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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Development of the major American traditions of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism. Puritanism and its legacy; the Great Awakening; Christianity, slavery and the Civil War; the religious experience of Black Americans. Interaction between religious thought and such other aspects of American culture as ethnicity, social change, sexual mores, intellectual life. This course is the same as History 43.11. Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or permission of the program director.
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3 hours; 3 credits Autobiography and its special importance to the process of defining the self in America. Examination of the theme of the New World and the "new" man and the "new" woman. Trelation between the private identity and national character as revealed in the autobiographical writings of immigrants, workers, and plainfolk. This course is the same as English 61. Prerequisite: English 2.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Counterculture and its challenge to traditional values. The Beat Generation, its poetry, literature, and music. Political papers, autobiographies, documentary film. (Not open to students who have completed American Studies 71, spring, 1989, or spring, 1991.) Prerequisite: sophomore, junior, or senior standing; or permission of the program director.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Myths, legends, tales, proverbs, riddles, songs, dances, beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and folk art of American folk groups. Ethnic, regional, and occupational folklore. The relationship of oral folk culture to popular expression and written literature. Independent work in collecting folklore. This course is the same as English 25.3. Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1, or 1.2, or 1.7. Anthropology and Archaeology 93
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The experience of immigrant groups as recorded in autobiography, folklore, and fiction. Becoming an American as recorded in photographs and film. Exploring relationships between text and image. This course is the same as English 67. (Not open to students who have completed American Studies 70.) Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1, or 1.2, or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the history and interpretation of American popular arts and culture. Popular music, theater, radio, film, television, and advertising. Popular expressions as shapers and reflectors of American ideas about nationalism, class, gender, ethnicity/race, region, and generation. This course is the same as History 43.18. Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1, or 1.2, or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Special problems of interdisciplinary research and writing. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained in the program office before registration. A student completing the course with distinction is recommended for honors in the program. Prerequisite: six credits of American studies courses or permission of the instructor and the director of the program.
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9.00 Credits
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Independent research supervised by a faculty member on an approved topic. The project must involve research in more than one field that culminates in a full-length research paper based on materials drawn from primary, secondary, and/or field data sources. Writing-intensive course. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing, nine credits of American studies courses, permission of the program director and of the sponsoring faculty member.
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1.00 Credits
1 hour; 1 credit Lectures and discussions on selected topics in anthropology. Seven, two-hour, sporadically scheduled meetings and a final examination. Course descriptions and reading lists are available in the Anthropology and Archaeology Department office before registration. Students may take this course twice, but may not repeat topics.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits; General introduction to anthropology and its four subfields: archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Integration of subfields in approaches to the definition of humanity and the meaning of being human. Nature of the anthropological approach. Anthropology and Archaeology 95
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