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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the ethical challenges that newsroom managers face as well as the issues that reporters in the field must tackle on a daily basis. Much of the course will deal with case studies of actual ethical dilemmas at major news organizations. Also, students will be asked to seek out and bring to class issues dealing with the full range of media from network news to Internet blogs. The course endeavors to teach both the aspiring professional journalist and the non-professional news consumer how to evaluate what they see and read. Taught by the former editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe.
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Did Puritans really only wear black and white, or did they wear fashionable lace, silk ribbons and bright colors? Did early settlers wash their bodies to get clean? What role did fashion play in the making of the American Revolution? And how did slaves and Native Americans adorn their bodies? This course will address such questions by focusing on dress and material culture. We will consider the role of dress in the construction of colonial identities, and examine the ways that bodies operated as sites for negotiating class and ethnic encounters.
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3.00 Credits
What did shopping, tavern-keeping, and midwifery have in common in early America? They could all be considered legitimate forms of "women's work." This course introduces students to early American social history (from colonial settlement to 1820) by considering the dynamic relationship of women and work. We will consider the ways that girls and women helped make the world of pre-Industrial America through their contributions both inside and outside of the home. The course will consider different forms of labor: skilled and unskilled, free and enslaved, and paid and unpaid. It will also pay special attention to the ways that women of European, African and Indian descent wove their own cultural beliefs and social practices into the broader laboring regimes of early America. Throughout, we will explore the changing meanings of "women's work" and "men's work" and assess how these definitions helped to shape boundaries of race and class. We will cover a range of sites from New England to Charleston, Louisiana to Jamaica, and analyze topics such as the gendering of agricultural work, African women's market activities in the New World, women and politics in Washington, and shopping as skilled work.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve and extend student skills in writing non-fiction articles, with emphasis on writing for magazines. It will touch on freelancing, researching markets, understanding audience, finding salable topics, writing query letters, and working with editors. But the major emphasis of the course will be on writing: students will be expected to write several short articles and one major one, and they will be responsible for developing a marketing plan for the long article. The instructor of this course is the editor emeritus of Notre Dame Magazine. Open to American Studies majors and Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy minors by permission. Other applicants must submit writing samples for review.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the roles of persuasion, commentary, and criticism in contemporary American culture and will explore the techniques of these forms of expression. Students will prepare and discuss their own writing assignments, including opinion columns, editorials, and critical reviews of performances or books. Ethics and responsibilities in contemporary American journalism in expression of opinions also will be explored. Assignments will serve as the examinations in this course, which is taught by a political columnist for the South Bend Tribune who also serves as host of public affairs programs on WNIT-TV, Public Broadcasting. Open to American Studies majors and Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy minors by permission. Other applicants must submit writing samples for review.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers art and culture in the United States of America from pre-World War II through the early 1970s, focusing on art styles and movements ranging from Regionalism and Abstract Expressionism to Earthworks and early Feminist art. The "triumph of American painting" in the post-World War II era, links between art and politics, development of American art theory, intersections between the avant-garde, popular culture, consumer culture, and institutionalization of art museums and markets will be analyzed in detail.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the culture and society of one of the most turbulent periods in American history. The economic collapse and ensuing national crisis altered the political, social, and symbolic landscape of the country. We will examine the historical context and social activism of this period (1929-1941), including the conditions and responses of those affected by various hardships. Also, we will be concerned with the cultural expression and representation of Depression America. How was the crisis confronted? What ways of seeing and understanding the events, and the people who lived through them, provided value, merit, and worth? In what ways did social positions and cultural values clash? In order to answer these and related questions, we will study the role and importance of documentary expression (letters, photographs, reportage), the art of urban social realism, literature, and film.
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3.00 Credits
The United States Constitution was created to provide governmental stability and to define individual liberties. In this course we will study the original intent of its words and the ways in which its applications and additions have been defining moments in American culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines American visual and material cultures from the pre-colonial era to the present day. Providing a broad, historical account and considering a variety of media from paintings and sculptures to quilts, photographs, world's fairs, and fashion styles, this survey explores American art within the context of cultural, social, economic, political, and philosophical developments. In particular, it considers the role that American art has played in the formation of national identity and understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
Despite popular images of American as a "melting" both of races and ethnicities, our institutions, values, and practices have often tried to create or maintain spatial and social distance between groups defined as racially different. This course will explore the ways in which Americans have transgressed those boundaries or found other ways of interacting across cultural lines, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will examine popular cultural perceptions of people of mixed ancestry, their social experiences, the development of various mixed-ancestry communities, and historical attempts to limit interracial socializing, relationships, and marriage. These issues were and are deeply imbedded in debates over the meaning of race, gender expectations and ideas about sex and sexuality. We will also pay close attention to how minority communities have understood people of mixed ancestry in the United States, and how mixed-race identities intersect with African American, Native American, Asian, White, and Latino identities.
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