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Examines the evolution of child welfare in the United States from its origins in the late 19th century through its purported crisis in the late 20th. Specifically, will trace the history of policies and programs aimed at providing support for dependent children, and at dealing with deviant or delinquent children. Emphasis will be on understanding the social, cultural, and political contexts in which child welfare was formed and transformed during this century. 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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A survey of how changing ideas of childhood and the "new" construction of the category of adolescence are mirrored in American fiction and poetry from the Puritans to the present. Among the writers considered are Anne Bradstreet, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Henry James, and J. D. Salinger. Provides a comparative cultural perspective by studying works by Wordsworth, Dickens, Pater, and Kosinski. 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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What is the relationship between citizenship, national belonging, and ideologies of race in the Americas? In what ways do gender and class differences affect this relationship? Focusing on these questions, this course compares the racial and social experience of the U.S. Latinos with that of the populations in various countries in the hemisphere. 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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Recent mainstream interpretations of the 1960s tend to neglect the presence and participation of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans in the various movements for civil rights. Using an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on historical, autobiographical and contemporary texts, films, and documentaries, this course examines the Latino experience during the Civil Rights period and explores its legacy today in the lives of Latino and other racial minorities. 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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Surveys the working class and radical movements that have challenged the ruling economic, political, and cultural systems. Major topics include the railroad uprising of 1877, the Knights of Labor, sexual utopianism and spiritualism, black nationalism, the Socialist and Communist parties, women's and gay liberation, and the modern ecology movement. Emphasizes cultures. Prerequisite: At least one semester of a college-level course in U.S. history or literature. 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 will concentrate on the major works of Thoreau, including his natural history essays, and consider his continuing presence in modern American nature writing. Other authors to be studied include John Burroughs, Muir, Lopez, Dillard, Beston and Abbey. The approach will be historical, cultural, and aesthetic, with a focus on archival sources. 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 course introduces students to the history of sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present. This is not only a history of gay and lesbian communities. Rather it builds on those histories to create a portrait of how Americans, gay and straight, lived sexual lives in relationship to disciplines of knowledge, cultural and political institutions, and popular culture. 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 350 years of immigration to what is now the U.S. Organization is both chronological and topical. We will reconstruct and compare the major waves of immigration, consider causal theories of migration, examine U.S. immigration policy over time, debate the economic impact of immigration, and discuss the institutions and strategies that immigrants have designed to facilitate adaptation. 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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A consideration of the expatriate tradition and the effect of foreign experience on such artists as Copley, Cole, Sargent, and Hockney, and such writers as Irving, James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Twain, Edith Wharton, Hemingway, Baldwin, and Edmund White. 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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A survey of the ways that aspects of the histories and cultures of the U.S. and Latin America have contributed to shape public policy issues and to differentiate the experiences of U.S. Latinos. Among the questions guiding class discussions: What are the implications of grouping nationally, racially, and socially heterogeneous populations under one term, such as Hispanic or Latino ? To what extent do "ethnic labels" foster alliances among different ethnic or racial groups? 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, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the ways in which gender roles and intergenerational expectations-diversified by race, class, national identity, and citizenship status-shape the varied identities and cultural experiences of Latinos and Latinas in different decades of the post-World War II period in the U.S. 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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The purpose of this course is to examine the political, economic, cultural and social impact of Latina/o immigration in the 20th Century and on Latina/o identity formation. We examine the intimate and personal history of the United States in relation to Latin America, Central America, the Carribean, and Mexico that established interdependent relationships between nations and its people. 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 course explores the various forms of popular culture associated with U.S. Latino communities. It focuses on the production, dissemination, and consumption of mass mediated cultural forms, primarily music, television, film and journalism, but it also examines other cultural expressions such as vernacular art, food, festivals, and folklore. Prerequisite: At least one semester of college-level course in U.S. history or literature. 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 way Latinos have been constructed-and misrepresented-in Hollywood film from the silent era to the present, and compares these images with contemporary Latino-made films that counteract Hollywood stereotypes with more accurate and complex images of their own histories and cultures. Readings introduce students to film criticism from a Latino perspective. Weekly screenings in and outside class. 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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Offers a sociological perspective on current religious practices and trends, both inside and outside of religious institutions. Although churches, mosques, and synagogues are the typical sites for studies of religious expression in this country, this course also explores the efflorescence of religious expressions that are spontaneous, fluid, eclectic, and grassroots. 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 literature of first and second generation immigrant/ethnic writers from 1900 to the 1970's. Attempts to place the individual works (primarily novels) in their literary and sociocultural contexts, examining them as conscious works of literature written within and against American and imported literary traditions and as creative contributions to an ongoing national discourse on immigration 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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This course investigates the issue of how differences are made in the construction of race, gender, sexuality, nation - and of the meaning of the text. What kind of frameworks are used to figure differences and what happens when they conflict? Texts by D. W. Griffith, Nella Larsen, Woody Allen, Christina Garcia, Patrick Chamoiseau, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Kwame Anthony Appiah. 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 course is a comparative study of Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian settlement in the United States. It begins in the 1700s when Filipino seamen first settled in what is now Louisiana and Texas and concludes with the end of World War II. Attention will be given to immigration from Asia and its relationship to the development of the capitalist world system, the role that Asian American labor played in class and racial formation in America the political economies of Asian American communities, and the various social movements and legislative efforts to exclude Asians from American society and Asian resistance to exclusion. 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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Surveys popular culture in American life from its 17th-century antecedents to the present. Situates discussion of particular cultural forms, movements, figures, and works in the context of technological, economic, and social 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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Focusing on popular culture since industrialization, the course will examine particular forms (broadcasting, romance novels, amusement parks, sports) we will as look at the producers of, and the audiences for, those forms. Requirements include three papers based on outside readings and a final. 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 how Latinas chronicle their identities in transitions vis-á-vis markers of race and gender. Through autobiography, memoir, literary criticism, and theoretical readings emphasizing the negotiations of self, place and community via social and geographical locations including family, region, and the nation. Engages in critical interpretation of the socio-cultural and political worldviews of Latina self-discovery and self-authorship. 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 course examines the intersection of religion and community for communities of color in the United States. A survey of these communities is guided by the desire to discover the collective stories and memories that socialize social and ethnic identites, and serve as a source of personal and political transformation. Out point of entry for understanding the sacred is at "ground level" perspective. 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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Offers a sociological perspective on theories of the relationship between religion and societies that will help us understand and analyze current religious practices and trends, both inside and outside of religious institutions. Students will conduct several observations in religious institutions and create religious rituals of their own. 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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Follows the history of the behavioral sciences-psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis-in defining concepts of "self" and "identity" in the 20th century. Examines the relationship among scholarly formulations, popular culture, and politics. Comprises three "case studies": narcissism, multiple personalities, and gender dysphoria. Includes clinical training films, Hollywood films, first person narratives, and scholarship in behavioral sciences and 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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This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of the subject. 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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