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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An examination of selected works that are landmarks in the development of 20th-century American culture. Authors will include Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, Wright, Miller, Mailer, and Beattie; Harrington, Friedan, and Galbraith. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Cross-cultural perspectives on American values, arts, and events. What foreign observers have thought about the United States. How our experience has paralleled, or differed from, that of Europe since the 18th century. What the important similarities, differences, and influences are between Western and Eastern cultures. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also GEG 222) 4 hours; 4 credits This course explores the geographic variety of the United States. The country’s physical characteristics are regionally diverse and provide an array of resources. Different populations have put them to use in various ways. The course traces who lives where, why, what they have found there, what have they done with it. Emphasis is placed on the contrasting threads of regional variation and national homogenization. (social science) Prerequisite: ENG 111 and COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also HST 221) 4 hours; 4 credits The hopes, the frustrations, and, particularly, the dreams of American society as observed by foreign and native commentators in the past and present. This course will attempt to assess not only the idealization of the American dream but also disillusionment with it as expressed by such writers as Franklin, Tocqueville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry Adams, and Norman Mailer. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111 and COR 100 or any American Studies or history course
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Impressions and analyses (literary, social, historical, cinematic, and photographic) of the varied cultures, institutions, and environments that are the substance of American urban life. A course that posits few facile solutions to the urban crisis but knows which questions are to be asked and which myths must be demolished if cities are ever to become humane and pleasurable organisms rather than death- and profit-bound ones. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also HST 246) 4 hours; 4 credits Addresses the development of religion—Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and others—in the context of American social, cultural, and intellectual history. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also CIN 230) 4 hours; 4 credits The American film and its relationship to American myth, society, and culture. Topics to be included are: the American West, the gangster, rural and urban life, the nature of war, race and class, comic views of America. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits American society, chiefly in the 19th and 20th centuries, and its problems, including democracy in an industrial order, the city, class stratification, and racial conflict, as seen by such representative realistic writers as Henry James, Dreiser, Veblen, William Dean Howells, and W.E.B. DuBois. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also MUS 236) 4 hours; 4 credits The music-making and listening habits of the American people, examining the musical activities, the musicians, and the social setting. The course focuses on the history and significance of rock as an American and international phenomenon, exploring issues of gender, race, and the multicultural musical traditions that have enriched American popular music. This course develops the ability to understand music as an expression of cultural values, and does not require instrumental training or the ability to read music. This course does not meet requirements for the major or the minor in Music. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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3.00 Credits
(Also MUS 237) 3 hours; 3 credits A survey of American musical theater and its development from the second half of the 19th century to our own times, considered in the context of a changing America. Sousa, Herbert, Friml, Cohan, Kern, Gershwin, Bernstein, Arlen, Weill, Thomson, and Copland are some of the composers whose works will be covered. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111; for Music majors, MUS 120 or permission of the instructor
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