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3.00 Credits
The current postcolonial era is replete with the failure of many political experiences in the Third world, but the phenomenon is better understood by looking at its origins, the colonial state. The course covers Europe's expansion from the 15th- to the 20thcentury and focuses on colonial regimes in America, Asia, and Africa. Some of the themes discussed are: nationalism, imperialism, assimilation, association, globality, hegemony, indigenity, emancipation, culture, civilization, religion, and race. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the methods, materials, and theoretical approaches used in the interdisciplinary study of American society and culture. Through close reading of selected texts (novels, films, essays), the class will analyze the ideals and myths about America. Writers studied include John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Margaret Fuller, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The films of directors such as John Ford, Frank Capra, and Francis Ford Coppola will be examined. ( Fall '07)
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3.00 Credits
This introductory-level course examines the quest for soul, character and personality in American writing, film, and visual art. Individuals whose lives and works are examined include Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Ralph Ellison, Ansel Adams, Thomas Merton, Alfred Kazin, Oliver Sacks, and Dorothy Day. Films include Citizen Kane and Zelig. (Fall '08)
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines the society, politics, and culture of particular American places: Salem, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C; and Los Angeles, California. Our texts include novels, films, stories, historical works, journalism, and social commentary. No prerequisites. ( Fall '07)
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3.00 Credits
This course continues the interdisciplinary study of cultural geography introduced in American Places I. It explores literature, film, histories, and critical writing on Thomas Jefferson's Virginia; Texas; and Cyberspace. No prerequisites. (Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the concept of the ideal American in its various cultural representations, what these representations express about the ideological climate that produced them, and how our continuing reexamination of these images and ideals shape our understanding of our place in American society. (Spring '09)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and cultural significance of film in American society. ( Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the newly created United States from the making of the Constitution through the Jacksonian Era (1785-1840). It will emphasize key themes in the Early Republic, including the rise of American nationalism, the emergence of political institutions, economic growth and the rise of a "market economy", gender and the roles of women, the struggle to create a functional foreign policy, westward expansion, race and sectional tensions, and the changing characteristics of developing society. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of American society and culture during two decades of revolutionary change. Topics to be covered include the Civil Rights movement, the American experience in Vietnam, consumer culture and suburbia, women's liberation, and youth culture and rock 'n' roll (Fall '08)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines political murder in the United States from the assassination of President Lincoln to the Unabomber killings. We investigate the motivations of American political killers, their justifications of their actions, governmental and corporate responses to them, and the growth of a popular "conspiracy industry." Sources will include historical and interpretive readings, fiction, film and music. ( Fall '07)
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