| source UC Santa Cruz (X) |
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department American Studies (X) |
Explores the ways in which the virtual and the real overlap, constitute, and critique each other, and uses each to illuminate cultural and theoretical discussions around race, gender, sexuality, and labor. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Introduction to American studies through interdisciplinary examination of past and present California and its diverse peoples. Addresses social, political, and cultural issues, and examines California with attention to regional, national, and global contexts. (Formerly course 1,
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Seminars taught by upper-division students under faculty supervision. (See course 192.)
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Introduces key concepts and debates in study of race and ethnicity in U.S. by focusing on a particular ethnoracial group (e.g., Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans) or by developing a comparative perspective. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.) (F)
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Introduces key concepts and debates in popular culture and media studies and discusses their importance in relation to American studies. Addresses these issues by examining films, television programs, musical recordings, fashion, and so on and the ways in which they are produced, distributed, marketed, and consumed. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Introduces key concepts and debates around topics such as political economy, nationalism, globalization, citizenship, class, and social movements and addresses their importance to American studies. Examines these issues through attention to political theory, social transformations, and cultural representations. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Provides majors with an in-depth introduction to American studies and the major at UCSC. Introduces key American studies concepts and highlights the emphases of this major. Careful attention paid to critical reading skills and analytical writing. Required of all American studies majors. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): W.) (W)
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A critical examination of sociological and historical literature on race/ethnic formations and relations in U.S. society within the socioeconomic and political contexts of capitalism and colonization. Concepts and theories are applied to contemporary issues of race and ethnic
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Introduction to the gendered analysis of U.S. society and culture from theoretical and historical perspectives. Particular attention given to the ways in which gender intersects with racial, ethnic, and class differences, focusing on the themes of work, politics, and sexuality. Course 1 is recommended prior to taking this course.
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Examines how aspects of sexuality (such as sexual identities, preferences, roles, and desires) are fundamentally shaped by social-cultural and psychological factors. Topics include gender formation, the social construction of sexuality, and the historical emergence of the modern "gay" and "lesbian" identity of the U.S. Recommended for senior American studies majors.
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Study and application of the theories, methods, and ethical issues involved in the practice of oral history. Critical readings and writing exercises will culminate in a 20-page oral history project. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 24. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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Examines ethics and politics of ethnographic research and various methodologies. Students collect their own ethnographic data to be analyzed with relevant theory in a final capstone project. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20.
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A survey of major popular cultural forms and texts in the pre-WWI era including Minstrelsy, Uncle Tom's Cabin, P.T. Barnum, Ramona, The Wizard of Oz, and Birth of a Nation, with attention to historical context and theory.
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Major popular cultural forms from the 1920s to the present. Topics include early "race" recordings; Depression radicalism; WWII entertainments; the Cold War; popular film genres; the 1970s and 1980s contemporary music (conjunto, jazz, rock, and rap). Particular attention to multicultural issues. Course 107A recommended.
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Assesses political conditions under which the U.S. became committed to certain technologies, discusses merits of recent accounts of "crisis" in our politics and environment, and examines alternatives to mainstream politics and technology. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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Science fiction by authors and artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, contextualized within the political and economic conditions of the U.S. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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Features texts with Western settings and with representative casts of Western characters. The often contradictory patterns that emerge from this regional literature and the qualities that attach to its familiar hero are explored.
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Examines immigration to U.S. from colonial era to present with special emphasis on issues of citizenship, social identities, and social membership.
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Examination of varied and often conflicting ways the ambiguous entity conventionally labeled "America" has been imagined, both positively and negatively, in political speeches, painting, fiction, film, television, music, drama, advertising, parades, and other modes of expression.
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Examination of major conceptions of citizenship in the context of American society and culture, with particular attention both to the sources of these conceptions in Western political thought and to their elaboration and testing in specific historical situations. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors.
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Explores history of Marxist thought and activism in the U.S. with special emphasis on uses and effects of Marxism within aggrieved communities of color. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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Examines the history of work and class in U.S. society with particular attention to how race and gender inform the constructions of multiple working classes. Drawing upon primary and secondary materials, the course analyzes the formations of labor unions, regional labor patterns, and the development of the capitalist market economy.
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Examines what it means to be of mixed race in America along historical, social, political, and cinematic lines. Theories on racial and identity formation applied to understanding multiracial experiences of various racial groups in the U.S. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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