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1.00 Credits
A critical inquiry into the ways in which Americans of diverse characteristics have thought about the promise of America 1.00 units, Lecture
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The historical role of religion in shaping American life and thought, with special attention to the influence of religious ideologies on social values and social reform. (May be counted toward American Studies.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This seminare examines american culture in a global and transnational context to understand the ways inwhich cultural experiences transcend national borders. We will probe how Americans envision their relationship to the global community, the integral role of cultural exchange in the ongoing shaping of cultures here and abroad, and how immigrants and foreigners perceive and experience American society. In addition to reading secondary literature on American borderlands, diasporic identies, and cultural hybridity, we will analyze a variety of primary texts including fiction, autobiography, and film. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
"There are in fact no masses," writes the cultural critic Raymond Williams. "There are only ways of seeing people as masses." This intellectual and social history course will examine ways of "seeing people as masses" in the United States since the American Revolution. By studying changing interpretations of mobs, masses, and social movements, we will inquire into changing ideas about American democracy, the character of "the people," and ways of communicating with them. Particular topics will include the role of "the crowd" in the era of the Revolution; images of riots, strikes, lynch mobs, theater audiences, and other kinds of collective behavior in the 19th century; criticism of the mass society, mass culture, and the mass media (movies, radio, TV, advertising) in the 20 century; and ideas about the causes and effects of social movements. Course materials will include novels and films in addition to more traditional types of primary documents. This is a core course for the Studies in Progressive American Social Movement 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course pairs canonical works and themes drawn from American culture with contemporary works that reimagine the originals in especially exciting ways. For instance, we might examine how Jose Feliciano (in 1968), Jimmy Hendrix (in 1969), and Marvin Gaye (in 1983) all reinterpreted the national anthem, how Gordon Parks's photograph "American Gothic" revised Grant Wood's famous painting of the same name, or how author Ishmael Reed and choreographer Bill T. Jones responded to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. In doing so, students will develop a better understanding of the ways in which Americans have perpetually reinvented themselves by revisiting and revising the touchstones of their culture. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the various ways in which Americans have conceptualized selfhood. Every bookstore today has an expansive "self-help" section, but the very conception of the self has a history that continues to change over time. We will examine that history while thinking about such issues as the public versus private self, the shift from character to personality, and the relationship of the individual to the community. Our goal is to understand the process by which conceptions of selfhood and identity are culturally constructed. Particular attention will be paid to issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. We will read widely in primary and secondary sources, including autobiography, fiction, sermons, poems and speeches by such writers as Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W.E.B. DuBois, Toni Morrison, and Richard Rodriguez, and the analytical work of such scholars as Warren Susman, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz, and Carol Gilligan 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Reading the novels of a major American writer 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the historical formation of a colonial society and a people we now call "Puerto Ricans" by focusing both on the island and on the immigrant communities in the U.S. We will study the island's history from the ancient, pre-Hispanic era, through some four centuries of Spanish rule (1508-1898), as well as in the one hundred years of American colonial rule in the twentieth century. How were "Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans" constituted as colonial subjects under these two vastly different imperial regimes From slave plantations to hinterland peasant communities; from small towns to modern, industrial cities in the island; from colonial citizens in the island to immigrant, "minority" outsiders in inner-city neighborhoods in the U.S., the historical experiences of Puerto Ricans have forced upon them multiple understandings of who they must be but also allowed them to work out their own, often conflicting, definitions of "Puerto Rican". 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.00 Credits
Horatio Alger's books for boys set the ground rules for American upward mobility: hard work, honesty, and a little luck led to success. This course examines the American premise through the lens of novels written by men and by women, by blacks and by whites, and by immigrants and first-generation Americans as well as by members of old established families. Prerequisite: English 260. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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