Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An analysis of American culture, from World War I to the present, through the lens of struggles over texts that discuss political, religious, and sexual themes. Source material includes banned or challenged novels, essays, photographs, films, and music.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Special projects intended to enable the student to cover material not otherwise offered by the program. The course may be used for research or for directed reading, but in either case a term paper or its equivalent is required as evidence of work done. It is expected that the student will meet regularly with the faculty adviser. To apply for admission, a student should submit a prospectus signed by the faculty adviser to the director of undergraduate studies.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Key writings on feminism from the late eighteenth century to the present. The intellectual history of feminism placed in national and transnational contexts, with emphasis on the intersecting histories of social theory, human rights, gender, and organized women's movements.
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W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research and proseminar on a one-term senior project. For requirements see under ?Senior requirement? in the YCPS.
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W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research and proseminar on a two-term senior project. For requirements see under ?Senior requirement? in the YCPS.
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AMST 600 01 (10212) W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body. The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time." (Ralph Waldo Emerson,
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AMST 622 01 (10213) M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 A continuing collective research project, a cultural studies "laboratory," that has been running since the fall of 2003. The group is made up of graduate students and faculty from several disciplines. The working group meets regularly to discuss common readings, to develop collective and individual research projects, and to present that research publicly. The general theme for the working group is globalization and culture, with three principal aspects: (1) the globalization of cultural industries and goods, and its consequences for patterns of everyday life as well as for forms of fiction, film, broadcasting, and music; (2) the trajectories of social movements and their relation to patterns of migration, the rise of global cities, the transformation of labor processes, and forms of ethnic, class, and gender conflict; (3) the emergence of and debates within transnational social and cultural theory. The specific focus, projects, and directions of the working group are determined by the interests, expertise, and ambitions of the members of the group, and change as its members change. There are a small number of openings for second-year graduate students. Students interested in participating should contact michael.denning@yale.edu.
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AMST 641 01 (10161) /AFAM596/AMST460/AFAM408/ENGL306 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and the present, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden.
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AMST 643 01 (10157) /AFAM505 Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 A designated core course for students in the joint Ph.D. program; also open to students in American Studies and History. This interdisciplinary reading seminar focuses on new work that is challenging the temporal, theoretical, and spatial boundaries of the field.
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AMST 644 01 (10214) T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 A seminar in critical theory and methods for studying social movements and popular, vernacular cultures. The seminar addresses issues of modernity and "development," racialization, class formation, sexual and gender difference in the Americas through readings in subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and ethnic studies. The course pairs primary texts with secondary, critical texts. We address the evocations of collective, popular memory by communities to recall or contest the condition of subaltern status. The course focuses on the Americas and U.S. imperial projects dating from the nineteenth century up to the current moment.
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AMST 645 01 (10167) /AFAM723/CPLT949 M 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 This course examines work by writers of Caribbean descent from different regions of the transatlantic world. In response to contemporary interest in issues of globalization, the premise of the course is that in the world maps of these black intellectuals we can see the intertwined and interdependent histories and relations of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Thinking globally is not a new experience for black peoples and we need to understand the ways in which what we have come to understand and represent as "Caribbeanness" is a condition of movement. Literature is most frequently taught within the boundaries of a particular nation, but this course focuses on the work of writers who shape the Caribbean identities of their characters as traveling black subjects and refuse to restrain their fiction within the limits of any one national identity. We practice a new and global type of cognitive mapping as we read and explore the meanings of terms like black transnationalism, migrancy, globalization, and empire. Diasporic writing embraces and represents the geopolitical realities of the modern, modernizing, and postmodern worlds in which multiple racialized histories are inscribed on modern bodies.
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AMST 651 01 (10159) /AMST420/AFAM563/ENGL445/AFAM437 M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This seminar pursues close readings of Ralph Ellison's essays, short fiction, and novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth. The "in context" component of the seminar involves working from the Benston and Sundquist volumes on Ellison to discern a portrait of the modernist African America Ellison investigated, with at least Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Romare Bearden also in view. The texts include Ellison, The Collected Essays, Flying Home and Other Stories, Invisible Man, and Juneteenth; K. Benston, Speaking for You; E. Sundquist, Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; A. Nadel, Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon.
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AMST 700 01 (10215) /HIST700 M 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Readings and discussion of a scholarly work on U.S. history from the settlement era to the present. Members of the department faculty visit the class on a rotating basis.
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AMST 709 01 (10163) /HIST736/AFAM709/WGSS736 Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Projects chosen from the post-Civil War period, with emphasis on twentieth-century social and political history, broadly defined. Research seminar.
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AMST 719 01 (13955) /RLST703 Fall 2009
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AMST 724 01 (10217) /HSAR733 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 The study of Abstract Expressionism is not what it once was. Previously considered a centerpiece of modernist art history, the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and other painters has been somewhat subordinated in the last ten years to the study of more recent art. Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction are now arguably two of the many mid-twentieth-century cultural forms that require almost an archaeological approach to excavate. In this seminar we review critical approaches to this art-starting with Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg and moving on to recent scholars such as T._J. Clark, Tom Crow, Serge Guilbaut, Caroline Jones, and Michael Leja-before trying to determine (or, better, develop) new models for understanding these works from ca. 1935 to 1965.
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AMST 735 01 (10705) /ARCG725/HSAR725 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009
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AMST 775 01 (11078) /HIST757 M 7.00-8.50p Fall 2009 Reading seminar that crosses disciplinary, national, and historiographical borders to explore the history of the United States outside the United States and the history of other nations within the United States (mainly since 1900). Work focuses on comparing methods, using theory, doing research, writing history. Themes include empire, imperialism, and postcolonialism; Americanization, globalization, and mass culture; nationalism, nationality, and transnationalism.
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AMST 786 01 (10219) /WGSS744/HIST744 W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 Selected topics in women's and gender history with emphasis on U.S. history. Themes include changing conceptions of sex, gender, womanhood, manhood, femininity, and masculinity; the language of gender as a constitutive part of various social hierarchies; class, racial/ethnic, regional, and national differences; and gendered participation in religion, labor, politics, war, and social reform movements. Readings, writing assignments, and classroom discussions address recent historical methodological approaches.
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AMST 798 01 (10222) /HIST726 Fall 2009 This course uses fiction and nonfiction to look at some of the major concerns of late nineteenth-century America, including political corruption, wealth and poverty, social reform, and the situation of women and minorities. Authors include Edward Bellamy, William Graham Sumner, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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AMST 803 01 (10224) /HIST703 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 A research seminar focused on the early national period of American history, broadly defined. Early weeks familiarize students with sources from the period and discuss research and writing strategies. Students produce a publishable article founded on primary materials.
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AMST 813 01 (10226) /FILM724/AMST430/FILM426 M 6.30-10.30p Fall 2009 Examination of documentary and related nonfiction forms in the last three decades. Issues include film truth, performance, ethics, race and gender, and the filmmaker as participant-observer. Filmmakers include Frederick Wiseman, William Greaves, Chris Choy, Errol Morris, Lourdes Portillo, Trin T. Minh-Ha, Sue Friedrich, and Marlon Riggs.
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AMST 877 01 (10228) Fall 2009 An examination of the variety of approaches to the social and cultural history of medicine and public health. Readings are drawn from recent literature in the field, sampling writings on health care, illness experiences, and medical cultures in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia from antiquity to the twentieth century. Topics include the role of gender, class, ethnicity, race, region, and religion in the experience of health care and sickness; the intersection of lay and professional understandings of the body; and the role of the marketplace in shaping professional identities and patient expectations.
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AMST 879 01 (10231) /HLTH170/HSHM634/HSHM202/AMST247/HIST147/HIST914 Fall 2009 An exploration of the relationships among medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 through the present. Focus on newspapers, magazines, professional journals, advertising, exhibitions, radio, film, television, and the Internet; and on interactions among researchers, health professions, medical and public health institutions, journalists, advocacy organizations, the state, industry, and the public. Topics include the changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life.
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AMST 882 01 (14381) /HSHM277/HSHM677/HIST939/AMST170/HIST177 MW 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning.
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