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3.00 Credits
Permission of the director required.
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3.00 Credits
Permission of the director required.
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1.00 Credits
A study of particular forms and concepts, versions and visions of American community at the local, national, and international level. The course is designed to enable students through individual and group projects to explore contested issues and methodological problems in American studies. Topic for 2008/09: To be announced. Ms. Varghese Prerequisite: Required of seniors concentrating in the program. Special Permission. One 2-hour period.
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12.00 Credits
Required of students concentrating in the program. The senior project is graded Distinction, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory.
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1.00 Credits
This course is required for all senior American Culture majors. It considers the practical difficulties of applying multidisciplinary approaches to various kinds of American cultural texts. It is intended as preparation for developing the Senior Thesis or Project.. Mr. Hoynes Prerequisite: permission of director. One 2-hour period.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Sociology 380a) Ms. Miringoff.
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the various ways in which artists, photographers, writers and government agencies attempted to create documents of American life in the first half of the Twentieth Century. The course examines in what ways such documents can be seen as products of aesthetic vision or social conscience, or both. Among the questions we consider are: In what ways do these works document issues of race and gender that complicate our understanding of American life How are our understandings of industrialization and consumerism, the Great Depression and World War II, shaped and altered by such works as the photographs of Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange and Esther Bubley, the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, the novels of William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Chester Hine and Zora Neale Hurston, and the poems of William Carlos Williams. Ms. Cohen, Ms. Wallace
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1.00 Credits
Why have the majority of Arabs and Muslims resisted the West's civilizational project with its accompanying rhetoric of universalist values for more than two centuries Why has the United States, especially recently, insisted-at least rhetorically--on bringing liberty, democracy, and peace to the Middle East To engage these questions, the course approaches U.S.-Arab encounters from the vantage point of the ongoing debate about the meanings of universalism, implied (or exemplified) in the notion of U.S./Western universalist values. This course examines the history of that rhetoric as well as the history of its opposition. Using legal texts, policy documents and media, it explores how the battle over meaning and definition is tied to the realities of the uneven and unequal flows of cultural influence and to politico-economic dependency. Finally, this course reflects on the possibility of a genuine universalism or a multiplicity of universalisms. Khadija Fritsch-El Alaoui
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1.00 Credits
(same as Drama 389a.)
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1.00 Credits
Archaeologists study the material evidence of past human cultures. In this course students learn how archaeologists dig up physical remains, tools, and houses and use these data to reconstruct and understand past cultures. The methods and theory behind archaeological recovery, problem solving and interpretation are learned through the use of selected site reports, articles from all over the world, and hands on experimentation. Ms. Johnson.
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