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Examines the evolution of U.S. child welfare from its origins in the late 19th century through its purported crisis in the late 20th century. Traces the history of policies and programs aimed at: providing support for dependent children; improving infant and child survival and health; protecting children from exploitation and abuse; and dealing with deviant and delinquent children. 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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Encompasses what happened to social movements and American society in the "sixties". How the "sixties" have come to represent a phase of society in rebellion against political and economic structures and against widely held values on sexuality, drugs, and fashion, as well as race, class and gender. Film and television clips, music, poetry and comic strips will be used extensively. 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 problem of representing traumatic experience has been raised by philosophers, artists, and survivors. This course compares three historical situations by reading histories, memoirs, fictions, poems; viewing photographs and film; and analyzing the material cultural artifacts such as memorials and museums. Readings will include Freud, Harriet Jacobs, La Capra, Primo Levi, Toni Morrison and "Maus" by Art Spigelman. 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 women's activities in a variety of reform/radical movements, beginning with volunteer efforts during the Civil War. Includes topics such as anti-lynching campaigns, working-class mobilizations, efforts to promote birth control and sexual freedom, and civil and civic rights and responsibilities. Consideration given to cross-class organizations and issues of 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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American film-making from its origins as a technological amusement to the period of classic Hollywood cinema. Particular attention given to representations of gender, race, and ethnicity with comparisons to the evolution of European film. The Birth of a Nation (1915) by by D. W. Griffith will be a key text in dialogue with African-American director Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1920). 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 focuses on processes, practices and meanings involved as people move into and out of religious communities. America has been called a "supermarket of religious alternatives"; here we will examine the impact of this religious marketplace and people's freedom to choose their own religions in terms of their decisions to convert to and/or deconvert from various religious 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 Return to Previous New Search
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The central historical themes are exclusion, citizenship rights, and and equal protection. The experience of Chinese and Japanese Americans dominates the historiography but we will use that scholarship to help us think about a wider range of issues across time. 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 investigates class differentiation and its effects in African-diaspora novels, autobiographies, and films (such as The Good Negress, Brothers and Keepers, Crick Crack Monkey, and "Sugar Cane Alley"). Alongside these literary works and films, we will read a wide range of critical/theoretical essays on class and class conflict and the intersection between class and race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. 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 comparative study of major literary and critical works by Maryse Condé, (including I , Tituba , Black Witch of Salem , Crossing the Mangrove , and Windward Heights ) and Toni Morrison (including Tar Baby , Recitatif , and Beloved ) in the context of the development of feminist literary theory, focusing particularly on how issues of race and gender are addressed. 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 will explore novels about artists and autobiographies by various artists, Irving's self portrait and sketch book to Bob Dylan's chronicle. We will read a good deal of Henry James as well as comparative British works. Lectures, discussions and reports. 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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Technologies reflect and transform American society and culture. This course examines the invention, introduction and use of new machines and systems, with a focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, and information and communication technologies. Special attention paid to labor, business, political and cultural contexts of technological change. 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 a variety of comic books and graphic novels, both mainstream and independent. The emphasis, however, will be on the independent graphic novel. Students will also read history and criticism to understand better the context from which the books emerge and to grasp more firmly their visual and textual aesthetics. Must attend first three lectures to be eligible for enrollment. 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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From the Fu Manchu to Lucy Liu, Asian Americans have long been the objects of loathing, terror and desire, in American popular culture. This course looks Asian Americans in popular literature, music, theater, film and television as subjects, producers and consumers. 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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The theme of human liberation has appeared in literary works from around the world and across centuries. This course will examine a variety of narratives that foreground the attainment pf physical, spiritual, and political freedom for individuals and groups. Beginning with the Book of Exodus and traveling through African American slave narratives, British proto-feminist novels, Latin American testimonios, and contemporary films, we will examine how a wide range of writers and filmmakers have conceptualized the goal and the process of liberation in their works. Requirements for the course will include two papers/projects and a final exam. 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 in depth the period of immigration that stretched from the 1820s through the 1920s and witnessed the migration of over 36 million Europeans, Asians, Canadians, and Latin Americans to the United States. Explores casual theories of migration and settlement, examines the role of family, religion, work, politics, cultural production, and entertainment in immigrant/ethnic communities, and traces the development and impact of federal immigration policy. 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 explores the history of Chicago, but also uses the city as a way to think about issues in American history. Sources include novels, memoirs, popular histories, film, and music. 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 will consider American narratives of adolescence and coming of age from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the archetypal aspects of coming to grips with maturity and the world, class and gender roles, and the invention of "adolescence" as a new psychological category. International perspectives will be provided by reading some British and Japanese works. Authors covered will include Dickens, Melville, Twain, Alcott, Kerouac, Hemingway, Baldwin, Mishima and Tan, among others. Lectures, class discussions and student reports. 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 investigates the relationship between popular music and cities. We will look at a number of case studies from the history of music in the twentieth century. We will try to tease out the ways that certain places produce or influence certain sounds and the ways that musicians reflect on the places they come from in their music. Accordingly, we will consider both the social and cultural history of particular cities and regions¿New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and others¿and aesthetic and cultural analyses of various forms of music¿including blues, jazz, punk, hip-hop, and others. A good portion of this class will involve a group research project on a particular city and musical genre. Each group will present the results of their work to their classmates and each student will prepare a final paper on one musical document from the city their group chooses. 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 will focus on a variety of types of literary and film narratives concerned with the events of 9/11 and their aftermath: documentary, testimony, stories, novels and feature films. Questions about genre will be addressed in the context of theories of trauma and the writing of history. Comparisons with other historical events and their narratives will frame this exploration. 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 represents a topical overview of mental disorders that have been frequently diagnosed since the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include hysteria and neurasthenia; Freudian theories on sexuality and femininity; eating disorders; borderline personality disorder; psychotherapeutics and psychotropics; and anti-psychiatry. Readings cross several disciplines. 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 will focus on some of the novels and stories by James that have been made more than once into films or tv shows - Washington Square , The Turn of the Screw , The Portrait of a Lady , and The Golden Bowl - and study the narrative and visual choices as interpretations of James's texts. Critical readings on the art of fiction and the art of film will also be introduced. 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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Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau are selected as representative of the dialectic between the concept of American as "Nature's Nation" and as a site of continuing cultural conflict. We will also explore the resonances of this opposition in later works by such authors as James, Muir, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Abbey and Bob Dylan, as well as some of its repercussions in the realms of painting and music. Includes lectures, discussions, and student reports. 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 looks at the experiences of migrant women through the lens of gender and sexuality. It addresses the constitution of gender and sexuality in the process of women¿s migration, analyzes the ways that society disciplines migrant women via the control of their gender and sexuality, and lastly identifies the ways that women utilize gender and sexuality to negotiate the various structural inequalities they confront in the process of migration. This course situates our discussion of gender and sexuality in the institutions of the state, labor market, family and community. 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 explores women's historical and contemporary work experiences. Readings will challenge students to think about what counts as "work" when women do it, address the question of why women are overrepresented in certain types of occupations, why women of color and immigrant women are even more concentrated in certain kinds of jobs, and lastly why women tend to get paid less than men for the same work. Students will examine the struggles that women face, especially single-mothers, when trying to make ends meet, balance the responsibilities of work and family, and respond to the changes brought by "the end of welfare as we know it." The topics covered include gender-based discrimination, such as wage inequities, sexual harassment, and exclusionary policies, women's contributions to the household and market economy, differences of race and class among women in the workplace, and women's organized efforts to improve their lives. 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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