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AMST 1144
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FWS Session.
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Lincoln Hall 117
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Wissoker, P
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AMST 1500
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At the inception of this department at Cornell University in 1969, the ASRC became the birthplace of Africana studies and is now an institution increasingly defining the "new Africana studies." Africana ... view course details
AMST 1581
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This course propels students into the chaos, destruction, and often brutal violence experienced by inhabitants of North America prior to the 20th century. Students will analyze armed conflict ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1581
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Parmenter, J
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- F McGraw Hall 365
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- F Uris Hall G88
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- F Uris Hall 204
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- F McGraw Hall 366
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AMST 1600
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This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the diverse cultures, histories and contemporary situations of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Students will also be introduced to important ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIS 1100
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Caldwell Hall 100
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Nadasdy, P
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- T Kennedy Hall 101
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Nadasdy, P
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- R Plant Science Building 135B
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Nadasdy, P
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- R Kennedy Hall 101
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Nadasdy, P
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AMST 2003
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Creating Contemporary Cornell will examine the history of Cornell from 1945-Present. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the course will address the bureaucratization, politicization, and globalization ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 2002, HIST 2501
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
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Altschuler, G
Kramnick, I
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AMST 2006
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Punk Culture-comprised of music, fashion, literature, and visual arts-represents a complex critical stance of resistance and refusal that coalesced at a particular historical moment in the mid-1970s, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 2006, ENGL 2006, MUSIC 2006
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Lincoln Hall B20
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McEnaney, T
Peraino, J
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- M Lincoln Hall 124
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- M Lincoln Hall 124
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AMST 2030
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This course begins with a look at the philosophies of the first Americans, Native Americans, using the example of the Navajo creation narratives, and then proceeds to read European, African American, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2030
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Statler Hall 291
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Cheyfitz, E
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AMST 2220
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This seminar will explore some of the major political and cultural trends in the United States, from the era of the Democratic New Dealer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through the era of the conservative Republican, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2220
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Stimson Hall 105
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Glickman, L
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AMST 2331
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Surveys the major themes in the development of agriculture and agribusiness in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include particular individuals (e.g., Liberty Hyde Bailey, Luther ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 2331
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MWF Rockefeller Hall 231
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Rossiter, M
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AMST 2640
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An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2130, HIST 2640
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Uris Hall 262
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Lau, C
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AMST 2650
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This course will introduce students to the African American literary tradition. Through aesthetic and contextual approaches, we will consider how African American life and culture has defined and constituted ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2650, ENGL 2650
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 128
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Woubshet, D
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AMST 2675
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This class aims to approach the literature and culture of the Cold War as the birth of the present "Age of Information," as well as the origin of modern notions of privacy that are now being superseded. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2675
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MWF Rockefeller Hall 104
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Braddock, J
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AMST 2710
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This course is a blending of the Sociology of Education and Public Policy. Front and center in this course is the question of why consistent differential educational and economic outcomes exists in American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: AMST 5710, DSOC 2710, DSOC 5710, EDUC 2710, EDUC 5710, SOC 2710, SOC 5710
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Bradfield Hall 101
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Sipple, J
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- M Kennedy Hall 105
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Sipple, J
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- T Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- F Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- F Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- R Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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AMST 3010
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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 ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3010, VISST 3010
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4 Credits Grade(GRV)(Graded (GRV))
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- TR Lincoln Hall 107
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Gaskins, B
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AMST 3020
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Hip Hop Brooklyn. Hipster Brooklyn. Immigrant Brooklyn. Brownstone Brooklyn. While today Brooklyn is New York City's hippest borough and the site of swift gentrification, booming real estate, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3020, ASRC 3020
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr 111
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LaBennett, O
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AMST 3140
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Students examine the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. The course focuses on the domestic sources of foreign policy and the assumptions of the major policy makers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 3140, HIST 3140
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 230
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Geidel, M
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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- W White Hall 110
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- T White Hall 106
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AMST 3230
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Surveys problems in American economic history from the first settlements to early industrialization. NOTE: Formerly ECON 3230. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECON 3310
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
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Lyons, T
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AMST 3281
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This course investigates the United States Supreme Court and its role in politics and government. It traces the development of constitutional doctrine, the growth of the Court's institutional power, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3281, LAW 3281
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall G90
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Chutkow, D
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AMST 3330
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Based on indigenous and local "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes by which ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
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Enrollment limited to: Juniors, seniors, and grad students. Sophomores require permission of instructor (ksk28@cornell.edu).
AMST 3380
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This is a seminar course on urban inequality in the United States. The first half of the semester will be dedicated to understanding the political, historical, and social determinants of inequality in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 3380
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Bischoff, K
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AMST 3450
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An examination of the development of cultural and intellectual diversity in the United States. Topics covered include: slavery and abolition; landscape and environment; religion; Darwinism; professionalization; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 3450
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW White Hall 106
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Sachs, A
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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Staff
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- W McGraw Hall 366
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Staff
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AMST 3470
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This course examines the experiences and representations of Asian American women from the mid-19th century to the present. It explores the lives and contexts of immigrant women and of women born in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3470, FGSS 3470, HIST 3470
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 189
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Lau, C
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AMST 3515
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Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3505, ASRC 3505, FGSS 3505, PMA 3505, VISST 3505
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Finley, C
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AMST 3560
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Using written and visual biographies as a starting point, this class follows African and African American women in the fashion industry to explore perceptions of beauty, race, gender and class. Contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3550, FGSS 3540
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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Rooks, N
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AMST 3605
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Considers the contextual features of American art from the 1930s through the late 1980s. Examines art in relation to contemporary politics, society and literature. A few of the developments on which the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3605
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Bernstock, J
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AMST 3665
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A survey of American political thought from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Particular attention will be devoted to the persistence of liberal individualism in the American tradition. Politicians, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3665, HIST 3160
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Bill and Melinda Gates Hll G01
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Kramnick, I
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FA14 will be the last time that this course is taught by Prof. Kramnick, as he will be retiring in June 2015.
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- T Uris Hall G26
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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- W Stimson Hall 119
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- W White Hall B14
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- R Uris Hall 302
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- R White Hall 104
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AMST 3672
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Visualizing El Barrio immerses students in a semester-long contemplation and class project that integrates artistic praxis with art history and literary studies to document the historical murals of East ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3670, ENGL 3672, LSP 3672, VISST 3670
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Cohen Suarez, A
Diaz, E
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AMST 3703
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The common perception of ethnicity is that it is a "natural" and an inevitable consequence of cultural difference. "Asians" overseas, in particular, have won repute as a people who cling tenaciously to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3030, ANTHR 3703
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Stimson Hall 119
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Munasinghe, V
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AMST 3777
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The anthropological inquiry into one's own culture is never a neutral exercise. This course will explore issues in the cultural construction of the United States as a "pluralistic" society. We will look ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3777, LSP 3777
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR White Hall 110
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Santiago-Irizarry, V
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AMST 3830
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How would our understanding of U.S. History change if we began the national narrative in 16th century New Mexico rather than 17th century Virginia? What does U.S. history look like when examined as hemispheric ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3800, LSP 3800
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Garcia, M
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AMST 3845
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No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3845, ILRLR 3845
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4 Credits Grade(GRV)(Graded (GRV))
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- M Ives Hall 112
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Salvatore, N
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AMST 4021
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American conservative thought rests on assumptions that are strikingly different from those made by mainstream American liberals. However, conservative thinkers are themselves committed to principles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4021
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- F Uris Hall 438
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Bensel, R
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AMST 4039
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This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4390, ASRC 6391, HIST 4390, HIST 6391
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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Washington, M
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AMST 4218
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This course will offer students an opportunity to view the process of shaping national debates from the perspective of the United States Senate. The modern Senate will serve as the point of reference for ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4218, HIST 4030
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- M Washington, DC
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Scott, K
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Taught in Washington, D.C.
AMST 4301
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The Rabinor Seminar explores the role of diversity in the formation of a distinct American tapestry. The specific topic varies each year, but the general subject is the promise and experience ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4620, LSP 4620
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Topic: Chicano/a & US Latino/a Art Stories
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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Diaz, E
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AMST 4404
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Using film, primary documents, literature, art, and secondary sources, this course explores the ten-year period between the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and 1978, when The Supreme Court ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6404, ASRC 4404, ASRC 6404
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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Rooks, N
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AMST 4600
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An American whose life and writing ranged over the globe, Herman Melville (in the estimation of C.L.R. James) "saw the tendency of things." Our study of the fiction and poetry will turn on some of those ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4600
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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Maxwell, B
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AMST 4655
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Topic: Equality Efforts to reduce inequality are central to the pursuit of justice. We will investigate leading philosophical controversies about the moral basis of these efforts. To what extent, in what ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6656, GOVT 4655, GOVT 6656, PHIL 4470, PHIL 6430, SOC 4430, SOC 6430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- R Uris Hall G26
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Miller, R
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AMST 4701
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This seminar examines some of the political and cultural visions of Africa and Africans held by African-American intellectuals and activists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4701, HIST 4701
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Rickford, R
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AMST 4745
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The War. The Bomb. Planetary Consciousness. Film Noir. In one of the most pivotal decades in history, the United States emerged as a superpower and its literature achieved a prestige unmatched before or ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4745
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- R Olin Library 303
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Hutchinson, G
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AMST 4770
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This course examines early American travel literature by and about Native Americans in a comparative perspective. Beginning with Columbus's Diario, we will move sweepingly through to the 1830s, viewing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4770
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall 164
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Pexa, C
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AMST 4805
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In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4270, LGBT 4270, PMA 4805
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 434
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Salvato, N
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AMST 4851
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Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4851, LSP 4851
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Uris Hall 204
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Garcia, M
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AMST 5710
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Examines the goals, roles, inputs, and outcomes of schooling in American society, and the policy environment in which schools operate. Analyzes controversies and tensions (e.g., equity, market forces, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: AMST 2710, DSOC 2710, DSOC 5710, EDUC 2710, EDUC 5710, SOC 2710, SOC 5710
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Bradfield Hall 101
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Sipple, J
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- M Kennedy Hall 105
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Sipple, J
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- T Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- F Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- F Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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- R Academic Surge A 109
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Sipple, J
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AMST 6015
Course Description
This graduate seminar explores the making of photographic archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6015
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- T Johnson Museum Of Art 2L34
Instructors
Finley, C
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AMST 6201
Course Description
The United States Congress will be examined: first, as a "closed system" in which institutional arrangements decisively apportion political power; and, second, as the product of electoral and social forces ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Bateman, D
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AMST 6332
Course Description
This course will survey emerging digital humanities techniques, scholarship, and theory. We will cover the history of humanities computing, text-mining, "big data" questions, geographic information systems, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6332
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Baptist, E
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AMST 6404
Course Description
Using film, primary documents, literature, art, and secondary sources, this course explores the ten-year period between the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and 1978, when The Supreme Court ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4404, ASRC 4404, ASRC 6404
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
Rooks, N
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AMST 6606
Course Description
This seminar will explore the intersection of political theory and American pragmatism. While questions of political theory have often been seen as external to the concerns of pragmatism as a philosophy, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6606
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 114
Instructors
Livingston, A
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AMST 6612
Course Description
The American Revolution was a war fought by European settlers against England that ended the colonial domination of these settlers in the founding of the United States. But the settlers were themselves ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6612
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Stimson Hall 105
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
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AMST 6656
Course Description
Topic: Equality Efforts to reduce inequality are central to the pursuit of justice. We will investigate leading philosophical controversies about the moral basis of these efforts. To what extent, in what ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4655, GOVT 4655, GOVT 6656, PHIL 4470, PHIL 6430, SOC 4430, SOC 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Miller, R
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AMST 7320
Course Description
This seminar focuses on the political economy of sound and listening in the configuration of urban space in Latin America and among Latino communities in the U.S. The city will be approached ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6999, LSP 6320, MUSIC 7320, SPAN 6320
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Madrid, A
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