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| AMST 1101 | Introduction to American Studies | Spring 2010 | 4 | B. Maxwell |
| Days & Time: Tu,Th 11:40 - 12:55p |
| Enrollment Instructions: |
| Description: This is an introduction to interdisciplinary considerations of American culture. We will reflect on topics ranging from Native American relations to the land, to the European conquest of the Americas, to the development of American civic life and political culture and the ongoing African American struggle for freedom and equality. We will also study immigration as a (threatened) constant in national life and labor, the distinctions between mass culture and popular culture, the promise of American life, and violence as a persisting national woe. We'll examine these themes through literature, historical writing, music, art, film, architecture, and political economy in the United States. The course will also give attention to the many methods through which scholars have, over time, developed the discipline of American Studies, and to ongoing debates over the intellectual and political stakes of those methods. |
| Major Requirements: This course may be used as one-half of a pre-1900 course required of the American Studies majors.
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| AMST 1312 | History of Rock Music | Spring 2010 | 3 | J. Peraino |
| Days & Time: Tu,Th 11:15 - 12:05p |
| Enrollment Instructions: |
| Description: This course examines the development and cultural significance of rock music from its origins in blues, gospel, and Tin Pan Alley up to alternative rock and hip hop. This course concludes with the year 2000. |
| Major Requirements: |
| Crosslisted with: MUSIC 1312 |
| AMST 1313 | A Survey of Jazz | Fall 2009 | 3 | S. Pond |
| Days & Time: Mo,We 10:10 - 11:00a |
| Enrollment Instructions: No previous training in music required. |
| Description: This course addresses jazz from two perspectives: the various sounds of jazz, as well as the historical streams -- musical and cultural -- that have contributed to its development. Listening and writing assignments are major components of the course. |
| Major Requirements: |
| Crosslisted with: Music 1313 |
| AMST 1530 | Introduction to American History | Fall 2009 | 4 | M. B. Norton |
| Days & Time: Mo 11:15a - 12:05p |
| Enrollment Instructions: Each student must enroll in a section. |
| Description: A survey of American history from the beginnings through the Civil War. Topics include cultural encounters in the age of Columbus, European colonization, the American Revolution, the early republic, westward expansion, and the origins and outcome of the Civil War. |
| Major Requirements: This course may be used as one of the pre-1900 courses required of American Studies majors.
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| Crosslisted with: Hist 1530 |
| AMST 1531 | Introduction to American History: II | Spring 2010 | 4 | A. Sachs |
| Days & Time: Tu,Th 10:10 - 11:00a |
| Enrollment Instructions: Each student must enroll in a section. |
| Description: An introductory survey of the development of the United States since the Civil War. |
| Major Requirements: |
| Crosslisted with: HIST 1531 |
| AMST 1600 | Introduction to American Indian Studies | Fall 2009 | 3 | P. Nadasdy |
| Days & Time: Tu,Th 1:25 - 2:40p |
| Enrollment Instructions: |
| Description: This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the cultures and histories of American Indian Nations north of Mexico to 1890. Lectures and discussion sections begin with a survey of the Precolumbian Indian occupation of North America, and then examine the political, economic, cultural, legal, and demographic consequences of European and American colonialism. The course will emphasize the contemporary relevance of traditional values, as well as the ways in which the deep past continues to affect the present and future of Indian peoples. Course materials will address Indian histories and cultures from a variety of perspectives, including those of the humanities, social sciences, and expressive arts. 1110 is not a prerequisite to 1100 or vice versa. |
| Major Requirements: This course may be used as one of the two courses in American diversity required of American Studies majors.
This course may be used as one of the pre-1900 courses required of American Studies majors.
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| Crosslisted with: AIS 1100 |
| AMST 1601 | Introduction to American Indian Studies II | Spring 2010 | 3 | K. A. Kassam |
| Days & Time: Mo,We 11:15 - 12:05p |
| Enrollment Instructions: |
| Description: This course provides an interdisciplinary focus upon issues in the field of American Indian Studies and contemporary First Nations communities. Lectures and discussion sections will survey key moments in policy, law and socio-cultural activities that (1) created the conditions for American and Canadian expansion; (2) reformulated traditional Indian governance and culture; and (3) created the dynamic interplay between American Indian Peoples and Nations with each other, settler communities and the state. This course will emphasize Indian political and social philosophical perspectives as they inform discussions of sovereignty, Indigenous forms of agency, and the foundations by which dignity, autonomy and strategies of resistance by contemporary American Indian Peoples and Nations have been and continue to be formulated. Course materials will be drawn from the humanities, social science and expressive arts. 1100 is not a prerequisite to 1110, or vice versa. |
| Major Requirements: This course may be used as one of the two courses in American diversity required of American Studies majors.
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| Crosslisted with: AIS 1601 |
