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3.00 Credits
This course aims to provide students with an introduction to the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and with an understanding of the historical Latino presence in United States literature, culture and history. We will examine a mix of Spanish language periodicals, corridos, poetry, short stories, novels, and biography, and authors will include Felix Varela, José MartÃ, MarÃa Amparo Ruiz de Burton, MarÃa Cristina Mena, Jesus Colón, and Luisa Capetillo. The course will focus on three groups: Cubans in Florida and New York, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Southwest, and Puerto Ricans on the island and in New York; and on four themes: the construction of literary canon and history, the intersections of history and memory, the translation of culture, and the nature of resistance literature. Spanish reading ability is helpful but not requir 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course investigates how photography has described and constructed consumer culture and current events, from selling the American Dream to the events of September 11, 2001. We will examine how advertising photography uses news imagery for its own agenda and creates enduring icons that in turn become part of the imagery of news. We will consider ethics and the roles of the image-maker; tactics of display; the creating agencies and their agendas; the manipulation of images (physical and interpretive); and how race, gender, and ethnicity are constructed in commercial and news images. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
The course considers the iconic photography of the American West made for railroad and government surveys in the 19th century; the idealized and iconic 20th-century landscapes constructed by Ansel Adams; recent photography whose purpose is aesthetic, political, and environmental; and ways in which photography helped created the industry of tourism. Readings drawn from history of photography, anthroplogy, social history, environmental science, theory, and environmental activism. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This graduate-level seminar will analyze the American fascination with travel and tourism and examine the literary strategies employed by travel writers. Our exploration will begin with the quintessentially masculine figure of the traveler and then turn to women travel writers who question traditional femininity and African American authors who challenge racism and social injustice in their travel writing. We will consider the perspective of the "natives" and their response to travel accounts written by tourists and colonists. Considering journeys undertaken to reclaim cultural "roots," students will read contemporary travel writing that questions the meaning of multi-cultural identity. We will also study the growing field of travel criticism and address issues of imperialism, globalization, and tourism. Authors studied include Washington Irving, Caroline Kirkland, Herman Melville, Matthew Henson, Nancy Prince, June Jordan, W.E.B. DuBois, Jamaica Kincaid, Paisley Rekdal, and others. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This graduate-level seminar will trace Nineteenth-century ideas about slavery, freedom, race, and identity through the writings of abolitionist reformers, slave narratives and cultural artifacts (newspapers, photographs, fine art images, and icons). For the second half of the course we will turn to the Twentieth Century and examine how these ideas continue to impact American culture and literature (including film). Authors studied will include: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Gilmore Simms, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Henry Bibb, William and Ellen Craft, George Fitzhugh, Henry "Box" Brown, Nikki Giovanni and Toni Morrison. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the specifics of design in postwar America from a variety of perspectives, particularly social history. We will consider the growing phenomenon of postwar design templates as re-invented by contemporary designers in an attempt to understand why these icons of the Baby Boom have come to roost in contemporary culture. Topics include automobile design and history; housing and the creation of the American suburb; taming the exotic in tiki bars; kitchen debates and the feminine mystique; and domestic ideals and queering domesticity. 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.50 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. 0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
The Connecticut Historical Society offers graduate internships to matriculate American Studies students in five key areas: Museum Collections, Library, Public Programs, Exhibitions, and Technology. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
This is your final year as an English major; this course is your senior seminar. There are books and authors, that, once upon a time, you thought every English major should have encountered. But you still haven't. One of this seminar's main purposes is to allow you to do so. One of its other purposes is to ask, and, we will hope, to answer the question: Why Why did you or do you think every English major should have read this book or author Why haven't you Why, now has or hasn't the text satisfied your great expectations Along the way, we will also be discussing related issues such as canonicity and canon changes, the structures of the major in English, and the (perhaps changing) reasons why you're in this major. Obviously, the students in this course will generate (and debate) its reading list and syllabus. The instructor will generate the requiremen This course open to senior English majors only. 1.00 units, Seminar
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