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Why do Americans eat ethnic food? This course analyzes US eating habits to understand the experience of immigration and the processes of Americanization and identity formation. Students are invited to be historians, anthropologists, and film scholars when they examine menus, cookbooks, and films in order to draw conclusions about American behaviors and tastes. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 04 Semester Level 03 Semester Level 01 Semester Level 02 Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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An interdisciplinary and multicultural examination of the diversity of the American experience and the complexity of the task of studying it. Themes include nation building, the formation of social and racial identities, and consumption and production. Texts vary by methodology and genre and may include books, films, popular culture, art, material culture, and landscape. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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An introduction to the interdisciplinary study of culture in the U.S. through four wars and their reverberations in American culture: the Spanish-American War, World War II, The Vietnam War, and the War in Iraq. During wartime, people from all walks of American life ask themselves "What are we fighting for?" and "Who is this "we," anyway?" Course material will include speeches, debates, essays, letters, memoirs, novels, cartoons, posters, paintings, advertising, photographs, music, and movies. Lectures and discussions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines material expressions of folk culture in America from the 18th century to the present. Focuses on the study of regionally idiosyncratic artifacts decorated beyond necessity and emphasizes the importance of the cultural context in which they were made and used. Visits to local burying grounds and museum collections during class and a Saturday field trip. Concludes with an original research project and final paper. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Students examine gravestones and burying grounds as primary documents in the study of American cultural history. Themes include the forms of written language and visual imagery in colonial New England, changing roles of women and minorities in society, historical craft practices, implications of stylistic change, attitudes towards death and bereavement, and the material evidence of discrete cultural traditions. Includes field trips. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course examines the art, architecture, and domestic furnishing of America in the early national period. It focuses on visual culture as a reflection of the new nation's self image as a democratic and enlightened society. Includes class visits to local burying grounds and museum collections, and a Saturday Boston field trip. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Old houses and the objects used to furnish them are interpreted as material evidence of domestic life in colonial and early national America. Through slide lectures and field trips, this class examines Providence's historic buildings, museum collections, and public archives as primary documents in the study of cultural history. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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A slide-illustrated lecture course that examines the development of the urban landscape. Covers American building practices and the effects of human-made structures on our culture. Examines technological and behavioral aspects of architectural design and urban development. Topics include housing, factories, commercial buildings, city plans, transportation networks, water systems, bridges, parks, and waterfronts. A companion course to AMCV 1530. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the cultural significance of the automobile. Employs materials and methodologies from various disciplines to study this machine and the changes it has produced in our society and our landscape. Slide-illustrated lectures cover such topics as the assembly line, automobile design, roadside architecture, suburbs, auto advertisements, and the car in popular culture. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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A survey of the skills required for public humanities work. Presentations from local and national practitioners in a diverse range of public humanities topics: historic preservation, oral history, exhibition development, archival and curatorial skills, radio and television documentaries, public art, local history, and and more. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Using on-site writing techniques, students will write, workshop, and direct research-based site-specific short plays to be performed by local actors in historic Providence mansions. Class discussion will explore local history (class includes a walking tour), performance texts, and types of site-specific work. Students will emerge having written and directed a research-based work in a National Historical Landmark. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Traces the history of American advertising, particularly in the 20th century, to understand the role advertising plays in our culture. Topics include the rise of national advertising, the economics of the advertising industry, the relation of advertising to consumption, the depiction of advertising in fiction and film, and broadcast advertising. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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This course explores the influences of place and ecological peculiarity on literary production in America over a broad span of time, with particular attention paid to literary "local color". 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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This interdisciplinary course examines the history of popular culture in the industrialized United States, drawing on methodologies from different fields, and using a variety of evidence, including minstrel song sheets, amusement parks, television, and romance novels. We look at the audience, the producers and the texts presented by American popular culture both domestically and internationally. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the parallels between the Romantic poetry written in America, epitomized by the work of Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, and its relationship to the rise and fall of the Hudson River school of American landscape painting initiated by Thomas Cole. Questions of nationalism, domestication, originality, and canonization are considered in the contexts of both literary and aesthetic history. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the image of the American artist and expatriate in an international and interdisciplinary context. Lectures, class discussions, reports and papers. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Since the end of WWII the Asian American community has undergone radical transformations. This course will examine the shifting political and cultural status of Asians in America, the demographic revolution in Asian America ushered in with the Immigration Reform Act of 1964, Asian Americans and globalization of the US economy, and Asian Americans in contemporary US race relations. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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A survey of the history of Asians in the U.S. from the early 19th century to the present. Focuses on the changing patterns of immigration, labor, community building, and civil rights struggles. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Asian America is an extremely diverse community including fifth generation Californians and yesterday's arrivals: Hmong from Laos, Indians from Guyana, Japanese from Brazil, native born Americans, immigrants, refugees, adoptees, doctors, garment workers, physicists, poets, and storekeepers. The patterns of migration and settlement from Asia to the Americas-U.S. and Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America-over the past two hundred years are examined. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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From Manila villages in 18th-century Louisiana, to Punjabi-Mexican families in early 20th-century California, to today's "little Saigons" and Asianam cyberspace, Asian Americans have built a diverse array of communities in the U.S. The historical circumstances, social forces, and political movements that have shaped these communities are examined. Particular attention paid to the dynamics of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in the development of these communities. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the history of women/gender in relation to discourses about sexuality (both physical and mental) in the era of the Civil War through the progressive era. It samples a variety of ideas and movements, including efforts to regulate sexuality and initiatives to advance women into the medical and "helping" professions. Specialization is given to issues of class, race and ethnicity. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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A survey of the role that nature plays in the major prose and poetry of the Anglo-American literary tradition, from Beowulf to Heaney and Gilbert White to E.O. Wilson. The result should constitute a personal anthology and literary history of the rise of ecoconciousness and its manifestation in verbal aesthetics. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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