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  • AMST 30702: The Hyphenated American

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will engage theatrical works for, by, and about hyphenated Americans (African-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc.). Students will see live theatre, theatre on video, and interviews with dramatists and performers. Reading and understanding plays and various theoretical materials on race, culture and immigration will also be vital components of the course. The course will require a large research project based on a topic of the students' choosing.
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  • AMST 30703: History of Television

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Television has been widely available in the United States for only half a century, yet already it has become a key means through which we understand our culture. Our course examines this vital medium from three perspectives. First, we will look at the industrial, economic and technological forces that have shaped U.S. television since its inception. These factors help explain how U.S. television adopted the format of advertiser-supported broadcast networks and why this format is changing today. Second, we will explore television's role in American social and political life: how TV has represented cultural changes in the areas of gender, class, race and ethnicity. Third, we will discuss specific narrative and visual strategies that characterize program formats. Throughout the semester we will demonstrate how television and U.S. culture mutually influence one another, as television both constructs our view of the world and is affected by social and cultural forces within the U.S.
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  • AMST 30704: Art of the African Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will allow students to consider how the term Diaspora is used to describe the dissemination of peoples of African descent that started with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and how such movements have impacted their art making. The African Diaspora has created religions, prompted the formation of political movements, and has coined ideologies: from Ethiopianism, the Harlem Renaissance, Negritude, to the Black Arts Movement, and the post-black era. The course will interrogate these important markers in history and examine their roles in the art of the African Diaspora. Although the course is designed around the concept of the Black Atlantic, we will also consider traditional art forms of Sub-Saharan Africa and investigate the ways in which they influenced artists in Europe and the Americas.
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  • AMST 30802: American Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course examines American painting, architecture, and sculpture from Puritan culture to the end of World War I. The approach is to examine the development of American art under the impact of social and philosophical forces in each historical era. The course explores the way in which artists and architects give expression to the tensions and sensibilities of each period. Among major themes of the course are the problem of America's self-definition, the impact of religious and scientific thought on American culture, Americans' changing attitudes toward European art, and the American contribution to Modernism.
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  • AMST 34100: The African American Odyssey: From pHillis Wheatley to Barak Obama

    2.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course aims to introduce students to major elements of the African-american experience in the United States. It contemplates this "odyssey" from a multidisciplinary perspective (literature, sociology, political science) along with an historical background. Central to our discussions will be a focus on the African-american voice since the 18th century. This course also draws on popular culture (music, visual arts, television, sports) as to explore the destiny of black people in the American contemporary cultural history, with particular attention to the interplay between "black" culture and political consciousness.
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  • AMST 34101: American Art in the 20th Century

    2.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    "The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with 20th Century American art. focusing on the production and texts of American artists. The Armory Show of 1913 has come to be seen as a turning point in the history of art, as the moment when New York and the US began to take the place of Paris and Europe as the world capital of art. From 1913 on New York and the US led the avant garde. The purpose of this course will be to study the ways in which the US transformed the world of art in the 20th century by shattering artistic conventions and questioning the very notion of art."
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  • AMST 34103: American Political Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    An overview of and an introduction to the different facets of American political journalism. Although we will look at local and state politics and their relationship to the news media, our principle focus will be on national concerns, including the coverage of the presidency and Congress. Some of the sessions will include presentations by journalists and visits to news institutions in Washington. The deputy national editor of the Washington Post teaches this class.
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  • AMST 34201: New Zealand/US Criminal Justice Policy ¿ Restorative Justice

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This three-credit course will survey criminal justice policy in both New Zealand and the United States. The course will also focus on the development in the late twentieth century of restorative justice as a new paradigm in criminal justice policy. Restorative justice has been hailed for giving crime victims a powerful voice, for rebuilding communities, for emphasizing offender accountability, and for more effectively reintegrating offenders into society. The course will examine restorative justice programs in depth in New Zealand (including family group conferences) and will survey restorative justice programs in Australia (reintegrative shaming), the United States, and Canada (sentencing circles). In particular, the course will explore the impact of the history and culture of the Maori (the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand) on restorative justice development.
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  • AMST 34254: American Fiction Since 1945

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    ENG 30590 Post-War American Fiction at UCD; This course will introduce students to a selection of post-World War II US fiction, and will analyse these works as representations of and responses to conflicts- both beyond the borders of the United States and within US society and culture itself. The course will examine war as a historical event and cultural trope in this period, and will encourage students to consider the possibilities and limitations of such a model for discussions of US culture in this period. Topics and themes to be addressed will include the aftermath of World War II and US national culture; the Cold War and the postmodern novel; trauma, narrative and cultural memory; representations of race, ethnicity and gender in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Movement; media, mediation and popular culture. Listed in AMST course catalog as English 40739
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  • AMST 34333: The Irish in America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Between forty and fifty million report themselves to be partly, or wholly, of Irish descent. The majority of these are evangelical; a quarter are Catholic. All are now quite American: residual ethnicity, not minority sub-cultures, characterises them. Descendants of the smallish early migrations, 1720-1820, outnumber those of the larger, better known but later immigration of over five million Irish since the 1820s. Both flows came from the whole country, if the first had a strong northern 'tilit'. The first waves were absorbed into America's countryside and small towns as the country became independent and democratic. The second waves became part of an industrialising America at every social level. Initially less easily assimilated, they made for an "Irish America" that lasted roughly a century (1840s-1940). Migrants in both eras sought "Americanisation" yet also sought group cohesion. This dual insistence promoted democratic politics and social inclusion. The Course will examine various themes. A third will be on the early years to 1820, the rest upon "Irish America". Many themes will be left to student choice of tutorial topics.
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