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With a focus on the experiences of the immigrant second generation, this course seeks to expose students to the recent social science literature on contemporary immigration to the United States, including discussions on its origins, adaptation patterns, and long-term effects on American society. We will closely examine patterns of assimilation and adaptation for the children of immigrants, address the challenges they confront when trying to straddle two cultures, describe their ethnic identity formation, and interrogate the effects of their increasing presence on U.S. schools and society in general. The experiences of the second generation will be examined in various institutions including the family, labor market, schools, and community, and we situate these institutions in both national and transnational spheres. The course will consist of lectures by the instructor combined with class discussion of assigned texts. This course will also provide students with an analytic framework to address questions of multiculturalism. The course will also help students develop a better understanding of the dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in society. 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 look at various ways to understand the complex role of food in society. We will look at issues of food production and consumption, and how our relationship to food contributes to the political and social structures that we live with. Our approach will be historical and pay special attention to the ways in which communities of color and immigrants have shaped, and have been shaped by, the food they cultivate, harvest, consume, and market. Field trips and readings explore how food creates ways for people to form bonds of belonging while also creating bonds of control and regimes of inequality. 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 prevailing cultural constructions of gender in relation to the changing context of daily life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Emphasizes the conceptual frameworks of the New Scholarship, including methods and categories of analysis. Critical review of the private/public, culture/politics dimensions of recent scholarship. Two hours of lecture plus one section meeting. 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 introduces students to the major themes of United States women's history from the 1880's to the present. We will look at the experiences of a diverse group of women in the United States as well as the ideological meaning of gender as it evolved and changed over the 20th century. We will trace the impact multiple identities (race, class, region, religion) have had on women's social and cultural activism. 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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Usually taken in the junior year, this seminar is required of all concentrators in American Civilization. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization May not be enrolled as 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: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization May not be enrolled as 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: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization May not be enrolled as 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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Nearly four centuries have passed since the first enslaved Africans arrived in what is today the United States. More than 140 years have passed since American slavery was abolished. Yet slavery remains a palpable presence in the United States. In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine slavery as a problem in American history, culture, and memory, exploring the institution and its legacies in such arenas as history, literature, cinema, visual arts, and heritage tourism. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization May not be enrolled as 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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An interdisciplinary and multimedia exploration of the experiences, culture, and representation of youth in the United States from the end of World War II through the beginning of the Vietnam War. Limited to American Civilization concentrators. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization American Civilization American Civilization May not be enrolled as 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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Freud asked his famous question: "What does a woman want?" after years of clinical practice and theoretical speculation. Woman's desire remained a mystery to him, but the attempt to solve it has given rise to a rethinking of human sexuality, of gender, of social structures, and of creativity. We will read foundational texts by Freud and by feminist disciples and critics as well as literary and filmic texts that critique theories and practices of gender. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Examines the history of African Americans from the end of Reconstruction to the present. Topics include: the retreat from Reconstruction and the coming of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington and his critics; migration and the rise of urban ghettoes; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; the "War on Poverty"; and the contemporary welfare debate. 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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This seminar is designed for concentrators who plan to produce a senior honors project in American Civilization. We will discuss the wide range of forms that American Studies scholarship takes from the "traditional" thesis to websites, exhibits, performance and video productions. Students will begin to design a project to be completed in the senior year. 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. 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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These seminars are primarily for juniors and seniors. Undergraduates only. Priority will be given to senior and junior concentrators in American Civilization. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Feminism has been a powerful source of thought about sexuality, sexual identity, sexual danger and sometimes even the gritty details of sexual practice. However the emergent field of "queer theory" (an offshoot of lesbian and gay studies) has challenged feminisms constructions of sexuality. This course will investigate major debates over sexual meanings from the early 1970s to the present. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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From Columbus to the present, Asia has been central to the shaping of American culture. This course will examine the role of trade, migration and cultural exchange across the Pacific in the shaping of American culture and society. 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 Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Introduces the influences that the sea and seafaring men and womem have had on American culture. Interdisciplinary in scope, source materials are drawn from anthropology, history, archaeology, economics, art, literature, music, and the cinema. There is at least one field trip during the semester. Prerequisites: at least one college-level course in American civilization, history, or anthropology. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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From Columbus to the present, Asia has been central to the shaping of American culture. This course will examine the role of trade, migration and cultural exchange across the Pacific in the shaping of American culture and society. 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 Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Considers the tradition of major writers who, as Melville said of Hawthorne, said "No! in thunder!" to the optimistic and progressive ethos of 19th-century America represented by Transcendentalist thought, an unbounded faith in democracy, the inevitability of American manifest destiny, and the sentimental love-religion produced by what Hawthorne called "that damned mob of scribbling women." 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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This course looks at popular culture as a transnational phenomenon. Taking up issues of cultural imperialism, globalization, domestication, ethnic identity and the economics of the culture industry, the course will consider, among other topics, advertising, fast food, film, Disney, and music in Europe, Asia and Africa from the points of view of the consumers and producers. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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The premise of this interdisciplinary course is that sexuality is both historically constructed (changing over time and culture) and embodied and lived (experienced for many as essential and unchanging). We will look at experts, at communities of sexual minorities, and episodes in recent past around what can and cannot be altered. We will read scholarly literary and autobiographical works. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Explores 20th Century American performance art as both an aesthetic and political discourse centered on the body. Begins with a consideration of Isadora Duncan and concludes with an extended examination of the current politically charged performance scene in which such artists as Reno, Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and Coco Fusco seek to subvert gendered, racial, sexual, and ethnic bodily identities. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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Advanced seminar designed to familiarize students with past and present debates in Latina/o Studies. Knowledge of these critical conversations will aid students in making their own contributions to the field as they write their theses and dissertations. We will read such folks as Jose Limon, Mary Pat Brady, Frances Aparicio, and Gustavo Perez Firmat, to name but a few. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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"Who can become an American?" is a central question in American society. This seminar examines the construction of national identity, citizenship as a legal and cultural status, and the struggle for equal protection of the law. The experience of excluded Asian and Latino immigrants are key to understanding this historical and ongoing process. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as 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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