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3.00 Credits
Changing American attitudes toward sexual expression and changes in sexual behavior. Examination of literature, film, 19th- and 20th-century advice manuals, and reports on sexual behavior such as the Kinsey Report and the works of Masters and Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
Social concerns in folk songs--sources and circulation in oral tradition, with reference to lyrical folk songs, narrative folk songs, traditional ballads, broadside ballads, and Native American ballads.
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3.00 Credits
Folklore of occupational groups such as sailors, lumbermen, cowboys, and miners, and of regional groups such as southern mountaineers, Mississippi Delta blacks, Louisiana Cajuns, and Jersey Pineys.
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3.00 Credits
Fiction, poetry, and autobiography by such writers as Apes, Momaday, Welch, Silko, and Erdrich. Attention to issues of Native American representation. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:376.
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3.00 Credits
A required interdisciplinary seminar for majors. Theme dependent on instructor. To be taken by American studies majors in their junior year after completing 01:050:101 and 303.
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3.00 Credits
Independent study of an interdisciplinary nature, which may be expressed in a paper, audiovisual project, or other creative enterprise. Prerequisites: Permission of department and instructor during preceding semester required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to accompany presentation of the New Jersey Folk Festival. Readings in histories of folk performance and fieldwork in folklore, as well as planning and production of public event. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor during preceding semester required.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course which uses a number of disciplines to explore the influence of the sea on American life. A study of marine policy which embraces both economic and environmental issues as well as current policy regarding world trade and regulatory reform, conservation and fisheries, national defense and admiralty law. Students interpret the past not only through readings and classroom discussions but also through material culture studies of maritime artifacts and folklore.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of American nation building through the imperial projections of the United States. Topics include the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics between the United States and its colonies, both formal and informal. The focus of any one particular semester might be on a single location, such as the American Southwest, Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Iraq. Alternatively, the course could take a comparative approach to these imperialist projects.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary seminars for majors. Themes dependent on instructor. For American studies majors who have completed 01:050:389.
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