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4.00 Credits
The construction of gender ideology and archetypes has been a central topic of inquiry within gender and sexuality studies for decades; but most of this work has focused on ideas about females and femininity. Expands the conversation about gender by focusing on constructions of maleness and masculinity. Draws on historical texts, literature, and film to consider constructions of masculinity, representations of masculine subjectivity, and the ways that ideas about maleness serve to structure and inform gender identity and ideology more broadly. Formerly offered as American Studies 398A. Also listed as Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 373. Four credit hours. U.
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3.00 Credits
Asks how American visual culture helped construct racial categories in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Examines painting, sculpture, photography, minstrelsy, spectacles, and early film. Considers how ideologies of class and gender intersect with constructions of blackness, whiteness, Native American, and Asian-American identity. Emphasizes skills of visual analysis. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Four credit hours. U.
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3.00 Credits
The American experience as viewed through the lenses of American documentary filmmakers and videographers. Issues of documentary: reality or art, truth-telling or fiction-making, propaganda or objective presentation, responsibility of the filmmaker. A study of different visions of America that documentaries created, from their historical roots ( The Plow That Broke the Plains, Frank Capra's war documentaries) through classic examples ( High School, Thin Blue Line, Berkeley in the 1960s, Hoop Dreams) to their most current realizations ( It Was a Wonderful Life, Tongues Untied), which are part of a renaissance in American documentary, born out of the new filmic expression of the most marginalized groups in American society. Prerequisite: Senior standing. Four credit hours. U. MANNOCCHI
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4.00 Credits
A seminar on the impact of war on society and the role of technology in shaping military history from antiquity to the present. Topics include causes of war, Greek infantry and morality, Hannibal, army and politics in the late Roman Republic, mass production, total war, the rise of the national security state, and high-tech electronic and biological warfare. The relationship between classical and modern themes in the history of warfare. Preference to classics and science, technology, and society majors and minors. Also listed as Science, Technology, and Society 393. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Required of all majors, preferably during the junior year. Fall 2008: Approaches to Visual Culture. Explores the ways visual media and urban settings profoundly shaped visual experience in the 19th and 20th centuries. Examines visual technologies such as photography, film, and television and their effects on daily life as well as the role of the visual in constructing racial, sexual, gender, and class identities. Prerequisite: Junior standing as American studies major. Four credit hours. U. SALTZ
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4.00 Credits
Should people be educated about sex How should sex be depicted in popular culture What kinds of sexuality are normal and abnormal Who can have sex and when Focuses on popular struggles over sexuality in the United States from 1880 to 1980. Studies how sexual values have been constructed and have changed over time. Topics include: same-sex and opposite-sex sexualities, reproductive politics, commercialized sexualities, sexual health and disease, and intra- and inter-ethnic and -racial sexualities. Four credit hours. FRANK
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the history and practice of progressive civil rights movements and of reactionary counter-movements. Exploring both "The Civil Rights Era" and the "Culture Wars," analyzes the struggles of African Americans, women, and gays and lesbians to break down barriers to full citizenship alongside the struggles of the "silent majority" to maintain privileges and to retrench traditional social hierarchies in the United States. Topics include African-American civil rights, Black Power, liberal and radical feminism, gay and lesbian liberation, anti-integration, anti-busing, anti-Equal Rights Amendment, and anti-gay movements. Four credit hours. FRANK
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4.00 Credits
Listed as English 457. Four credit hours. L, U.
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3.00 Credits
Research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member and focused on an approved interdisciplinary topic leading to the writing of a thesis. Prerequisite: A 3.25 major average and permission of the director of the program. Three credit hours. FACULTY
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3.00 Credits
Research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member and focused on an approved interdisciplinary topic leading to the writing of a thesis. Prerequisite: A 3.25 major average and permission of the director of the program. Noncredit. FACULTY
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