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  • AMST 30452: Constitutional Rights

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will consist of an examination of how our rights are defined, protected, and limited by the judiciary under the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Our primary method of study will be to read, analyze, and debate landmark Supreme Court opinions.
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  • AMST 30453: History of American Education: Race, Class, Gender and Politics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    American Education mirrors American society with myriad challenges, successes, and ideologies. This course will look at how political struggles over race, language, gender, and class have all played out in the battle over American schools, schools that ultimately hold the literal future of America. This course will explore the History of Education in American from the late 1865 to the present and will have special emphasis on segregated schools in the 19th century and today. The course will also look closely at the very best programs re-shaping American education such as The Alliance for Catholic Education and KIPP. The course will look at education from Kindergarten all the way through graduate programs as we study how our institutions have formed and how they form and transform our society.
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  • AMST 30454: Religion in American Politics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course begins by examining the unique religious "economy" within the United States, and the extent to which it is a function of the First Amendment and/or other factors. We will then explore the imprint religion has made on the American political landscape, drawing on both historical and contemporary examples. From abolitionism to school vouchers, from William Jennings Bryan to George W. Bush, the course will address how religion and politics have converged to affect public policy in the courts, Congress, and the executive branch.
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  • AMST 30500: Race and Ethnicity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course focuses on race and ethnic relations in the United States. Current cases involving racial and ethnic issues will be presented and discussed in class. Readings and materials will present three approaches to the study of majority-minority group relations; the emergence and maintenance of group dominance; and minority-group adaptations to modes of dominance, including separation, accommodation, acculturation, and assimilation. Class participation and students' experiences will be emphasized.
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  • AMST 30507: Religion and Social Life

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    How does social life influence religion? How does religion influence society? What is religion's social significance in a complex society like ours? Is religion's significance declining? This course will consider these and other questions by exploring the great variety in social expressions of religion. The course examines the social bases of churches, sects, and cults, and it focuses on contemporary religion in the United States.
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  • AMST 30509: Race and Ethnicity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course has three objectives. First, the course will help you to think critically about issues related to race and ethnicity in American society. These issues include the meaning of race and ethnicity; the extent of racial and ethnic inequality in the U.S., the nature of racism, discrimination, and racial stereotyping; the pros and cons of affirmative action; the development of racial identity; differences between assimilation, amalgamation, and multiculturalism; and social and individual change with respect to race relations. The second objective is to foster a dialogue between you and other students about racist and ethnocentric attitudes and actions. The third objective is to encourage you to explore your own racial and ethnic identity and to understand how this identity reflects and shapes your life experiences.
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  • AMST 30510: Polish Americans

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    A study of the cultural and racial pluralism of American society through the focus of the Polish-American experience; a review of the social and historical background, the immigration experience, and adaptation to the American experiment in terms of family, religion, education, work, and government.
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  • AMST 30514: Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The first half of the course will introduce a variety of theoretical perspectives, presented as a historical overview of popular cultural studies, both in the United States and Britain. The theories to be considered include: mass culture theory, Marxism, the Frankfurt Schools (Critical Theory), Structuralism, Semiotics, Feminism, and Post-Modernism. During this first half of the course, students will be required to write a paper in which they analyze an aspect of popular culture utilizing one or more of the theoretical perspectives. The second half of the course is devoted to a historical analysis, using the perspectives already addressed, of the social impact and meaning systems of rock 'n' roll music. The exegesis will begin with a study of African music, using recordings of chants and celebratory music, and will explore the music of American slaves, chain gangs, and spirituals, toward the goal of identifying elements exhibited by those genres that eventually evolved into rock 'n' roll. Students will be required to write a research paper on some aspect, personality, group, or historical development of rock 'n' roll. This course is not recommended for students who have taken SOC 451, as the content will overlap.
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  • AMST 30606: Prehistory of the American Southwest

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course introduces students to the diversity of cultures living in the American Southwest from the earliest Paleoindians (11,500 years ago) to European contact, the establishment of Spanish missions, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680-1692. Most of the course is devoted to learning about the complex cultural developments in the Mimbres Valley, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, the Rio Grande, and the Phoenix Basin. Class work and discussions will focus on important issues such as the adoption of agriculture, the development of villages, the transformation of ideological beliefs and political organization, the importance of migration, and the impact of warfare using information on environmental relationships, technology, and other aspects of material culture. Students will also learn about descendant populations living in the Southwest today including the Pueblo peoples (e.g., Hopi, Santa Clara, Acoma) and Tohono O'odham.
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  • AMST 30607: Native Peoples of North America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Tremendous variation exists between the cultures of the peoples of North America, both in the past and today. This course will offer an opportunity to glimpse at this variation, which occurs in technology, social organization, economic, political, and religious systems, and in the arts. A brief introduction of the archaeological and linguistic evidence will provide information on the debate as to when and by what means people entered America and spread throughout its vast area. The course will then move on to consider the many different cultural adaptations to the various environments of North America. The comparative approach will be used to discuss the similarities and differences between specific cultures. The readings will focus upon particular groups (i.e., Eskimo, Cahuilla, Dakota, Navajo, etc.). The course will also be concerned with the cultural changes that occurred within Native American cultures during the colonial and expansion periods of Euro-American cultures. The course will end with consideration of the current issues significant to Native American cultures. Lectures, films, discussions of readings, and research will allow students a range of learning experiences. Both exams and short papers, as well as a research paper provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the basic information and issues.
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