Transfer Student Courses in American CultureConsult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:41 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23)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. Courses in Ojibwa A full sequence of Ojibwa cannot be guaranteed. Students must consult with the American Culture Program Office before undertaking Ojibwa to satisfy the College language requirement. AMCULT 205. American Cultures.
Section 001 — Narrating Spaces of American Identity.Instructor(s): Magdalena Zaborowska (mzaborow@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Laboratory fee required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course meets twice a week, including one two-hour lecture/discussion class and one hour-long discussion section in smaller groups. Taking an interdisciplinary Humanities approach, and using concepts of space to organize our ideas, we will study historic and cultural contexts that shape, locate, and define "what is an American." Through lectures, discussions, individual work and group projects, students will learn to relate narrative texts and architectural forms to better understand how different media can represent, interrogate, and complicate concepts of national identity. While reading novels and viewing major icons of American architecture on slides and in film, we will pay close attention to the ways in which texts and architecture — or books and buildings — record and interpret various stages in the formation of Americanness, from the Puritan notions of representational self to the postmodern ones of splintered and fragmented subject. We will examine ways in which notions of private and public space are shaped by such aspects of identity as gender, race, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and nationhood; we will also explore select historic moments in which one's sex, skin color, class or ethnicity determined who did or did not belong in the idealized American social space. Throughout the course, we will thus trace a fascinating dialogue between actual and imagined places, forms, and structures — and between narrative and visual forms. Requirements: regular attendance, active and intelligent participation in lectures and discussion sessions and in individual and group class projects, as well as willingness to be challenged by new concepts and ideas. Readings must be always completed in full before each lecture session. There will be several pop quizzes on the reading assignments and individual and group projects involving visual and spatial components. You will produce short weekly written responses to the readings and in-class assignments in discussion sections. There will be a comprehensive midterm exam and a final take-home exam. You are expected to be a scholar in this class, that is, a lot of your work, thinking, and preparation for our meetings will happen outside of the classroom, on your own reading, writing, and processing time.
AMCULT 214(214/215). Introduction to Asian/Pacific American Studies.
Asian American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Phillip D Akutsu (akutsu@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (ID). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the long and diverse history and experiences of Asian Americans in the United States. Migrqating first from Asia in the late-1700s, Asian Americans provide a critical contribution to U.S. history, culture, and society. Despite this fact, Asian Americans continue to be seen as "foreigners" in the U.S. This course will review and analyze the Asian American experience in the U.S. from the mid-19th century to the present. Course content will cover Asian American contributions to historical, political, and sociocultural developments in the U.S.
AMCULT 217. Introduction to Native American Studies — Humanities.
Native American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Betty L Bell (blbell@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This is an introduction to the historical and literary cultures of Native America. We will
We will rely, when possible, on the words of Native Americans to discuss "contact" between tribal peoples and EuroAmericans and the resulting "adaptations" in tribal culture and identity. In addition to literature, we will rely on film, documentary and popular, for the representation of native experience and to chart images of the American Indian. Students are not expected to have knowledge of native history or literature; the course is designed to provide an introduction to both. An advanced course, ENGLISH 382, will be taught in Winter Term. There will be two lecture sessions and one discussion section per week. Students will be required to keep a journal of their readings, to participate in discussion groups, and take a midterm and final.
AMCULT 231. Visual & Material Culture Studies.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Kristin Anne HassPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. 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.
AMCULT 240 / WOMENSTD 240. Introduction to Women's Studies.
Instructor(s): Elizabeth R Wingrove (ewingrov@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 262 / RELIGION 267. Introductory Study of Native Religious Traditions.
Native American StudiesInstructor(s): Andrea SmithPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. While there is widespread interest among many non-Natives about the religious traditions of indigenous people, Native communities are becoming increasingly hostile toward non-Natives who seek knowledge about Native spirituality. This course will introduce students to the issues and controversies surrounding the study of Native religious traditions and will prepare them for further study of Native religions in a manner that is sensitive to the needs and concerns of Native communities. Issues to be covered include the relationship between the Christianization and colonization of Native communities, spiritual appropriation, spirituality and political activism, Native religions and public policy, and contemporary debates surrounding Native religious identity. This course will provide a foundation for students who wish to pursue in depth studies of indigenous religious traditions.
AMCULT 295 / WOMENSTD 295. Sexuality in Western Culture.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Esther NewtonPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 306 / PSYCH 317. Community Research.
Instructor(s): Lorraine M Gutierrez (lorraing@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: PSYCH 111, 112, 114, or 115. (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Laboratory fee ($45) required. Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($45) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 310. Topics in Ethnic Studies.
Section 001 — Filipino American Experience.Instructor(s): Emily P Lawsin (elawsin@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). May be elected for a maximum of 6 credits. May be elected more than once in the same term. Repetition requires permission of the concentration advisor. Laboratory fee required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This is a team-taught, interdisciplinary service-learning course on the experience of Filipinos in America. By integrating academic course work with personal reflection and community involvement, we will interactively learn about Filipino Americans' roles in historical events, contemporary issues, and how these affect community formation and life in America. Students will have the opportunity to closely interact with community members by conducting an interview as part of the Filipino American Oral History Project of Michigan, then designing this research into an original performance or presentation for the local community. Students may do this by organizing a performance/forum on campus, or by leading workshops for K-12 youth through Paaralang Pilipino, a cultural school housed in the Philippine American Community Center of Michigan (PACCM) in Southfield. The assigned texts, films, guest speakers, and field trips will focus on the different waves of Filipina/o migration to the U.S, and the "Pinoy" & "Pinay" experience in education, labor, family, politics, and other sectors of American society. A large focus will be on Filipinos of the Midwest, with a special emphasis on the Metro Detroit area. Assignments include an interview term project, community participation journals, and one exam.
AMCULT 316 / ANTHRCUL 315. Native American Peoples of North America.
Native American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 327 / ENGLISH 387. Latino/Latina Literature of the U.S.
Latino/a StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Lawrence M La Fountain-Stokes (lawrlafo@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The focus of this course is to understand the interrelation of diverse linguistic traits and practices in the production of U.S. Latino/a culture, broadly speaking, with emphasis on Chicano/a or Mexican-American, Nuyorican/Puerto Rican, Dominican-American, Cuban and Cuban-American contributions, in the context of specific historical and political processes. We will examine film, literature, music, performance, video, and visual arts and see how they employ Spanish, English, Spanglish, Pachuco Caló, etc., and try to ascertain how and for what these different languages and idiolects are used, and how language proficiency affects social experience. Practices such as code-switching will receive particular attention. Analysis will focus on the role of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation as they relate to linguistic usage in the works studied, and on the specific effects and uses of language in cultural production. Consideration will be given to the ways in which each particular cultural medium produces meaning. Lectures and readings are in English with occasional short readings in Spanish to be translated in class. Knowledge of Spanish is not required but very helpful. Books will be available at Shaman Drum Bookstore, State Street, Ann Arbor.
AMCULT 342 / HISTORY 368 / WOMENSTD 360. History of the Family in the U.S.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Regina Morantz-Sanchez (reginann@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 345. American Politics and Society.Section 002 — Making of Modern America: The Gilded Age, 1877-1920. Meets with HISTORY 465.001.Instructor(s): Maria Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
AMCULT 353 / HISTORY 353. Asians in American Film and Television.
Asian American StudiesSection 001 — Asians in American Film &TV.Instructor(s): Scott T Kurashige (kurashig@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (ID). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Racialized images of Asians have had a powerful impact upon American history. From the Charlie Chan films of the 1930s to the Jackie Chan action flicks of the 1990s, this course will examine how film and television have both reflected and shaped Asian culture and identity in the U.S. We will watch both feature films, featuring figures such as Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Margaret Cho, alongside documentaries covering topics such as immigrant labor, hate crimes, and grassroots activism. These screenings serving as required course materials will provide a basis for comparing and contrasting representations of Asians from varying perspectives and across historical periods. Complementary readings will help to place our studies into historical context and provide deeper bases for critical analysis of film and video content. Lectures and discussion sections are designed to help further integrate the different elements of the course. Topics we will study include: Asian immigration and stereotypical images of early immigrants; white actors playing in "yellowface"; the World War II internment of Japanese Americans; the relationship between Asian Americans and African Americans; representations of women and masculinity; the Vietnam War and the migration of Southeast Asian refugees; the relationship between the U.S., Asia and the Pacific; hate crimes and anti-Asian violence; community activism and multi-ethnic coalition-building.
AMCULT 363 / WOMENSTD 363. Asian/Pacific American Women.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Emily P Lawsin (elawsin@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander American women in the United States. Texts and films include an introduction to materials by and about Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA) women, from historical, anthropological, sociological, psychological, musical, and literary perspectives, thereby allowing students to compare and contrast the experiences of different ethnicities and generations. Discussions and assignments will examine the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality in APIA women's lives. Learning critical theories about feminism, immigration, and globalization will show how APIA women have become agents of social change, publicly and privately, at home and in their communities. Assignments include a term project (such as a research essay, an educational forum, public performance, or creative publication like the UM's Asian Pacific American Women's Journal), journals, and one exam.
AMCULT 367 / HISTORY 367. American Indian History.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Gregory E Dowd (dowdg@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is a wide-ranging survey of Native North American encounters with European and American empires. It examines a variety of Native American responses to the challenges of conquest, dispossession, and colonialism. In doing so, it examines such Native American initiatives as religious revitalization, tribal development, legal challenges, and movements for intertribal unity. It examines a range of imperial, federal, and state approaches to what we might call Indian policy. Representations of Native Americans constitute another dimension of the course, as do the questions of identity, cultural change, and transformation.
AMCULT 399. Race, Racism, and Ethnicity.Section 001.Instructor(s): MeislerPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Section 003 — Mapping America: Cartographic Constructions of Territory and Identity. Meets with HISTORY 397.002.Instructor(s): Matthew EdneyPrerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be elected more than once for credit. Repetition requires permission of the concentration advisor. Laboratory fee required. Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 498. Humanities Approaches to American Culture.
Section 001 — Artists & Scholars of Conscience: A User's Guide to Public Cultural Work. [3 credits].Instructor(s): Julie Ellison (jeson@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Repetition requires permission of the department. Laboratory fee may be required. Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee may be required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Have you been active in community service programs, taken community service learning courses, been involved in public projects or activism? What challenges do you face in integrating the public dimension of your work with your academic interests? How can we connect democratic public culture, scholarship, community institutions, and creative action? This seminar is designed for students interested in developing a more complex and effective understanding of community-based work in the arts and humanities. In particular, it is designed for students who have been actively involved in community service learning programs and public projects. Students are invited to bring their own community-based work to the table during the intellectual explorations in this course. The seminar provides an opportunity to reflect on and develop an interdisciplinary context for your own public work. The seminar combines a public orientation with rigorous reflection on the social importance of the arts and humanities. Central to the course are issues of cultural democracy, patriotism, performance, leadership, schools and youth, race and ethnicity. The seminar is organized around four large topics: public work; public language; public people. Each 'big idea' will be introduced through a case study of an outstanding cultural project that brought about significant change in a particular community. Requirements include an unflinching commitment to the demands of a collaborative enterprise; sustained participation in all class sessions, as well as some required activities scheduled outside of class time; weekly reading assignments; weekly responses; and a final 'case study' project, which will take shape through a series of writing assignments and which will be presented orally to the seminar. In addition to stressing effective writing, the seminar puts a premium on effective speaking. Several regional cultural leaders will visit the seminar to talk about their work. Tuesdays will focus on ideas and concepts, Thursdays on case studies. Each week, one student will serve as "documentarian," serving as scribe and summarizing the previous day's discussion at the beginning of class. We will work from a course pack and from a selection of books. Readings include selections by, for example, Augusto Boal, Sekou Sundiata, Robin Kelley, Harry Boyte, Kristin Hass, Lucy Lippard, Paulo Freire, Dolores Hayden, Ralph Cintron, Ross Tallarico, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Dana Gioia, Sharon Sutton, Roberta Uno, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard, Liz Lerman, Dudley Cocke, Richard Wood, Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, Tracy Kidder, Myles Horton.
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