What Is America?
Explores ideas about citizenship, national identity, and the social contract in the broader Americas.
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Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
Introduction to Native American and Indigenous cultures, literature, history, arts, values, lifeways, spirituality, and social and political institutions.
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Examines the formation of legal, social, cultural, and economic identities within the United States and within U.S.controlled territories.
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Study and analysis of a social movement, an institutional structure, or an otherwise clearly delimited arena of social regulation and public activity.
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U.S. Arts and Media
Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of cultural study.
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A survey of some basic aspects of indigenous lifeways in the Americas, this course introduces comparative cultural analysis, providing a foundational course for those interested in thinking about how others think and how we think about otherness.
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Study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within arts and humanities.
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Study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within social and historical studies.
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An exploration of the history and present significance of America an idea and a nation in the larger world.
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Focusing on a specific topic (which will vary by semester), students reflect on established American studies disciplinary methodologies and explore possibilities for new interdisciplinary syntheses.
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Invites a critical and historical analysis of the relation of culture to nation: why is the study of culture traditionally bound in national frames of reference, and how might we organize a study of culture differently?
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Credit for foreign study in American studies when no specific equivalent is available among program offerings.
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Advanced study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within arts and humanities.
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Advanced study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within social and historical studies.
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Analyzes how history, film, music, and ethnography have captured the workings of capitalism in the U.S. and the Caribbean in the late twentieth century.
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Introduction to various approaches in American studies scholarship, illustrated by the work of professors in the program, in preparation and training for the writing of an honors thesis.
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An oral examination of the thesis is conducted by three faculty members.
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Through a cultural and historical examination of a variety of cultural products, physical objects, and social institutions, this course attempts to answer the question: what and where is America?
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Experiencing American Communities
Students gain an appreciation of the dynamic nature of American culture and institutions.
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Focused study and analysis of American society and its institutions.
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Study and analysis of a single topic within arts and humanities in the United States.
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Service Learning in American Studies
Enables undergraduates of advanced standing to make intellectual connections between scholarly pursuits and community involvement.
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Enables undergraduates of advanced standing to undertake independent research projects under the direction of an American Studies faculty member.
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