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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Decorum-or what is deemed proper to a genre, a form, a character-is a term most often applied to literary texts. But notions of propriety maintain an important place in museums and in the field of museum studies, as reactions to the "Sensation" exhibition at New York's Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art" at the Jewish Museum, and proposals for memorials in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 have demonstrated. In this course we will trace the evolving concept of and pressures exerted by "decorum" in 19th, 20th and 21st century museums and their constituencies, an inquiry which will generate questions about governing bodies, societal and cultural norms, censorship, free speech, memory and tolerance. We will look at cabinets of curiosity in America's earliest museums, controversial exhibitions in our own time, innovative exhibition venues, including Exploratorium in San Francisco, Dia Center for the Arts in New York City, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut, and the evolution of "virtual museums"/museums on the web. American Studies 825 is recommended but not 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The post-Civil War history of Hartford is a history of the initial triumph of entrepreneurial power and civic will and the subsequent loss of certain forms of urban wealth. Mark Twain called the city the "center of all Connecticut wealth." Despite considerable poverty, in 1876, Hartford still boasted the country's highest per capita income and is now ranked as among the nation's poorest cities. This seminar explores the processes of cultural and social transformation that resulted in these differences. We seek to understand Hartford's late 19th and 20th century political culture and political economy. Topics include: the distribution of capital in industry, housing, charity, and welfare; the racial, ethnic, religious and class composition of the city's men and women residents; urban politics, racial and ethnic antagonisms, and the history of attempts at social change in the city; the modes of artistic and literary expressions that arose over time. Sources for study include readings drawn from other urban histories; documents and primary sources drawn from Hartford's rich archival and museum collections; the portrayal of the city in photography and film. Students will construct projects based upon research and interaction throughout the city. A speakers program and off-campus work supplement the course. (Same as History 835-03.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion-dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women's sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course aims to examine the issues brought up in key theoretical readings by applying their insights to case studies, particularly cases of museum exhibitions and programs. Issues to be addressed include: reproduction and spectacle; gender and display; ethnicity, 'primitivism,' and race; and sexuality, sexual practice, and censorship. Case studies will vary each year and will range from exhibitions focusing on consumption, to ethnicity and race (such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Pequot Museum), and sexuality (The Museum of Sex; the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions). Each class will combine theoretical readings with considerations of museum practice. By the end of the semester, students shall be able to analyze exhibitions using both the tools of postmodern theory and practical observation and history. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Body art is the most common of arts, and yet the least explored. People throughout history have times painted, marked, and pierced their bodies, but only recently have such practices been studied by serious scholars. This class will explore the ways in which various body-art practices have developed and evolved, especially as they are portrayed in literary texts, historical documents, and films. We will examine such interpretations of body art in order to ponder how and why people mark themselves (and others), how that has changed in significant ways over time, and how literary and visual representations of body art affect the character of the practices themselves. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course will combine elements of a classroom-based seminar and a site-based internship in museum work. Arrangements will be made to coordinate these internships with the research, exhibition planning, and installation schedules at participating institutions in the Hartford area. Students will have an opportunity to work with museum professionals and to share their experiences with each other in the seminar. The seminar will meet as a group on a schedule to be arranged, both to report on field work and to discuss the assigned readings. Each student's internship schedule will be arranged to accommodate the needs of the student and the institution. American Studies 825 and/or American Studies 833 are recommended but not required. Permission of the instructor is required for undergraduates only. 1.00 units, Seminar
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