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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary approach to the origin, development, and problems of the American city.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the various ways that wars, post-WWII (such as Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and others) , have been represented in American popular culture. Material includes films, novels, memoirs, reportage, and histories.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the distinctively American literary genre of the hard-boiled detective novel and the many films that this genre has inspired, including a look at film noir.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the culture of the 1960s, with emphasis on the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and student radicalism, Woodstock, women's liberation, and the sexual revolution, using social history, literature, music, and film.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the urban culture of New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the impact of race, class, gender, and ethnicity on developing subcultures.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of the social and intellectual history of architecture in the United States to 1900. Role of architecture in societal transformations (the development of nationhood, industrialization, and urbanization) . Emphasis on the invention of new building types, including universities, government buildings, prisons, hospitals, railroad stations, and the architecture of World's Fairs. Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines a range of visual media by black cultural producers. Offers a diasporic framework as an opportunity to trace how technologies, genres, styles, and issues circulate through various historical moments, media, conceptualizations of blackness, and locations. Credit not given for both this course and 01:014:303.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the place of sports in American life and how sports may be thought of as "the American religion," as a metaphor for American ideals and values. Figures from the world of sports (players and coaches) will be regular guest speakers.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural responses to the growth and elaboration of American technology as reflected in literature, art, and popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
Relationship between the social and aesthetic functions of documentary in film, photography, journalism, biography, and the nonfiction novel.
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