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  • AMST 43147: American "Chicks" in a Global World: The Politics of Postfeminist Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Since the mid 1990s, a new wave of American popular culture has featured (and been marketed toward) the figure of the "chick": a single woman in her twenties or thirties who finds individual empowerment, sexual agency, and self esteem as she navigates the muddy waters of careers, relationships, and shopping. Most academic readings of this cultural explosion have understood it as a symptom of *postfeminism*: the myth that the political goals of American feminism have been accomplished, and that women in the US can now seize freedom by making empowered choices at work, at home, and at the mall. Our study of "chick" culture will use this academic literature on postfeminism as a starting place. We will then expand existing critiques of postfeminist culture by putting them in conversation with critical race and transnational feminist scholarship, in order to critically read various examples of postfeminist popular culture. We will assess how these examples -- including film (chick flicks), literature (chick lit), video games (action chicks), and music (rock chicks), as well as television, video, and internet texts -- define "Americanness" in relation to social and political formations such as gender, generation, race, sexuality, globalization, and political economy. The senior seminar is designed to be a capstone experience for American Studies majors. Readings and assignments will explore course themes in the context of American Studies as a field. Throughout the semester, students will keep a reading journal and be responsible for occasional presentations of course readings. Requirements will also include seminar-style discussions and either a final research paper of approximately 20 pages or a creative project accompanied by a critical essay, based on primary source research.
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  • AMST 43149: American Places, Spaces, and Landscapes

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Where do you spend your time? Spring break trips; family vacations; summer jobs; studying in your dorm; going to the football game; all of these activities help define you and your position in society - they also define the world around you. This senior seminar will examine how American identity, society, politics, and culture are connected to physical places and the environment. How does our relationship to the environment reflect our class, gender, and racial identity? How do we relate with each other spatially? We will examine how physical spaces acquire meaning, how people move through those places, and how landscapes work as texts. We will use approaches from environmental history, cultural geography, and landscape studies to look at a variety of American places including cities, tourist sites, suburbs, industrial sites, and "nature." Small projects on Notre Dame's campus and students' hometowns will build to a larger research project based on each students' area of interest. The senior seminar is designed to be a capstone experience for American Studies majors. Readings and assignments will explore course themes in the context of American Studies as a field. Requirements will include seminar-style discussions of course readings and a final project of approximately 20 pages (or equivalent) based on primary source research.
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  • AMST 44905: News Internship

    0.00 - 10.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Only by prior permission of the London Program. Application required early in the semester prior to departure for London.
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  • AMST 45900: Magazine Internship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Apprentice training with Notre Dame Magazine.
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  • AMST 45901: Community Service Internship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Apprentice training with community social service organizations. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory credit only.
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  • AMST 45902: Historical Research Internship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Apprentice training in archives or museums or historical preservation with local organizations. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory credit only.
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  • AMST 45903: News Internship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Apprentice training with newspapers. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory credit only.
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  • AMST 45905: News Internship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Apprentice training with newspapers. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory credit only.
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  • AMST 46920: Directed Readings

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Directed readings taught by individual faculty members. Permission required.
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  • AMST 47909: Senior Thesis Capstone

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The Senior Thesis Capstone provides a "culminating experience" for American Studies majors who are writing a senior thesis. It is only offered during fall semesters and should be followed in the spring by 3 credit hours of AMST 47910 Senior Honors, independent writing with the thesis advisor. This course encourages students to think about how their coursework fits together as a whole and gives them an opportunity to put what they've learned as American Studies majors into practice through the development of a senior thesis. In this course students will be expected to demonstrate significant progress towards their senior thesis, a year-long experience developed with a faculty advisor that aspires to make an original contribution to the field. Class readings and discussions will address current issues and themes in the field of American Studies as well as how student theses will develop, support, or revise those themes. During the semester students will work on refining a topic and developing a supporting bibliography, conducting a significant amount of primary source research (whether in libraries or in the field), situating their research among relevant secondary sources, writing a prospectus to guide further research and writing in the spring, and planning the project's final form (paper, exhibit, documentary, etc.). Specific expectations for each project/student will be developed in consultation with the course instructor and the student's thesis advisor. It is expected that each student meet at least twice with their thesis advisor during the semester when developing their prospectus and bibliography. Both the capstone instructor and students' thesis advisor will evaluate final prospectuses and research. This course will be graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
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