AMST 101 - Introduction to American Studies

Institution:

Lehigh University

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Description:

An introduction to the methods, concerns, and practices of American Studies through the examination of a critical decade of cultural transformation (e.g. the 1770s, 1850s, 1890s, 1930s or 1970s). Will draw on literature , philosophy, painting, architecture, landscape design, social thought and cultural criticism, crime, reform movements, sports, and popular culture to explore such topics as responses to economic change, ideas of nature and culture, the meaning of work and leisure, law and politics, race, construction of gender, family structure, population dynamics, science and technology, sexuality, class, urban experience, and the American polity.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lehigh.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 758-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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