Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2854 |
AMST-203-01 |
Conflcts & Cultures Am Society |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hussain,Shaznene |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2838 |
AMST-265-01 |
Thinking with Things |
1.00 |
LEC |
Guzman,Amanda J. |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: ANTH-265-01 |
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Our relationship to and interaction with things is a defining feature of the human experience. To think with things is to use objects as the primary lens of analysis. This course explores a range of object case-studies and the unique questions they present for understanding American history and contemporary society. The course centers on close-looking or building interpretations from direct material observation. Students work hands-on with objects spanning from historical texts to folk art and souvenir material to contemporary art and digital media. Object case-studies draw from diverse representations including cultural heritage debates in museums and portrayals of cultural identity performance in popular media. Students will learn to critically examine and discuss the many materials that make up our world. |
| 2275 |
AMST-301-01 |
AmStud Seminar |
1.00 |
SEM |
Camp,Jordan T. |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
|
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course, required for American Studies majors and ordinarily taken in the sophomore or junior year, examines central methods in the field. Situated on a theme, such as race or popular culture, seminar participants engage in archival, spatial, public humanities, and transnational approaches to the American experience. |
| 2855 |
AMST-324-01 |
Gender and Global Politics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Staff,Trinity |
R: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HRST-324-01 |
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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. |
| 2436 |
AMST-327-01 |
Racial Capitalism |
1.00 |
LEC |
Camp,Jordan T. |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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HUIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course introduces students to critical theories of racial and class formation. Students will trace how modern racial and labor regimes came into being and how they have changed over time and across spaces of uneven development. In turn, students will explore contemporary public and scholarly debates about the relationships between racism, capitalism, populism, and new forms of urban militarism. Through readings by key theorists in American Studies, geography, political economy, and urban studies, students will interrogate new and evolving theories of racial capitalism. Course discussions will explore how critiques of racial capitalism have emerged out of Black freedom, anticolonial, labor, feminist, and urban social movements. Throughout the course, we will screen films and engage primary sources that inform these debates. By the end of the course, students will be able to define and describe the relationships between racism, capitalism, accumulation, dispossession, urbanization, and the state's regulation of gender and sexuality. |
| 2517 |
AMST-349-01 |
Global Migration/Refugee Lab |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain,Shaznene
Alic,Erna |
F: 2:00PM-3:30PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL |
Cross-listing: HRST-349-01 |
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Provides an experiential-based introduction to the practical challenges of
refugee and immigrant resettlement and integration and to the development
of effective policies and implementation strategies to address them. Students
will be placed with a community-based organization working with
immigrants and refugees 10-12 hours a week and attend (weekly or
biweekly) seminar class meetings to integrate their onsite learning
experience and responsibilities with discussions of assigned readings and
relevant concepts in participatory action research and diaspora studies. Seminar meetings will be organized around enrolled students' existing class schedules. |
| 1117 |
AMST-399-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. |
| 2424 |
AMST-406-01 |
Slavery and Trinity |
1.00 |
SEM |
Gac,Scott |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HIST-397-01 |
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How long do the reverberations of slavery last, and how far do they travel? While debates on the memory and legacy of slavery take the national stage, colleges and universities are reckoning with how their own histories of slavery and exploitation may have shaped their pasts and presents. It is Trinity's turn for an honest accounting. Recent scholarship emphasizes slavery's many facets and its far-reaching tendrils. In this course, students will discover Trinity's and Hartford's place in slavery's vast social, cultural, economic, and political networks. Combining archival research and public humanities, we will create projects and archives commemorating Trinity's past, which our community will be able to use as we plot a course for a more equitable future. This course meets the Archival method requirement. |
| 2313 |
AMST-407-01 |
Interdisc Capstone Colloquium |
1.00 |
SEM |
Wickman,Thomas M. |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course guides and supports American Studies majors, as well as interested students in other interdisciplinary programs, as they complete original research and writing for their capstone project (this can be a 1 or 2 semester project). Students will workshop drafts of their writing throughout the semester. With the guidance of the instructor, they will refine their argumentation within the parameters of their interdisciplinary method. We will balance the use of secondary research, theoretical framing, presentation of evidence, and textual analysis. We will support, think with, and learn from one another as each student completes their project. Approval of the instructor and project's advisor are required. Final grade will be determined by the advisor. |
| 1118 |
AMST-466-01 |
Teaching Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |
| 1119 |
AMST-490-01 |
Research Assistantship |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor. |
| 2150 |
AMST-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. |
| 1189 |
AMST-894-01 |
Museums and Communities Intern |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Matriculated American studies students have the opportunity to engage in an internship at an area museum or archive for credit toward the American studies degree. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information. |
| 1190 |
AMST-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
|
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser and program director. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 1100 |
AMST-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Under the guidance of a faculty member, graduate students may do an independent research project on a topic in American studies. Written approval of the graduate adviser and the program director are required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 1101 |
AMST-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) |
| 1103 |
AMST-955-01 |
Thesis Part II |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(Continuation of American Studies 954.) |
| 1182 |
AMST-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(Completion of two course credits in one semester). |