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Transfer Student Courses in American CultureThis page was created at 12:32 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in American Culture Wolverine Access Subject listing for AMCULT Fall Term '01Time Schedule for American Culture. AMCULT 206. Themes in American Culture.
Section 002 – AIDS in AmericaInstructor(s): Richard A Meisler (rmeisler@umich.edu)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: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/amcult/206/002.nsf The American response to the AIDS epidemic is important in itself and also provides a window into important aspects of our values and culture. These involve the place in our social world of sexuality, gender and sexual orientation; scientific and medical knowledge; poverty; homelessness; health care, prevention, pharmaceuticals, and the financing of all of these fields; privacy rights; incarceration; racial and cultural diversity; the law and the legal system; artistic responses to a social crisis; policy issues in all of these fields; and public health efforts. This course will be an interdisciplinary exploration of all of these phenomena as they bear on the AIDS crisis. Some field work--a practicum experience--will be involved in parts of the community where the impacts of the epidemics may be observed and engaged. Scientific knowledge of HIV/AIDS--presented for a nonscientific audience--will be a required part of the course curriculum. Other parts of the course will involve studying research results in the social sciences and engaging with artistic work--memoirs, fiction, film, poetry, fine arts, music--concerning AIDS. Although the focus of the course is AIDS and America, the global context of the AIDS epidemic will be studied to provide a context for the American experience. Special attention will be given, in this part of the course, to AIDS in Africa.
AMCULT 224 / SPANISH 290. Spanish for Heritage Language Learners.
Courses in SpanishSection 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: Basic knowledge of Spanish language. (4). (Excl). This course does not satisfy the language requirement. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 260 / HISTORY 260. Religion in America.
Section 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 160 and 161 are recommended but not required. (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
AMCULT 311. Topics in Ethnic Studies.
Section 002 – Filipino American Experience.Instructor(s): Emily P Lawsin (elawsin@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Laboratory fee required. May be repeated for credit with permission of advisor.
Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is an upper-division interdisciplinary course on the experience of Filipinos in America. We will examine Filipina Americans' role in historical events, contemporary issues, and how these affect community formation and life in America. By looking at the different waves of Filipina/o migration to the U.S., we will see the Pinoy & Pinay experience in various regions and sectors of American society: education, labor, family, politics, and communities, to name a few. A large focus will be on Filipinos of the midwest. We will also determine how Filipina/o American issues are reflected through historical, sociological, psychological, autobiographical, and literary texts, answering such questions as: Who/What is a Filipino American? What makes the Filipino's experience in America unique from that of other Asian Pacific Americans? How does the complex intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect Filipina/os? How are Filipino Americans "positioned" in the society? What are some of the current issues facing Filipinos? How do cultural spaces create strategies of resistance? What roles have Filipina/os played in civil rights and social activism? Overall, how have Filipino Americans strategized their changing places within this society? As we examine these issues, we will also attempt to uncover "new" historical findings within our local Filipina/o American community. Students will launch a new UM project of collecting oral histories of Filipinos of Michigan, with a special emphasis on the Detroit area, in conjunction with the 300 year founding of the city of Detroit. Assignments include facilitating and participating in class discussions, exams, as well as final project that uncovers the history of Filipinos in Michigan.
AMCULT 313 / ANTHRCUL 314. Cuba and its Diaspora.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Ruth Behar (rbehar@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 314.001.
AMCULT 367 / HISTORY 367. American Indian History.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Liza E Black (lizab@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. We will engage in the various sub-disciplines of American Indian history at an introductory level. We will consider works in social, cultural, and political history. Throughout the course, we will consider how Indians were invented by the colonial process, by other tribes, and by Europeans. Some of the themes we will emphasize will include: gender, identity, rebellion, education, war and treaties.
AMCULT 373 / HISTORY 373. History of the U.S. West.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Maria E Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/373/001.nsf
AMCULT 399. Race, Racism, and Ethnicity.Section 001.Instructor(s): Matthew J Countryman (mcountry@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 410. Hispanics in the United States.
Section 001 – Music of Hispanic Southwest.Instructor(s): Manuel PenaPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission. Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course we will undertake a social and cultural study of the popular music of the Hispanic Southwest. We will use music as a "key" to arrive at a better understanding of both the music itself and the people who produce it. To do this, we will look at the music (and dance) of the Hispanic Southwest as artistic expression that reflects universal processes such as sociocultural continuity, change, conflict, and adaptation. Thus, after a short introduction to the basic concept of music-as-culture, we will survey antecedents of the music of the Hispanic Southwest, particularly those that originate in Mexico during the nineteenth century. We will then shift our attention to the emergence of regional forms in the Southwest, keeping in mind the crosscultural influences exerted by Greater Mexican, Latino (particularly Afro-Latino) and American musical cultures on that of the Southwest. We will explore such forms as the canción and corrido (narrative ballad), the Texas-Mexican conjunto, the Mexican American orquesta, Tejano, and the "East-L.A." sound. All of these musical developments will be studied within the framework of changes induced by such forces as immigration (and migration), ethnic resistance, acculturation, urbanization, and the emergence of class differences among Mexicans of the Southwest.
AMCULT 498. Humanities Approaches to American Culture.
Section 002 – Pacific Literary And Cultural Studies. (4 credits). Meets With English 417.006.Instructor(s): Susan Najita (najita@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission.
Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This seminar is designed to introduce students to the recent outpouring of literatures (poetry, fiction, drama, film) in English from the Pacific, including Hawai'i, Western Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealand. We shall examine, for example, how texts by Maori authors Keri Hulme, Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, and Alan Duff engage with historical, social, political, and cultural contexts in New Zealand and how their writings interrogate previous literary, anthropological, and historical representations of Pacific peoples. In addition to becoming familiar with the historically significant moments of contact with Europeans, we will also look at how the aesthetic politics of these writers may enact a cultural decolonization even as many of these places remain colonized and neo-colonized locations. Additional authors and texts to be studied include Albert Wendt, John Dominis Holt, Gary Pak, Epeli Hau'ofa, Vilsoni Hereniko, Teresia Teaiwa, and films Once Were Warriors and The Piano. Writing requirements include several short 1-2 page response papers, a presentation, a midterm paper (5-7 pp.), and a final paper (10 pp.). As this course is a seminar, your presence and initiative in discussion is of great importance.
AMCULT 498. Humanities Approaches to American Culture.
Section 003 – Music & Dance. (3 credits). Meets with Musicology 470.001 and Musicology 570.001.Instructor(s): Amy K Stillman (akstill@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission. Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/musicol/470/001.nsf This course examines relationships among music and dance as they structure each other in composition, performance, and transmission. This term case studies will be drawn from the Americas, and will include participatory social dancing, ritual dance, ballet, modern dance, and musical theater. Special attention will be given to "ethnic traditions" and how they are situated within "American" cultural discourse. There will be a course pack of readings, and assigned listening and video viewing outside of class. Course requirements will include three short essays, a midterm, and an essay final exam. One goal of this course is to explore vocabulary available for analyzing musical sound and dance movement; thus there are no prerequisites.
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