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This course aims to teach students the skills needed for ethnographic research: participant observation, interviewing, using material and documentary data and the coding and analysis of data. Readings explaining and exemplifying the various methods will be assigned and discussed. The goal is to form a group in which we will all help each other on our ongoing research projects. 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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The emergence of Beat literature has usually been seen as largely an urban phenomenon, but some of the Beats were intimately involved in responses to the land and the landscape, not only in the United States, but in Mexico, Japan and India. This course will take Keroac's The Dharma Bums as its leading text and explore nature in the poetry, novels, travel writing, and essays of Ginsberg, Snyder, and Abbey. Lectures, discussions and class reports. Entry to the class is dependent on writing a personal essay justifying interest in the subject matter. 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 seminar will examine the rise of Jewish themes and personnel in the Hollywood film, comic strips and comic books. We will study the ways in which the role of Jewish Americans have shaped popular art forms and developed new understandings of art. Students will participate in the creation of an exhibit at the John Nicholas Brown Center on the theme of "Jews and American Comics." 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 seminar will investigate theories of pleasure and its representation in a range of fictional texts. What is it that makes a text pleasing and for whom? How do we talk about pleasure and explain it to others? I am especially interested in the representation of pleasure from the 1970s on. 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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This class explores the meaning of "region" in contemporary American culture. Focusing primarily on the West, we'll examine the construction and transgression of geographical and ideological regional boundaries. Questions considered include: What does crossing boundaries tell us about hte stability and meaning of region? What role do race, gender, and nationality play in moving across regional lines? What do shifting regional identities tell us about the possibilities and problems in ways of transforming identity? Sources include fiction, essays, websites, and photography. We use skills and ideas built over the semester to consider the ways museums and other public sites construct regional boundaries. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors, with priority given to Am Civ concentrators. 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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Beginning with the psychological, cultural, and environmental changes brought by the Atomic Bomb, this seminar traces Americans' growing environmental awareness and concern with corporate power. We will look at classics like Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , as well as films, poetry, popular texts, and histories complicating traditional notions of the origins and conduct of the contemporary environmental movement. Students will have the opportunity to explore an aspect of environmentalism or the environment in depth through a semester writing project. 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 a century of social documentary tradition in US photography, since its early pioneers in the 1890's. Historically, this visual genre has been linked mostly to "progressive" politics. Yet social photography raises numerous questions about the instrumentalization and astheticization of poverty, and it is often criticized as a powerful form of social control over various underprivileged groups. To deal with these issues, readings and discussions will take into consideration institutional structures as well as individual photographers' achievements, the evolution of technology in changing political contexts, and the production of images as related to their circulation among various publics and at different times. 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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How can scholars better use the ordinary things people surround themselves with to interpret past lives and events? Through selected readings and an archaeological case study, we will identify "best practices" for integrating artifacts and collectibles with documentary research in narrating and exhibiting the past. We will identify ideological and political uses of historical material culture and develop critical methods for analyzing historic materials, not as monuments to the past, but as legible research materials for scholarly work. Our case study focuses on one of Rhode Island's earliest plantations. The course will include a site visit and work in the archaeology lab, supported by critical readings in material culture theories and methods. 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 seminar looks at sexual practices as a mirror to American society in past and present. Sex is not a mere biological reality or a natural force but instead is as much a social and cultural construct. Acts of sex are etched into the structure of states, economies, and families; embedded in systems of inequality based on race, class, gender, and nation; and situated in processes of global imperialism. Economic, social, and political processes shape how we make sense of sex, and accordingly meanings of sex are not static but instead shift across time and space and moreover differ across ideological lines. This class asks one central question: how have the meanings of sexuality, standards of sexual regulation and sexual politics varied over time with changing circumstances? Enrollment limited to 20. 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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This seminar examines the ways in which the histories of Asian and Latino immigration parallel and intersect each other throughout US history. Capitalist development and labor migrations; wars and refugees; immigration policies and changing racial formations will be among the topics we explore. 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 Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: American Civilization American Civilization American Civilization Ethnic Studies 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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Focusing on the beginning, middle, and especially concluding decades of the 20th century, this course examines the ways in which both expert and popular discourse in the US have conflated male adolescence with social pathology and have constructed an image of the teenage boy as both symptomatic of and responsible for the nation's ills. Particular attention will be paid to issues of gender, race, and class. Primary source readings and original research will be emphasized. 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 class will examine the role clothes have played in constructing notions of masculinity and manhood from the mid-19th century to the present. We will take seriously the oft-heard comment, "the clothes make the man," by studying the sartorial circumstances around the formation of men's fashion. These circumstances include class, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and generation. Our study will be episodic and privilege New York and Los Angeles, though other locations will be considered comparatively. 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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Americans worry about the quality of their civic life and fear its decline. We examine the public sphere's popular and political dimensions as well as challenges to the boundaries of American public life. Who is a citizen and thus eligible to participate? The course pays particular attention to concerns about the impact of new media--print, broadcasting, the internet. Taught simultaneously with the same course at the University of Melbourne, Australia, students will be linked digitally for discussion and collaborative writing. Enrollment limited to 20 juniors and seniors. 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 seminar will examine historic house museums within the context of American culture from the founding of Mount Vernon in 1853 to their present decline in popularity and relevance. Utilizing sources from a variety of disciplines including literature, women's and family history, and museum and preservation theory and practice, students will re-examine the prevailing historic house museum paradigm and develop interpretation plans for house museums in the Providence area. Enrollment limited to 20. If oversubscribed, priority is given to students in the Public Humanities Programs and Department of American Civilizations. No prerequisites. 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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Required of all honors candidates in the senior year. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Undergraduate College College American Civilization Department Return to Previous New Search
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Introduction to interdisciplinary studies required of all first-year graduate students in American civilization. Graduate students from other departments may enroll with permission of the instructor. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate 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 Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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This course examines how scholarship, principally that dealing with the American experience, changed as a result of the information revolution. We will discuss the impact of new media on the nature and structure of scholarly work, particularly as it intertwines with public presentation and pedagogy. Students will also review and create new media projects that present public scholarship and/or serve as teaching tools. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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This interdisciplinary readings seminar will provide graduate students with an introduction to recent scholarly work on 20th century and contemporary cities and suburbs. Readings will be drawn from cultural, political, social, and intellectual history, American Studies, political science, sociology, and ethnography. They will investigate the interconnections between urban and suburban development and the role of ideology, class, gender, race, and globalization in shaping planning, architecture, culture, policy, politics, and social movements. This class is open to students in American Civilization, History, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and other disciplines who find themselves interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of cities and suburbs. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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A seminar examining methods of museum interpretation, the ways that museums convey information to the public with exhibits, tours, demonstrations, films, video tapes, slide shows, interactive computer programs, publications, and other techniques. We will visit museums that have an historical or anthropological focus and read theoretical and critical writings on the public interpretation of American material culture. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate 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 Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of current and past American studies scholarship. Enrollment limited to graduate students with preference given to American Civilization graduate students. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate 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 Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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This research seminar will examine political movements in Asian immigrant communities in the United States and the Caribbean before the emergence of "Asian America" in the late 1960s. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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A research seminar on the comparative historical experience of Japanese in Hawaii, mainland U.S., Brazil, and Peru. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College American Civilization Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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