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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. American scienceas a cultural system. Mutual influence and interaction of that system with other cultural systems including religion, social thought, art, architecture, literature, music, and common sense. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-I. Mechling
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Religions andspiritual practices in the United States, and their interrelationships with other aspects of U.S. history, society and culture; indigenous and imported faiths, and the impact of immigration, colonization and culture contact on religious systems. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-I. (I.) Kelman
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. American cultureas understood through the individual life stories told by Americans, with attention to the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation in the individual's life course. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. Mechling
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; fieldwork-3 hours. Uses andabuses of nature in America; patterns of inhabitation, exploitation, appreciation, and neglect; attention to California; emphasis on metaphor as a key to understanding ourselves and the natural world; attention to models of healing: stewardship, ecology, the "rights" movement. Offered in alternate years.GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. Smith, Sze
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-1 hour; term paper.Prerequisite: completion of subject A requirement. Material culture (objects and artifacts ranging from everyday objects like toys and furnishings to buildings and constructed landscapes) as evidence for understanding the everyday (vernacular) lives (gender, social class, ethnicity, region, age, and other factors; collecting and displaying material culture; commodity capitalism) of individuals and communities in colonial North America and the United States. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-I. de la Pe?
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:completed Subject A requirement. Business as a cultural system and its relation to religion, politics, arts, science, technology, and material culture; business themes of success, creativity, invention, and competition in American autobiographies, fiction, advice literature, film, and television; cultures of the workplace; multinational business. GE credit: ArtHum, SocSci, Div, Wrt.-I. (I.) de la Pena, Mechling
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Investigationof verbal and visual discourses about American identity in various popular culture products, including film, television, radio, music, fiction, art, advertising, and commercial experiences; discourses about the United States in the popular culture of other societies. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-(I.) Kelman, Smoodin
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2.00 Credits
Seminar-2 hours. Prerequisite: open only to students who have completed fewer than 40 quarter units. Investigation of a special topic in American Studies through shared readings, discussions, written assignments, and special activities (such as fieldwork, site visits). Emphasis on student participation in learning. Limited enrollment.-II, III. (II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite:completion of Subject A requirement. Technology as both a material cultural force and a symbol in American culture; the lives of engineers at work and play; images of the engineer and technology in popular culture; social political and ethical issues raised by technology. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.-I. (I.) Smith
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:complete Subject A requirement. Food as a cultural system in the United States; food in the performance of individual and group identity, including gender and ethnicity; food in literature, art, popular culture (film, television, advertising), and folk culture; the food industry and business. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci, Wrt.-II. (II.) Biltekoff
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