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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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ARTH 160 American Art to 1940 6 credits
Concentration on painting of the colonial period (especially portraiture) and nineteenth century (especially landscape and scenes of everyday life) with an introduction to the modernism of the early twentieth century. The course will include analysis of the ways art shapes and reflects cultural attitudes such as those concerning race and gender.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 160.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 160.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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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CAMS 186 Film Genres 6 credits
In this course we survey four or more Hollywood film genres, including but not limited to the Western, musical, horror film, comedy, and science-fiction film. What criteria are used to place a film in a particular genre? What role do audiences and studios play in the creation and definition of film genres? Where do genres come from? How do genres change over time? What roles do genres play in the viewing experience? What are hybrid genres and subgenres? What can genres teach us about society? Assignments aim to develop skills in critical analysis, research and writing.
Sophomore Priority Extra Time, Evening screenings
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority, Extra Time
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 186.00 Fall 2022
- 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 186.00 Winter 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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Sophomore Priority
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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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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 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 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 329 The City in American Literature 6 credits
How do American authors “write the city”? The city as both material reality and metaphor has fueled the imagination of diverse novelists, poets, and playwrights, through tales of fallen women and con men, immigrant dreams, and visions of apocalypse. After studying the realistic tradition of urban fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, we will turn to modern and contemporary re-imaginings of the city, with a focus on Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Selected films, photographs, and historical sources will supplement our investigations of how writers face the challenge of representing urban worlds.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- 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 329.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:10pm
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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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POSC 212 Environmental Justice 6 credits
The environmental justice movement seeks greater participation by marginalized communities in environmental policy, and equity in the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. This course will examine the meaning of “environmental justice,” the history of the movement, the empirical foundation for the movement’s claims, and specific policy questions. Our focus is the United States, but students will have the opportunity to research environmental justice in other countries.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:21
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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THEA 242 Modern American Drama 6 credits
A study of a selection of significant American plays from Eugene O’Neill’s Hairy Ape (1920) to August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (2003) in the context of larger American themes and cultural preoccupations. The premise of this course is that these plays define the modern American theatre. By studying them we will gain a deeper understanding of American theater and the links that connect it to the larger culture and to some of the transformative events of American history.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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THEA 242.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 242.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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THEA 242.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am