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2.00 Credits
Listed as Classics 145. Two credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
A history of Rome from a city-state to an empire. Topics include the Romans' view of their past, Roman social institutions, imperialism and the crisis of the Roman Republic, and emperors and their subjects. Three or four credit hours. H, I. CAPREEDY
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Greek history and civilization from the earliest times to the end of the Classical period. The Heroic Age, the city-state, Greek sexuality, the wars with the Persians, ancient democracy, and the intellectual and cultural achievements of the ancient Greeks are among topics covered. Three or four credit hours. H, I. CAPREEDY
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to methods and themes in American studies, the interdisciplinary examination of past and present United States culture. A wide selection of cultural texts from all periods of American history explore the dynamic and contested nature of American identity. Literary, religious, and philosophical texts, historical documents, material objects, works of art and music, and varied forms of popular culture are studied, with a focus on what it means, and has meant, to be an American. Open to first-year students. Formerly listed as American Studies 271. Four credit hours. U. MCFADDEN, SALTZ
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to the craft of writing film scripts, with a strong emphasis on screenplay format and the three-act structure. Besides studying films and screenplays, students will complete exercises in character development, scene construction, dialogue, and description. The final project will be a complete script for a short (no longer than 30 pages) three-act feature film. Two credit hours. WILSON
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 232. Four credit hours. U.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Classics 234. Three or four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
In the 21st century, popular culture is a key site for the dissemination of ideas about gender roles, gender relations, and sexuality. Recent feminist approaches to the study of popular culture provide theories on how contemporary films, music, advertising, toys, television, magazines, and popular fiction help to construct us as gendered individuals. Also listed as Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 275. Four credit hours. U. MCFADDEN
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of black cultural expression--including folk tales, the blues, gospel music, work songs, jazz, sermons, dance, literature, and social institutions--from the slave era to the present, tracing the stages of development of a distinctive black culture in America, its relationship to the historical, social, and political realities of African Americans, and its role in the cultural formation of the United States. Also listed as African-American Studies 276. Four credit hours. S, U. GILKES
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of the ways our ideas about race and ethnicity in the United States have been shaped and reshaped by popular cultural forms, from blackface minstrelsy of the 1840s to today. Special attention to the relationship between changing ideologies of race and ethnicity and the social, political, and historical experiences of a diverse range of people living in the United States. Examples from popular theater, recorded sound, radio, silent and sound film, advertising, television, and new computer-based media. Four credit hours. U.
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