First-Year Courses in American Culture This page was created at 6:47 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in American Culture (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for AMCULT Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for American Culture. AMCULT 102. First Year Seminar in American Studies. Section 001 – Asian Americans & the Civil Rights Movement. Meets with History 196.002. Instructor(s): Scott Kurashige (kurashig@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). Laboratory fee required. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. How did people of Asian ancestry living in the United States respond to the Civil Rights Movements? How did the social and political achievements of the Civil Rights Movement affect patterns of Asian immigration and the experience of Asians in the U.S.? In this course, we will examine the history of racism against Asian Americans and the diverse ways Asian Americans have sought to protest, resist, or accommodate. We will also pay particular attention to the relations between Asian Americans and other communities of color, such as African Americans and Arab Americans. Students will have a particular opportunity to study the late 1960s movement which created the concept of "Asian American" identity and to understand the historical context in which this movement arose. Topics we will study include: the World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the movement for redress; Asian American participation in the African American struggle for freedom; student activist campaigns for Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies; Asian American opposition to the Vietnam War; mobilizations against hate crimes and anti-Asian violence; Hawaiian sovereignty and indigenous peoples1 rights; the empowerment of immigrant youth and communities; and efforts to build multi-ethnic coalitions. Readings will include Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu, Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs, Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia. as well as writings by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, Philip Vera Cruz and various primary sources. Readings will be complemented by videos and films. Collaborative group projects are central to the course requirements and activities. You will be expected to learn how to cooperate with and learn from your peers and to engage with other students both inside and outside of class. As 2002 will mark the 20th anniversary of the hate crime murder of Vincent Chin in metro Detroit, we will spend considerable time discussing the issues of racism, activism, and justice connected to this case and develop a collaborative project to generate public discussion of its history and legacy. THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS WITH INSTRUCTOR CONSENT AND ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED Students interested in registering for this course should send their response to the following questions via email to the instructor at kurashig@umich.edu Describe your personal interests and activities? Why are interested in taking this particular class? What do you hope to gain from taking this class? Discuss you desire and preparedness to work on a collaborative project? PROVIDE YOUR STUDENT ID# AND SPECIFY WHETHER YOU ARE REQUESTING TO ENROLL THROUGH AMERICAN CULTURE OR HISTORY Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 5, Permission of Instructor AMCULT 103. First Year Seminar in American Studies. Section 001 – Race: American Culture Dialoge Behind & Idea. Instructor(s): Sandra R Gunning (sgunning@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee required. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. There are few concepts in American Culture that get as much attention in politics and the press as race, and yet the concept continues to signal deep controversy and misunderstanding between national groups. If race does not exist as a biological category (which has inspired some scholars to put it in scare quotes), then why is the concept still so tied to individual appearance? How have current group categories such as "African American" and "white" been conceived in the past, compared to the present day? How have Americans traditionally imagined the differences (or similarities) among concepts such as "race," "color," and "ethnicity," "national identity" and "culture"? And how do class, gender, and sexuality intersect with these categories? This course will explore the ways American cultural and social dialogues about the meaning of race have changed over time, why the concept is so unstable, and indeed how our understanding of "race" at any historical moment depends on any number of other social factors. Course materials will include American literature and film, as well as scholarship drawn from American Studies, sociology, history, and feminist theory. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. AMCULT 103. First Year Seminar in American Studies. Section 002 – Gender, Slavery, and Freedom. Meets with Women's Studies 150.001. Instructor(s): Hannah Rosen (hrosen@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee required. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this seminar we will explore historical and theoretical perspectives on race and gender and their intersection in U.S. history, culture, and politics by examining the role of gender in the history of slavery, emancipation, and the struggle of African Americans to construct a meaningful freedom in the United States. We will investigate how the organization of gender was conditioned by, and how it undergirded, systems of both slavery and racism in the 18th and 19th-century U.S. South. What role did gender play in the establishment of slavery and racial hierarchy in colonial North America? How did gender shape the experience of slavery for African-American women and men? How did slavery affect gender relations among white southerners? What was the nature of gender relations within slave communities? What notions of womanhood and manhood were imposed on slaves by slaveholders and what notions did slaves construct for themselves? What were Black men and women's visions for freedom and citizenship after emancipation? And how did gender shape postemancipation struggles between Blacks and whites as well as relations between Black women and men? To explore these questions, we will consider topics such as men's and women's labor, family, sexuality, citizenship, and rape and other forms of violence. Using primary and secondary sources, we will also explore the methods of historical interpretation and argumentation. First year students only. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. AMCULT 201. American Values. Section 001. Instructor(s): James W Cook (jwcook@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Laboratory fee required. Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to U.S. cultural studies, this course examines some of the most powerful values and value systems in our nation's history. The course has two primary goals: first, to demonstrate how "American values" have emerged as social, economic, political, and cultural processes over time; and second, to explore how value systems are continuously re-thought, re-fashioned, and contested. The use of the plural in the course title is therefore deliberate. This is a course about our nation's core ideals as well as their diverse meanings and shifting histories. It is also a course about the ongoing challenges of defining those ideals in truly democratic ways. Highly recommended for anyone who seeks a better understanding of how ideology works in this country. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 AMCULT 205. American Cultures. Section 001. Instructor(s): Richard A Meisler Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 206. Themes in American Culture. Section 002 – American Subcultural Movements – Beatniks, Hippies and Punks. Instructor(s): Bruce Conforth Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). Laboratory fee required. May be repeated for credit with permission of concentration advisor. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines post WWII America and the subcultures it created: beats, hippies, punks, etc. By tracing the history of each group the course investigates how these American secondary cultures responded to the traditional, or dominant, culture and how each group, despite radical appearances, drew upon a host of traditional cultural tools and processes to create their own communities. Investigating the economic, political, social, cultural, and technological events that surrounded the creation of these groups, the course draws a distinction between subcultures and countercultures, as well as defines the manner in which each may function as a folk culture. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 1 Waitlist Code: 1 AMCULT 213. Introduction to Latino Studies – Humanities. Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). (R&E). Laboratory fee required. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 215. Introduction to Asian American Studies – Humanities. Section 001. Instructor(s): Sylvia E Kwon Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). (R&E). Laboratory fee required. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 222. Elementary Ojibwa. Courses in Ojibwa Section 001. Instructor(s): Irving N McCue Prerequisites & Distribution: Non-LS&A students must have permission of the American Culture Program Director. (3). (LR). No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 230 / HISTART 230. Art and Life in 19th-Century America. Section 001. Instructor(s): Rebecca Zurier (rzurier@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See History of Art 230.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: No Data Given. AMCULT 231. Visual & Material Culture Studies. Section 001. Instructor(s): Kristin A Hass Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. We are living in a material and, an increasingly, visual world. Every image you see and every object you touch is shot-through with powerful cultural ideologies – ideas about power and gender and race and class and place and nation shape our visual and material world. In this course we will dive into the work of thinking about the images and objects in our daily lives as puzzles full of meanings for us to explore and unpack. In this course students will be asked to think about how photographs, maps, paintings, graffiti, architecture, fashions, monuments, billboards, museums, movies and more – as fundamental elements of our visual and material world – construct and convey meaning. Students will be asked to think about ubiquitous visual and material signs as sites of essential forms of cultural knowledge. They will be asked to develop analytic tools for understanding these signs and to create, in response, some signs of their own. Drawing on scholarship in Visual Culture, Material Culture, Architecture, American Studies, Anthropology, Contemporary Art Criticism, Feminist Criticism, and more course readings will include Nicholas Mirzoeff's Visual Culture Reader, Lucy Lippard's The Lure of the Local: sense of Place in a Multi-Centered Society, bell hooks' Black Looks: Race and Representation, Andrew Ross' The Celebration Chronicles, Paul Groth's Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, and Witlod Rybczynski's Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture. Course Requirements: Students will be asked to write two papers and to produce, regardless of skill or background, two visual responses to the course material. These visual responses might include a photo essay, a short video, a series of drawings, a collection of blueprints, etc. Course grades will be based on papers, visual responses, and class participation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. AMCULT 240 / WOMENSTD 240. Introduction to Women's Studies. Section 001. Instructor(s): Sidonie A Smith (sidsmith@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Women's Studies 240.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 This page was created at 6:47 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | First-Year Handbook | First-Year Information | Parent Handbook | LS&A Bulletin This page maintained by LS&A Academic Information and Publications, 1228 Angell Hall Copyright © 2001 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.