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Course Criteria
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In this course, we will explore 20th century American history through film, examining both the history of this quintessentially American medium and the way in which American history has been represented within the medium. Topics include the invention of the moving picture, the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, the emergence and evolution of film genres (westerns, film noir, Blaxploitation, etc.), race and film, and the future of cinema in the digital age.
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This course will consider American narratives of adolescence and coming of age from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the archetypal aspects of coming to grips with maturity and the world, class and gender roles, and the invention of "adolescence" as a new psychological category. International perspectives will be provided by reading some British and Japanese works. Authors covered will include Dickens, Melville, Twain, Alcott, Kerouac, Hemingway, Baldwin, Mishima and Tan, among others. Lectures, class discussions and student reports.
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This course investigates the relationship between popular music and cities. We will look at a number of case studies from the history of music in the twentieth century. We will try to tease out the ways that certain places produce or influence certain sounds and the ways that musicians reflect on the places they come from in their music. Accordingly, we will consider both the social and cultural history of particular cities and regions¿New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and others¿and aesthetic and cultural analyses of various forms of music¿including blues, jazz, punk, hip-hop, and others. A good portion of this class will involve a group research project on a particular city and musical genre. Each group will present the results of their work to their classmates and each student will prepare a final paper on one musical document from the city their group chooses.
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This course will focus on a variety of types of literary and film narratives concerned with the events of 9/11 and their aftermath: documentary, testimony, stories, novels and feature films. Questions about genre will be addressed in the context of theories of trauma and the writing of history. Comparisons with other historical events and their narratives will frame this exploration.
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This course will focus on some of the novels and stories by James that have been made more than once into films or tv shows - Washington Square, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Golden Bowl - and study the narrative and visual choices as interpretations of James's texts. Critical readings on the art of fiction and the art of film will also be introduced.
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This course looks at the experiences of migrant women through the lens of gender and sexuality. It addresses the constitution of gender and sexuality in the process of women¿s migration, analyzes the ways that society disciplines migrant women via the control of their gender and sexuality, and lastly identifies the ways that women utilize gender and sexuality to negotiate the various structural inequalities they confront in the process of migration. This course situates our discussion of gender and sexuality in the institutions of the state, labor market, family and community. Instructor permission required.
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This course explores women's historical and contemporary work experiences. Readings will challenge students to think about what counts as "work" when women do it, address the question of why women are overrepresented in certain types of occupations, why women of color and immigrant women are even more concentrated in certain kinds of jobs, and lastly why women tend to get paid less than men for the same work. Students will examine the struggles that women face, especially single-mothers, when trying to make ends meet, balance the responsibilities of work and family, and respond to the changes brought by "the end of welfare as we know it." The topics covered include gender-based discrimination, such as wage inequities, sexual harassment, and exclusionary policies, women's contributions to the household and market economy, differences of race and class among women in the workplace, and women's organized efforts to improve their lives.
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With a focus on the experiences of the immigrant second generation, this course seeks to expose students to the recent social science literature on contemporary immigration to the United States, including discussions on its origins, adaptation patterns, and long-term effects on American society. We will closely examine patterns of assimilation and adaptation for the children of immigrants, address the challenges they confront when trying to straddle two cultures, describe their ethnic identity formation, and interrogate the effects of their increasing presence on U.S. schools and society in general. The experiences of the second generation will be examined in various institutions including the family, labor market, schools, and community, and we situate these institutions in both national and transnational spheres. The course will consist of lectures by the instructor combined with class discussion of assigned texts. This course will also provide students with an analytic framework to address questions of multiculturalism. The course will also help students develop a better understanding of the dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in society.
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This course will look at various ways to understand the complex role of food in society. We will look at issues of food production and consumption, and how our relationship to food contributes to the political and social structures that we live with. Our approach will be historical and pay special attention to the ways in which communities of color and immigrants have shaped, and have been shaped by, the food they cultivate, harvest, consume, and market. Field trips and readings explore how food creates ways for people to form bonds of belonging while also creating bonds of control and regimes of inequality.
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Gives an overview of the experiences of the children of contemporary immigrants in the United States. It looks at their experiences in key social institutions including schools, the family and ethnic community. The course will examine the integration of immigrant children and how factors of race, class, and gender shape their experiences. To address the integration of immigrant children, the course will look at their process of assimilation, maintenance of transnational ties, and lastly the formation of youth identity.
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