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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Summer 2024 (ALL: 05/20/2024 - 07/26/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist	Qtr
1011	AMST-298-90	Intro to HipHop Music & Cult	1.00	LEC	Conway,Nicholas J.	MW: 6:00PM-9:15PM	N/A	HUM	Q1
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: Remote
		This course will examine the evolution of hip hop music and culture (Graffiti art, B-boying [break-dancing], DJ-ing, and MC-ing) from its birth in 1970s New York to its global and commercial explosion during the late 1990s. Students learn to think critically about both hip hop culture, and about the historical, commercial, and political contexts in which hip hop culture took, and continues to take, shape. Particular attention is paid to questions of race, masculinity, authenticity, consumption, commodification, globalization, and good, old-fashioned funkiness.
1039	AMST-324-90	Gender and Global Politics	1.00	SEM	Hussain,Fathima S.	TR: 2:00PM-5:15PM	N/A	SOC	Q1
		Enrollment limited to 18		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: Remote
						Cross-listing: POLS-323-90
		This course will examine gender roles and relations of power in international and transnational politics. The course focuses on the constructions of gender difference, experiences of women and LGBTQ+ people, as well as efforts to transform uneven or unjust gendered relations of power in global politics. We will further consider how gender, in combination with constructs of race, class, sexuality, nationality, and citizenship, serves as a basis for political organization, the distribution of power and resources, and participation in global politics. Topics covered will include conflict, security, economic globalization, labor, migration, environment, human rights, humanitarian intervention, nation-building, and transnational justice.
1012	AMST-329-90	Viewing The Wire	1.00	SEM	Conway,Nicholas J.	TR: 6:00PM-9:15PM	N/A	HUM	Q2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: Remote
		Also cross-referenced with FILM
		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.
1040	AMST-422-90	19thC War Colonialism Capital	1.00	SEM	Nebolon,Juliet M.	MW: 2:00PM-5:15PM	N/A	GLB2	Q1
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: Remote
		How might we consider US wars of the nineteenth century - including the Civil War, the Mexican-American War, and the Philippine-American War - as intertwined with histories of settler colonialism, slavery, capitalism, and overseas empire? Experiences of war impacted Indigenous, Black, and immigrant civilians and soldiers in the US continent and overseas. As the abolition of slavery led to new forms of racialized labor exploitation and innovations in industry contributed to US militarization and westward expansion, laborers negotiated and resisted changing capitalist systems. Wars over territory invented and shifted borderlands, leading Indigenous and immigrant communities to realign national and tribal identifications in the face of new regimes of racialization. We will consider these themes by reading in American studies, Critical Ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, and US history.
1034	AMST-839-90	Evolution of the Western Film	1.00	LEC	Younger,James P.	TR: 6:00PM-9:15PM	N/A	HUM	Q2
		Enrollment limited to 2		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: Remote
						Cross-listing: ENGL-339-90, ENGL-839-90
		The course examines how the Western genre emerged from global popular culture at the end of the 19th century to become one of the most powerful and complex forms for expressing the experience of Modernity. After a careful consideration of the political and philosophical implications of the Western, we will track the development of the genre as it responds to the ideological contradictions and cultural tensions of 20th-century American history, focusing on broad trends within the mainstream, the contributions of individual directors, and the global dissemination of generic elements.
1037	AMST-871-90	Civil War Afterimage	1.00	SEM	Hager,Christopher	MW: 6:00PM-9:15PM	N/A	HUM	Q1
		Enrollment limited to 2		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: Remote
						Cross-listing: ENGL-371-90, ENGL-871-90
		More than 150 years after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, the United States is plainly still engaged in some of that era’s conflicts. This course examines representations of the historical event known as the Civil War and the enduring controversies its memory provokes. By studying works by twenty-first century writers and artists, students in this course will consider how—and to what ends—the memory of the Civil War has been fashioned, revised, and invoked by Americans of our own time. In addition to reading an array of literary texts, students will develop individual research projects and examine other registers of public memory, including war memorials, historic sites, museum exhibits, and popular culture.