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Transfer Student Courses in American CultureThis page was created at 7:09 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26)Open courses in American Culture Wolverine Access Subject listing for AMCULT Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for American Culture. 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 OjibwaA 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.Instructor(s): Richard A MeislerPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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.
AMCULT 306 / PSYCH 317. Community Based Research.
Section 001 – Requires concurrent enrollment in American Culture 307.Instructor(s): Lorraine M Gutierrez (lorraing@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Introductory psychology, and concurrent enrollment in Amer. Cult. 205. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~psycdept/Detroit.Initiative/
AMCULT 307 / PSYCH 318. Laboratory in Community Research.
Section 001 – Laboratory in Community Intervention.Instructor(s): Lorraine M Gutierrez (lorraing@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Concurrent enrollment in Amer. Cult. 306. (1). (Excl). (EXPERIENTIAL). Credits: (1). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~psycdept/Detroit.Initiative/
AMCULT 314 / HISTORY 378. History of Asian Americans in the U.S.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Scott Kurashige (kurashig@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides an overview of Asian/Pacific American history from World War II to the present. Groups to be examined include Korean, Filipino, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Chinese, and Japanese Americans. We will place these experiences into a national and international context of comparative race relations and U.S.-Asia relations. Our study will begin with the questions: What does it mean to study history from an Asian/Pacific American perspective? How and why has Asian/Pacific American history become a part of the curriculum? Readings and lectures will engage the following historical issues and themes:
Examples of required readings include No-No Boy by John Okada; The Bridge at No Gun Ri by Sang-Hun Choe; Catfish and Mandela by Andrew Pham; Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs, and a course pack with articles and primary documents. Readings will be complemented by films and videos. Course requirements: regular attendance/participation in lecture and discussion, periodic short writing assignments, a collaborative group research project, and in-class final.
AMCULT 339 / ANTHRCUL 339. American Religious Movements.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Gillian Feeley-Harnik (gfharnik@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Anthro. 101. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 339.001.
AMCULT 350. Approaches to American Culture.Section 001.Instructor(s): June M Howard (jmhoward@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Amer. Cult. 201, junior standing, or concentration in American Culture. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability AMCULT 401. Race and Racialization in the Americas.
Section 001 – Ethnic Modernisms: Early 20th Century.Instructor(s): Maria E Cotera (mcotera@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Amer. Cult. 212 or 213, and 312. (3). (Excl). (R&E).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. During the inter-war years, and indeed from the start of the twentieth century, a dramatic re-visioning of American values was underway. In the words of historian Frederick Hoffman, "a phase of American culture and history (variously called Puritan, industrial, commercial) was repudiated and scorned; in its place, writers, artists, critics sought for aspects of the American scene that had (or were alleged to have) escaped involvement in the worst disasters of that culture." At the center of this search was a growing interest in the "others" of American imperialism, the African-Americans, American Indians, and Mexican-Americans whose rural communities were transformed by the march of modernization and westward expansion. In this course we will explore the emergence of a discourse of American identity that was at times based on an intimate relationship with, and appropriation of non "Anglo-Saxon" subjects (as in Anglo American forms of modernist primitivism), and at times founded upon the rigid separation of white from non-white peoples (what Walter Benn Michaels has termed "nativist modernism"). In both cases, this process meant that Anglo American intellectuals were coming to terms with the legacy of colonialism, and for the first time perhaps, comprehending it's centrality to American identity. But the re-evaluation of what it meant to be a modern American was not just a concern of Anglo American intellectuals. While the profound ambivalence toward traditional American values which characterized Anglo American musings on the nature of collective identity generally led to an objectification of the "Other", it nevertheless opened a space for colonized peoples to enter into the conversation about the future of American culture and identity. Indeed, the period witnessed the rise of a generation of American Indian, African American, and Mexican American intellectuals, who, responding to the social and economic transformations that modernity had brought to their communities, and energized by the aesthetic and cultural possibilities wrought in Anglo-America's exploration of itself, formed coalitions and organizations across regional, national, and tribal boundaries to address the role that they would play in the modern nation-state. While their strategies for incorporation into this American dialogue generally corresponded to the ways in which dominant discourse had figured them, these intellectuals also manipulated this discourse to achieve the social, economic, and political goals that they sought. In this course we will examine the specific social and economic transformations in colonialist ideology which led to the re-conceptualization of collective identity on the part of this emergent cadre of intellectuals, and the ways in which the limits of these ideological configurations shaped both the aesthetic and the political practices of American Indian, African American, and Latino subjects.
AMCULT 461 / ANTHRCUL 461 / LING 461. Language, Culture, and Society in Native North America.
Section 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 461.001.
AMCULT 490 / FILMVID 451. American Film Genres.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Catherine L Benamou (cbenamou@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (4). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A historical and critical survey of the film genres that have shaped the global profile and internal functioning of the U.S. film industry since the early 20th century. Placed in a broad cultural context, the linkages between film genres and other forms of American popular culture will be addressed, as well as the impact of technological, cultural, and sociopolitical change on the conventions, styles, and modes of spectatorship associated with specific genres. Special attention will be given to the reciprocal effects of film genres on the shaping of gendered and ethnic identities. This term, we will be focusing on genres that treat the theme of modern romance during moments of instability in the film industry, as well as in gender and class relations in the society at large: the musical, melodrama, and romantic comedy.
AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Section 001 – Asian American Psychology. (4 credits). Meets with Psychology 401.003Instructor(s): Phillip Akutsu (akutsu@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). Laboratory fee required. May be repeated for credit with permission of concentration advisor.
Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will provide a critical analysis of cultural, sociopolitical, and historical influences that contributed to the study of Asian American psychology. Topics in the course will be varied and include Asian American personality and identity structures; intergroup/intragroup relations, communication styles, and conflict formation/resolution; family roles/dynamics and intrafamilial stress/conflicts; acculturation, ethnic identity, and multicultural identity formation; prejudice, discrimination, and culturally-imbedded stress/trauma; and health/mental health status and help-seeking/coping strategies.
AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Section 002 – Ralph Ellison and the Blues Aesthetic.Instructor(s): Paul A Anderson (paanders@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). Laboratory fee required. May be repeated for credit with permission of concentration advisor. Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber, and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination – indeed, everything and anything expect me." So begins Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), certainly one of the most influential and widely discussed African American novels of the twentieth century. This senior seminar will dedicate considerable time to reading Ellison's classic novel and to interpreting it in historical context. We will also survey the non-fiction writings of Ellison (1914-1994), paying particular attention to his theories about African American and American cultural identity as reflected in the languages and rhythms of literary, political, and musical expression (especially the blues and jazz). Invisible Man, for example, addressed these issues through a strikingly imaginative and controversial depiction of the unnamed main character's "progress" through a series of African American and American political, educational, and cultural institutions and social worlds in the mid-twentieth century. Using Ellison as a partial guide to mid-20th century African American intellectual life, we will also explore the multi-ethnic roots of Ellison's intellectual world, controversies surrounding his writings and ideas, and his impact on later writers. Other authors and critics discussed or read here will include assorted Harlem Renaissance writers, Black leftists, separatists, and liberals, Nation of Islam spokesmen, writers and activists from the 1960s Black Arts movement, and more recent literary artists and postmodernist critics. Grades will be determined on the basis of attendance, active participation, short reading quizzes or written commentaries, two short papers (4-6 pp. each), an in-class midterm, and a take-home final exam. There are no specific prerequisites, but it is expected that students will have done some prior relevant coursework in African American Studies, cultural studies, or U.S. literature. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Section 005 – Imperialism & Pacific Islands, 19th Century. (3 Credits). Meets with Hist 498.003.Instructor(s): Damon SalesaPrerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). Laboratory fee required. May be repeated for credit with permission of concentration advisor. Credits: (3-4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course engages with the histories of the Pacific, treating them throughout as cross-cultural histories of encounter and entanglement. As the largest feature on Earth, the Pacific Ocean dominates the globe, and the encounter of European and American people with its expanse was, in many ways, critical. These encounters were also critical to the peoples indigenous to the Pacific, and it is with both of these strands of experience that this course engages. Topics covered in the course are diverse, including imperial politics and diplomacy; trade, exploration, and commerce; science and art; and transformations in indigenous politics, society, technology, intellectual life, and health. The period under view is what might be called the Pacific's long nineteenth century, which began when Pacific Islanders and Europeans first had meaningful meetings with each other, and when the Pacific was propelled into the foreground of the Europe's Enlightenment imagination. The century came to a close with the great powers dividing the Pacific amongst themselves. We will focus on the archipelagos of Hawaii, Samoa and Tahiti, and the imperial powers of the United States and Britain, but attention will also be given to most other areas in the Pacific, and other imperial incursions, including those of France, Spain, and Germany.
AMCULT 533 / CAAS 533 / HISTORY 572. Black Civil Rights from 1900.
Section 001 – The Origins of Black StudiesInstructor(s): Kevin Gaines (gainesk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
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