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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 hours. Prerequisites AEM 264, MATH 238, and ME 571.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
Three units. Prerequisites AEM 341 and AEM 368.
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1.00 Credits
1 hour. Selected American topics for lower-division undergraduate students offered by American studies faculty members or supervised teaching assistants. Some examples include the following five-week, one-hour courses: Legendary John Lennon, American Organized Crime, Social History of Rock 'n' Roll, Wilderness and Mystery, Land of the Blues, From God to Gangsta Rap, Wild and Wicked Roaring '20s, '70s Soul Cinema, The Jamband Scene, Dystopian Science Fiction Movies, and Reading Sex and the City
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Exploration of the relation between the arts popular, folk, and elite and American culture in four selected periods: Victorian America, the '20s and '30s, World War II and the Postwar Era, and the '60s. Class presentations and discussions revolve around novels, movies, slides, music, artifacts, and readings about the periods. This course is team taught by all the members of the American studies faculty. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. A broad survey of American culture formed by global, national, and regional influences. The first section, "World," looks at the United States as a product and shaper of international movements, ideas, and cultures from 1500 to the present. The second section, "Nation,"examines the creation of a distinctly American identity between 1790 and 1890 that ultimately incorporated and reflected global issues. The third section, "Regions," focuses on the South and other regions as contributors to and consequences of national and global interactions. Team taught by the entire AMS faculty, lectures will include topics on film, music, literature, art, sports, and other cultural artifacts. Offered spring semest
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Selected American topics for lower-division undergraduate students offered by AMS faculty members or Americanists from related departments. Recent examples include The Asian-American Experience, The American Road, The Sporting Life, Baseball Since 1945, and Twilight Zone Culture. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. This course provides a basic outline of the diversity and complexity of the African American experience in the United States. It surveys the early academic and social concern of Black Studies advocates; the changes in the field's objectives that arise from its connections to contemporary social movements for Black Power, women's liberation, and multiculturalism; and its major theoretical and critical debates.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. A cultural approach to African American lives, examining how the selected course texts express the formation of individual identity and how it is influenced by African American culture. The role of the individual, biography, and narrative in African American history and contemporary culture will be explored. The course draws upon a variety of texts, including historical and theoretical work, visual arts, music, literature, material culture, and documentary and feature films.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. An examination of the lives of individual Southern figures who lived, are living, or live only in the imagination to explore critically the characteristics that constitute "Southern life," the history and popular understandings of the South, and the role of the individual, biography, and narrative in history and contemporary culture. Moving chronologically, students will consider how the attributes of Southern lives change over time, while keeping mindful of the ways in which regional identities and stories are always contested, dialectic, and variable. The class draws upon a variety of texts, including historical and theoretical work, visual arts, music, literature, material culture, and documentary and feature films.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. A lecture/discussion course utilizing a biographical approach to the salient themes, issues, and episodes of the American West. Some of these lives are real, some of them imagined, and others are a little of each. All of them, however, reveal much about both region and nation and how each has changed over time.
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