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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with AMMUGROUP3 · returned 14 results
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AMST 225 Beauty and Race in America 6 credits
In this class we consider the construction of American beauty historically, examining the way whiteness intersects with beauty to produce a dominant model that marginalizes women of color. We study how communities of color follow, refuse, or revise these beauty ideals through literature. We explore events like the beauty pageant, material culture such as cosmetics, places like the beauty salon, and body work like cosmetic surgery to understand how beauty is produced and negotiated.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AMST 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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AMST 396 Commodifying and Policing: Globalization of the American Suburb and City 6 credits
How does the American export of suburban living, gated communities, and broken-windows policing reshape place, identity and the socio-economic hierarchy? We will also investigate how the commodification of the arts and the neoliberalization of education contribute to gentrification and other forms of spatial cleansing and rebranding. Required for juniors in the American Studies major.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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American Studies 115, 287 or instructor permission
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AMST 396.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 136 1:10pm-2:10pm
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AMST 396.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 266 Reading The Dancing Body: Topics in Dance History 6 credits
This course will look at dance as a field in which bodies articulate a history of sexuality, nation, gender, and race. Students will survey a range of dance forms in the United States and indigenous communities of the Americas as well as the Caribbean, South Asia, and South Africa. Specific explorations will include classical Indian dance, Native American performance, jazz, contact improvisation, and Hip-Hop performance. Through reading comprehension, written reflections and analyses, classroom dialogue, and oral presentation work, we will outline dance history in terms of anti-colonial and civil rights movements from Modernism through Post-Modernism—that is, from the imperialism at the dawn of the twentieth century to current late-capitalism. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary methodologies in dance studies by learning to: conduct dance analysis in their accounts for gesture and social context; theorize according to the intersection of multiple social categories; and write autoethnographies or critical inquiries into personal experience.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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DANC 266.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 266.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WWeitz Center 215 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 215 2:20pm-3:20pm
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DANC 266.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
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DANC 266.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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DANC 266.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENGL 223 American Transcendentalism 6 credits
Attempts to discern the nineteenth-century Zeitgeist come down, Emerson says, to a “practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?” This interdisciplinary course will investigate the works of the American Transcendentalist movement in its restless discontent with the conventional, its eclectic search for better ways of thinking and living. We will engage major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman alongside documents of the scientific, religious, and political changes that shaped their era and provoked their responses.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 235 Asian American Literature 6 credits
This course is an introduction to major works and authors of fiction, drama, and poetry from about 1900 to the present. We will trace the development of Asian American literary traditions while exploring the rich diversity of recent voices in the field. Authors to be read include Carlos Bulosan, Sui Sin Far, Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Milton Murayama, Chang-rae Lee, Li-young Lee, and John Okada.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 235.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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ENGL 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 235.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 236 American Nature Writing 6 credits
A study of the environmental imagination in American literature. We will explore the relationship between literature and the natural sciences and examine questions of style, narrative, and representation in the light of larger social, ethical, and political concerns about the environment. Authors read will include Thoreau, Muir, Jeffers, Abbey, and Leopold. Students will write a creative Natural History essay as part of the course requirements.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 248 Visions of California 6 credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner.
Extra Time required.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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HIST 205 American Environmental History 6 credits
Environmental concerns, conflicts, and change mark the course of American history, from the distant colonial past to our own day. This course will consider the nature of these eco-cultural developments, focusing on the complicated ways that human thought and perception, culture and society, and natural processes and biota have all combined to forge Americans’ changing relationship with the natural world. Topics will include Native American subsistence strategies, Euroamerican settlement, industrialization, urbanization, consumption, and the environmental movement. As we explore these issues, one of our overarching goals will be to develop an historical context for thinking deeply about contemporary environmental dilemmas.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits
This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.
- Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 220.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 226 U.S. Consumer Culture 6 credits
In the period after 1880, the growth of a mass consumer society recast issues of identity, gender, race, class, family, and political life. We will explore the development of consumer culture through such topics as advertising and mass media, the body and sexuality, consumerist politics in the labor movement, and the response to the Americanization of consumption abroad. We will read contemporary critics such as Thorstein Veblen, as well as historians engaged in weighing the possibilities of abundance against the growth of corporate power.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 226.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 226.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 226.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 226.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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HIST 226.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 226.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History 6 credits
Historically work has been a central location for the constitution of gender identities for both men and women; at the same time, cultural notions of gender have shaped the labor market. We will investigate the roles of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping multiple sexual divisions of labor and the ways in which terms such as skill, bread-winning and work itself were gendered. Topics will include domestic labor, slavery, industrialization, labor market segmentation, protective legislation, and the labor movement.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 229.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 229.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 229.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 229.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 344.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 344.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 344.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SOAN 225 Social Movements 6 credits
How is it that in specific historical moments ordinary people come together and undertake collective struggles for justice in social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Standing Rock, immigrant, and LGBTQ rights? How have these movements theorized oppression, and what has been their vision for liberation? What collective change strategies have they proposed and what obstacles have they faced? We will explore specific case studies and use major sociological perspectives theorizing the emergence of movements, repertoires of protest, collective identity formation, frame alignment, and resource mobilization. We will foreground the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, and class in these movements.
- Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 225.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm