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AMS 205: Working Lives
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. This lecture/discussion course focuses on individual American lives in their working experiences as they are expressed in their personal forms of autobiographies, oral histories, diaries, and letters. What does work mean to Americans as they construct their lives and judge their personal success or failure What is the role of work in construction of a "good life" in this culture And do these views vary according to the individual's position in the ethnic, gender, class, and regional richness and diversity of the American experience
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AMS 231: Contemporary America
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. This course has two principal objectives. Students will analyze the changing nature of American cultural values for the period dating from the early 1970s to the present. By placing materials drawn from literature, film, the visual arts, music, and popular culture within broader social and historical contexts, students will examine key developments in the everyday life patterns and cultural expressions of Americans in contexts that range from the local to the international. In addition, the course will familiarize students with a sampling of the interdisciplinary methodologies applicable to work in the field of American studies (e.g., analysis of images and primary documents, oral history, and ethnography). Offered fall semester.
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AMS 251: American Folklore
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. Survey and analysis of such genres of American vernacular expression as legends, ghost tales, humor, music, and sermons as they express and shape particular regional and/or ethnic American identities. Course materials include ethnographic writing, sound recordings, film, and folklore scholarship. Attention also given to the competing and sometimes contradictory definitions of "folk" culture from the 19th century to the present.
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AMS 271: Film and American Culture
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. Interdisciplinary investigation of American culture through motion pictures, film history, and relevant cultural/historical documents. Focus on the ways in which films have reflected and influenced prevailing American attitudes and values. Variable focus on a specified theme, genre, or representations of a particular American region.
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AMS 280: Rhythm and Blues and Rock
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. An interdisciplinary investigation of the American popular music tradition in its commercial rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll idioms. Emphasis is on the relationship between these unique forms of expression and American culture and character. Technical musical skills and training are not required. Prerequisite for 300-level courses: 6 hours in the department or permission of the instructor.
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AMS 300: Special Topics
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. Selected American topics for advanced undergraduate students, offered by American Studies faculty members or Americanists from related departments. Recent examples include American Hobo Subculture, World War II and Modern Memory, Women's Liberation Movement, Justice and Civil Society, Southern Sexual Cultures, and Cultures of American Slavery. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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AMS 302: The Black Church
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. A survey of mainstream Christian expressions of black spirituality as well as other forms of sacred collective consciousness. Study of local churches and theology is encouraged.
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AMS 303: Education of Southern Blacks
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. A study of the "miseducation" of Africans in America. The course explores education for blacks from West Africa at the middle of the second millennium and early American society to the emergence of the separate school system of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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AMS 306: American Landscape
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. A study of the North American landscape as altered and used by successive waves of native peoples, explorers, immigrants, westering pioneers, and industrial/urban builders.
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AMS 319: P.T.Barnum's Century
3.00 Credits
The University of Alabama
3 hours. Examines 19th-century American popular culture as epitomized by the famous showman P.T. Barnum (1810-91), by using Barnum as a prism to focus on how American culture offered spectacular possibilities for self-advancement and self-delusion.
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