247264
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The Magna Carta manifesto : liberties and commons for all, Author: Linebaugh, Peter., Publisher: University of California Press 2008
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Required
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ISBN: 9780195086713
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Under western skies : nature and history in the american west, Author: Worster, Donald., Publisher: Oxford University Press op.
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Required
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ISBN: 0618249060
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Silent spring., Author: by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling., Publisher: A Mariner Books 40th Anniv 2002
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Required
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ISBN: 0140280464
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My year of meats, Author: by Ruth L. Ozeki., Publisher: Penguin Books 1999
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Required
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ISBN: 0809016346
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Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England, Author: William Cronon ; [with a foreword by John Demos and an afterword by the author]., Publisher: Hill and Wang 1st rev. e 2003
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Required
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