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AMST—American Studies
  

  • AMST 2615 - [Orange is the New Black]

    (crosslisted) PAM 2610 , SOC 2610  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    C. Wildeman.

    For description, see PAM 2610 .

  

  • AMST 2620 - Introduction to Asian American Literature

    (crosslisted) AAS 2620 , ENGL 2620  
    (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Wong.

    For description, see ENGL 2620 .

  

  • AMST 2621 - Gendering Religion, Science and Technology

    (crosslisted) FGSS 2621 , STS 2621  
    (KCM-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    C. Rock-Singer.

    For description, see STS 2621 .

  

  • AMST 2640 - Introduction to Asian American History

    (crosslisted) AAS 2130 , HIST 2640  
    (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    D. Chang.

    For description, see HIST 2640 .

  

  • AMST 2655 - Latinos in the United States

    (crosslisted) DSOC 2650 , LSP 2010 , SOC 2650  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 3-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    H. Velez.

    For description, see SOC 2650 .

  

  • AMST 2660 - Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History

    (crosslisted) AIIS 2660 , HIST 2660  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Parmenter.

    For description, see HIST 2660 .

  

  • AMST 2664 - What’s Colonial About Early America?

    (crosslisted) HIST 2664  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Parmenter.

    For descrition see HIST 2664 .

  

  • AMST 2665 - [The American Revolutionary Era]

    (crosslisted) HIST 2665  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    J. Parmenter.

    For description see HIST 2665 .

  

  • AMST 2680 - Culture and Politics of the 1960s

    (crosslisted) ENGL 2680  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    P. Sawyer.

    For description, see ENGL 2680 .

  

  • AMST 2682 - The United States in the 1960s and 1970s

    (Crosslisted) HIST 2680  
    (HA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Kohler-Hausmann.

    For description, see HIST 2680 .

  
  

  • AMST 2726 - Culture and Identity in Modern America: The 19th Century

    (crosslisted) HIST 2726  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    A. Sachs.

    For description see HIST 2726 .

  

  • AMST 2735 - Children’s Literature

    (crosslisted) ENGL 2730  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. P. Brady.

    For description, see ENGL 2730 .

  

  • AMST 2760 - [American Cinema]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 2761 , PMA 2560 , VISST 2300  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Each student must enroll in a section and attend one screening per week.

    S. Haenni.

    From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present moment, movies – and in particular Hollywood – have profoundly influenced the ways in which people see, think and talk about the world. Focusing mostly on Hollywood film, this course introduces the study of American cinema from multiple perspectives: as an economy and mode of 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 major American genres (e.g. science fiction, film noir, the musical) and directors (e.g. Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarantino).

  

  • AMST 2770 - Representing Racial Encounters/Encountering Racial Representations

    (crosslisted) ASRC 2770 , ENGL 2770 , LSP 2770  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Diaz, M. Ngugi.

    For description, see ENGL 2770 .

  

  • AMST 2800 - [Latinos in US History]

    (crosslisted) HIST 2800 , LSP 2800  
    (HA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Garcia.

    For description see HIST 2800 .

  

  • AMST 2817 - America Confronts the World

    (crosslisted) GOVT 2817  
    (GB) (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    P. Katzenstein.

    For description, see GOVT 2817 .

  

  • AMST 2910 - [It’s All Chinese to Me]

    (crosslisted) AAS 2910 , ENGL 2910  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Wong.

    For description, see AAS 2910 .

  
  

  • AMST 3001 - [Constitutional Law and U.S. Politics]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3001  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Margulies.

    For description, see GOVT 3001 .

  

  • AMST 3002 - [Civil Rights and Civil Liberties]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3002  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Margulies.

    For description, see GOVT 3002 .

  

  • AMST 3010 - [Photography and the American Dream]

    (crosslisted) ART 3810 , ARTH 3010 , VISST 3010  
    (CA-AS)      

    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    W. Gaskins.

    Who are ‘the poor’ in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United States at this point in its history? What role does photography play in our understanding and misunderstanding of poverty in ‘the greatest country in the world?’ In this course we will explore the perceptions of poverty in the United States through three major American newspapers.

    In this course students will explore the myths and realities of ‘The American Dream’ through an analysis of photojournalistic coverage of poverty that appear in contemporary editions of The New York Times, The New York Daily News and The New York Post. Moreover, the course will consider key moments in the reportage of poverty in the United States through television, cinema, magazines, politics and popular culture. Through the collection of the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Libraries and other primary sources of visual culture, the course will engage with the complexities and contradictions of poverty in the United States. The capstone of this course will be a public exhibition and discussion of the visual and editorial content of the newspapers, and the connections between editorial photography, public policy and opinion, and how their conclusions can possibly inform solutions to the issue of poverty in America.

  

  • AMST 3012 - [The Politics of Poverty in the U.S.]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3012  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. Michener.

    For description, see GOVT 3012 .

  

  • AMST 3021 - Social Movements in American Politics

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3021  
    (HA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Sanders.

    For description, see GOVT 3021 .

  

  • AMST 3032 - Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1776-1900

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3031 , HIST 3031  
    (GHB) (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Washington.

    For description, see HIST 3031 .

  

  • AMST 3035 - Seminar in American Literature: Beginnings to the Civil War

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3030  
    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Samuels.

    For description, see ENGL 3030 .

  

  • AMST 3065 - Immigrant America: Race and Citizenship in Modern Working-Class History

    (crosslisted) ILRLR 3065 , LATA 3065 , LSP 3065  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    V. Martinez-Matsuda.

    For description, see ILRLR 3065 .

  

  • AMST 3082 - American Political Campaigns

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3082  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    A. Levine.

    For description, see GOVT 3082 .

  

  • AMST 3128 - America’s Changing Faces

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3128  
         
    Summer. 1 credit. Student option grading.

    Offered in Washington, D.C.

    S. Jackson.

    For description, see GOVT 3128 .

  

  • AMST 3131 - The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3131 , LAW 4131  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: undergraduate students.

    D. M. Chutkow.

    For description, see LAW 4131 .

  

  • AMST 3140 - U.S. in the World

    (crosslisted) CAPS 3140 , HIST 3140  
    (HA-AS)      
    Spring (not offered every year), summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Offered in Washington, D.C. in summer.

    Spring, P. VonEschen; summer, staff.

    For description, see HIST 3140 .

  

  • AMST 3141 - Prisons

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3141  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall, winter, summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Fall, J. Margulies; winter and summer, M. Katzenstein.

    For description, see GOVT 3141 .

  

  • AMST 3142 - Incarceration, Policy Response, and Self-Reflection

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3142  
    (SBA-AS when taken for 3 or 4 credits)      
    Fall, Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    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.

    P. Sawyer, R. Scott.

    For description, see GOVT 3142 .

  

  • AMST 3161 - [The American Presidency]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3161  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Sanders.

    For description, see GOVT 3161  .

  

  • AMST 3171 - [Campaigns and Elections]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3171  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Summer. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    I. Waismel-Manor.

    For description, see GOVT 3171 .

  

  • AMST 3185 - Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk

    (crosslisted) BSOC 3181 , HIST 3181 , STS 3181  
    (HA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    R. Slayton.

    For description, see STS 3181 .

  
  

  • AMST 3230 - American Economic History I

    (crosslisted) ECON 3310  
    (HB) (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: ECON 1110 -ECON 1120  or equivalent.

    T. Lyons.

    For description, see ECON 3310 .

  

  • AMST 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3241  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Mettler.

    For description, see GOVT 3241 .

  
  

  • AMST 3281 - Constitutional Politics: The U.S. Supreme Court

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3281 , LAW 3281  
    (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: undergraduates only.

    D. Chutkow.

    For description, see LAW 3281 .

  

  • AMST 3310 - [Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860]

    (crosslisted) HIST 3310  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Baptist.

    For description, see HIST 3310 .

  

  • AMST 3330 - Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

    (crosslisted) AIIS 3330 , NTRES 3330  
    (KCM-AS) (CU-CEL, CU-ITL, CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 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 outcomes, see NTRES 3330 .

  

  • AMST 3331 - America through Russian Eyes

    (crosslisted) COML 3330 , RUSSL 3330  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    G. Shapiro.

    For description, see RUSSL 3330 .

  

  • AMST 3360 - American Drama and Theatre

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3360 , PMA 3757  
    (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    S. Warner.

    For description, see PMA 3757 .

  

  • AMST 3380 - [Urban Inequality]

    (crosslisted) SOC 3380  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Enrollment limited to: 20 students.

    K. Bischoff.

    For description, see SOC 3380 .

  

  • AMST 3405 - Multicultural Issues in Education

    (crosslisted) ANTHR 3405 , EDUC 3405 , LSP 3405  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    S. Villenas.

    For description, see ANTHR 3405 .

  

  • AMST 3420 - Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice

    (crosslisted) FGSS 3400 , GOVT 3401  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    J. Juffer.

    For description, see FGSS 3400 .

  

  • AMST 3430 - [History of the Civil War and Reconstruction]

    (crosslisted) HIST 3430  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Baptist.

    For description, see HIST 3430 .

  

  • AMST 3451 - [Culture and Identity in Modern America: The 20th Century]

    (crosslisted) HIST 3451  
    (HA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    A. Sachs.

    For description, see HIST 3451 .

  

  • AMST 3461 - Introduction to African American Cinema

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3999 , PMA 3461 , VISST 3461  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    S. Sheppard.

    For description, see PMA 3461 .

  

  • AMST 3470 - [Asian American Women’s History]

    (crosslisted) AAS 3470 , FGSS 3470 , HIST 3470  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    D. Chang.

    For description, see HIST 3470 .

  

  • AMST 3475 - Nueva York: Caribbean Urbanisms

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3470 , LATA 3470 , LSP 3470 , SPAN 3470  
    (CA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 2180 , or permission of instructor.

    S. McDaniel.

    For description, see SPAN 3470 .

  
  

  • AMST 3525 - [Twentieth Century American Poetry]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3525  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    G. Hutchinson.

    For description, see ENGL 3525 .

  

  • AMST 3533 - Screen and Story: Script Analysis

    (crosslisted) PMA 3533 
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    A. Bunn.

    For description, see PMA 3533 .

  

  • AMST 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3549 , ILRIC 3349 , SOC 3540  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    P. Katzenstein.

    For description, see GOVT 3549 .

  

  • AMST 3560 - Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3550 , FGSS 3540  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    N. Rooks.

    For description, see ASRC 3550 .

  

  • AMST 3562 - Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies

    (crosslisted) AIIS 3560 , ENGL 3560  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Cheyfitz.

    For description, see ENGL 3560 .

  

  • AMST 3580 - [Twentieth Century Women Writers of Color in the Americas]

    (crosslisted) AAS 3580 , ENGL 3580 , FGSS 3581  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Wong.

    For description, see ENGL 3580 .

  

  • AMST 3581 - [Imagining Migration in Film and Literature]

    (crosslisted) COML 3580 , GERST 3581 , PMA 3481 , VISST 3581  
    (CA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Taught in English.

    L. Adelson, S. Haenni.

    For description, see GERST 3581 .

  

  • AMST 3585 - [Feminist Literary Traditions]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3585 , FGSS 3585  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    K. McCullough.

    For description, see ENGL 3585 .

  

  • AMST 3590 - The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S.

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3590 , HIST 3590  
    (HA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    R. Rickford.

    For description, see HIST 3590 .

  

  • AMST 3612 - [Capitalism and Colonialism in Early American Literature]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3612  
    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Cheyfitz.

    For description, see ENGL 3612 .

  

  • AMST 3655 - [Politics and Literature]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3655  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    J. Frank.

    For description, see GOVT 3655 .

  

  • AMST 3661 - Reading the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3660  
    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Samuels.

    For description, see ENGL 3660 .

  

  • AMST 3670 - [Modern American Fiction]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3670  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    P. Sawyer.

    For description, see ENGL 3670 .

  

  • AMST 3675 - The Environmental Imagination in American Literature

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3675  
    (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    G. Hutchinson.

    For description, see ENGL 3675 .

  

  • AMST 3678 - [Democracy and its Discontents]

    (crosslisted) CLASS 3675 , GOVT 3675  
    (HB) (HA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    A. Livingston.

    For description, see GOVT 3675 .

  

  • AMST 3680 - Telling to Live: Critical Examinations of Testimonio

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3680 , FGSS 3681 , LATA 3681 , LSP 3680  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Diaz.

    For description, see ENGL 3680 .

  

  • AMST 3685 - [Growing Up Latina/o]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3685 , FGSS 3685 , LSP 3685  
    (CA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. P. Brady.

    For description, see ENGL 3685 .

  

  • AMST 3690 - The Race and Gender of Poverty in Literature and Film

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3690 , FGSS 3691  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Cheyfitz.

    For description, see ENGL 3690 .

  

  • AMST 3703 - Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective

    (crosslisted) AAS 3030 , ANTHR 3703  
    (HB) (CA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    V. Munasinghe.

    For description, see ANTHR 3703 .

  

  • AMST 3720 - [Food, Gender, and Culture]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3721 , FGSS 3720  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    K. McCullough.

    For description, see FGSS 3720 .

  

  • AMST 3732 - [Africans and African Americans in Literature]

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3742 , ENGL 3742  
    (CA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Ngugi.

    For description, see ENGL 3742 .

  

  • AMST 3733 - [Culinary Fictions, Literary Cuisines]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3733 , FGSS 3733  
    (CA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    K. McCullough.

    For description, see FGSS 3733 .

  

  • AMST 3735 - [Political Freedom]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3735  
    (HB) (KCM-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    J. A. Frank.

    For description, see GOVT 3735 .

  

  • AMST 3744 - America Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

    (crosslisted) HIST 3740  
    (HA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    L. Glickman.

    For description, see HIST 3740 .

  

  • AMST 3747 - Staging Faith: Contemporary Theatre and Lived Religions

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3947 , FGSS 3747 , PMA 3747 , RELST 3747  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    J. E. Gainor, C. West.

    For description, see PMA 3747 .

  
  

  • AMST 3760 - American Cinema since 1968

    (crosslisted) PMA 3560 , VISST 3760  
    (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Haenni

    In 1968, amongst cultural and political turmoil, the American film industry adopted the ratings system, which helped usher in the kinds of cinema we know today. This course focuses on developments in U.S. cinema since then: its politics, technological and economic transformations, relationship to other media, and changing ways in which people consume it. A main focus will be the aesthetic developments of films themselves: new and changing genres, new visual styles, new ways of storytelling, and ways in which new voices and visions have emerged. Weekly screenings will include mainstream, independent, and documentary films. The course can be taken as a complement to “American Cinema” (AMST 2760) or independently.

  

  • AMST 3762 - [Law, Latina/o, Illegality]

    (crosslisted) ANTHR 3762 , LSP 3762  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    V. Santiago-Irizarry.

    For description, see ANTHR 3762 .

  

  • AMST 3773 - [The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement]

    (crosslisted) ASRC 3773 , ENGL 3773  
    (CA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Crawford.

    For description, see ENGL 3773 .

  

  • AMST 3777 - The United States

    (crosslisted) ANTHR 3777 , LSP 3777  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    V. Santiago-Irizarry.

    For description, see ANTHR 3777 .

  

  • AMST 3785 - Civil Disobedience

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3785  
    (KCM-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    A. Livingston.

    For description, see GOVT 3785 .

  

  • AMST 3809 - [Politics of ‘70s Films]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3809  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    J. Kirshner.

    For description, see GOVT 3809 .

  

  • AMST 3810 - American Architecture and Building I

    (crosslisted) ARCH 3810  
         
    Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1801 , ARCH 1802  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    For description, see ARCH 3810 .

  

  • AMST 3811 - American Architecture and Building II

    (crosslisted) ARCH 3811  
         
    Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1801 , ARCH 1802  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    For description, see ARCH 3811 .

  

  • AMST 3812 - Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles

    (crosslisted) PMA 3441 , VISST 3812  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Co-meets with ARCH 3819 .

    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.

  

  • AMST 3820 - Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

    (crosslisted) COML 3800 , ENGL 3910 , LATA 3800 , SPAN 3800  
    (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Ability to read Spanish desirable but not required; texts not written in English will be available in both translation and the original.

    J. Monroe.

    For description, see COML 3800 .

  

  • AMST 3850 - [Mass Incarceration and Family Life Course]

    (crosslisted) SOC 3850  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    A. Haskins.

    For description see SOC 3850  

  

  • AMST 3870 - The History of Consumption: From Wedgwood to Wal-Mart

    (crosslisted) HIST 3870 , ILRLR 3870  
    (HA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    L. Hyman.

    For description, see ILRLR 3870 .

  

  • AMST 3911 - [Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3091 , STS 3911  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: senior, junior and sophomore students.

    S. Hilgartner.

    For description, see STS 3911 .

  

  • AMST 3980 - Independent Research


         
    Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for independent study, please complete the form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/.

    Staff.

    Affords opportunities for students to carry out independent research under appropriate supervision. Each student is expected to review pertinent literature, prepare a project outline, conduct the research, and prepare a report. Topic and credit hours TBD as arranged between faculty and student.

  

  • AMST 3981 - [Latino/a Popular Culture]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 3980 , LSP 3980  
    (CA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    E. Diaz.

    For description, see ENGL 3980 .

  

  • AMST 3988 - [Democracy, Dictatorships & US Foreign Policy]

    (crosslisted) GOVT 3988  
    (GHB) (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: an introductory course in comparative politics or international relations.

    V. Bunce.

    For description, see GOVT 3988 .

  

  • AMST 3990 - Readings in American Studies


         
    Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for independent study, please complete the form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/.

    Staff.

    Individualized readings for junior and senior students. Topics, requirements, and credit hours will be determined in consultation between the student and the supervising faculty member.

  

  • AMST 4021 - American Conservative Thought

    (crosslisted) GOVT 4021  
    (KCM-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    R. Bensel.

    For description, see GOVT 4021 .

  

  • AMST 4030 - [Poetry in Process]

    (crosslisted) ENGL 4030  
    (LA-AS)      
    Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Co-meets with ENGL 6030 .

    R. Gilbert.

    For description, see ENGL 4030 . (LT)
  

  • AMST 4031 - Social Movements in American Politics: Then and Now

    (crosslisted) GOVT 4031  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    E. Sanders.

    For description, see GOVT 4031 .

 

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