Examines ethics and politics of ethnographic research and various methodologies. Students collect their own ethnographic data to be analyzed with relevant theory in a final capstone project. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20.
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A survey of major popular cultural forms and texts in the pre-WWI era including Minstrelsy, Uncle Tom's Cabin, P.T. Barnum, Ramona, The Wizard of Oz, and Birth of a Nation, with attention to historical context and theory.
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Major popular cultural forms from the 1920s to the present. Topics include early "race" recordings; Depression radicalism; WWII entertainments; the Cold War; popular film genres; the 1970s and 1980s contemporary music (conjunto, jazz, rock, and rap). Particular attention to multicultural issues. Course 107A recommended.
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Assesses political conditions under which the U.S. became committed to certain technologies, discusses merits of recent accounts of "crisis" in our politics and environment, and examines alternatives to mainstream politics and technology. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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Science fiction by authors and artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, contextualized within the political and economic conditions of the U.S. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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Features texts with Western settings and with representative casts of Western characters. The often contradictory patterns that emerge from this regional literature and the qualities that attach to its familiar hero are explored.
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Examines immigration to U.S. from colonial era to present with special emphasis on issues of citizenship, social identities, and social membership.
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Examination of varied and often conflicting ways the ambiguous entity conventionally labeled "America" has been imagined, both positively and negatively, in political speeches, painting, fiction, film, television, music, drama, advertising, parades, and other modes of expression.
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Examination of major conceptions of citizenship in the context of American society and culture, with particular attention both to the sources of these conceptions in Western political thought and to their elaboration and testing in specific historical situations. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors.
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Explores history of Marxist thought and activism in the U.S. with special emphasis on uses and effects of Marxism within aggrieved communities of color. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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Examines the history of work and class in U.S. society with particular attention to how race and gender inform the constructions of multiple working classes. Drawing upon primary and secondary materials, the course analyzes the formations of labor unions, regional labor patterns, and the development of the capitalist market economy.
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Examines what it means to be of mixed race in America along historical, social, political, and cinematic lines. Theories on racial and identity formation applied to understanding multiracial experiences of various racial groups in the U.S. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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The course will feature texts that were conceived as, or have been widely received as, expressions of themes and values that are especially or essentially American. Moby Dick, Walden, Leaves of Grass, and Huckleberry Finn are such books.
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A survey of Mark Twain's major writings with special attention to biography and historical content. The writer's status as a leading cultural spokesperson is also explored. Satisfies literature major requirement. Students cannot receive credit for this course and American Literature 120B.
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Examines how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people negotiate the intersections of their sexual and gender identities with their racial, ethnic, and class identities in the contemporary U.S. Considers the ramifications of these intersections for notions of "gay issues" and "queer communities."
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Highlights important, relevant, and topical themes in American studies and society. By closely examining one topic or theme, students connect larger issues and think across areas of study. Topics include: the prison industrial complex; radical traditions in America; race and cultural exchange; and citizenship in America. May be repeated for credit.
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Considers the events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent changes in U.S. society and in the country's role across the globe. Focuses on three arenas where these transformations have occurred: politics, culture, popular culture, and racial and ethnic relations.
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Capstone seminars enable American studies seniors to apply their overall training in interdisciplinary research and analysis to major problems in the field. Topics vary from year to year. Satisfies American studies senior comprehensive requirement.
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Teaching of a lower-division seminar under faculty supervision. (See course 42.) For students with upper-division standing who have submitted a proposal supported by a faculty member willing to supervise.
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Individual studies program undertaken off campus. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Provides a means for a small group of students to study a particular topic in consultation with a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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For students continuing work on their senior thesis. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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For students continuing work on their senior thesis. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Individual study program off campus for which faculty supervision is not in person (e.g., supervision is by correspondence). Up to three such courses may be taken for credit in any one quarter. Approval of student's adviser and certification of adequate preparation required. May be repeated for credit.
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Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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