AMST 43149 - American Places, Spaces, and Landscapes

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

American Studies

Description:

Where do you spend your time? Spring break trips; family vacations; summer jobs; studying in your dorm; going to the football game; all of these activities help define you and your position in society - they also define the world around you. This senior seminar will examine how American identity, society, politics, and culture are connected to physical places and the environment. How does our relationship to the environment reflect our class, gender, and racial identity? How do we relate with each other spatially? We will examine how physical spaces acquire meaning, how people move through those places, and how landscapes work as texts. We will use approaches from environmental history, cultural geography, and landscape studies to look at a variety of American places including cities, tourist sites, suburbs, industrial sites, and "nature." Small projects on Notre Dame's campus and students' hometowns will build to a larger research project based on each students' area of interest. The senior seminar is designed to be a capstone experience for American Studies majors. Readings and assignments will explore course themes in the context of American Studies as a field. Requirements will include seminar-style discussions of course readings and a final project of approximately 20 pages (or equivalent) based on primary source research.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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