AM 103W: Intro. to American Studies: ADOPTION (4)
Joshua C. Woodfork, TLC 305A, x5027
To study American culture, this semester's version of the Introduction to American Studies class explores adoption. Beginning with U.S. adoption's modern historical roots, adoption serves as the extended case study. Considering notions of family, students probe the law, history, public policy, ethics, gender, race, class, and parenting, while examining transracial, gay, domestic, international, and private versus public adoption.
AM 103W: Intro. to American Studies: ADOPTION (4)
Joshua C. Woodfork, TLC 305A, x5027
To study American culture, this semester's version of the Introduction to American Studies class explores adoption. Beginning with U.S. adoption's modern historical roots, adoption serves as the extended case study. Considering notions of family, students probe the law, history, public policy, ethics, gender, race, class, and parenting, while examining transracial, gay, domestic, international, and private versus public adoption.
AM 201L: American Identities: Pre-1870s -- WITH WORKSHOP ONLY (4)
Gregory M. Pfitzer, TLC 306, x5026
Classic texts and documents in American culture from 1620 to 1877 are examined in depth. The workshop includes additional reading, journal writing, oral presentations, a field trip, and assignments in the American Studies-History Lab. (Fulfills social sciences requirement, designated as a Cultural Diversity course.)
AM 250A: Regional Culture: Hudson River (4)
Gregory M. Pfitzer, TLC 306, x5026
An introduction to the history, literature, and art of the Hudson River Valley. The Hudson River is considered as an environmental entity, an economic and political concern, and especially as a cultural symbol. The course considers four centuries of American experience on the Hudson, but focuses on the nineteenth century, when the Hudson had its greatest influence on regional and national culture.
AM 103W: Intro. to American Studies: ADOPTION (4)
Joshua C. Woodfork, TLC 305A, x5027
To study American culture, this semester's version of the Introduction to American Studies class explores adoption. Beginning with U.S. adoption's modern historical roots, adoption serves as the extended case study. Considering notions of family, students probe the law, history, public policy, ethics, gender, race, class, and parenting, while examining transracial, gay, domestic, international, and private versus public adoption.
AM 103W-001: Intro: Basketball (4)
Daniel A. Nathan, TLC 306, x5023
This course introduces students to different forms of cultural criticism and examines
some recurrent American cultural values and themes, such as the tension between community
and individualism, and the disparity between American ideals and social realities.
it also emphasizes reading critically, thinking historically, practicing interdisciplinarity,
acknowledging diversity, and making connections. Students will analyze and synthesize
many kinds of texts in order to better appreciate the complexity of American life
and culture. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach that melds history,
sociology, journalism, autobiography, fiction, poetry, art, film (feature and documentary),
and other forms of knowledge and expression. (Fulfills expository writing requirement.)
AM 103: Intro: The Civil War in American Memory (4)
Gregory M. Pfitzer, TLC 305A, x5027
This course considers how Americans have remembered and commemorated the Civil War from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on depictions of the war in fiction, film, popular history, television, music, and re-enactors' conventions among other cultural sources, it focuses on how memory and history interact in the popular imagination to shape the cultural legacy of the conflict.