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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; film viewing-2 hours; discussion? hour. Development of visual literacy for an increasingly visual world. Critical analyses focus on a wide variety of visual media-art, television, film, advertising, the Internet-intended for a diverse spectrum of audiences. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-Stimson
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Restricted to lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. United Stateshistory, culture and society. Examination of cultural objects and social practices. Topics include popular culture (film, TV, Internet), cultural diversity, social activism, play, and communication. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. Biltekoff, Wang
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Design and implementation of interdisciplinary research, analysis and writing for American Studies and other cultural studies fields. Library and Internet research skills, project/problem definition, methods of study of texts, individuals, communities. Hands-on, skillbuilding, focused reading, discussion.-I. (I.) Biltekoff, Wang
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours, intensive reading, writing, and special projects. Interdisciplinary group study of special topics in American Culture Studies, designed for non-majors as well as majors. Content will vary according to the instructor and in accord with the following titles: (A) Popular Culture Studies; (B) Women's Studies; (C) Material Aspects of American Culture; (D) American National Character; (E) American Lives Through Autobiography; (F) The Interrelationship Between Arts and Ideas; (G) New Directions in American Culture Studies; (H) Problems in Cross- Cultural American Studies. May be repeated for credit in different subject area only.-I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite:one of courses 1A, 1B, 1C, id, 1E or 1F. Close examination of a single decade in American civilization; the connections between the history, literature, arts, customs, and ideas of Americans living in the decade. Issues and representations of race, class, gender, age, and sexuality in the decade. May be repeated for credit if decades studied are different. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:upper division status; preparatory courses for the American Studies major or the equivalent interdisciplinary experience. Introduction to the cultural studies theories and to critical practices that seek to understand everyday life in the United States, with special attention to uncovering the vernacular theories governing these practices.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:upper division status; preparatory courses for the American Studies major or the equivalent interdisciplinary experience. Examination of human bodies as sites for cultural constructions of identities and "selves" in the United States; attention to bodilynorms, crises, and transgressions; the relation between disciplining the body and controlling social categories, including race, gender, class and sexualities.- II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; fieldwork-1 hour. Theory andmethod of the study of American folk traditions, including oral lore, customs, music, and material folk culture; the uses and meanings of those traditions in various folk communities, including families, ethnic institutions, voluntary organizations, and occupational groups GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. (III.) Mechling
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