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AMST 100 Walt Whitman’s New York City 6 credits
“O City / Behold me! Incarnate me as I have incarnated you!” An investigation of the burgeoning metropolitan city where the young Walter Whitman became a poet in the 1850s. Combining historical inquiry into the lives of nineteenth-century citizens of Brooklyn and Manhattan with analysis of Whitman’s varied journalistic writings and utterly original poetry, we will reconstruct how Whitman found his muse and his distinctively modern subject in the geography, demographics, markets, politics, and erotics of New York.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AMST 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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AMST 100.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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AMST 142 U.S. Latinx Identity and Representation: Cultures of Belonging 6 credits
Popular culture and mass media serve as key sites of identity formation. In this course we will examine U.S. Latinx identity formation by focusing on three case studies: Selena Quintanilla, the singer; telenovelas; and the Disney films Coco and Encanto. These case studies will help us explore how transnationalism, intergenerational knowledge and trauma, and civic and cultural belonging contribute to the shaping of U.S. Latinx collective identities. We will attend to the particular processes of production and reception as we study how audiences engage with cultural producers both in private and in public (notably on social media).
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AMST 142.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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AMST 222 Indigenous Film 6 credits
This course introduces students to the world of Indigenous films, beginning with representations of Indians and how these images shape what most people “know” about “Indians.” Simultaneously, Indigenous filmmakers exercise visual sovereignty by not only refusing representations of Indigenous people, but by creating visual representations of Indigenous peoples that speak to the urgent issues of the present. Through Indigenous films, we will examine genres, develop an appreciation for historical and cultural contexts of films, and consider how these films are forms of Indigenous resurgence. We will also learn the basics of media literacy and film analysis. Our key concepts include visual sovereignty, Indigenous, Indians, settler colonialism, decolonization, resurgence, tradition, and gender.
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AMST 222.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 238 9/11 and the War on Terror in American Culture 6 credits
An exploration of how the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and the subsequent War on Terror impacted American culture. We will focus on issues of both form (the elements determining the look and feel of post-9/11 artwork) and content (the social and moral concerns driving post-9/11 culture). Shared texts will include novels, short stories, poetry, music, art, and films. Particular attention will be paid to themes such as race and racism, religion and religious discrimination, immigration and xenophobia, debates over American exceptionalism, critiques of American capitalism, the “death of irony,” attempts to define “truth,” and the spread of conspiracy theories.
- Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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AMST 238.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AMST 240 The Midwest and the American Imagination 6 credits
The history of American culture has always been shaped by a dialectic between the local and the universal, the regional and the national. The particular geography and history of the Midwest (the prairie, the plains, the old Northwest, Native Americans and white adventurers, settlers and immigrants) have shaped its livelihoods, its identities, its meanings. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this course will explore literature, art history, and the social and cultural history of the Midwest.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time
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AMST 250 Asian American Reckonings 3 credits
As both targets of racism and beneficiaries of privilege, Asian Americans defy easy categorization. In a timely intervention, Cathy Park Hong, in her 2020 essay collection Minor Feelings, undertakes an “Asian American Reckoning.” Following Hong’s lead, this five-week course will reckon with Asian America in its most vexing aspects. Through an exploration of memoir, cultural criticism, poetry, fiction, and film/media, we will think hard about questions of privilege and discrimination, interracial politics, settler colonialism, and transnational ties. Grappling with the past and looking towards the future, this course asks: What does it mean to be Asian American?
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AMST 260 Sexuality in American Film since 1945 3 credits
This five-week class uses feature-length films to examine debates around sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. Designed to allow students to develop both a deeper understanding of modern American gender & sexual history as well as a fuller appreciation for film as a rich, historically-contingent artform. Explores a number of themes, including but not limited to: sexual identity, gender identity, censorship, racial politics and racism, class anxieties, cultural production, trans experiences, and representation. Will include films like Some Like it Hot (1959), The Graduate (1967), Philadelphia (1993), and Tangerine (2015).
2nd 5 weeks
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AMST 260.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHasenstab 109 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AMST 287 California Program: California Art & Visual Culture 6 credits
An in-depth exploration of the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California: whether as bountiful utopia, suburban paradise, or multicultural frontier. We will meet with California artists and art historians, and visit museums and galleries. Art and artists studied will range from native American art, the Arts and Crafts movement and California Impressionism to the photography of Ansel Adams, urban murals and the imagery of commercial culture (such as lithographs, tourist brochures, and orange-crate labels).
OCS Visions of California Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in AMST OCS program
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ARTH 171 History of Photography 6 credits
This course covers nineteenth and twentieth century photography from its origins to the present. It will consider formal innovations in the medium, the role of photography in society, and the place of photography in the fine arts.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 171.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 171.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THBoliou 104 8:15am-10:00am
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ARTH 171.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Any one term of art history
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ARTH 240.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 11:30am-12:40pm
- FBoliou 104 11:10am-12:10pm
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 247 Architecture Since 1950 6 credits
This course begins by considering the international triumph of architecture’s Modern Movement as seen in key works by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and their followers. Soon after modernisms rise, however, architects began to question the movement’s tenets and the role that architecture as a discipline plays in the fashioning of society. This course will examine the central actors in this backlash from Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and elsewhere before exploring the architectural debates surrounding definitions of postmodernism. The course will conclude by considering the impact of both modernism and postmodernism on contemporary architectural practice.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 247.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 247.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 187 Cult Television and Fan Cultures 6 credits
This course focuses on the history, production, and consumption of cult television. The beginning of the seminar will be focused on critically examining a number of theoretical approaches to the study of genre and fandom. Building on these approaches, the remainder of the course will focus on cult television case studies from the last eight decades. We will draw on recent scholarship to explore how cult television functions textually, industrially, and culturally. Additionally, we will study fan communities on the Internet and consider how fansites, webisodes, and sites like YouTube and Netflix transform television genres.
Extra time, evening screenings
- Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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CAMS 187.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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CAMS 187.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 215 American Television History 6 credits
This course offers a historical survey of American television from the late 1940s to today, focusing on early television and the classical network era. Taking a cultural approach to the subject, this course examines shifts in television portrayals, genres, narrative structures, and aesthetics in relation to social and cultural trends as well as changing industrial practices. Reading television programs from the past eight decades critically, we interrogate various representations of consumerism, class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, lifestyle, and nation in the smaller screen while also tracing issues surrounding broadcasting policy, censorship, sponsorship, business, and programming.
Extra time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 215.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 215.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 216 American Cinema of the 1970s 6 credits
American cinema from 1967-1979 saw the reconfiguration of outdated modes of representation in the wake of the Hollywood studio system and an alignment of new aesthetic forms with radical political and social perspectives. This course examines the film industry’s identity crisis through the cultural, stylistic, and technological changes that accompanied the era. The course seeks to demonstrate that these changes in cinematic practices reflected an agenda of revitalizing American cinema as a site for social commentary and cultural change.
Extra time
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 216.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 216.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream 6 credits
After Americans grasped the enormity of the Depression and World War II, the glossy fantasies of 1930s cinema seemed hollow indeed. During the 1940s, the movies, our true national pastime, took a nosedive into pessimism. The result? A collection of exceptional films chocked full of tough guys and bad women lurking in the shadows of nasty urban landscapes. This course focuses on classic as well as neo-noir from a variety of perspectives, including genre and mode, visual style and narrative structure, postwar culture and politics, and gender and race.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:28
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 225.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 258 Feminist and Queer Media 6 credits
The focus of this course is on spectatorship—feminist, lesbian, queer, transgender. The seminar interrogates arguments about representation and the viewer’s relationship to the moving image in terms of identification, desire, masquerade, fantasy, power, time, and embodied experience. The course first explores the founding essays of psychoanalytic feminist film theory, putting these ideas into dialogue with mainstream cinema. Second, we consider the aesthetic, narrative, and theoretical interventions posed by feminist filmmakers working in contradistinction to Hollywood. Third, “queering” contemporary media, we survey challenges and revisions to feminist film theory presented by considerations of race and ethnicity, transgender experience, and queerness.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 258.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time required, evening screenings
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CAMS 258.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with CCCE and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 or instructor consent
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 340 Television Studies Seminar 6 credits
This seminar aims to develop students into savvy critical theorists of television, knowledgeable about the field, and capable of challenging previous scholarship to invent new paradigms. The first half of the course surveys texts foundational to television studies while the second half focuses primarily on television theory and criticism produced over the last two decades. Television Studies covers a spectrum of approaches to thinking and writing critically about television, including: semiotics; ideological critique; cultural studies; genre and narrative theories; audience studies; production studies; and scholarship positioning post-network television within the contexts of media convergence and digital media.
- Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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DANC 254 Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves 3 credits
This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended.
- Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 254.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 165 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 254.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
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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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ECON 262 The Economics of Sports 6 credits
In recent years, the sports business in the United States has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. Understanding the sports business from an economic viewpoint is the subject of this course. Topics will include player compensation, revenue-sharing, salary caps, free agency, tournaments, salary discrimination, professional franchise valuation, league competitiveness, college athletics, and the economics of sports stadiums and arenas.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 262.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 262.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 262.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 113 Horror Fiction 6 credits
Horror is a speculative genre of literature with ancient roots in storytelling. Contemporary horror finds source material in centuries-old religious narratives, medieval folklore, historical events, contemporary urban legends, and real-life crimes and violence. Horror has always been full of metaphors for society’s deepest fears and anxieties; studying and writing horror can yield limitless insight and inspiration for imagining different futures. How do writers use atmosphere, characterization, symbols, allusions, suspense, etc. to hold our attention and produce “horror” toward some larger thematic end? In this course, students will read, analyze, discuss, and write about various literary fictional texts that could fall under the rubric of “horror” and practice creative writing in this capacious and rebellious genre. Authors may include Lesley Arimah, Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson, Han Kang, and Victor LaValle.
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ENGL 113.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLaird 205 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 120 American Short Stories 6 credits
An exploration of the remarkable variety and evolution of the American short story from its emergence in the early nineteenth century to the present. Authors read will range from Washington Irving to Octavia Butler and Jhumpa Lahiri. We will examine how formal aspects such as narration, dialogue, style and character all help shape this genre over time. While our central focus will be on literary artistry, we will also consider examples of pulp fiction, graphic short stories, flash fiction and some cinematic adaptations of stories.
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ENGL 227 Imagining the Borderlands 6 credits
This course engages the borderlands as space (the geographic area that straddles nations) and idea (liminal spaces, identities, communities). We examine texts from writers like Anzaldúa, Butler, Cervantes, Dick, Eugenides, Haraway, and Muñoz first to understand how borders act to constrain our imagi(nation) and then to explore how and to what degree the borderlands offer hybrid identities, queer affects, and speculative world-building. We will engage the excess of the borderlands through a broad chronological and generic range of U.S. literary and visual texts. Come prepared to question what is “American”, what is race, what is human.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 228 Banned. Censored. Reviled. 6 credits
What makes a work of art dangerous? While present-day attacks on books, libraries, and schools feel unprecedented, writers and artists have always had to fight efforts to suppress their work, often at great personal and societal cost. We will study literature, films, graphic novels, images, music, and other materials that have been challenged and attacked as offensive, taboo, or transgressive, and also explore strategies of resistance to censorship.
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ENGL 230 Studies in African American Literature: From the 1950s to the Present 6 credits
We will explore developments in African American literature since the 1950s with a focus on literary expression in the Civil Rights Era; on the Black Arts Movement; on the new wave of feminist/womanist writing; and on the experimental and futuristic fictions of the twenty-first century. Authors to be read include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kevin Young, and Tracy Smith.
- Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 233 Writing Empathy/Writing Black Life 6 credits
At the end of the nineteenth century, amidst legalized segregation and widespread racism, U.S. black writers undertook radical experiments in literary art. We will read Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Ida B. Wells, considering their strategies to inspire readers’ empathy and to shape new possibilities in black life. We will end by discussing how conceptions of empathy in our own moment influence black writing, in works such as Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (2015) or Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead (2017).
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies 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 239 Democracy: Politics, Race, & Sex in Nineteenth Century American Novels 6 credits
An important preoccupation of nineteenth century America was the nature of democracy and the proper balance of individualism and the social good. An experiment in government, democracy also raised new questions about gender, class, and race. Citizenship was contested; roles in the new, expanding nation were fluid; abolition and emancipation, the movement for women’s rights, industrialization all caused ferment and anxiety. The course will explore the way these issues were imagined in fiction by such writers as Cooper, Hawthorne, Maria Sedgwick, Stowe, Tourgee, Henry Adams, Twain, Gilman, and Chesnutt.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 241 Latinx Voices in the Age of Trump 6 credits
The last few years have placed Latinx communities under siege and in the spotlight. The demands of the census and new policies around immigration mean that who counts as Latinx and why it matters has public visibility and meaning. Simultaneously, the last few years have seen an incredible growth of new literary voices and genres in the world of Latinx letters. From fictional and creative nonfiction accounts of detention camps, border crossings, and asylum court proceedings to lyrical wanderings in bilingualism to demands for greater attention to Afrolatinidad and the particular experiences of Black Latinxs–Latinx voices are rising. We will engage with current literary discussions in print, on twitter, and in literary journals as we chart the shifting, developing terrain of Latinx literatures.
- Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 241.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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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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ENGL 253 Food Writing: History, Culture, Practice 6 credits
We are living in perhaps the height of what might be called the “foodie era” in the U.S. The cooking and presentation of food dominates Instagram and is one of the key draws of YouTube and various television and streaming networks; shows about chefs and food culture are likewise very popular. Yet a now less glamorous form with a much longer history persists: food writing. In this course we will track some important genres of food writing over the last 100 years or so. We will examine how not just food but cultural discourses about food and the world it circulates in are consumed and produced. We will read recipes and reviews; blogs and extracts from cookbooks, memoirs and biographies; texts on food history and policy; academic and popular feature writing. Simultaneously we will also produce food writing of our own in a number of genres.
- Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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ENGL 258 Contemporary American Playwrights of Color 6 credits
This course examines a diverse selection of plays from the 1960s to the present, exploring how different theatrical contexts, from Broadway to regional theater to Off-Off Broadway, frame the staging of ethnic identity. Playwrights and performers to be studied include Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe, Luis Valdez, David Henry Hwang, August Wilson, Philip Gotanda, Maria Irene Fornes, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Anna Deavere Smith. There will be occasional out-of-class film screenings, and attendance at live theater performances when possible.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 258.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 288 California Program: The Literature of California 6 credits
An intensive study of writing and film that explores California 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 John Muir, Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, and Joan Didion. Films will include: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, The Grapes of Wrath, Zoot Suit, and Blade Runner.
OCS Visions of California Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 332 Studies in American Literature: Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald 6 credits
An intensive study of the novels and short fiction of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The course will focus on the ethos of experimentation and the “homemade” quality of these innovative stylists who shaped the course of American modernism. Works read will be primarily from the twenties and thirties and will include The Sound and the Fury, In Our Time, Light in August, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Go Down, Moses.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course
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ENGL 352 Toni Morrison: Novelist 6 credits
Morrison exposes the limitations of the language of fiction, but refuses to be constrained by them. Her quirky, inimitable, and invariably memorable characters are fully committed to the protocols of the narratives that define them. She is fearless in her choice of subject matter and boundless in her thematic range. And the novelistic site becomes a stage for Morrison’s virtuoso performances. It is to her well-crafted novels that we turn our attention in this course.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission
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ENGL 352.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENTS 307 Wilderness Field Studies: Grand Canyon 6 credits
This course is the second half of a two-course sequence focused on the study of wilderness in American society and culture. The course will begin with an Off-Campus Studies program at Grand Canyon National Park, where we will learn about the natural and human history of the Grand Canyon region, examine contemporary issues facing the park, meet with officials from the National Park Service and other local experts, conduct research, and experience the park through hiking and camping. The course will culminate in spring term with the completion and presentation of a major research project.
HIST 306 required previous winter term, Extra Time
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 306 and Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 150 Working Sex: Commercial Sexual Cultures 6 credits
Why is the sale of sex criminalized? Who participates in sexual labor and for what reasons? What are the goals and tactics of sex worker social movements? Sexual commerce is an integral facet of U.S. society and the global economy, and yet it elicits strong and paradoxical reactions. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of commercial sexual cultures. Taking a transnational approach, we will examine historical, political, and economic changes in sexual economies and the regulation of commercial sex. Course readings explore how sex workers have collectively organized to resist criminalization and fight for a better future.
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GWSS 150.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GWSS 398 Capstone: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Culture 6 credits
This capstone seminar reads representations of racial, gender, and sexual minorities in popular culture through the lenses of feminist, critical race, queer, and trans theories. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in the late 1980s to describe an approach to oppression that considered how structures of power act multiply on individuals based upon their interlocking racial, class, gender, sexual, and other identities. This seminar takes up the charge of intersectional analysis—rejecting essentialist theories of difference while exploring pluralities—to interpret diversity (or lack thereof) in forms of art and entertainment, focusing on film, TV, and digital media.
- Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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GWSS 398.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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GWSS 398.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 398 Capstone: Schooling Sex: History of Sex Education & Instruction 6 credits
How did sex get into public schools? How did sexual practice and desire become an object of scientific inquiry? Why has sex education been a site for repeated social conflicts, and what do those conflicts tell us about gender, racial, and economic inequality in the United States? This course is for everyone who has ever questioned the official and unofficial curriculum of sex education. The course provides a cultural and intellectual history of sex education and instruction within the geographic region of the United States. Throughout we will examine the complex relationship between sexual knowledge, pedagogy, and systems of power.
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HIST 100 American Farms and Food 6 credits
What’s for dinner? The answers to that question–and others like it–have never been more complicated or consequential than they are today. Behind a glance into the refrigerator or the shelves of any supermarket lie a myriad of concerns, ideas, and cultural developments that touch on everything from health and nutrition to taste, tradition, identity, time, cost, and environmental stewardship. This seminar will consider the evolution of these interconnected issues in American history, giving particular attention to the rise, inner workings, and effects of the agro-industrial food system and to contemporary movements that seek a new path forward.
Held for new first year students
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HIST 100.01 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 122 U.S. Women’s History to 1877 6 credits
Gender, race, and class shaped women’s participation in the arenas of work, family life, culture, and politics in the United States from the colonial period to the late nineteenth century. We will examine diverse women’s experiences of colonization, industrialization, slavery and Reconstruction, religion, sexuality and reproduction, and social reform. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources, as well as historiographic articles outlining major frameworks and debates in the field of women’s history.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 122.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 216 History Beyond the Walls 6 credits
This course will examine the world of history outside the walls of academia. Looking at secondary-school education, museums, and public policy, we will explore the ways in which both general and specialized publics learn and think about history. A central component of the course will be a civic engagement project.
Extra Time Required.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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One History course
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HIST 216.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Extra Time
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HIST 216.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Serena Zabin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 216.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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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HIST 306 American Wilderness 6 credits
This course is part of the off-campus spring break program, involving two-linked courses in winter and spring. To many Americans, wild lands are among the nation’s most treasured places. Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree–the names alone evoke a sense of awe, naturalness, beauty, even love. But, where do those ideas and feelings come from, and how have they both reflected and shaped American cultural, political and environmental history over the last four centuries? These are the central issues and questions that we will pursue in this seminar.
Spring Break OCS Program Course. ENTS 307 required for Spring Term registration.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program. History 205 is recommended but not required.
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 308 American Cities and Nature 6 credits
Since the nation’s founding, the percentage of Americans living in cities has risen nearly sixteenfold, from about five percent to the current eighty-one percent. This massive change has spawned legions of others, and all of them have bearing on the complex ways that American cities and city-dwellers have shaped and reshaped the natural world. This course will consider the nature of cities in American history, giving particular attention to the dynamic linkages binding these cultural epicenters to ecological communities, environmental forces and resource flows, to eco-politics and social values, and to those seemingly far-away places we call farms and wilderness.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 205 is recommended but not required
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 316 Presenting America’s Founding 6 credits
This course is the second half of a two-course sequence focused on the study of the founding of the United States in American public life. The course will begin with a two-week off-campus study program during winter break in Washington, D.C and Boston, where we will visit world-class museums and historical societies, meet with museum professionals, and learn about the goals and challenges of history museums, the secrets to successful exhibitions, and the work of museum curators and directors. The course will culminate in the winter term with the completion of an exhibit created in conjunction with one of the museums located on Boston’s Freedom Trail.
Participation in Winter Break History Program
- Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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History 315
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HIST 316.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Serena Zabin 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 316.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Serena Zabin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 320 The Progressive Era? 6 credits
Was the Progressive Era progressive? It was a period of social reform, labor activism, and woman suffrage, but also of Jim Crow, corporate capitalism, and U.S. imperialism. These are among the topics that can be explored in research papers on this contradictory era. We will begin by reading a brief text that surveys the major subject areas and relevant historiography of the period. The course will center on the writing of a 25-30 page based on primary research, which will be read and critiqued by members of the seminar.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 320.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 320.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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HIST 320.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 115 Music and Film 6 credits
This course explores the history and development of film music along with theories of how music contributes to the meaning of moving images and narrative scenes. The primary focus of the course will be on film music in the U.S., but notable film scores from Europe and Asia will also be discussed. The film music history covers historical periods from the pre-cinematic Vaudeville era through the postmodern films of the early twenty-first century. Cross-cutting this chronological history will be discussion of film musicals as a separate genre. Ability to read music not required.
Extra Time
- Winter 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 115.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Ronald Rodman 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 115.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ronald Rodman 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 115.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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MUSC 115.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 115.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 126 America’s Music 6 credits
A survey of American music with particular attention to the interaction of the folk, popular, and classical realms. No musical experience required.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THOld Music Hall 103 1:15pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center M215 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center M215 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center M104 10:20am-12:05pm
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Lahasky 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center M215 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center M215 9:40am-10:40am
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MUSC 126.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 131 The Blues From the Delta to Chicago 6 credits
A history of the Delta blues and its influence on later blues and popular music styles, tracing its movement from the Mississippi Delta in the 1920s to Chess Records and the Chicago Blues of the 1940s and 50s (especially Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters). Music and musicians discussed will include the classic blues singers of the 1920s, early country music (Jimmie Rodgers), and the legacy of Robert Johnson. Issues of authenticity and “ownership” of both the music and its cultural legacy will also be discussed. The course involves readings, listening assignments, and some transcriptions of early recorded blues. No prerequisite, although the ability to read music is helpful.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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MUSC 131.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 131.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 131.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 136 History of Rock 6 credits
This course is an introduction to the history of rock music, emphasizing primarily the period between 1954 and the present. Mixing historical and cultural readings with intense listening, we will cover the vast repertoire of rock music and many other associated styles. We will focus on the sounds of the music, learning to distinguish a wide variety of genres, while also tracing the development and transformation of rock and pop styles. The lectures will use a wide variety of multimedia, including commercial audio and video, unpublished audio and video sources, print materials, and technological devices. Knowledge of a technical musical vocabulary and an ability to read music are not required for this course.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 136.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 8:30am-9:40am
- FWeitz Center M215 8:30am-9:30am
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MUSC 136.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center M215 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 136.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center M215 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 341 Rock Lab and Lab 6 credits
This class combines performance and academic study of rock music. In the first half of the course, we will learn to perform simple songs in small-group coaching sessions with a polished public performance as a midterm goal. During the second half of the course, we will make recordings of these performances. Throughout the term, we will accompany performance and recording activities with readings and discussion about aesthetics, performance practice in rock music, and mediation of recording techniques, all extraordinarily rich topics in popular music studies. No performance experience is needed. The course will accommodate students with a range of experience. Students will be grouped according to background, interest, and ability. There is a required hands-on laboratory component, which will be assigned before the start of the course. In these smaller groups, students will perform, record, and work with sound in small groups. Work will include experimentation with electric instruments, amplifiers, synthesizers, microphones, recording techniques, performance practice issues, musical production, mixing, and mastering.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Intercultural Domestic Studies
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MUSC 341.53 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
- WWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.52 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
- TWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.52 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
- TWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.53 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
- WWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.52 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center M126 12:30pm-1:40pm
- TWeitz Center M027 2:00pm-5:00pm
- FWeitz Center M126 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 341.53 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center M126 12:30pm-1:40pm
- WWeitz Center M027 2:00pm-5:00pm
- FWeitz Center M126 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 341.52 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
- TWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.53 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
- WWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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PHIL 228 Freedom and Alienation in Black American Philosophy 6 credits
The struggle of freedom against forms of alienation is both a historical and contemporary characteristic of Black/African-American philosophy. In this course we will explore how a variety of Black/African-American philosophers theorize these concepts. The aim of the course is to both offer resources for familiarizing students with African-American philosophers and develop an appreciation for critical philosophical voices in the Black intellectual tradition. The course will range from slave narratives, reconstruction, and civil rights to contemporary prison abolitionism, intersectionality, and afro-pessimism. The texts of the course will include: Angela Davis’ Lectures on Liberation, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors, George Yancy’s African-American Philosophers 17 Conversations, and Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction. As well as select articles from historical and contemporary Black/African-American philosophers.
- Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 228.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 228.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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PHIL 228.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 204 Media and Electoral Politics: 2018 United States Election 6 credits
Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion. Students will conduct a study of the effects of campaign ads and news using our multi-year data set of content analyzed election ads and news. We study a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how political communication affects U.S. elections. Taking this course in conjunction with Political Science 223 is highly recommended to learn methods such as focus group and depth interview methods and experiment design for conducting original research on elections.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice 6 credits
This seminar introduces students to major psychological theories and research on the development, perpetuation and reduction of prejudice. A social and historical approach to race, culture, ethnicity and race relations will provide a backdrop for examining psychological theory and research on prejudice formation and reduction. Major areas to be discussed are cognitive social learning, group conflict and contact hypothesis.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission. Psychology 256 or 258 recommended
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PSYC 384.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 103 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 384.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 140 Religion and American Culture 6 credits
This course explores the colorful, contested history of religion in American culture. While surveying the main contours of religion in the United States from the colonial era to the present, the course concentrates on a series of historical moments that reveal tensions between a quest for a (Protestant) American consensus and an abiding religious and cultural pluralism.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 140.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 140.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 140.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 267 Black Testimony: Art, Literature, Philosophy 6 credits
Throughout Black history, testimony–a discourse in which an individual uses personal stories to convey ideas of broader meaning–has played an essential role in Black religion, politics, and daily life. In this course, we will identify the significance, history, and particularities of Black people’s testimonies, and outline their presence and potential today. Remaining mindful of testimony’s religious dimensions will include particular attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the assigned materials. The syllabus may include testimonial art by Romare Bearden and Kenrick Lamar, writings by Angela Davis and Frederick Douglass, and films by Barry Jenkins.
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RELG 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 285 Islam in America: Race, Religion and Politics 6 credits
This course examines the history of Islam in America from the colonial period to the present. It contextualizes American Islam at the cross section of American religious history and modern Islamic history. While primarily focused on the politics of race and religion in America, the course also explores the influence of comparative theology and religious studies on conceptions of religious diversity; the relationship between race, religion and ideas of progress; the role of Islam in the civil rights movement and in nationalist movements in Muslim-majority societies; and the rise of militant Islam as a matter of global concern.
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RELG 285.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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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 114 Modern Families: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Family 6 credits
What makes a family? How has the conception of kinship and the ‘normal’ family changed over the generations? In this introductory class, we examine these questions, drawing on a variety of course materials ranging from classic works in sociology to contemporary blogs on family life. The class focuses on diversity in family life, paying particular attention to the intersection between the family, race and ethnicity, and social class. We’ll examine these issues at the micro and macro level, incorporating texts that focus on individuals’ stories as well as demographics of the family.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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SOAN 114.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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SOAN 114.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 114.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 114.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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SOAN 252 Growing up in an Aging Society 6 credits
Both the U.S. and global populations are trending toward a world with far fewer young people than ever before. So, what does it mean to grow up in a rapidly aging society? This course explores age, aging, and its various intersections with demographic characteristics including gender, sexuality, race, and social class. We situate age and aging within the context of macro-structural, institutional, and micro-everyday realms. Some topics we will examine include: media depictions and stereotypes; interpersonal relationships and caregiving; the workplace and retirement; and both the perceptions and inevitable realities of an aging population.
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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SOAN 252.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Annette Nierobisz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 252.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Annette Nierobisz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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THEA 227 Theatre for Social Change 6 credits
This class is an examination of significant artists who use theatre as a tool for envisioning and enacting social change. We will study the justice-making strategies of a variety of artists, including Augusto Boal, Cherríe Moraga, Anna Deavere Smith, among many other contemporary artists whose work continues to shape American society. We will also examine influential methods of using theatre for social change, including documentary theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, theatre for young audiences, and theatre in prisons. The class will include a number of guest artist visits from people making work in the field. The final project will be an original theatrical creation that uses the strategies studied in class to address a contemporary social issue.
Extra Time
- Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 227.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 182 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:45pm-3:30pm
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THEA 227.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm