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This course provides a critical examination of important American films with the intention of exploring the impact of film as a mythmaking medium.Topics include history in film, sexual role-playing, social class and institutions, and the religio-ethical assumptions implicit in American films.Three credits.
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A seminar on major ideas and themes that have helped shape American life, this course makes a conscious effort to demonstrate the interaction between intellectual, social, and cultural dynamics in the formation of America.Three credits.
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During senior year, each American studies major writes a research paper under the supervision of several participating faculty members.Students integrate different intellectual disciplines in the design and execution of their projects.Three credits.
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Using a historical perspective, this interdisciplinary course examines how the Irish experience has been depicted in American film.The intention of this course is to heighten an appreciation for the myth-making power of film in developing a historical consciousness and creating racial/cultural stereotypes.Topics include the Irish diaspora, the Irish independence movement, Anglo-Irish relations, the IRA, the Irish assimilation into mainstream America, Irish legends in film, and the myth of the Old Country.Three credits.
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This course exposes students to an interdisciplinary method of learning.While using standard historical texts to establish the facts regarding the American Civil War, this course explores the sometimes confusing and contradictory versions of the Civil War as depicted in literature, photography, feature films, documentary films, music, painting, and other modes of expression.Three credits.
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The Great Depression represents the catalytic agent in America's extraordinary transformation in the 1930s, a decade during which the changes in the economic and political sectors provided the matter for American cultural life.This course acquaints students with the complexities of this pivotal period in American life through feature films and documentaries, popular and serious fiction, the American theatre of the time, popular music, public and private art, and mass circulation and little magazines, while introducing them to an interdisciplinary methodology.Three credits. of 1959), generously established a continuing fund to spend on invited speakers, course materials, and scheduled activities on topics of international affairs, global ethics, and public policy.The first major disbursement established the Resource Center for Global Studies, located in the central office of the Program on Applied Ethics and open to the University community during working hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the relationship of literature to religion in the history of American letters.Beginning with the moral didacticism of early Puritan literature, American writers have manifested a persistent concern with religio-ethical matters as well as with the impact of religious institutions in shaping our social and cultural environment.Using literary texts by major American writers, the course evaluates the critical perspective and relevance of the imaginative writer's treatment of religious questions.Three credits.
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The study of natural selection, primate evolution, and living primate societies provides a baseline from which to study the evolution of the human species.The course also traces human cultural and social development from the foraging bands of the first humans to the civilizations that appeared at the dawn of written history.Students also examine physical variation among living populations.Three credits.
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Why is there such variety among the way members of human societies live, dress, speak, behave toward one another, and worship This course explores the shared patterns of thought, behavior, and feelings - that is, the cultures - of a number of peoples and offers an explanation for the form they take and the differences between them.The course helps students develop a new perspective on the values and institutions of Western cultur e.This course meets the world diversity requirement . Three credits.
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This course introduces the cultural anthropology of two very diverse regions of the world.Africa and Latin America/the Caribbean are continents with several distinct cultural heritages and a complex blending of the ancient and the modern.The course ranges broadly, exploring the ancient civilizations of each area, the cultural ecology that shapes human behavior and society there, the distinctive cultural patterns that characterize each, the historical and cultural linkages between these two regions, and the similarities and differences in African and Latin American experiences with colonialism, capitalism, and development in an increasingly global system. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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