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department American Studies (X) |
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. American science as a cultural system. Mutual influence and interaction of that system with other cultural systems including religion, social thought, art, architecture, literature, music, and common sense. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I. Mechling
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Religions and spiritual practices in the United States, and their interrelationships with other aspects of U.S. history, society and culture; indigenous and imported faiths, and the impact of immigration, colonization and culture contact on religious systems. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.) Kelman
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. American culture as understood through the individual life stories told by Americans, with attention to the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation in the individual’s life course. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—II. Mechling
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Lecture—3 hours; fieldwork—3 hours. Uses and abuses of nature in America; patterns of inhabitation, exploitation, appreciation, and neglect; attention to California; emphasis on metaphor as a key to understanding ourselves and the natural world; attention to models of healing: stewardship, ecology, the “rights” movement. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. Smith, Sze
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Seminar—2 hours. Prerequisite: open only to students who have completed fewer than 40 quarter units. Investigation of a special topic in American Studies through shared readings, discussions, written assignments, and special activities (such as fieldwork, site visits). Emphasis on student participation in learning. Limited enrollment.—II, III. (II, III.)
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. Technology as both a material cultural force and a symbol in American culture; the lives of engineers at work and play; images of the engineer and technology in popular culture; social political and ethical issues raised by technology. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.—I. (I.) Smith
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. United States history, culture and society. Examination of cultural objects and social practices. Topics include popular culture (film, TV, Internet), cultural diversity, social activism, play, and communication. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. Biltekoff, Wang
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour; term paper. Prerequisite: completion of subject A requirement. Material culture (objects and artifacts ranging from everyday objects like toys and furnishings to buildings and constructed landscapes) as evidence for understanding the everyday (vernacular) lives (gender, social class, ethnicity, region, age, and other factors; collecting and displaying material culture; commodity capitalism) of individuals and communities in colonial North America and the United States. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I. de la Peña
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: completed Subject A requirement. Business as a cultural system and its relation to religion, politics, arts, science, technology, and material culture; business themes of success, creativity, invention, and competition in American autobiographies, fiction, advice literature, film, and television; cultures of the workplace; multinational business. GE credit: ArtHum, SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.) de la Pena, Mechling
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Investigation of verbal and visual discourses about American identity in various popular culture products, including film, television, radio, music, fiction, art, advertising, and commercial experiences; discourses about the United States in the popular culture of other societies. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—(I.) Kelman, Smoodin
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: complete Subject A requirement. Food as a cultural system in the United States; food in the performance of individual and group identity, including gender and ethnicity; food in literature, art, popular culture (film, television, advertising), and folk culture; the food industry and business. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci, Wrt.—II. (II.) Biltekoff
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: completed Subject A requirement. An examination of music and American culture. Studies will explore music in its cultural contexts, which may include examinations of recording and broadcasting, of race, class, and gender, the role of technology, and relationships between musical production, consumption and listening. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci, Wri.—I. (I.) Kelman, Wang
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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(P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Design and implementation of interdisciplinary research, analysis and writing for American Studies and other cultural studies fields. Library and Internet research skills, project/problem definition, methods of study of texts, individuals, communities. Hands-on, skill-building, focused reading, discussion.—I. (I.) Biltekoff, Wang
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Seminar—3 hours, intensive reading, writing, and special projects. Interdisciplinary group study of special topics in American Culture Studies, designed for non-majors as well as majors. Content will vary according to the instructor and in accord with the following titles: (A) Popular Culture Studies; (B) Women’s Studies; (C) Material Aspects of American Culture; (D) American National Character; (E) American Lives Through Autobiography; (F) The Interrelationship Between Arts and Ideas; (G) New Directions in American Culture Studies; (H) Problems in Cross-Cultural American Studies. May be repeated for credit in different subject area only.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: one of courses 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E or 1F. Close examination of a single decade in American civilization; the connections between the history, literature, arts, customs, and ideas of Americans living in the decade. Issues and representations of race, class, gender, age, and sexuality in the decade. May be repeated for credit if decades studied are different. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: upper division status; preparatory courses for the American Studies major or the equivalent interdisciplinary experience. Introduction to the cultural studies theories and to critical practices that seek to understand everyday life in the United States, with special attention to uncovering the vernacular theories governing these practices.—I. (I.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: upper division status; preparatory courses for the American Studies major or the equivalent interdisciplinary experience. Examination of human bodies as sites for cultural constructions of identities and “selves” in the United States; attention to bodily norms, crises, and transgressions; the relation between disciplining the body and controlling social categories, including race, gender, class and sexualities.—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; fieldwork—1 hour. Theory and method of the study of American folk traditions, including oral lore, customs, music, and material folk culture; the uses and meanings of those traditions in various folk communities, including families, ethnic institutions, voluntary organizations, and occupational groups GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.) Mechling
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour; fieldwork—1 hour. Prerequisite: one course chosen from course 120, Anthropology 2, Psychology 16, or Sociology 1; or consent of instructor. Exploration of the small group cultures of American corporate workplaces, including the role of environment, stories, jokes, rituals, ceremonies, personal style, and play. The effects of cultural diversity upon corporate cultures, both from within and in contact with foreign corporations.—III. (III.) de la Peña
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; fieldwork—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 1 or upper division standing. American popular expression and experience as a cultural system, and the relationship between this system and elite and folk cultures. Exploration of theories and methods for discovering and interpreting patterns of meaning in American popular culture. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—II. (II.) Kelman, Smoodin
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours; film viewing—2 hours. Critical approaches to the study of contemporary media culture, focusing specifically on film, television, computer, and print media and their products and on the various interrelationships between media and U.S. culture. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—II. (II.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. An introduction to rhetorical analysis of social issues as depicted within media culture, with specific emphasis on the way media frame messages about new social problems. Not open to students who have taken Rhetoric and Communication 124. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—(III.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies or American Studies. The histories, theories, and practices of feminist traditions within cultural studies. (Same course as Women’s Studies 139.) GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.)
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