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Unless otherwise stated, the permission required for the repetition for credit of specifically designated courses is that of the student's concentration or BGS advisor.
102. First Year Seminar in American
Studies. Only first-year students, including those with sophomore
standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission
of instructor. (3). (SS).
Section 001 – Politics and Culture of Race in Post-1945 United States.
This course will examine how changing ideas of race and race relations
have affected life in the United States over the past fifty years. Students
will consider a wide range of texts – from government reports and historical
analyses to novels, movies, and popular music – to understand the role
that debates over the meaning of race have played in recent political, cultural,
and social movements. (Countryman)
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201. American Values. (4). (HU).
This course will explore the riot of ideals, aspirations, conflicts, visions,
and material realities that have defined American culture. It will draw
on a range of sources - including fiction, music, movies, architecture,
and images in art - to reconstruct a history of ways in which Americans
have imagined their nation. And, while this is not a history course, we
will read a lot of history to follow the life of the American imagined community
from the struggles to make sense of industrial growth, national expansion,
and urbanization in the late 19th century to the current struggle to understand
an increasingly multi-ethnic population, an increasingly service oriented
economy, and a growing distrust of government with the history of ideas
about what "America" should mean. We will think about American
culture as it is manifest in ideas about patriotism and war, race and national
progress, the power of the local and the claims of the nation, as well as
the idea of separate spheres as a solution to the moral problems of industrial
capitalism. Cost:3
WL:1 (Cándida
Smith)
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204. Themes in American Culture. (3).
(HU). Laboratory fee ($10) required. May be repeated for credit with permission
of concentration advisor.
Section 001 - Social Constructions of Whiteness in American Culture.
The past five years have seen a virtual explosion of scholarship grappling
with the meaning of "whiteness" in American culture. This course
is designed to introduce students to this new and exciting scholarship.
Topics include: whiteness and class; white supremacy; white ethnicities;
whiteness and masculinity; whiteness and femininity; racial cross-dressing;
immigration and race; white music; whiteness and post-colonial discourse.
Discussion will focus on representative texts from American popular culture,
including: film (Deliverance, White Men Can't Jump); TV ("Roseanne");
white music (rock and country); and performance art (Elvis impersonators,
"White Trash Girl"). This is an anti-racist approach to "whiteness
studies." (Brent)
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212. Introduction to Latino Studies
- Social Science. (3). (SS). (R&E).
This course is designed as a broad overview of the major topics, themes,
and methodologies in social science research in Latino Studies. The goal
is to introduce students to the diverse experiences of different Latino
groups - primarily Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans - in order to highlight
similarities as well as differences in their historical and contemporary
positions in the United States. (Almaguer)
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214. Introduction to Asian American
Studies - Social Science. (3). (SS). (R&E).
Introduction to Asian American Studies will examine the nature of American
culture and society through a specific study of one racial/ethnic group,
Asian Americans. The Asian American experience reveals the dynamics of race
relations and economic stratification in the U.S.A. as well as the continuing
process of defining America and American. This course provides an introductory
study of the experience of Asian immigrants and their citizen descendants
in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The
groups covered include Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Pacific Islander,
South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as the heterogeneity
within the various ethnic communities, such as gender, class, generation,
and region. Topics for discussion will include international/domestic relations,
immigration policy, ethnic literary expressions. The format of this introductory
course is largely lecture with an emphasis on encouraging and incorporating
student discussion and dialogue especially in applying their knowledge gained
from this course to an analysis of contemporary American society. (Nomura)
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