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Course Info for AMST - 203 - 02, Fall 2025
Class number: 3297 Title: Conflcts & Cultures Am Society Department: American Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 16 Available seats: 3
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, MC - 102 Instructor(s): Nebolon, Juliet
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities & Identity Power Equity Req
Note: 16 seats reserved for first year students, 3 for sophomores.
Note: AMST majors: if you are a rising junior or senior and have not yet taken AMST 203, please contact the professor to be enrolled in this course.
Course Description:
This course introduces the key questions, frameworks, and methodologies of American Studies through the lens of a specific decade in US history. How have dynamics of race, gender, and class formed in relation to one another, and how did they intersect during this decade? How have Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples in the United States negotiated and resisted these dynamics via social movements and cultural production? Topics of study may include: slavery, colonialism, immigration, gender and sexuality, capitalism, and war. Students explore these themes through primary and cultural texts such as literature, film, popular culture, and political documents. Together, we study this decade with the understanding that these histories did not begin or end during this period; rather, they continue to structure American society today.