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  • AMER 311: Women and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    Through exploring literary texts by women, this course analyzes how the construction of "woman," sex and gender has changed overtime and investigates how it intersects with issues of race, class, sexuality and nation. By using feminist literary theory, the course engages with the most pressing issues in the field from ideas of women's literary voice to claims that challenge female authorship altogether. Special topics may include Contemporary Women Writers, Gender and 19th Century Novel and Ethnic Women Writers. Authors may include Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Bharati Mukherjee, Leslie Feinberg, Edwidge Danticat and Marjane Satrapi. Alternate years.
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  • AMER 317: American Political Thought

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This course examines the developments in political thought in the U.S. from the American Revolution to the present day. Particular attention will be paid to issues of political inclusion and exclusion on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, national origin and class. Changing attitudes in the relationship between individual liberty and majority rule will also be a dominant theme of the course, as well as the proper role of government in addressing social problems.
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  • AMER 319: The Catholic Contribution to States

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This course will explore how and why Catholics of diverse gender, race, class and religious commitment have contributed to the socioeconomic, cultural, political and intellectual development of the U.S.. The course will examine Catholics and their church from Spanish North America to St. Norbert College, from immigration to assimilation and from conflict to consensus. Fall semester, every third year.
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  • AMER 323: The Harlem Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This course examines the flowering of culture - in the areas of literature, music, dance and art - which took place predominantly during the 1920's for black Americans located in Harlem New York, a movement that has become known as the Harlem Renaissance. The course places this cultural renaissance, or rebirth, within the historical contexts out of which it grew: the modernizing America in a post-WWI era, the rise of jazz and the blues and the Great Migration, among other factors. Some of the writers, intellectuals, visual and performing artists might include Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, Helene Johnson, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Duke Ellington. Alternate years.
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  • AMER 329: Literature of Service

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This course addresses concepts of American culture through the dual lenses of literary texts and community-based learning. The course explores individuals and communities in crisis or transition as a result of poor health, poverty, immigration, homelessness and gendered, sexual, racial or ethnic discrimination. Throughout the semester, paired students regularly volunteer at local community service agencies and expand their knowledge of these concepts by writing reflection journals as well as various forms of researched persuasive critical writing (literary analysis, opinion editorials, grant proposals and newsletters). Authors may include Dorothy Day, Robert Coles, Jane Addams, Edward Bellamy, William Carlos Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fae Myenne Ng, Li-Young Lee and Anna Deavere Smith.
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  • AMER 335: Legislative Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    An examination of the power, structure and functions of legislative bodies at the national and state levels in the U.S. Focuses on the various factors that influence the performance of these bodies. Prerequisites: POLI 130. Fall semester, alternate years.
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  • AMER 389: Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This is a seminar course that is offered whenever a mutual interest in a more specialized topic in American Studies exists for a member of the faculty and a sufficient number of students. An example of a 389 Special Topics course in the past is "The Harlem Renaissance." Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
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  • AMER 489: Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    This is a seminar course that is offered whenever a mutual interest in a more specialized topic in American Studies exists for a member of the faculty and a sufficient number of students. Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
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  • AMER 490: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    Individual study of an approved topic in American Studies under the direction of an American Studies faculty member. Permits faculty and students to explore together some subject of special or personal interest. Past topics have included Narratives of the U.S. West and AIDS Literature, Art and Culture. Reading, tutorial discussion and written work are required. Prerequisite: Instructor's consent and approval of Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
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  • AMER 499: American Studies Research Project

    0.00 Credits
    Saint Norbert College

    American Studies minors are required to complete an interdisciplinary research project as part of their final American Studies elective course outside their major at the 300-level or above (See list of elective courses). Students enroll in AMER 499 concurrently with their final elective course.
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