| source Yale (X) |
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department American Studies (X) |
MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu The sexuality of American religion. Case studies and theoretical expositions map the relationship between sexuality and the texts, rituals, regulations, and communities of American religious cultures. Topics include seductive ministers, pedophile priests, abstinent sects, and complex marriages.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas So The development and operations of the American presidency. The political and constitutional evolution of the office, the modern executive establishment, and the politics of presidential leadership.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The social, political, and economic changes that transformed American society from the turn of the twentieth century through World War II.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Introduction to the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual minorities. Focus on understanding categories of sexuality in relation to shifting normative regimes, primarily in the twentieth century. The emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas Hu, So Introduction to major themes and topics in African American experiences; basic methods of interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation in African American studies. Topics include black economic, political, and social institutions; self-identity and social status; literature, art, film, and music; and political and social issues and their relationship to changing social structures.
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MW 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu Significant themes in American life, 1607-1750: politics and imperial governance, social structure, religion, ecology, race relations, gender, popular culture, the rhythms of everyday life.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu An introduction to the cultural history of the United States from Reconstruction through the First World War, with special attention to the persistence of popular culture, the transformation of bourgeois culture, and the birth of mass culture during a period of rapid industrialization.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Skills WR Areas Hu, So Introduction to land use, transportation, town planning, and vernacular building patterns in the United States. After a brief review of Native American and colonial settlement patterns, the first section of the course (1800-1920) deals with traditional towns and large cities, the second (1920-2000) with peripheral growth that transformed downtowns and shaped diffuse metropolitan regions.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Expressions of national identity and national feeling in American performance history. The role of live performance in generating meanings of America, including race, ethnicity, and citizenship. Performance inherent in political demonstrations, sporting events, dance, and music.
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M 2.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A study of the great American film comedians and an investigation into the psychology of laughter. Comedians from Chaplin and Keaton to the Marx brothers and Fields examined against a background of European comedy. Topics include comic form and technique, and their relevance to the American scene. Not a history of American film comedy.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Portrayals of cognitive and linguistic impairment in modern fiction. Characters with limited capacities for language as figures of 'otherness.' Contemporaneous discourses of science, sociology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. The ethics of speaking about or for subjects at the margins of discourse.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, with special attention to the composition, idioms, and group dynamics of different life-worlds: regional, national, and international. Connections from race and Southern history, through the high-gloss, fast-paced jazz age, to the traumas of World War I and the Spanish Civil War.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Relationships between medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 to the present. The changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The persistent impulse in Western culture to imagine the end of the world and what might follow. Social and psychological factors that motivate apocalyptic representations. The differences and the constant features in apocalyptic representations from the Hebrew Bible to contemporary science fiction. Attitudes toward history, politics, sexuality, social class, and the process of representation in apocalyptic texts.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The idea of wilderness in American history, art, film, public policy, and literature, from the Puritans to the present. Authors include Thoreau, Faulkner, Jack London, Mary Rowlandson, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. A weekend field trip is held early in the term.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu The history of women and gender roles from the English settlement of the North American coast to 1900. Emphasis on work and family roles, social and political movements, and regional, racial, and cultural variation.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas Hu An introduction to the history of East, South, and Southeast Asian migrations and settlement to the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Major themes include labor migration, community formation, U.S. imperialism, legal exclusion, racial segregation, gender and sexuality, cultural representations, and political resistance.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Examination of black women?s literary texts from the post-civil rights era. Exploration of the ways writers construct and contest the cultural, ideological, and political parameters of black womanhood. Topics include narrative strategy, modes of representation, and textual depictions of the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, color, ethnicity, nationality, class, and generation. Texts placed within the context of black women?s literary legacies.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Introduction to captivity narratives from colonial and nineteenth-century America. Settler narratives placed in dialogue with slave narratives and Native American pictographic sketchbooks produced in military forts. Contemporary captivity narratives from the U.S. war in Iraq and other conflicts compared with narrative forms and themes from the colonial period.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Identities, strategies, and modes of incorporation of contemporary immigrants in U.S. society and culture. Constructions and practices of ethnicity, race, gender, and national and transnational belonging. Focus on post-1965 immigration, with some attention to earlier twentieth-century immigrant groups.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Historical, political, and aesthetic roots of Chicano and Latino literature in short stories, novels, poetry, plays, essays, literary criticism, and the performance genres of spoken word, theater, and film.
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MW 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Pre-Industrial Course Survey of the history of federal Indian law and policy, highlighting the political achievements of American Indian communities over the past four decades.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema. Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary ?mixed race movement? and the emerging rubric of ?critical mixed race studies?; historical genealogy of interraciality and hybridity. Analysis of long-standing debates on race mixing in the realms of legal classification, transracial adoption, census taking, grassroots movements, the discursive, the ideological, and the popular.
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