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Your search for courses · during 2024-25 · taught by mmcnally · returned 6 results
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AMST 263 Ethics of Indigenous Engagement 3 credits
This course explores ethical questions raised in academic civic engagement with Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations. How might curricular, co-curricular, and institutional engagement proceed “in a good way”? How can we interrupt a history of extractive relationships between academic institutions and Native peoples? How should partnerships reflect Indigenous sovereignty and work from meaningful overlaps between academic and Indigenous priorities? What is the right relationship between scholarship and advocacy? How can Indigenous knowledges, values, and pedagogies reshape academic inquiry? These questions will be explored through case studies, conversations with Indigenous partners, and structured reflection on student's varied engagement experiences.
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AMST 263.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤 · Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AMST 398 Advanced Research in American Studies 3 credits
This seminar introduces advanced skills in American Studies research, focusing on the shaping and proposing of a major research project. Through a combination of class discussion, small group work and presentations, and one-on-one interactions with the professor, majors learn the process of imaging, creating, and preparing independent interdisciplinary projects as well as the interconnections of disparate scholarly and creative works.
- Fall 2024
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): AMST 345 with a grade of C- or better.
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AMST 398.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 303 8:15am-10:00am
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AMST 399 Senior Seminar in American Studies 3 credits
This seminar focuses on advanced skills in American Studies research, critical reading, writing, and presentation. Engagement with one scholarly talk, keyed to the current year’s comps exam theme, will be part of the course. Through a combination of class discussion, small group work and presentations, and one-on-one interactions with the professor, majors learn the process of crafting and supporting independent interdisciplinary arguments, no matter which option for comps they are pursuing. Students also will learn effective strategies for peer review and oral presentation.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): AMST 345 with a grade of C- or better.
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AMST 399.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 8:15am-9:20am
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AMST 400 Integrative Exercise Colloquium 3 credits
The American Studies comprehensive exercise takes place over Fall and Winter terms and is a colloquium process that yields an individual 12-15 pp essay and a collaborative, public facing presentation.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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Student must have completed AMST 396 with a grade of C- or better AND is an American Studies major AND has Senior Priority.
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RELG 130 Native American Religions 6 credits
This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance. While surveying a broad variety of ways that Native American traditions imagine land, community, and the sacred, the course focuses on the local traditions of the Ojibwe and Lakota communities. Materials include traditional beliefs and practices, the history of missions, intertribal new religious movements, and contemporary issues of treaty rights, religious freedom, and the revitalization of language and culture.
Sophomore Priority
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RELG 130.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 344 Lived Religion in America 6 credits
The practices of popular, or local, or lived religion in American culture often blur the distinction between the sacred and profane and elude religious studies frameworks based on the narrative, theological, or institutional foundations of “official” religion. This course explores American religion primarily through the lens of the practices of lived religion with respect to ritual, the body, the life cycle, the market, leisure, and popular culture. Consideration of a wide range of topics, including ritual healing, Christmas, cremation, and Elvis, will nourish an ongoing discussion about how to make sense of lived religion.
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RELG 344.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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