Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Introduces graduate students to current theories and methods in American studies, to the history of the field, and to the faculty in the department. Required introductory seminar for all students wishing to pursue a parenthetical notation in American studies. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Engages a number of the critical theoretical and methodological issues raised in contemporary studies of popular music. Explores these issues while reading case studies that range across scholarly disciplines and musical genres. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Explores recent trends in historical scholarship on the U.S. West, including the use of Western resources, the relationship between urban and rural places in the West, and the diversity of Western peoples. In order to reflect on the variety of ways in which scholars communicate their understandings of history, students also read a variety of academic books. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Examines the relationship of the attempts to legitimize U.S. nationhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the construction during this period of the concept of a national culture. Particular stress is given to the ideological functions served by the developing conception of American nation as both polity and culture. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 8.
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This seminar examines the concept of "nativity" (of being or claiming to be native to a particular location) and how it functions in historical and contemporary conflicts, ranging from historical settler colonialism to contemporary gentrification of urban areas. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Examines the interplay of past and present in expressive culture by, for, and about African Americans, especially in respect to artistic and social innovations and their relationships to history, collective memory, and tradition. Upper-division students may enroll via permission code from instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Seminar examines the right to be different and belong in a participatory, democratic sense. Explores vernacular definitions of what confers political and cultural entitlement, taking into consideration factors ranging from the economic to notions of dignity and respect. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Explores the development of African American feminist thought and its articulations in writing, music, literature, and practice in the 20th-century U.S. Black women's sexuality a major theme, especially motherhood, politics of reproduction, and sexual narratives. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Explores race and difference in global perspective. Examines the relationship between democracy and pluralism, with a focus on the movement of people between the global south and global north. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines key figures and movements in black intellectual and cultural history. Special consideration given to radical and avante-garde thought and expression. Specific focus varies from year to year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Directed reading which does not involve a term paper. Designed for graduate students. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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A seminar study group for graduate students arranged between students and faculty member. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Independent study for graduate students who need to establish a research area for their thesis. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Independent thesis research for graduate students. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Introduces students to the history of Native North American women's lives. Topics include the impact of colonization and Christianization on Native women, political activism, the role of Native women in tribal politics, and contemporary artistic production. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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This course examines how Native Americans are constructed by the dominant discourse on race, culture, and gender and how they subvert these negative representations through autobiography, novels, and humor. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines how American Indian history and culture has been portrayed in Hollywood films, with an emphasis on films that represent Native Americans over the broad spectrum of Native American/white relations. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines how colonialism is at the root cause of cultural trauma in Native American communities; how colonialism affects both the colonizer and the colonized; how Native American scholars have theorized cultural trauma; and using novels, how Native Americans create strategies to heal from the negative effects of colonialism. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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History of Native peoples of the U.S., from 1900 to present, with emphasis on Indian/white relations and continuing development of federal Indian policy and its impact. Attention also given to the persistence, change, and adaption of Native cultures to historical and contemporary social conditions. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Provides a historical overview of the relationship between American Indians and museums. Current issues and practices in museums—primarily those associated with ethics, collecting practices, exhibitions, education/interpretation, and administration/governance—explored. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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A seminar examining the dominant and defining characteristics of African American culture, covering such areas as folklore, religion, politics, music, verbal arts, and social ritual, as well as more "everyday" manifestations of the culture. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Explores the meaning of jazz in American culture, particularly the social and cultural forces that have produced different jazz styles and the various ways that social conflicts and ideals have been displaced onto jazz. A prior familiarity with the music itself will be helpful but is not required. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines social and cultural history of three black urban communities: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Focusing primarily on the mid-to-late 20th century; considers black life through sociological, musical, literary, and historical sources. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Explores elements of African American feminist thought and its articulation in writings, music, literature, and practice/activism in 20th-century U.S. Sexuality and reproduction is a primary theme—especially motherhood, politics of reproduction, and sexual narratives. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): W, E.)
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