American Studies

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values Masur??, Director; Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies Baldwin (Acting director); Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History Greenberg; Charles A. Dana Professor of History Hedrick∙∙; Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English Lauter; Associate Professors Gac ^† and Paulin; Assistant Professors Hager, Tang, and Wickman; Visiting Professor Cohn; Visiting Associate Professors Couch and McCombie; Visiting Assistant Professors Miller and Seidman, and Visiting Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life Walsh

The American studies major offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture and society. Drawing on the methods and approaches of several disciplines, courses in the field emphasize deep readings of primary sources and engagement with the various materials that help us understand the making and meaning of America here and abroad. Students have the opportunity to take courses covering American subject matter offered by many departments and programs at Trinity, exposing them to a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the United States. To integrate their knowledge of American culture and society and to master a variety of methodological approaches to American studies, students participate in a required series of American studies courses and seminars.

Students who are considering a major in American studies should consult with the program director as early in their undergraduate career as possible. In addition, it is strongly recommended that students prepare themselves for the major by selecting at least one of the following survey courses: ENGL 204. Introduction to American Literature I; ENGL 205. Introduction to American Literature II; HIST 201. The United States from the Colonial Period through the Civil War; HIST 202. The United States from Reconstruction to the Present. Students also are advised to plan their schedules so that they take AMST 203 in their sophomore year and AMST 301 in their junior year. A course will not count for the major if the grade is below C-.

The American studies major—The American studies major requires 12 courses, as follows.

AMST 203. Conflicts and Cultures in American Society. This course is ordinarily taken in the sophomore year.
AMST 301. Junior Seminar: American Texts. The Writing Intensive Part II requirement is fulfilled by this course.
A senior seminar in American studies.
A senior exercise consisting of one of the following:
- A second senior seminar.
- A one-credit, one-semester independent research project, ordinarily a research paper of 40 pages.
- A two-credit, two-semester thesis, ordinarily a research paper of at least 75 pages.
A student-designed thematic concentration of four courses, at least two of which must be at or above the 300 level. This concentration, designed by the student in consultation with his or her adviser, must be defined and titled by the end of the fall of the junior year. Up to one internship may count toward the concentration (as a 200-level course) if it is directed by a member of the American Studies Department faculty. Examples of possible concentrations include race, gender, ethnicity, class, popular culture, protest movements, or law and society.
Four additional courses in American studies. To ensure adequate breadth and depth, students must take at least four courses at or above the 300 level (including those in the concentration), from at least three different departments or programs. The required junior and senior seminars do not count toward this requirement.

Honors—To receive honors in American studies a student must complete a thesis or project with a grade of A- or better and earn a GPA of at least 3.5 in courses counted toward the major.

Fall Term

203. Conflicts and Cultures In American Society— Focusing on a key decade in American life—the 1890s, for example, or the 1850s—this course will examine the dynamics of race, class, gender, and ethnicity as forces that have shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. How did various groups define themselves at particular historical moments? How did they interact with each other and with American society? Why did some groups achieve hegemony and not others, and what were—and are—the implications of these dynamics for our understanding of American culture? By examining both interpretive and primary documents—novels, autobiographies, works of art, and popular culture—we will consider these and other questions concerning the production of American culture. (Enrollment limited)-Paulin, Tang

248. Female Bodies in 19th Century American Literature & Culture—Corsets, bloomers, hysteria, mammy, jezebel, gynecology, angel on the hearth, suffragette: these are just a few of the garments, labels, cures, and stereotypes applied to women’s bodies during the last century. By reading women’s fiction and autobiography, we will explore how race, class, ethnicity, and gender operated in 19th century America and examine moments of resistance to prevailing definitions of femininity. For English majors, this course satisfies a requirement of a course emphasizing cultural content. (Enrollment limited)-Miller

[260. Exploring Asian American Experiences]— This course examines the historical experiences and cultural expressions of the nation’s diverse Asian American communities and places them within a broader discussion of identity formation, community building, social mobility, immigration policy, naturalization rights, and race relations. It also reveals how ethnicity, race, gender, class, and generation influence the daily lives of Asian Americans. Readings include historical monographs, political pamphlets, literary works, oral histories, and social commentaries. (Enrollment limited)

[270. Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States]— This course introduces several major authors, movements, and genres which represent the American multi-ethnic experience. Taking a comparative approach to develop our understanding of ethnic American communities and their literary productions, we will examine a variety of topics, including historical contexts, the politics of language, multiculturalism, gender, coming of age, and performance. Select authors may include Sherman Alexie, Anzia Yezierska, Gloria Naylor, Francisco Jimenez, and Andrew Pham (Enrollment limited)

291. Protest Movements in Modern America— This course will examine the culture of American protest movements. We will use a variety of primary source texts - speeches, images, literature, platforms, films - to explore the connections between protest movements and American culture and society. We will see how people, when organized and mobilized, have changed history and re-shaped the cultural and political meanings of ideas like freedom, justice, and democracy. Some of the movements we will examine include Populism, Progressivism, First- and Second-Wave Feminism, Labor and the New Deal, the Black Freedom Struggle, Gay Rights, the Vietnam antiwar movement, the Conservative ascendency, immigrant rights, and Occupy Wall Street. (Enrollment limited)-Seidman

301. Junior Seminar: American Texts— This course, required for the American studies major and ordinarily taken in the fall of the junior year, examines central texts in American history and culture. Through intensive discussion and writing, the class will explore the contexts of these works as well as the works themselves, paying particular attention to the interrelated issues of race, class, gender, and other similarly pivotal social constructs. Course is open only to American studies majors. Prerequisite: Students must have completed American Studies 203 or enroll in 203 with 301.203 (Enrollment limited)-Tang

[329. Viewing The Wire Through a Critical Lens]— Through analysis and dissection of David Simon’s The Wire, this course seeks to equip students with the tools necessary to examine our postmodern society. The Wire seamlessly juxtaposes aesthetics with socio-economic issues, offering up a powerful lens for investigating our surroundings. Whether issues of unregulated free market capitalism, the bureaucracy of our school systems, politics of the media, false notions of equal opportunity, devaluation of human life, or a failed war on drugs, The Wire addresses the complexities of American urban life. Through a socio-political and cultural reading of the five individual seasons, students will be able to explore a multitude of contemporary problems. (Enrollment limited)

[340. The Body in 19th Century American Culture]— We will explore representations of the body in relation to American identities, including controlling ethnic bodies through slavery and exotic exhibits, as well as defining gender ideals by conflating the female body with corsets and hysteria and the male with the “strong man” aesthetic. Although anxious about ill bodies in the tenements and disfigured ones in factories, Americans were also fascinated by the extremes of the human body as indicated by the popularity of sideshows, magicians, and miracle cures. Our materials will include literary texts, art studies, and popular media. We will discuss such writers and artists as Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Catherine Beecher, William Sydney Mount, John Gadsby Chapman, and Lily Martin Spencer. (Enrollment limited)

[341. Spectacle of Disability in American Culture]— This course examines how people with disabilities are represented in American literature and culture. Whether it is the exceptional savant who is heralded as a hero because of her “ special” abilities or the critically injured person whose disability relegates him to the sidelines of society even though his ability to overcome everyday challenges is applauded from a distance, definitions of disabilites (both generally and explicitly) tell us a great deal about the concept of normalcy and the expectations that we attach to this term. In addition, the various narratives associated with different disabilities and their origins are shaped by other aspects of identity, such as socio-economic class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. We will look at a variety of mediums including fiction, non–fiction, film, television, and memoirs in order to examine how these representations, along with the material realities of disabled people, frame our society’s understanding of disability and the consequences of these formulations. We look at texts and cases such as Million Dollar Baby, the Terry Sciavo case, Born on a Blue Day, Forrest Gump, the American Disabilites Act, the Christopher Reeves story, and Radio. (Enrollment limited)

352. The Culture of Cold War America— This course encourages students to critically analyze the relationship between the Cold War and developments in American culture. Discussion topics include the roots of the Cold War, the anxieties concerning nuclear annihilation, the fear of global and domestic communism, representations of the Cold War in social memory, political dissent and cultural politics during the Cold War, and the impact of the Cold War on gender norms, civil rights, and labor relations. In addition to reading historical monographs, students will interpret the era’s popular culture. (Enrollment limited)-Tang

[355. Urban Mosaic: Migration, Identity, and Politics]— This course focuses on ethnic and racial communities in 20th-century urban areas. Readings allow students to assess and to compare the ways in which ethnicity and race impacted how people lived and worked in the city (e.g., ethnic neighborhoods, segmented labor, and racially exclusive unions). They also reveal how ethnic and racial communities defined their interests when they engaged in political activities. Discussion themes include identity politics, intergroup relations, cultural life within ethnic and racial communities, employment discrimination, and residential segregation. (Enrollment limited)

357. Race and Urban Space— Scholars and now even the larger public have conceded that race is a social construct. However, many are just beginning to fully explore how the specific dimensions and use of space is mediated by the politics of racial difference and racial identification. Therefore, this course seeks to explore how racism and race relations shape urban spatial relations, city politics, and the built environment and how the historical development of cities has shaped racial identity as lived experience. Covering the 20th century, the course examines three critical junctures: Ghettoization (1890s-1940s); Metropolitan Formation (1940s-1990s); and Neo-Liberal Gentrification (present). (Enrollment limited)-Baldwin

380. The Vietnam War and American Culture— The Domino Theory. Ho Chi Minh. Grunts. Hippies. Protesters. The Tet Offensive. Muhammad Ali. LBJ. Nixon. My Lai. POW/MIA. Apocalypse Now. Full Metal Jacket. Perhaps no modern war has impacted American culture and identity as broadly and deeply as the Vietnam War (or the American War, as the Vietnamese call it). We will use primary-source cultural texts - memoirs, images, songs, films, documents - to make sense of this history. We will examine the larger forces that played out through the war - global decolonization, the Cold War, the “sixties” protest movements, racial politics, the meaning of patriotism, and more - as well as how the struggle to define the war’s legacies ensued afterwards in films, cultural memory, and politics. (Enrollment limited)-Seidman

399. Independent Study— Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. (1-2 course credits) -Staff

[402. Senior Project]— Students undertake projects on American studies topics of their own choosing. The projects will be supervised by a faculty member in an American studies-related field. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the project adviser and director, are required for enrollment. -Staff

[409-01. Constructing and Contesting Race in American Culture]—This seminar examines the social construction of race in American culture. Participants will be discussing scholarly interpretations and cultural texts - e.g., literature, scientific studies, political pamphlets, and media images - to explore the impermanence of racial categories, the influence of racial stereotypes on public policy and individual experience, and the role that cultural production plays in constructing and contesting mainstream notions of race. Students will be writing essays on assigned materials and a term paper on an approved topic of their choosing. (Enrollment limited)

[409-01. American Empire]— Thomas Jefferson once boldly described the United States as an “empire of liberty.” But whether or not America has ever taken on the identity, ever functioned, as an empire has been one of the most hotly debated topics of our current global times. In this senior seminar we want to take both a historical and contemporary look at what happens when the foreign policy of the United States converges with the general practices of military engagement, occupation, nation–building, commercial market control, and/or annexation of “foreign lands.” Do such foreign relations constitute an empire? In this course we will examine a number of critical moments including the internal U.S. expansion into native American and Mexican lands, “Manifest Destiny” projects in the turn-of-the-twentieth century Caribbean and Asian Pacific, Marshall Plan policies in Cold War Europe, and “War on Terror” initiatives in the present day Middle East. What have been the aspirations of U.S. foreign policy, what have been the consequences, how do they affect the policies and practices “back home.” Have any of these experiences constituted an American Empire? (Enrollment limited)

409-01. Senior Seminar: The Spectacle of Disability— This course examines how people with disabilities are represented in American literature and culture. Whether it is the exceptional savant who is heralded as a hero because of her “ special” abilities or the critically injured person whose disability relegates him to the sidelines of society even though his ability to overcome everyday challenges is applauded from a distance, definitions of disabilities (both generally and explicitly) tell us a great deal about the concept of normalcy and the expectations that we attach to this term. In addition, the various narratives associated with different disabilities and their origins are shaped by other aspects of identity, such as socio-economic class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. We will look at a variety of mediums including fiction, non-fiction, film, television, and memoirs in order to examine how these representations, along with the material realities of disabled people, frame our society’s understanding of disability and the consequences of these formulations. We look at texts and cases such as Million Dollar Baby, the Terry Schiavo case, Born on a Blue Day, Forrest Gump, the American Disabilities Act, the Christopher Reeves story, and Radio. Course open only to American Studies majors. (Enrollment limited)-Paulin

409-02. Technology and American Culture— Mark Twain was among the first to install a home phone in Hartford and he was amused by others’ uncertain handling of new devices. He approached technology with great interest, skepticism, and of course, humor. Many Americans shared Twain’s responses, and in this course we will examine the social impacts, cultural representations, and political significance of select technological developments. We will begin with the nineteenth century as clocks and bells came to govern lives and we will conclude with our relationships with technology today. Each unit will focus on technology and an aspect of American life, such as domesticity, work, war, production, literature, health, and communication. (Enrollment limited)-Miller

[416. Why We Fight]— This seminar will examine how cultural factors such as consumerism, leisure, profit, and patriotism, among others, have worked to embed in public life the acceptance of frequent American military intervention over the course of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century. Rallying Americans to accept military intervention as well as declarations of war necessitated the manipulation of cultural symbols, attitudes, and prejudices. Our focus will be on the role the media– newspapers, magazines, books, films, radio and television–played in shaping the acceptance of military intervention and even war as American public policy. (Enrollment limited)

[423. The History of American Sports]— This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion- dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women’s sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids. (Enrollment limited)

424. Comic Art in North America 1895-Present— This course provides an introduction to Comic Art in North America, from the beginnings of the newspaper comic strip through the development of comic books, the growth of graphic novels, and current developments in electronic media. It focuses on the history and aesthetics of the medium, comparison between developments in the United States, Mexico, and French Canada, and the social and cultural contexts in which comic art is created and consumed. The first half of the semester concentrates on early and 20th-century comic strips and the development of the comic book form through the 1940s; the second on the social changes affecting comic art in the 1950s and 1960s, the development of a comic book subculture from the 1970s to the 21st century, the growth of independently published graphic novels and the independent comics, and contemporary electronic media developments. (Enrollment limited)- Couch

428. New England and the Black Atlantic— This course will explore the trans-Atlantic cultural, economic, and political constellation that has linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the 15th century to the present. In particular, we will investigate some key aspects of New England’s part in the Black Atlantic, including slavery and the slave trade; literature, public speaking, and the arts; commerce and industry; and travel and migration. We will ground this study in past and present geographic sites of diaspora, racialization, and contestation, including ships and ports, the home, church, workplace, market, and performance spaces. (Enrollment limited)-Southern

435. Museum Exhibition— One of the most engaging ways to promote collections and explore a subject or theme is to create an exhibition, which is a genre in and of itself—telling a story with artifacts. Through critical readings students will explore the cultural and educational goals of exhibits, visitor needs and accessibility, design elements (including technology), and audience evaluation methods utilized at libraries, historic houses and historical sites, and history and cultural museums. Drawing from the extensive and wide-ranging collections in the Watkinson Library, students will conceive, write, and install an exhibition, design and publish a catalogue, and plan and implement an opening event to take place at the end of the semester in the Watkinson. (Enrollment limited)-Ring

[454. Remembering Peal Harbor]— This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The date December 7, 1941 remains embedded in the American historical imagination as the day that changed American forever. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, an attack that has been referred to as the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century. This seminar will examine the legacy of Peral Harbor, a day that continues to “live in infamy” in the American historical experience. The debate over its legacy will be our focus. Readings will include historical and cultural analyses, American foreign policy critiques and current thinking on national security. (Enrollment limited)

455. Agency and Agenda: Commercial American Photography Since 1914— This course investigates how photography has described and constructed consumer culture and current events, from selling the American Dream to the events of September 11, 2001. We will examine how advertising photography uses news imagery for its own agenda and creates enduring icons that in turn become part of the imagery of news. We will consider ethics and the roles of the image-maker; tactics of display; the creating agencies and their agendas; the manipulation of images (physical and interpretive); and how race, gender, and ethnicity are constructed in commercial and news images. (Enrollment limited)- McCombie

458. Creating the New Right: The Conservative Movement in Post-World War II America— This seminar will examine the political and cultural environment that fostered, supported and sustained the New Right political movement that emerged following World War II and became fully formed in the 1980s and after. The key to conservative success lay in their hopes and ability to replace the narrative of American liberalism, with its emphasis on democratic-egalitarian concepts, with a version more in keeping with conservative thinking that stressed the self-governing individual, minimum government activity, and entrepreneurial and market freedom. We want to focus our research and discussion on the extent to which the New Conservative movement’s narrative has succeeded in challenging and reshaping American political culture and American national culture, both popular and elite, as well as its potential impact on the 2012 Presidential election. Course open only to senior American Studies majors. (Enrollment limited)-Cohn

466. Teaching Assistantship— Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. (0.5-1 course credit) -Staff

471. Science Fiction and American Society— American science fiction literature has never been about the future, but always about the social and cultural moments in which it is created, packaged, and sold. This course will examine the roots of modern American science fiction in Victorian adventure fiction, the rise of mass- market magazine fiction and the development of technophiliac hard SF in the Depression, Cold War SF, the disillusionment of sixties experimentation and the rise of cyberpunk, and the revival of scientific or hard SF in contemporary writing, particularly those authors who examine environmental collapse and renewal. Authors to be considered include Heinlein, LeGuin, Dick, Haldeman, and Brin. The course will include consideration of how SF is written, edited, and published. (Enrollment limited)-Couch

490. Research Assistantship— -Staff

[497. Senior Thesis]— Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. -Staff

498. Senior Thesis Part 1— Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) (2 course credits) -Staff

Graduate Courses

801. Approaches to American Studies— This seminar, which is required of all American studies graduate students, examines a variety of approaches to the field. Readings may include several “classic” texts of 18th- and 19th-century American culture and several key works of American studies scholarship from the formative period of the field after World War II, as well as more recent contributions to the study of the United States. Topics will include changing ideas about the content, production, and consumption of American culture; patterns of ethnic identification and definition; the construction of categories like “race” and “gender”; and the bearing of class, race, gender, and sexuality on individuals’ participation in American society and culture. Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor.-McCombie

[816. Why We Fight]— This seminar will examine how cultural factors such as consumerism, leisure, profit, and patriotism, among others, have worked to embed in public life the acceptance of frequent American military intervention over the course of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century. Rallying Americans to accept military intervention as well as declarations of war necessitated the manipulation of cultural symbols, attitudes, and prejudices. Our focus will be on the role the media– newspapers, magazines, books, films, radio and television–played in shaping the acceptance of military intervention and even war as American public policy.

[822. History of Hartford]— The post-Civil War history of Hartford is a history of the initial triumph of entrepreneurial power and civic will and the subsequent loss of certain forms of urban wealth. Mark Twain called the city the “ center of all Connecticut wealth.” Despite considerable poverty, in 1876, Hartford still boasted the country’s highest per capita income and is now ranked as among the nation’s poorest cities. This seminar explores the processes of cultural and social transformation that resulted in these differences. We seek to understand Hartford’s late 19th and 20th century political culture and political economy. Topics include: the distribution of capital in industry, housing, charity, and welfare; the racial, ethnic, religious and class composition of the city’s men and women residents; urban politics, racial and ethnic antagonisms, and the history of attempts at social change in the city; the modes of artistic and literary expressions that arose over time. Sources for study include readings drawn from other urban histories; documents and primary sources drawn from Hartford’s rich archival and museum collections; the portrayal of the city in photography and film. Students will construct projects based upon research and interaction throughout the city. A speakers program and off-campus work supplement the course. (Same as History 835-03.)

[823. The History of American Sports]— This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion- dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women’s sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids.

824. Comic Art in North America 1895-Present— This course provides an introduction to Comic Art in North America, from the beginnings of the newspaper comic strip through the development of comic books, the growth of graphic novels, and current developments in electronic media. It focuses on the history and aesthetics of the medium, comparison between developments in the United States, Mexico, and French Canada, and the social and cultural contexts in which comic art is created and consumed. The first half of the semester concentrates on early and 20th-century comic strips and the development of the comic book form through the 1940s; the second on the social changes affecting comic art in the 1950s and 1960s, the development of a comic book subculture from the 1970s to the 21st century, the growth of independently published graphic novels and the independent comics, and contemporary electronic media developments.-Couch

828. New England and the Black Atlantic— This course will explore the trans-Atlantic cultural, economic, and political constellation that has linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the 15th century to the present. In particular, we will investigate some key aspects of New England’s part in the Black Atlantic, including slavery and the slave trade; literature, public speaking, and the arts; commerce and industry; and travel and migration. We will ground this study in past and present geographic sites of diaspora, racialization, and contestation, including ships and ports, the home, church, workplace, market, and performance spaces.-Southern

835. Museum Exhibition— One of the most engaging ways to promote collections and explore a subject or theme is to create an exhibition, which is a genre in and of itself—telling a story with artifacts. Through critical readings students will explore the cultural and educational goals of exhibits, visitor needs and accessibility, design elements (including technology), and audience evaluation methods utilized at libraries, historic houses and historical sites, and history and cultural museums. Drawing from the extensive and wide-ranging collections in the Watkinson Library, students will conceive, write, and install an exhibition, design and publish a catalogue, and plan and implement an opening event to take place at the end of the semester in the Watkinson.-Ring

853. Agency and Agenda: Advertising the American Dream— This course investigates how photography has described and constructed consumer culture and current events, from selling the American Dream to the events of September 11, 2001. We will examine how advertising photography uses news imagery for its own agenda and creates enduring icons that in turn become part of the imagery of news. We will consider ethics and the roles of the image-maker; tactics of display; the creating agencies and their agendas; the manipulation of images (physical and interpretive); and how race, gender, and ethnicity are constructed in commercial and news images.-McCombie

[854. Remembering Pearl Harbor]— This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The date December 7, 1941 remains embedded in American historical imagination as the day that changed American forever. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, an attack that has been referred to as the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century. This seminar will examine the legacy of Pearl Harbor, a day that continues to “live in infamy” in the American historical experience. The debate over its legacy will be our focus. Readings will include historical and cultural analyses, American foreign policy critiques and curren thinking on national secruity.

858. Creating the New Right: The Conservative Movement in Post-World War II America— This seminar will examine the political and cultural environment that fostered, supported and sustained the New Right political movement that emerged following World War II and became fully formed in the 1980s and after. The key to conservative success lay in their hopes and ability to replace the narrative of American liberalism, with its emphasis on democratic-egalitarian concepts, with a version more in keeping with conservative thinking that stressed the self-governing individual, minimum government activity, and entrepreneurial and market freedom. We want to focus our research and discussion on the extent to which the New Conservative movement’s narrative has succeeded in challenging and reshaping American political culture and American national culture, both popular and elite, as well as its potential impact on the 2012 Presidential election.-Cohn

[865. American Popular Music: Milestones of the 1920s-1950s.]—This course explores the music of the blues singers of 1920s through the jazz singers of the 1950s. Along the way we will consider the blues of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith; the protest music of Woody Guthrie; the jazz of Billie Holiday; and the new paths forged by Elvis Presley. By concentrating on these performers and stylistic periods, we will be able to focus on the important social and political events that shaped the music. Students will write a final paper that examines the music of one of the musical decades discussed during the course.

871. Science Fiction and American Society— American science fiction literature has never been about the future, but always about the social and cultural moments in which it is created, packaged, and sold. This course will examine the roots of modern American science fiction in Victorian adventure fiction, the rise of mass- market magazine fiction and the development of technophiliac hard SF in the Depression, Cold War SF, the disillusionment of sixties experimentation and the rise of cyberpunk, and the revival of scientific or hard SF in contemporary writing, particularly those authors who examine environmental collapse and renewal. Authors to be considered include Heinlein, LeGuin, Dick, Haldeman, and Brin. The course will include consideration of how SF is written, edited, and published.-Couch

894. Museums and Communities Internship— Matriculated American studies students have the opportunity to engage in an academic internship at an area museum or archive for credit toward the American studies degree. For detailed information, contact the Graduate Studies Office. -Staff

940. Independent Study— Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser and program director. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. -Staff

953. Research Project— Under the guidance of a faculty member, graduate students may do an independent research project on a topic in American studies. Written approval of the graduate adviser and the program director are required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. -Staff

954. Thesis Part I— (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) (2 course credits) -Staff

955. Thesis Part II— (Continuation of American Studies 954.) (2 course credits) -Staff

956. Thesis— (Completion of two course credits in one semester). (2 course credits) -Staff

Courses Originating in Other Departments

[Art History 271. The Arts of America]— View course description in department listing on p. 466.

Economics 321. American Economic History— View course description in department listing on p. 362. Prerequisite: C- or better in Economics 101. -Gunderson

[Educational Studies 300. Education Reform: Past and Present]—View course description in department listing on p. 381. Prerequisite: C- or Better in EDUC200 or American Studies Major or Public Policy and Law Major.

English 205. Introduction to American Literature II— View course description in department listing on p. 410. -Hager

[English 217. Introduction to African American Literature]— View course description in department listing on p. 411.

English 265. Introduction to Film Studies— View course description in department listing on p. 411. -Riggio

[English 355. Narratives of Disability in U.S. Literature and Culture]— View course description in department listing on p. 414.

[English 439. Special Topics in Film: The Documentary]— View course description in department listing on p. 416.

[English 477. The Sixties in Film, Fiction and Poetry]— View course description in department listing on p. 417. Prerequisite: ENGL 260 with minimum grade of C- and Junior or Senior status.

English 851. Queer Harlem Renaissance— View course description in department listing on p. 420. -Paulin

[English 877. The Sixties in Film, Fiction and Poetry]— View course description in department listing on p. 421.

[History 118. Social and Political Movements in 20th Century America]— View course description in department listing on p. 519.

History 201. The United States from the Colonial Period through the Civil War— View course description in department listing on p. 519. -Wickman

History 208. North American Environmental History— View course description in department listing on p. 519. -Wickman

[History 209. African-American History]— View course description in department listing on p. 519.

History 218. United States Since 1945— View course description in department listing on p. 520. -Greenberg

History 344. America’s Most Wanted: True Crime and the American Imagination— View course description in department listing on p. 523. -Greenberg

[History 349. Writing the American Desert]— View course description in department listing on p. 523.

[History 353. Print and Politics in the American Revolution]—View course description in department listing on p. 523.

[International Studies 234. Gender and Education]— View course description in department listing on p. 570.

[International Studies 249. Immigrants and Refugees: Strangers in Strange Lands]— View course description in department listing on p. 570.

[Music 224. Music of Black American Women]— View course description in department listing on p. 683.

[Public Policy & Law 265. The Bill of Rights: A Revolution in Three Acts]— View course description in department listing on p. 780. Prerequisite: C- or better in Public Policy 201or Public Policy 202 or POLS 102 or Permission of Instructor.

Public Policy & Law 344. Seeking Justice in American Life: Ethical thinking/decision-making in politics law and private life— View course description in department listing on p. 780. Prerequisite: C- or better in PBPL 201 or PBPL 202 or permission of the instructor. -Fulco, Schaller

Political Science 102. American National Government— View course description in department listing on p. 743. Not open to seniors. -Chambers, Williamson

[Political Science 216. American Political Thought]— View course description in department listing on p. 743.

Political Science 225. American Presidency— View course description in department listing on p. 743. -McMahon

Political Science 301. American Political Parties— View course description in department listing on p. 744. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102. -Evans

[Political Science 307. Constitutional Law I: The Federal System and Separation of Powers]— View course description in department listing on p. 745. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102.

[Political Science 318. Environmental Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 745. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102.

[Political Science 326. Women and Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 746. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102 or permission of instructor.

[Political Science 355. Urban Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 746. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102 or permission of instructor.

[Political Science 379. American Foreign Policy]— View course description in department listing on p. 747.

Religion 214. Jews in America— View course description in department listing on p. 796. -Kiener

Religion 267. Religion and the Media— View course description in department listing on p. 796. -Silk

[Religion 290. Spiritual Movements in Contemporary America]—View course description in department listing on p. 797.

Sociology 214. Racism— View course description in department listing on p. 811. -Williams

[Sociology 241. Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Social Reality]—View course description in department listing on p. 812. Prerequisite: Prior Sociology course or permission of instructor.

[Theater & Dance 239. Contemporary American Theater]— View course description in department listing on p. 823.

[Women, Gender, and Sexuality 212. History of Sexuality]— View course description in department listing on p. 836.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality 215. Drink and Disorder in America—View course description in department listing on p. 836. -Hedrick

Women, Gender, and Sexuality 301. Western Feminist Thought— View course description in department listing on p. 836. Prerequisite: C- or better in one other course in Women Gender and Sexuality. -Hedrick

[Women, Gender, and Sexuality 319. The Woman’s Film]— View course description in department listing on p. 837.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality 345. Film Noir— View course description in department listing on p. 837. -Corber

Spring Term

[201. American Identities]— The central focus of this course will be American identities—the various ways in which Americans have defined themselves, and have been defined. We will proceed chronologically, looking at contact between Amerindians, Puritans, and Cavaliers; the creation of a national identity; the contested meanings of race, class, gender, and ethnicity; and the role played by such forces as religion, region, technology, and empire. The course will also serve to introduce students to some of the central themes, theories, and sources of American studies, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture. Readings will include poems, essays, autobiographies, novels, images, films, and the interpretive work of scholars in a number of disciplines. (Enrollment limited)

210. Doing Culture: Methods in Cultural Analysis— Culture is not something we simply consume, inhabit or even create. Culture is serious business: pun both intended and upended. We have a dynamic relationship with the world around us and in this class we will use culture, both elite and popular, to help bridge the gap between what we do here in the “ivory tower” and how we live out there in the “real world,” hopefully changing both in the process. Here we will not take culture for granted but engage culture as a method, a tool by which to engage, analyze and critique both historical narratives and contemporary events. In this course, street life, advertisements, popular media, and clothing are interrogated as archives of dynamic meaning, arenas of social interaction, acts of personal pleasure, and sites of struggle. We will also explore what happens when a diversity of forces converge at the intersection of commerce and culture. Present day notions of popular culture, and topics such as authenticity and selling out, will be interrogated both socially and historically. (Enrollment limited)-Baldwin

[220. The Child in American Culture]— We will examine representations of “the Child” in American culture from the Puritan period to the present. How have conceptions of childhood changed over time? How do economic status and labor influence depictions of children? What are some symbolic roles of the Child in our culture? Our course will focus on literary texts, archival materials, and visual culture, including art, photographs, and other media. (Enrollment limited)

[231. Presley, Dylan, Springsteen, and the Poetics of Rock and Roll]— This course examines the musical and social meaning of three icons in the history of rock ’n’ roll and American culture. It has been said that Presley freed a generation’s body, Dylan unlocked a generation’s mind, and Springsteen has been working on a generation’s soul. We will delve deeply into the music and lyrics of each artist and study each figure as someone who shaped the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In addition to an intensive exploration of the music, sources will include published interviews, documentaries, and interpretive works by scholars and critics such as Peter Guarlnick, Greil Marcus, Christopher Ricks, Dave Marsh, and June Sawyers. (Enrollment limited)

255. American Icons— This course will look at modern American culture by examining some of its major icons - from Ellis Island to World War II, the atomic bomb to the suburbs, the Vietnam War to Muhammad Ali, 1980s pop music to the Super Bowl. We will do so with the assumption that these icons are windows into broader questions over American identity, values, ideologies, politics, and culture. (Enrollment limited)-Seidman

275. The West in American Culture: Symbols, Myths, and Realities—This course investigates the cultural meanings and the lived experiences associated with the American West. Themes for the course include Frederick Jackson Turner’s notion of the frontier and American exceptionalism, the use of Western myths and symbols in American culture, race relations and the historical experiences of racial minorities, regional development and its relationship to federal power, and political movements such as women’s suffrage, environmentalism, and conservatism. (Enrollment limited)-Tang

284. Food and American Culture— What we eat and how we eat reflect more than basic physical needs, and food has long played influential roles in defining and representing American culture, identities, and nationalism. Our course will begin by examining the history of the Thanksgiving feast and conclude with contemporary movements in organic and farm-to-table eating. As we explore foods’ implications for Americanism, gender, class, and age, our topics of study will include defining edibles and non-edibles, immigrant influences, food and technology, American farming, diet fads, school lunches and gardens, hunger in America and food regulations. Our class will work with the nearby Billings Forge community to learn more about food’s roles in family life and social reforms, including urban renewal. (Enrollment limited)-Miller

335. The Play’s the Thing: Staging Race in African American Theater and Drama— This course examines both historical and contemporary African American performance/drama. What does it mean to perform “blackness”? How do these performances overlap with other aspects of identity, such as nation, gender, and class? The course will consider early enactments of race in minstrel shows to later theatrical representations that engage with important cultural moments, such as slavery, Emancipation, Harlem Renaissance, Civil rights, feminism, and AIDS. In addition to our focus dramatic texts, by authors such as Hansberry, Wilson, Parks, Baldwin, and Deavere-Smith, we will also consider how these works intersect with other performative sites, such as the visual representations of Kara Walker, the dance performances of Bill T. Jones and the filmic depictions of Julia Dash and Spike Lee. (Enrollment limited)-Paulin

[348. Thought and Culture in American Society]— This course offers a survey of American intellectual and cultural history in the 19th century, from the decades following the Revolutionary War to the early years of the 20th century. Among the various “isms” we will unpack are republicanism, evangelicalism, transcendentalism, individualism, populism, pragmatism, and progressivism. Readings will include works by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William James, Ida Wells, Jane Addams, Jack London, and others. (Enrollment limited)

[352. The Culture of Cold War America]— This course encourages students to critically analyze the relationship between the Cold War and developments in American culture. Discussion topics include the roots of the Cold War, the anxieties concerning nuclear annihilation, the fear of global and domestic communism, representations of the Cold War in social memory, political dissent and cultural politics during the Cold War, and the impact of the Cold War on gender norms, civil rights, and labor relations. In addition to reading historical monographs, students will interpret the era’s popular culture. (Enrollment limited)

355. Urban Mosaic: Migration, Identity, and Politics— This course focuses on ethnic and racial communities in 20th-century urban areas. Readings allow students to assess and to compare the ways in which ethnicity and race impacted how people lived and worked in the city (e.g., ethnic neighborhoods, segmented labor, and racially exclusive unions). They also reveal how ethnic and racial communities defined their interests when they engaged in political activities. Discussion themes include identity politics, intergroup relations, cultural life within ethnic and racial communities, employment discrimination, and residential segregation. (Enrollment limited)-Tang

[359. Violence in the American Imagination]— “We have front row seats for the theater of mass destruction,” said the narrator of the 1999 film, Fight Club. This course examines the ways in which violence has constructed America and America has constructed violence. How has the definition of violence changed over time? What are the connections between cultural understandings of pain and suffering and the larger social dynamics of the nation? We will study these important questions in a variety of settings from the 19th to the 20th century. Readings will include Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Tillie Olsen, Ralph Ellison, James Welch, Chuck Palahniuk, and others. (Enrollment limited)

[360. American Anthems: An Exploration in Music, Protest, and Culture]— Music has seemingly played a role in American events from the 1760s to the 1960s. But what has music actually accomplished? Is it capable of changing the world? Or is it simply a sideshow of political activism? This seminar traces mainstream and radical musical response to social and cultural upheaval in the American past from the Revolution to the post-9/11 age. Using the likes of William Billings, Jesse Hutchinson, George Root, and Scott Joplin to Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, Prince, and Tupac Shakur, we will look to understand the many messages embedded in American protest music and the American music as an icon of social reform. (Enrollment limited)

374. The 1960s and American Culture— The 1960s were watershed years in modern American history. Major areas of U.S. life - politics, foreign policy, culture, race, gender - experienced monumental shifts that irrevocably altered the nation. This course will examine the 1960s and the cultural transformations this period brought about. We will pay particular attention to different protest movements, the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and the conservative ascendency. We will also look at the ways that current narratives about “the sixties” are used in contemporary U.S. society, culture and politics. (Enrollment limited)-Seidman

[376. Visual Culture in America]— Images have always played a critical role in the construction of American culture. Drawing upon diverse media ( prints, painting, cartoons, photography, movies, television, and graphic novels) and interdisciplinary readings on the interpretation of images, we will examine the changing role of visual culture in the shaping of American society. Specific topics include 18th- century family portraits, Civil War photography, images of empire, documentary expression in the 1930s, and visual narratives of 9/11. Course open only to American Studies majors. (Enrollment limited)

402. Senior Project— Students undertake projects on American studies topics of their own choosing. The projects will be supervised by a faculty member in an American studies-related field. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the project adviser and director, are required for enrollment. -Staff

[409. Senior Seminar: American Animation and Society]— Comic art and animation are closely aligned media that have played a significant role in American culture. This course will consider the development of both media from the 1920s to today in their social, economic and cultural contexts. Special attention will be given to the perception of these as media for children, to the growing acceptance of mature themes in both media, and the power of imagery derived from comics and animation in advertising, merchandising, and even political propaganda. Course open only to senior American Studies majors. (Enrollment limited)

409. Class and American Culture: The Gilded Age to the 99 Percent—Class inequality is nothing new in the United States. While some have referred to America as a “classless” society, class and its representations are omnipresent in U.S. history, culture, and identity. This course will use written and visual primary-source texts to uncover the ideologies, representations, and narratives of class in American culture over the past two centuries. It will also look at how class has intersected with ideologies of race, gender, nationality, and identity. In bringing class out into the open, students will gain a better understanding of U.S. history and culture as well as our current conjuncture. (Enrollment limited)-Seidman

[409. Lincoln and His Era]— Drawing mainly on primary sources, this seminar will seek to understand Abraham Lincoln in his time. Among topics to be explored are: slavery’s critics and defenders; the struggle over slavery expansion ( including the Lincoln-Douglas debates); John Brown’s raid; the secession crisis; Lincoln’s views of slavery and race and his role in emancipation; dissent and civil liberties during wartime; and Lincoln as a writer. Students will write several short papers based on assigned readings and a research paper on an approved topic of their choosing. Course open only to senior American Studies majors. (Enrollment limited)

425. Museums, Visual Culture, and Critical Theory— This course aims to examine the issues brought up in key theoretical readings by applying their insights to case studies, particularly cases of museum exhibitions and programs. Issues to be addressed include: reproduction and spectacle; gender and display; ethnicity, ’primitivism,’ and race; and sexuality, sexual practice, and censorship. Case studies will vary each year and will range from exhibitions focusing on consumption, to ethnicity and race (such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Pequot Museum), and sexuality (The Museum of Sex; the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions). Each class will combine theoretical readings with considerations of museum practice. By the end of the semester, students shall be able to analyze exhibitions using both the tools of postmodern theory and practical observation and history. (Enrollment limited)-McCombie

438. America Collects— Collecting American history is as alive and well in America today as it was soon after the republic was constituted. In the late 18th-century Americans became enamored of “writing” the new nation’s history, both in the literal sense of creating narratives, and the figurative sense of collecting the books and documents which would inform and underpin those narratives. The first institution created specifically to collect and preserve American history was the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791, during George Washington’s presidency. This course will trace the conscious collecting (by both individuals and institutions) of documents and artifacts from the 18th century to the present day relating to “America,” as that term was variously defined over time. (Enrollment limited)-Ring

465. Post-War/Postmodern: American Design from Retro to Neo-Retro—This course explores the specifics of design in postwar America from a variety of perspectives, particularly social history. We will consider the growing phenomenon of postwar design templates as re-invented by contemporary designers in an attempt to understand why these icons of the Baby Boom have come to roost in contemporary culture. Topics include automobile design and history; housing and the creation of the American suburb; taming the exotic in tiki bars; kitchen debates and the feminine mystique; and domestic ideals and queering domesticity. (Enrollment limited)-McCombie

470. Native American Pictorial Narrative— This seminar examines Native American Indian narrative artistic, pictorial, and literary traditions from North and Central America.Such traditions are inseparable from culture and performance, community and nation, human life and the physical world. The visual and tactile media considered include pictorial manuscripts, ceramics, bead- and shellwork, textiles, photographs, and paintings. The seminar will be interdisciplinary, with each unit including analyses of texts and visual materials and readings on aesthetics, translation, memory, and appropriation. (Enrollment limited)-Couch

490. Research Assistantship— -Staff

499. Senior Thesis Part 2— Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director, are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) (2 course credits) -Staff

Graduate Courses

802. Primary Research Materials— This seminar is designed to enable students to identify, evaluate, and use a range of primary sources, from personal letters, vital records, and the census to photographs, oral history, and newspapers. Students will critically read secondary literature to explore how other scholars have used primary sources, and will develop research projects on topics of their own choosing, based on primary sources available in local archives and repositories. Course not open to undergraduates.-Couch

825. Museums, Visual Culture, and Critical Theory— This course aims to examine the issues brought up in key theoretical readings by applying their insights to case studies, particularly cases of museum exhibitions and programs. Issues to be addressed include: reproduction and spectacle; gender and display; ethnicity, ’primitivism,’ and race; and sexuality, sexual practice, and censorship. Case studies will vary each year and will range from exhibitions focusing on consumption, to ethnicity and race (such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Pequot Museum), and sexuality (The Museum of Sex; the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions). Each class will combine theoretical readings with considerations of museum practice. By the end of the semester, students shall be able to analyze exhibitions using both the tools of postmodern theory and practical observation and history.-McCombie

838. America Collects— Collecting American history is as alive and well in America today as it was soon after the republic was constituted. In the late 18th-century Americans became enamored of “writing” the new nation’s history, both in the literal sense of creating narratives, and the figurative sense of collecting the books and documents which would inform and underpin those narratives. The first institution created specifically to collect and preserve American history was the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791, during George Washington’s presidency. This course will trace the conscious collecting (by both individuals and institutions) of documents and artifacts from the 18th century to the present day relating to “America,” as that term was variously defined over time.-Ring

865. Post-War/Postmodern: American Design from Retro to Neo-Retro—This course explores the specifics of design in postwar America from a variety of perspectives, particularly social history. We will consider the growing phenomenon of postwar design templates as re-invented by contemporary designers in an attempt to understand why these icons of the Baby Boom have come to roost in contemporary culture. Topics include automobile design and history; housing and the creation of the American suburb; taming the exotic in tiki bars; kitchen debates and the feminine mystique; and domestic ideals and queering domesticity.-McCombie

870. Native American Pictorial Narrative— This seminar examines Native American Indian narrative artistic, pictorial, and literary traditions from North and Central America.Such traditions are inseparable from culture and performance, community and nation, human life and the physical world. The visual and tactile media considered include pictorial manuscripts, ceramics, bead- and shellwork, textiles, photographs, and paintings. The seminar will be interdisciplinary, with each unit including analyses of texts and visual materials and readings on aesthetics, translation, memory, and appropriation.-Couch

954. Thesis Part I— (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) (2 course credits) -Staff

955. Thesis Part II— (Continuation of American Studies 954.) (2 course credits) -Staff

956. Thesis— (Completion of two course credits in one semester). (2 course credits) -Staff

Courses Originating in Other Departments

[Economics 214. Business and Entrepreneurial History]— View course description in department listing on p. 367. Prerequisite: C- or better in Economics 101.

Educational Studies 300. Education Reform: Past and Present— View course description in department listing on p. 384. Prerequisite: C- or Better in EDUC200 or American Studies Major or Public Policy and Law Major. -Dougherty

[Educational Studies 307. Latinos in Education: Local Realities, Transnational Perspectives]— View course description in department listing on p. 384. Prerequisite: EDUC200 or INTS/LACS majors or Hispanic Studies majors or Anthropology majors or Permission of Instructor.

English 204. Introduction to American Literature I— View course description in department listing on p. 426. -Lauter

English 217. Introduction to African American Literature— View course description in department listing on p. 427. -Paulin

[English 265. Introduction to Film Studies]— View course description in department listing on p. 428.

English 293. Tough Guys & Bad Girls: 20th Century American Crime Fiction— View course description in department listing on p. 428. -Mrozowski

[English 311. Afro-Asian Intersections]— View course description in department listing on p. 430.

[English 341. American Literary Modernism and the Great War]— View course description in department listing on p. 431.

[English 451. Queer Harlem Renaissance]— View course description in department listing on p. 435.

[English 477. The Sixties in Film, Fiction and Poetry]— View course description in department listing on p. 436. Prerequisite: ENGL 260 with minimum grade of C- and Junior or Senior status.

[English 496. Senior Seminar: Evolution of the Western Film]— View course description in department listing on p. 437.

[English 851. Queer Harlem Renaissance]— View course description in department listing on p. 439.

[English 868. Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson]— View course description in department listing on p. 440.

[English 877. The Sixties in Film, Fiction and Poetry]— View course description in department listing on p. 440.

French 325. Americans in Paris/Parisians in America— View course description in department listing on p. 625. -Humphreys

Hispanic Studies 233. Latin American Literature and Film in Translation— View course description in department listing on p. 643. -Robyn

[History 202. The United States from Reconstruction to the Present]— View course description in department listing on p. 528.

[History 247. Latinos/Latinas in the United States]— View course description in department listing on p. 530.

[History 269. The 1960s]— View course description in department listing on p. 531.

History 300. History Workshop: Native America, East of the Mississippi, 1497-1839— View course description in department listing on p. 531. -Wickman

[History 301. History as Text, Text as History: America in the Long 19th Century]— View course description in department listing on p. 532.

[History 313. The Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States]— View course description in department listing on p. 532.

[History 354. The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877]— View course description in department listing on p. 534.

[History 397. Work and Motherhood in the United States 1920-Present]— View course description in department listing on p. 536.

[History 451. Nationalizing America, 1932-1960]— View course description in department listing on p. 537. This course open to senior History majors only.

[History 451. The Gilded Age: 1865-1900]— View course description in department listing on p. 537.

[History 828. The Gilded Age: 1865-1900]— View course description in department listing on p. 538.

[History 839. Nationalizing America, 1932-1960]— View course description in department listing on p. 538. Graduate Students.

Language & Cultural Studies 233. Latin American Literature and Film in Translation— View course description in department listing on p. 614. -Robyn

Language & Cultural Studies 325. Americans in Paris/Parisians in America— View course description in department listing on p. 615. -Humphreys

Music 218. American Popular Music— View course description in department listing on p. 686. -Woldu

Music 274. Jazz: 1900 to the Present— View course description in department listing on p. 687. -Allen

Philosophy 239. African-American Feminism— View course description in department listing on p. 713. -Marcano

[Philosophy 241. Race, Racism, and Philosophy]— View course description in department listing on p. 713.

Political Science 102. American National Government— View course description in department listing on p. 749. Not open to seniors. -Bourbeau, McMahon

[Political Science 216. American Political Thought]— View course description in department listing on p. 750.

[Political Science 225. American Presidency]— View course description in department listing on p. 750.

Political Science 307. Constitutional Law I: The Federal System and Separation of Powers— View course description in department listing on p. 751. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102. -McMahon

Political Science 316. Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties— View course description in department listing on p. 751. Prerequisite: C- or better in Public Policy 201or Public Policy 202 or POLS 102 or Permission of Instructor. -Fulco

[Political Science 318. Environmental Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 751. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102.

[Political Science 326. Women and Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 752. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102 or permission of instructor.

[Political Science 355. Urban Politics]— View course description in department listing on p. 753. Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102 or permission of instructor.

Political Science 373. Law, Politics, and Society— View course description in department listing on p. 753. -McMahon

[Religion 214. Jews in America]— View course description in department listing on p. 799.

Religion 261. American Catholics— View course description in department listing on p. 799. -Walsh

Religion 262. Religion in America— View course description in department listing on p. 799. -Kirkpatrick

Religion 290. Spiritual Movements in Contemporary America— View course description in department listing on p. 800. -Desmangles

Religion 339. Modern American Theology— View course description in department listing on p. 801. -Dorrien

[Sociology 204. Social Problems in American Society]— View course description in department listing on p. 814.

Sociology 241. Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Social Reality— View course description in department listing on p. 814. Prerequisite: Prior Sociology course or permission of instructor. -Williams

[Women, Gender, and Sexuality 215. Drink and Disorder in America]— View course description in department listing on p. 839.

[Women, Gender, and Sexuality 315. Women in America]— View course description in department listing on p. 839.

[Women, Gender, and Sexuality 335. Mapping American Masculinities]— View course description in department listing on p. 839.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality 369. Queer Studies: Issues and Controversies— View course description in department listing on p. 839. -Corber, Valocchi

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