Unless otherwise stated, the permission required for the repetition for credit of specifically designated courses is that of the student's concentration or B.G.S. advisor.
201. American Values. (3). (HU).
Section 101 – Tradition and Resistance. The first section
of this course examines the foundations of some of the United
States' most widely held stories about itself – from the Puritan's
errand in the wilderness with the colony as a "city upon
a hill" to the language of revolution, republicanism and independence in core documents such as the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution, to the Emersonian insistence on self-reliance
and individualism. The remainder of the course examines the ways that various social groups – women, workers, immigrants, African-Americans, among others – have been excluded from these national narratives, and the way they responded by adopting, transforming, or rejecting these narratives in politically and culturally oppositional ways.
Requirements are two short papers and a final. Readings – probably
a course pack – may include a Puritan sermon, the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution, and selections from Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln, Betty Friedan, Woodrow Wilson, Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Alain Locke, among others. (Dillard, Niklaus)
301. Topics in American Culture. (1-3).
(Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission.
Section 101 – Age of Anxiety: Art in the Soviet Union and the
United States from the Depression to World War Two. For Spring
Term, 1994, this section is jointly offered with History
of Art 394.101. (Binstock/Wolf)
421/Soc. 423. Social Stratification. (2). (Excl).
See Sociology 423. (Mizruchi)
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