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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Introduction to the ideas, sensibility, and, to a lesser degree, the politics of the American 60s. Topics: the early 60s vision of a beloved community; varieties of racial, generational, and feminist dissent; the meaning of the counterculture; and current interpretive perspectives on the 60s. Film, music, and articles and books. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul 5 units, Aut (Gillam, R)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Thomas Jefferson's years in Paris (1784-1789). The historical, political, literary, aesthetic, domestic, romantic, and transformative aspects of the Paris sojourn, through an interdisciplinary approach to the facts and fictions Jefferson generated. Sources include letters, articles, books, histories, novels, and films. 3-5 units, Spr (Mesa, C)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ENGLISH 123.) Sources include histories, poetry, autobiography, captivity and slave narratives, drama, and fiction. Authors include Mather, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Brockden Brown, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul 5 units, Win (Jones, G)
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5.00 Credits
Required for American Studies majors. Changing interpretations of American identity and Americanness. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul 5 units, Win (Gillam, R)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as LAWGEN 106, POLISCI 122.) For undergraduates. The structure of the American legal system including the courts; American legal culture; the legal profession and its social role; the scope and reach of the legal system; the background and impact of legal regulation; criminal justice; civil rights and civil liberties; and the relationship between the American legal system and American society in general. GER:DB-SocSci 3-5 units, Aut (Friedman, L)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 146A.) How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception ofborderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives Course includes examining one's own identity. GER:DB-Hum, ECAmerCul 5 units, Aut (Duffey, C)
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5.00 Credits
Experiences of the modernizing urban world through narratives of novelists, poets, and filmmakers who have charted the interior spaces of life in the city from historical, cultural, geographical, or transnational perspectives. Texts include: Zola's account of capitalist expansion in Second Empire Paris, The Delights of Ladies; Edward Said's diasporic Palestinian Cairo memoir, Out of Place; Sinan Anton's anti-imperialist poetry of Baghdad; Edwidge Danticat'sHaitian New York and Port-au-Prince bicultural novel, The Dew Breaker; Pakistani British filmmaker Hanif Kureishi's vision of immigrant dislocation, My Son the Fanatic; and stories of Baltimore streets from the HBO series, Wire. 5 units, Spr (Duffey, C)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Restricted to declared majors. Practical experience working in a field related to American Studies for six to ten weeks. Students make internship arrangements with a company or agency, under the guidance of a sponsoring faculty member, and with the consent of the director or a program coordinator of American Studies. Required paper focused on a topic related to the internship and the student's studies. May be repeated for credit. 1-3 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Fishkin, S), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
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5.00 Credits
The cultural, regional, and class diversity of family life in America from colonial times to present. Native American families encountered by English settlers, the Puritan family of colonial New England, and African American families in slavery and freedom. Diversity of family structures and traditions of immigrant groups to the U.S. in the 19th century from Asia, Mexico, and northern, southern and eastern Europe. Change in response to industrialization and urbanization in American life, including how diverse families approach work, gender roles, childrearing, sexuality, marriage and divorce. Frontiers of new reproductive technology and gay marriage in light of these histories. 5 units, Spr (Horn, M)
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