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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine the invention, celebration, and meanings of American holidays from the colonial era to the present. Issues to be considered include the ways in which holidays have shaped cultural values and American identity and vice versa; the ways in which holidays have both reflected and shaped views of gender, race, class, and ethnicity; and the relationships between holidays and religious belief, nationalism, consumer culture and political ideology. The course will take a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of North American history that employs the methodology of comparative history to interpret the histories of the United States, Canada, and Mexico within a conceptual framework sensitive to continental similarities and differences. The course takes a thematic approach, and special attention is given to the political institutions and economic structures that have fostered transnational cooperation and continental integration. The social and cultural dimensions of discord and conflict also are examined.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the historical construction of American gender, ethnicity/race, and class, their present status, and their literary and cultural representations. Focusing on intersections between these categories of identity, the course will utilize an interdisciplinary approach, integrating materials from fields such as literary studies, history, women's studies, ethnic studies, geography, sociology, music, and art.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how social, political, and economic changes have affected American culture and Americans' lives. Topics include consumption patterns; recreational activities; architectural styles; high and popular culture; holidays; family life; and social and cultural rituals.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how social. political, and economic changes have affected American culture and Americans' lives. Topics include consumption patterns; recreational activities; architectural styles; high and popular culture; holidays; family life; and social and cultural rituals.
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3.00 Credits
Immigration to the U.S., with an emphasis on comparing the experiences of European, African, Latin American, and Asian immigrants. Topics will include immigrants' lives, work, and communities; assimilation and cultural persistence; and the development of U.S. immigration policy.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Variable-content course. Consult online Course Offerings and program notices for specific topic covered each semester.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Development of American Studies as a discipline; current splits in concepts and methods of American Studies; practice in making imaginative connections among elements in American culture and testing these connections by appropriate methods.
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