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3.00 Credits
Cinematic images of Catholicism provide a point of departure for the study of the mutual influence of Catholic and urban life in the United States during the past fifty years. The course will combine the use of film with textual studies in history, theology, and sociology to explore the Catholic experience of immigration, labor movements, racism, sexual revolution, and social change. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An anthropological study of the religions of the Americas' indigenous peoples. Emphasis will be given to their ethnohistory, oral traditions, myths, symbols and ritual performances. The course will also consider culture change and the rise of modern nativistic movements among American Indians. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the evolution of hip hop music and culture (Graffiti art, B-boying [break-dancing], DJ-ing, and MC-ing) from its birth in 1970s New York to its global and commercial explosion during the late 1990s. Students will learn how to think critically about hip hop culture, and also about the historical, commercial, and political contexts in which hip hop culture took, and continues to take, shape. In the broadest sense then, this is a course explores what happens when art, capitalism, identity, and democracy all run headlong into one another, illuminating, in the process, some of the specific limits, contradictions, and possibilities of what, at one time, mistakenly, one might have called this very American collision. Particular attention will be paid to questions of race, masculinity, authenticity, consumption, commodification, globalization, and good, old-fashioned funkiness. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course, required for the American studies major and ordinarily taken in the fall of the junior year, examines central texts in American history and culture. Through intensive discussion and writing, the class will explore the contexts of these works as well as the works themselves, paying particular attention to the interrelated issues of race, class, gender, and other similarly pivotal social constructs. Course is open only to American studies majors. Prerequisite: Students must have completed American Studies 203 or enroll in 203 with 301.203 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course, required for the American Studies major and ordinarily taken in the fall of the Junior year concurrent with American Studies 301, examines a particular cultural institution in its changing social, political and economic contexts. It considers the way race, class, gender and other constructions shaped the institution, as well as the ways those constructions were themselves shaped by each other and by larger social forces. Examples of cultural institutions include minstrelsy, romance fiction, Hollywood, jazz, and the Black press. Students will examine the forces that created the cultural institution under discussion, and how they change it over time. Course open only to American Studies majors. Prerequisite: Course open only to American Studies majors and required for the major. Ordinarily taken in the fall of the junior year concurrent with American Studies 301. Students must have completed American Studies 203 or enroll in 203 with 302. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The Amistad affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An exploration of the politics and culture of Jacksonian America, 1828-1848. Topics will include the Second American Party System; the public career of Andrew Jackson, Protestant revivalism; abolitionism; the women's rights movement; the politics of slavery and race; westward expansion; the culture of "democracy" and competitive capitalism. Reading will include works on or by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Henry Clay, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and "Old Hickory" himself. History 201 is highly recommended but not required. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An exploration of the main currents in American feminism, with occasional excursions into European thought. The course readings assume (rather than demonstrate) women's historical subordination to man and put forward various explanations and strategies for change. Readings in J.S. Mill, C. P. Gilman, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, bell hooks, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde, and others. Primarily for sophomores and juniors. Permission of the instructor is required. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
An analysis and evaluation of leading decisions of the United States Supreme Court dealing with the granting of authority to national institutions. Although the major part of the course will deal with landmark cases bearing on the Federal System and Separation of Powers, attention will also be devoted to contemporary constitutional issues upon which students are expected to take normative positions. Prerequisite: Political Science 102. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102. 1.00 units, Lecture
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