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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Examines changes in the emotional lives of American men and women from the 17th century to the present. Concentrates on enduring and innovative views on the nature of love and the cultural forces that shape its legitimate and illegitimate expression. Units: 3
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Description: Historical and contemporary culture study of childhood and family in America. The idea of childhood, changing concepts of child-rearing, growing up in the American past, the impact of modernization, mother and home as dominant cultural symbols. Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Examining the historical transformation and modern reformulation of community in America, the course emphasizes the relationship of the individual to the larger social group. Topics include: freedom, need to belong, alienation, and search for identity. Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: American Studies 201 or completion of general education section on American history, institutions and values. Visual phenomena in America as they reveal changes in recent American culture. Areas covered include: the "high" arts (painting, sculpture) as contrasted with the "low" arts (advertising, television); the artist as innovator, alienation, the business world, and American values in arUnits: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Historically explores cultural changes in American images of the healthy mind. Topics include: medical and legal views of insanity, Freud's impact on American thought, literary treatments of madness, and psychological themes in American popular culture. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Considers American culture from the perspectives of particular folk groups and through the eyes of the "common" person, past and present. Topics include: interpretation of artifacts and oral traditions; relationships between regional, ethnic, and folk identity; modernization and folk consciousness.Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: completion of the general education section of American history, institutions, and values. American television as an interactive form of cultural expression, both product and producer of cultural knowledge. Examines the structure and content of television genres, and social-historical context of television's development and use, audience response, habits and environments of viewing. Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Examines how Americans have shaped and structured space from the 17th century to the present. Emphasizes the relationship between space, place, architecture, and material culture; the interpretation of cultural landscapes and architectural styles; the changing meanings of the American home. Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisite: completion of General Education Category II.B Examination of the Cold War's impact on American society and culture. Topics include nuclear fear, McCarthyism, gender roles, family life, material culture, and the impact of containment, brinksmanship, and détente.Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: American Studies 201 or completion of general education section on American history, institutions, and values. The meaning of the West to American culture through analysis of cultural documents such as explorer and captivity narratives, fiction, art, and film. Topics include: perception of wilderness, Indians, frontiersmen, and role ofthe West in creating a sexist national mythology. Units: 3
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