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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A specialized study of selected topics in the history of American art.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the history of American women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Using diverse sources, this course examines the variety of women's experiences, with attention to race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality as key topics for analysis. Other topics include home and work, the female body, and women's activism.
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3.00 Credits
This course takes a more in-depth approach to the topics introduced in AS 155. In order to illuminate American efforts to wrestle with cultural diversity over time, students will study theories of racial and ethnic difference, sexual identity and gender since the colonial period. They will apply these critical concepts to case studies of American diversity, which may include African American, Asian American, European American, Latino/a American, Native American, and gay and lesbian experiences. The course also examines the debates over academic theories of multiculturalism itself.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses the life of one person who has played a significant role in American culture, past or present, as a lens for examining the cultural trends, conflicts, and changes of that person's times. Topics will change from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
Charles Darwin's theory of species development has been a flashpoint for controversy between religious and scientific outlooks on the world. Using Darwinism as the most significant aspect of science to appear regularly in social thought and political debate, this course will examine the religious beliefs, scientific theories, and cultural values that have emerged in the wide range of interactions between science and religion from the nineteenth century to the present. Science and religion will be our window into modern American culture as a whole.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Southern culture and Southern identity using interdisciplinary texts including literature, history, memoir, music, and film. Course themes include conceptions of historical memory and place, as well as the uses of culture in sustaining a collective identity.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines American culture through attention to the practices and policies of American military ventures and bids for peace from Native American warfare through the Civil War, American imperial outreach, the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, and the contemporary War on Terror. There will be a special emphasis on the emergence of America's global reach and on ways in which the past informs the present.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of political campaigning in the United States with particular attention to American political ideologies, the history of elections, the character of contemporary cultural clusters, and media coverage of the candidates and the campaigns active during the semester the course is being taught.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-division course will center on a topic that will change from year to year, such as, African-American Religious Experiences; Beauty, Fitness, and Body Image in the United States; Communicating African-American Popular Culture; Definitions of Community in the United States; Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States; and Natives and Newcomers in the American West.
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3.00 Credits
Practical experiences linked to academic work giving students opportunities to apply their learning and explore career possibilities.
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