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4.00 Credits
Explores how gender influences and shapes political campaigns, ideologies and candidates. Sets gender within the wider
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes history and meaning of race in America. Interdisciplinary, including fiction, philosophy, historic documents, laws, and popular culture. Focus on Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latino experiences. Topics include Indian removal policies, slavery, creation of "whiteness," eugenics,immigration exclusion laws, 1960s civil rights movements, and contemporary meanings of race. Satisfies US History, Civilization Culture requirement. Satisfies Upper level writing requirement. Satisfies College Multicultural requirement. Intermediate.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the social and cultural construction of masculinity in the United States using the theories and methods of Anthropology. Topics include race, class, ethnicity, and religion; popular images of American men (e.g., movies, magazines, sports, jokes); relationship of US manhood to sexuality, war, and women. Some comparison to other cultures. Satisfies General Education Social Sciences requirement. Intermediate.
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4.00 Credits
Provides examples, context, theories, and methodologies for understanding the development and meaning of American popular culture. Particular focus on gender, race, and ethnicity. Emphasis on analysis of culture from different mediums, including popular literature, film, music, and television. Organized historically, and by
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4.00 Credits
Provides students with the historical knowledge, skills and dispositions to understand the lives of children. Topics include childhood in Puritan America, childhood in slavery, origins of Head Start, kindergartens, and role of science in understanding children. Uses varied sources including literature, cultural and social history, social work and social policy. Prerequisites: Course in Human Development, History or American Studies, or by permission of instructor. Intermediate.
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4.00 Credits
Examines different ways feminists analyze patriarchal society and women's place within it. Emphasis on debates within feminist theory, ranging from radical to post-modern. Selected topics of controversy include pornography, reproductive technologies, racism, prostitution, and masculinity. Takes a multicultural perspective on women's experiences. Focus on ways feminists translate theory into practice. Prerequisite: course in Human Development, History or American Studies, or by permission of instructor. Satisfies Upper level writing requirement. Advanced.
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4.00 Credits
Course will explore, through autobiographies, the lives of "citizen leaders" who faced the challenges and contradictions of American Democracy. Students will study individual lives in order to grasp the more personal sense and meaning of the democratic project in American Society. They will also use this inquiry to consider the significance and power of citizen leadership in the past and in their present and future lives. Prerequisite: American Identities, or one course in American History or American Literature. Advanced.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the richness of scholarship in American Studies. Using theories and methodologies adopted in the social sciences and the Humanities, students examine specific time periods, such as the 1950s or specific topics, such as the social construction of whiteness or the nature of work in capitalism. Prerequisites: AST 160 and at least one intermediate AST course or by permission of instructor. Advanced.
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10.00 Credits
Builds upon student's focus and provides experience in a field of the student's choice. Students gain deeper understanding of role of cultural institutions in American Society, such as museums, media organizations and activist based organization. Location decided in consultation with advisor. Placements are 10 hours a week. Discussion group accompanies fieldwork. Open to American Studies majors only. Prerequisite: Juniors and Seniors only. Advanced. medium. Prerequisite: AST 160 or by permission of instructor. Intermediate/Advanced.
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4.00 Credits
A 150-hour supervised practicum chosen from a variety of settings and a bi-weekly seminar. Undertake responsibilities suited to site's priorities and needs and students'knowledge, skills, and learning goals. adapting the scale for use with high-risk families and as an adjunct to other assessments.
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