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AMST 2620 - Introduction to Asian American Literature (crosslisted)
(also AAS 2620 , ENGL 2620 ) (LA-AS)
Spring. 3-4 credits, variable.
S. Wong.
For description, see ENGL 2620 . (LT)
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AMST 2640 - Introduction to Asian American History (crosslisted)
(also AAS 2130 , HIST 2640 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
D. Chang.
For description, see HIST 2640 . (HI)
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AMST 2655 - Latinos in the United States (crosslisted)
(also DSOC 2650 , LSP 2010 , SOC 2650 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 3-4 credits, variable.
H. Velez.
For description, see SOC 2650 .
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AMST 2660 - Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History (crosslisted)
(also AIS 2660 , HIST 2660 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Parmenter.
For description, see HIST 2660 . (HI)
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AMST 2680 - Culture and Politics of the 1960s (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 2680 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
P. Sawyer.
For description, see ENGL 2680 . (LT)
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AMST 2720 - [The Atlantic World from Conquest to Revolution] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 2720 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
M. B. Norton and R. Weil.
For description, see HIST 2720 . (HI)
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AMST 2721 - [Anthropological Representation: Ethnographies of Latino Culture] (crosslisted)
(also ANTHR 2721 , LSP 2721 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
V. Santiago-Irizarry.
For description, see ANTHR 2721 . (ASE)
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AMST 2730 - [Women in American Society, Past and Present] (crosslisted)
(also FGSS 2730 , HIST 2730 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. B. Norton.
For description, see HIST 2730 . (HI)
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AMST 2760 - [Survey of American Film] (crosslisted)
(also PMA 2560 , VISST 2300 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Each student must enroll in a section and attend one screening per week.
S. Haenni.
Focusing mostly on Hollywood film, this course introduces the study of American cinema from multiple perspectives: as an economy and mode or production; as an art form that produces particular aesthetic styles; as a cultural institution that comments on contemporary issues and allows people to socialize. We will consider the rise of Hollywood in the age of mass production; the star system; the introduction of sound and the function of the soundtrack; Hollywood’s rivalry with television; censorship; the rise of independent film, etc. Weekly screenings introduce students to film analysis and major American genres (the gangster film, the musical, the Western, slapstick comedy, etc.) Screenings include films by Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Quentin Tarantino and others, and are supplemented by contextual readings. This course is also designated as a University Course. Please visit blogs.cornell.edu/universitycourses/ for further information. (LT)
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AMST 2765 - [Cinema and Migration] (crosslisted)
(also PMA 2565 , VISST 2765 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Haenni.
The invention of cinema in the late 19th century coincided with major waves of migration to and within the United States. Immigrants from Eastern Europe are often said to have “invented” Hollywood; those from Southern Europe were among its first and most eager consumers. By migrating north, many African Americans simultaneously “migrated to the movies.” This course will start by looking at this confluence between migration and cinema: How did European immigrants shape an emerging Hollywood? How did African American migrants negotiate the new medium? How did newly emerging issues of diversity manifest themselves in terms of representation, production, and reception of the filmic image? What in the end does that tell us about the American film industry, its hold on the nation, and its global dominance? Such questions will provide a grounding for the exploration of case studies, and different immigrant groups later in the 20th and 21st centuries. (MV)
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AMST 3021 - [Social Movements in American Politics] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3021 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
E. Sanders.
For description, see GOVT 3021 . (GP)
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AMST 3030 - [African American Women in Slavery and Freedom] (crosslisted)
(also FGSS 3070 , HIST 3030 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
M. Washington.
For description, see HIST 3030 .
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AMST 3032 - Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1776-1900 (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 3031 , HIST 3031 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
M. Washington.
For description, see HIST 3031 .
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AMST 3060 - [Recent History of American Workers: From the 60s through the 90s] (crosslisted)
(also ILRLR 3060 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
J. Cowie.
For description, see ILRLR 3060 . (HI)
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AMST 3082 - American Political Campaigns (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3082 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
A. Levine.
For description, see GOVT 3082 .
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AMST 3111 - Urban Politics (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3111 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
M. Shefter.
For description, see GOVT 3111 . (GP)
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AMST 3128 - America’s Changing Faces (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3128 )
Summer. 2 credits.
Offered in Cornell in Washington Summer Program.
S. Jackson.
For description, see GOVT 3128 .
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AMST 3130 - U.S. Foreign Relations, 1750-1912 (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3130 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
A. S. Miller.
For description, see HIST 3130 .
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AMST 3133 - [Special Topics] (crosslisted)
(also PMA 3900 )
4 credits. Letter grades only.
Next offered 2013-2014.
For description, see PMA 3900 .
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AMST 3140 - U.S. in the World (crosslisted)
(also CAPS 3140 , HIST 3140 ) (HA-AS)
Spring, summer. 4 credits.
When offered in Summer Session, course is a Summer-in-Washington course.
Staff.
For description, see HIST 3140 . (HI)
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AMST 3141 - Prisons (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3141 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall, winter, summer. 4 credits.
M. Katzenstein.
For description, see GOVT 3141 . (GP)
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AMST 3142 - Incarceration, Policy Response, and Self-Reflection (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3142 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 3-4 credits, variable.
Prerequisite: Participation as a Teaching Assistant in the CPEP program in Auburn or Cayuga or work in a juvenile or other correctional facility. Permission of instructor required.
M. Katzenstein.
For description, see GOVT 3142 .
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AMST 3150 - [Environmental History: The United States and Beyond] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3150 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
A. Sachs.
For description, see HIST 3150 . (HI)
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AMST 3161 - The American Presidency (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3161 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
E. Sanders.
For description, see GOVT 3161 . (GP)
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AMST 3170 - [British French North America] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3170 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Parmenter.
For description, see HIST 3170 . (HI)
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AMST 3171 - [Campaigns and Elections] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3171 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: GOVT 1111 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2013–2014.
P. Enns.
For description, see GOVT 3171 . (GP)
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AMST 3181 - [U.S. Congress] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3181 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Shefter.
For description, see GOVT 3181 . (AM)
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AMST 3191 - [Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S.] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3191 , LSP 3191 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Jones-Correa.
For description, see GOVT 3191 . (GP)
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AMST 3202 - [The U.S. Supreme Court and Crime] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3202 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
D. Chutkow.
For description, see GOVT 3202 . (GP)
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AMST 3210 - [America’s Multicultural Origins to 1754] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3210 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. B. Norton.
For description, see HIST 3210 . (HI)
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AMST 3230 - American Economic History I (crosslisted)
(also ECON 3230 ) (HB) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: ECON 1110 –ECON 1120 or equivalent.
T. Lyons.
For description, see ECON 3230 . (ASE)
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AMST 3240 - Varieties of American Dissent, 1880 - 1990 (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3240 , ILRLR 3042 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
N. Salvatore.
The idea of dissent in American society raises a variety of images. Civil rights activists, striking workers, and student radicals of the 1960s are familiar enough symbols of dissent. But might we understand a Pentecostal believer, filled with the spirit of his or her God in critiquing contemporary society, as an example of American dissent? This course explores the varieties of economic, political, and cultural dissent in American between 1880 and 1990, and examines how understanding dissent in its specific historical context illuminates major aspects of American life and culture. (HI)
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AMST 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3241 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Mettler.
For description, see GOVT 3241 . (GP)
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AMST 3250 - [Age of the American Revolution, 1754 - 1815] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3250 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. B. Norton.
For description, see HIST 3250 . (HI)
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AMST 3281 - [Constitutional Politics: The U.S. Supreme Court] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3281 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
D. Chutkow.
For description, see GOVT 3281 . (GP)
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AMST 3303 - [Discovering Hip-Hop: Research and the Cornell Hip-Hop Collection] (crosslisted)
(also MUSIC 3303 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 3 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Permission of instructor required. Limited to 15 students.
S. Pond.
For description, see MUSIC 3303 . (MV)
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AMST 3304 - African American History: From the Age of B. T. Washington to the Age of Barack Obama (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 3304 , HIST 3304 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
R. Harris.
For description, see ASRC 3304 . (HI)
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AMST 3310 - [Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3310 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015.
E. Baptist.
For description, see HIST 3310 .
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AMST 3330 - Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge (crosslisted)
(also AIS 3330 , NTRES 3330 ) (KCM-AS)
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Enrollment limited to: juniors, seniors, or graduate students. Co-meets with NTRES 6330 .
K-A. S. Kassam.
For description and learning objectives, see NTRES 3330 .
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AMST 3360 - American Drama and Theatre (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3360 , PMA 3757 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
J. E. Gainor.
For description, see PMA 3757 . (MV)
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AMST 3370 - [Contemporary American Theatre] (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3370 , FGSS 3370 , PMA 3758 ) (LA-AS)
4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Limited to 15 students.
S. Warner.
For description, see PMA 3758 . (LT)
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AMST 3400 - [Recent American History, 1925 - 1965] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3400 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
Staff.
For description, see HIST 3400 .
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AMST 3430 - History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3430 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Staff.
For description, see HIST 3430 . (HI)
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AMST 3431 - [Obama and Lincoln] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3431 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
E. Baptist.
For description, see HIST 3431 . (HI)
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AMST 3440 - [American Film Melodrama] (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3641 , FGSS 3450 , PMA 3440 , VISST 3645 ) (LA-AS)
4 credits.
Recommended: some background in film analysis. Offered alternate years. Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Haenni.
For description, see PMA 3440 .
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AMST 3450 - [Cultural and Intellectual Life of Nineteenth Century Americans] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3450 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
A. Sachs.
For description, see HIST 3450 . (HI)
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AMST 3451 - Cultural and Intellectual Life of 20th Century Americans (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3451 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
A. Sachs.
For description, see HIST 3451 . (HI)
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AMST 3470 - [Asian American Women’s History] (crosslisted)
(also AAS 3470 , FGSS 3470 , HIST 3470 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
D. Chang.
For description, see HIST 3470 .
(HI)
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AMST 3480 - [Film Noir] (crosslisted)
(also PMA 3460 , VISST 3146 ) (LA-AS)
4 credits.
Recommended prerequisite: some course work in film. Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Haenni.
Focuses on Hollywood films of the 1940s–1950s known for their stylishness and commentary on the dark side of American life, and on “neo-noir” from the 1970s to the present. (LT)
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AMST 3549 - Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3549 , ILRIC 3349 , SOC 3540 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
P. Katzenstein.
For description, see GOVT 3549 .
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AMST 3560 - Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 3550 , FGSS 3540 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
N. Rooks.
For description, see ASRC 3550 .
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AMST 3605 - U.S. Art from FDR to Reagan (crosslisted)
(also ARTH 3605 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Bernstock.
For description, see ARTH 3605 . (MV)
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AMST 3610 - U.S. Literature: Emerson to Melville (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3610 ) (HB) (LA-AS)
4 credits.
D. Fried.
For description, see ENGL 3610 . (LT)
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AMST 3612 - Colonial American Literatures (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3612 ) (HB) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
E. Cheyfitz.
For description, see ENGL 3612 .
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AMST 3635 - Human Rights and Global Justice (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3635 ) (HB) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
A. M. Smith.
For description, see GOVT 3635 . (GP)
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AMST 3655 - [Politics and Literature] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3655 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Frank.
For description, see GOVT 3655 . (GP)
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AMST 3665 - American Political Thought from Madison to Malcolm X (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3665 , HIST 3160 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
I. Kramnick.
For description, see GOVT 3665 (GP)
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AMST 3720 - Food, Gender, and Culture (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3721 , FGSS 3720 ) (LA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
K. McCullough.
For description, see FGSS 3720 . (LT)
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AMST 3730 - American Modernism and Popular Culture (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 3735 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
G. Hutchinson.
For description, see ENGL 3735 .
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AMST 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3735 ) (HB) (KCM-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Frank.
For description, see GOVT 3735 .
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AMST 3740 - Painting Nineteenth Century America (crosslisted)
(also ARTH 3740 , VISST 3740 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Recommended prerequisite: ARTH 2400 .
L. L. Meixner.
For description, see ARTH 3740 . (MV)
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AMST 3762 - [Law, Latin@s, Illegality] (crosslisted)
(also ANTHR 3762 , LSP 3762 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015.
V. Santiago-Irizarry.
For description, see ANTHR 3762 .
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AMST 3777 - The United States (crosslisted)
(also ANTHR 3777 , LSP 3777 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
V. Santiago-Irizarry.
For description, see ANTHR 3777 . (ASE)
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AMST 3812 - [Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles] (crosslisted)
(also ARCH 3812 , PMA 3441 , VISST 3812 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 3 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Haenni, M. Woods.
Anchoring the east and west coasts, New York and Los Angeles have been celebrated and excoriated in films. On the edge literally and metaphorically, these cities seem to be about competing visions of urban form, culture, and modernity. And the iconic forms of New York (tenements and skyscrapers) and of Los Angeles (highways and suburban homes) have fascinated film makers from the 19th century to the present day. We will both evoke and complicate the contrast between New York and Los Angeles by mapping the intersections of each city with cinema. We explore how the urban experience has been said to give rise to particular cinematic forms and the ways in which cinematic styles may be translated into urban design. Topics may include density and sprawl; place and creativity; class and ethnicity; race and gender; culture and commercialism; industrial and media economies; and insularism and cosmopolitanism. Screenings will include documentary, experimental, and commercial films and cover such genres as early actualities, city symphonies, film noir, science fiction, etc. Readings will be drawn from theories and histories of film, urbanism, and architecture. Possible field trips. (MV)
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AMST 3830 - Latinos in U.S. History (crosslisted)
(also HIST 3800 , LSP 3800 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
M. C. Garcia.
For description, see HIST 3800 . (HI)
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AMST 3870 - The History of Consumption: From Wedgewood to Wal-Mart (crosslisted)
(also ILRLR 3870 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
L. Hyman.
For description, please see ILRLR 3870 .
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AMST 3911 - [Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 3091 , STS 3911 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
S. Hilgartner.
For description, see STS 3911 . (GP)
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AMST 3930 - International Film of the 1970s (crosslisted)
(also PMA 3530 , VISST 3930 ) (LA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
S. Haenni.
For description, see PMA 3530 . (LT)
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AMST 4032 - [Immigration and Politics Research Seminar] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4032 , LSP 4032 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Jones-Correa.
For description, see GOVT 4032 .
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AMST 4041 - [American Political Development in the Twentieth Century] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4041 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with AMST 6121 /GOVT 6121 .
E. Sanders.
For description, see GOVT 4041 .
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AMST 4061 - [Politics of Slow-Moving Crisis] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4061 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Jones-Correa.
For description, see GOVT 4061 .
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AMST 4122 - [Immigrants in New Destinations: Settlement, Integration, Backlash] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4122 , LSP 4122 )
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Jones-Correa.
For description, see GOVT 4122 .
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AMST 4142 - [Causes and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4142 ) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with AMST 6142 /GOVT 6142 .
E. Sanders.
For description, see GOVT 4142 . (GP)
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AMST 4211 - [Seminar on the American Revolution] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 4211 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with AMST 6261 /HIST 6261 .
M. B. Norton.
For description, see HIST 4211 .
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AMST 4231 - [The 1960s: Conceptualizing the Future from the Past] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4231 ) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Kirshner and T. Lowi.
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AMST 4241 - [Contemporary American Politics] (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4241 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with AMST 6291 /GOVT 6291 .
M. Shefter.
For description, see GOVT 4241 .
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AMST 4260 - [The West and Beyond: Frontiers and Borders in American History and Culture] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 4260 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Priority given to junior and senior majors in History and American Studies.
A. Sachs.
For description, see HIST 4260 . (HI)
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AMST 4261 - [Commodification and Consumerism in Historical Perspective: Sex, Rugs, Salt, and Coal] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 4261 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014. Priority to Juniors and Seniors majoring in History or American Studies.
A. Sachs.
For description, see HIST 4261 . (HI)
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AMST 4281 - Government and Public Policy: An Introduction to Analysis and Criticism (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4281 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with AMST 6281 /GOVT 7281 .
T. Lowi.
For description, see GOVT 4281 .
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AMST 4300 - [The Milman Seminar]
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Permission of instructor required.
G. C. Altschuler.
The Milman Seminar: Baseball in American Culture. Through a reading of fiction and nonfiction, we examine the role of baseball as it has shaped and reflected the attitudes and values of Americans. (Novels assigned in the course include Bernard Malamud, The Natural; Mark Harris, Bang the Drums Slowly; Philip Roth, The Great American Novel; and Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association. Non-fiction works may include Neil Lanctot, Negro League Baseball, Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer, and Andrew Zimbalist, Baseball and Billions. Each student in the course writes a 25- to 35-page research paper.) (HI)
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AMST 4301 - The Rabinor Seminar
Fall. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with ARTH 4107 /VISST 4607 .
C. Finley.
Topic: The Museum and the Object.
The Rabinor Seminar explores the role of diversity in the formation of a distinct American tapestry. The specific topic varies each year, but the general subject is the promise and experience of pluralism.
This semester, we will focus on the social, economic and cultural challenges of the American art museum in the twenty-first century. Taking advantage of the recent expansion of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, advanced students will have the opportunity to work directly with curatorial specialists and original works of art from the museum’s wide ranging collection of objects from across cultures and centuries. Of special focus will be the newly created Visible Storage Gallery, which enables viewing and comparison of objects from diverse cultures and media in situ. Sessions focus on art and material culture analysis by questioning the ways quality, function and meaning is determined in works of art – all important considerations in the constitution of a diverse American art collection. Topics include methods of attribution, cultural patrimony, fakes and forgeries, techniques and media, restoration and conservation, art education and theories of perception. Session leaders include the curatorial staff of the art museum. (MV)
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AMST 4305 - The Postmodern Presidency: Election 2012 (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4051 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required.
D. Rubenstein.
One of the significant features of the postmodern presidency is the slippage between presidential fact and presidential fiction. In the wake of the 2012 election, we will examine both the critical literature which address this phenomenon as well as works of contemporary fiction, television and cinema that imagine the lives of presidents, first ladies and significant events such as Watergate and the Kennedy Assassination. What is the relation between presidential fact and fiction? What are its implications for democratic practice? Is the “reality” or “truth” of contemporary American presidential politics better served in a fictional mode? (GP)
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AMST 4306 - Art and Social Histories (crosslisted)
(also ARTH 4761 , VISST 4761 ) (CA-AS)
Fall, spring. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Not open to freshmen. Co-meets with AMST 6761 /ARTH 6761 . Auditing not permitted.
L. L. Meixner.
For description, see ARTH 4761 .
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AMST 4313 - The Beautiful Struggle: Radical Aesthetics and Politics (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 4313 )
Fall. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required.
B. Maxwell.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.
The course will begin from the declaration made by Martin Luther King, Jr. that the struggle for a new world, inevitably political, is also beautiful, that is, that it is involved with aesthetics. “The struggle is beautiful, I’m too strong for your slavery,” raps Talib Kweli, thirty-seven years after King’s speech. What did King mean, and what have others in American culture meant, when they invoked beauty and struggle in the same breath? What have the arts and radical politics had to do with each other? When have radical politics and experimental aesthetics needed each other? We will work with all forms of the arts; discussion will figure heavily in this effort; political and aesthetic theory will surface regularly. (LT)
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AMST 4391 - [Writing Women’s Lives] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 4391 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Washington.
For description, see HIST 4391 .
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AMST 4392 - [Diversity and Civil Disobedience] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 4392 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Washington.
For description, see HIST 4392 .
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AMST 4435 - Education, Social Justice, and the Law (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 4435 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with AMST 6635 /GOVT 6635 .
A.M. Smith.
For description, see GOVT 4435 .
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