American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

AMST 1101

This course is an introduction to interdisciplinary considerations of American culture. Specific topics may change from year to year and may include questions of national consensus versus native, immigrant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9785 AMST 1101   LEC 001

AMST 1104

This course will examine race and ethnic relations between Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in the United States. The goal of this course is for students to understand how the history of race and ethnicity ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: LSP 1105SOC 1104

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 10218 AMST 1104   SEM 101

  • 17243 AMST 1104   DIS 201

  • 17244 AMST 1104   DIS 202

AMST 1115

A policy-centered approach to the study of government in the American experience.  Considers the American Founding and how it influenced the structure of government;  how national institutions operate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1111

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8964 AMST 1115   LEC 001

  •  8965 AMST 1115   DIS 201

  •  8966 AMST 1115   DIS 202

  •  8967 AMST 1115   DIS 203

  •  8968 AMST 1115   DIS 204

  •  8969 AMST 1115   DIS 205

  •  8970 AMST 1115   DIS 206

  •  8971 AMST 1115   DIS 207

  •  8972 AMST 1115   DIS 208

  •  9472 AMST 1115   DIS 209

  • 10213 AMST 1115   DIS 210

  • 18583 AMST 1115   DIS 211

  • 18584 AMST 1115   DIS 212

AMST 1144

Why do some regions thrive during a recession? What role can local governments play in an economic system that seems to exacerbate the divide between rich and poor?  Using cities as a lens, we'll examine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17834 AMST 1144   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

AMST 1500

This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas.  This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8658 AMST 1500   LEC 001

AMST 1540

This course studies the history of American capitalism. It helps you to answer these questions: What is capitalism? Is the U.S. more capitalist than other countries? How has capitalism shaped the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1540ILRLR 1845

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8904 AMST 1540   LEC 001

  • A University Course.

  •  8905 AMST 1540   DIS 201

  •  8906 AMST 1540   DIS 202

  • 10233 AMST 1540   DIS 203

  •  8907 AMST 1540   DIS 204

  •  9002 AMST 1540   DIS 205

  •  9003 AMST 1540   DIS 206

  •  9004 AMST 1540   DIS 207

  •  9005 AMST 1540   DIS 208

  • 10234 AMST 1540   DIS 210

AMST 1575

From the inception of the film industry, depictions of historical events have captured the attention of screen writers, directors and not the least audiences; often making deep impressions on a particular ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1575

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17071 AMST 1575   LEC 001

AMST 1600

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 1100ANTHR 1700

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7498 AMST 1600   LEC 001

  •  7499 AMST 1600   DIS 201

  •  7500 AMST 1600   DIS 202

  • 16861 AMST 1600   DIS 203

AMST 2090

The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Even though many books have been written about this endlessly fascinating episode in American history, numerous aspects of it remain unexplored. After reading some ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2090HIST 2090

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16568 AMST 2090   SEM 101

AMST 2106

This course is an introduction to Latina/o Studies, a discipline that investigates the historical, socio-political and economic conditions and experiences of Latina/os in the United States, including but ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2100

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15922 AMST 2106   LEC 001

AMST 2145

This course examines the history and culture of food in the United States over the last hundred years. Looking closely at contemporary food culture, we will ask questions such as: What are the origins ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2145

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18227 AMST 2145   SEM 101

AMST 2152

One in ten residents of the United States was born outside the country. These people include international students, temporary workers, refugees, asylees, permanent residents, naturalized U.S. citizens ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 2152LSP 2152

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18343 AMST 2152   LEC 001

AMST 2165

Prepare to be challenged in this course exploring the historic and contemporary dynamics of the African American family in U.S. society. From the African Diaspora to the Cosby Show, we will focus on the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2160HD 2710

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18647 AMST 2165   LEC 001

AMST 2225

In recent years, poverty and inequality have become increasingly common topics of public debate, as academics, journalists, and politicians attempt to come to terms with growing income inequality, with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10012 AMST 2225   LEC 001

  • 10037 AMST 2225   DIS 201

  • 10038 AMST 2225   DIS 202

  • 10039 AMST 2225   DIS 203

  • 10040 AMST 2225   DIS 204

  • 10041 AMST 2225   DIS 205

  • 10042 AMST 2225   DIS 206

  • 10043 AMST 2225   DIS 207

  • 10044 AMST 2225   DIS 208

  • 17819 AMST 2225   DIS 209

  • 17820 AMST 2225   DIS 210

AMST 2340

The course will focus on the music of the Beatles and their impact on American and British culture in the 1960s to the present day. Topics include considerations of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 2340

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18918 AMST 2340   LEC 001

  • 18919 AMST 2340   DIS 201

  • 18920 AMST 2340   DIS 202

AMST 2350

This introductory course surveys archaeology's contributions to the study of American Indian cultural diversity and change in North America north of Mexico. Lectures and readings will examine topics ranging ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2350ANTHR 2235ARKEO 2235

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16286 AMST 2350   LEC 001

AMST 2577

Since the 1970s, Jewish women have remade American Judaism by putting their bodies front and center. In the face of a largely male rabbinic elite, they have created new models of ritual, communal leadership, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17350 AMST 2577   SEM 101

AMST 2600

The production of North American Indigenous literatures began long before European colonization, and persists in a variety of printed, sung, carved, painted, written, spoken, and digital media. From oral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2600ENGL 2600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9465 AMST 2600   SEM 101

AMST 2664

Many Americans envision the colonial period as a relatively quaint and benign time dominated by Pocahontas, the Pilgrims, and provinciality.  Pairing the term "colonial" with "America" also tends to render ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2664

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16640 AMST 2664   LEC 001

  • 16642 AMST 2664   DIS 201

  • 16643 AMST 2664   DIS 202

  • 16644 AMST 2664   DIS 203

  • 16645 AMST 2664   DIS 204

AMST 2710

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  6656 AMST 2710   LEC 001

  •  6657 AMST 2710   DIS 201

  •  6658 AMST 2710   DIS 202

  •  6659 AMST 2710   DIS 203

  •  6660 AMST 2710   DIS 204

  •  6661 AMST 2710   DIS 205

AMST 2726

The nineteenth century changed everything in the United States: it gave us what we think of as modern American culture.  The nation went from rural, agrarian, economically dependent, partially enslaved, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2726

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16650 AMST 2726   LEC 001

  • 16651 AMST 2726   DIS 201

  • 16652 AMST 2726   DIS 202

  • 16653 AMST 2726   DIS 203

AMST 2735

An historical study of children's literature from the 17th century to the present, principally in Europe and America, which will explore changing literary forms in relation to the social history of childhood. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2730

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16841 AMST 2735   LEC 001

AMST 2770

This team-taught course uses literature and popular culture, alongside literary, social, and cultural theory to consider how people from different cultures encounter and experience each other. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2770ENGL 2770LSP 2770

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16844 AMST 2770   LEC 001

AMST 2817

Donald Trump and Barack Obama give us two visions of America and of the world: xenophobic nationalism and pragmatic cosmopolitanism.  America and the world are thus constituted by great diversity. The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2817

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17575 AMST 2817   LEC 001

  • 17576 AMST 2817   DIS 201

  • 17577 AMST 2817   DIS 202

  • 17798 AMST 2817   DIS 203

AMST 2980

Explores the history of information technology from the 1830s to the present by considering the technical and social history of telecommunications (telegraph and the telephone), radio, television, computers, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16720 AMST 2980   LEC 001

  • 16721 AMST 2980   DIS 201

  • 16722 AMST 2980   DIS 202

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    • Kline, R

  • 16723 AMST 2980   DIS 203

    • F
    • Kline, R

AMST 3032

This course will examine the "age of democratic revolutions" in the Americas from the perspective of the Black Atlantic. During this momentous era, when European monarchies were successfully challenged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3031HIST 3031LATA 3031

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16658 AMST 3032   LEC 001

AMST 3035

This class takes early literature produced in the geographical location that would become the United States, roughly from 1620 to 1865, as a way to ask about gender, race, and nationalism in the emerging ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16923 AMST 3035   SEM 101

AMST 3082

This course focuses on political campaigns, a central feature of American democracy. We will examine how they work and the conditions under which they affect citizens' decisions. The course looks at campaign ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3082

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8890 AMST 3082   LEC 001

  •  8896 AMST 3082   DIS 201

  •  8897 AMST 3082   DIS 202

  •  8898 AMST 3082   DIS 203

  •  8899 AMST 3082   DIS 204

AMST 3141

The United States stands alone among Western, industrialized countries with its persistent, high rates of incarceration, long sentences, and continued use of the death penalty. This "American exceptionalism" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3141

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15950 AMST 3141   LEC 001

  • 16086 AMST 3141   DIS 201

  • 16087 AMST 3141   DIS 202

  • 16088 AMST 3141   DIS 203

  • 16089 AMST 3141   DIS 204

  • 16090 AMST 3141   DIS 205

  • 16091 AMST 3141   DIS 206

AMST 3142

This class is intended to provoke some hard thinking about the relationship of committed "outsiders" and advocates of change to the experience of crime, punishment, and incarceration and to the men we ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3142

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10148 AMST 3142   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: participation as a Teaching Assistant in the CPEP program in Auburn or Cayuga or work in a juvenile or other correctional facility.

AMST 3200

This course uses artifacts, spaces, and texts to examine the emergence of the "modern world" in the 500-plus years since Columbus.  This is a distinctive sub-field of archaeology, not least because modern ... view course details

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  • 16281 AMST 3200   LEC 001

AMST 3230

Surveys problems in American economic history from the first settlements to early industrialization. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8588 AMST 3230   LEC 001

AMST 3281

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3281LAW 3281

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17254 AMST 3281   LEC 001

AMST 3331

In this course, we shall look at Russia's perception of America as reflected in the works of its writers for over a hundred-year period. What motivated these writers? Did they go to the United States with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3330RUSSL 3330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17146 AMST 3331   SEM 101

AMST 3355

Beyoncé's trajectory from Houston, Texas as a member of the group Destiny's Child to international fame and superstardom and a successful career as a solo singer, actress, clothing designer and entrepreneur ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3350ENGL 3950FGSS 3350

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17345 AMST 3355   SEM 101

AMST 3461

This course explores the rich and diverse history of African American filmmaking.  Focusing on films written and/or directed by African Americans, this seminar traces the history of filmmaking from the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3999PMA 3461VISST 3461

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16066 AMST 3461   LEC 001

AMST 3463

This course considers issues, approaches, and complexities in the contemporary television landscape. As television has changed drastically over the past fifteen years, this course provides students with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3463VISST 3463

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17534 AMST 3463   SEM 101

AMST 3475

To what extent is New York City part of the Caribbean? This course explores the ways in which writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic write New York, whether as tourists, residents, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16979 AMST 3475   SEM 101

AMST 3511

In this debate-format exploration of the most polarizing topics in hip hop, we'll examine the intersection of urban culture and American values. Does hip hop glorify violence, or simply reflect the reality ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3511

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18648 AMST 3511   SEM 101

AMST 3533

This course will consider the history, theory and craft of feature film screenwriting. We will examine the vital elements of effective motion picture narrative (protagonist, pathos, objective, action), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3533

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 10228 AMST 3533   SEM 101

AMST 3562

The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3560ENGL 3560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9565 AMST 3562   SEM 101

AMST 3680

Testimonio is a type of writing known in Latin America and integral to U.S. Latina and Chicana traditions. The testimonio usually tells a story in a collective mode, or offers an individual's story as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16411 AMST 3680   SEM 101

AMST 3747

Religious beliefs, practices, and conflicts shape our world and influence global politics.  Yet mediatized depictions of religion can be reductive and polarizing.  Moreover, these depictions may be different ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16237 AMST 3747   SEM 101

AMST 3754

In this course, we will critically examine the production and performance of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender through literature and contemporary performance genres such as spoken word, slam poetry, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9144 AMST 3754   LEC 001

AMST 3755

This course looks at the historical and shifting relationships between Asian Americans and (new) media technologies—from Yellow Peril, techno-Orientalist figurations of Asians as machines to the apparent ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3750ENGL 3960VISST 3750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18576 AMST 3755   LEC 001

AMST 3777

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3777LSP 3777

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16297 AMST 3777   LEC 001

AMST 3785

This course examines the political theory of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? What makes disobedience civil rather than criminal? How do acts of protest influence public ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3785PHIL 2945

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9647 AMST 3785   LEC 001

AMST 3812

Anchoring the east and west coasts, New York and Los Angeles have been celebrated and excoriated in films. On the edge literally and metaphorically, these cities seem to be about competing visions of urban ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16054 AMST 3812   LEC 001

AMST 3854

This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of regional development and globalization. Topics vary each semester. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CRP 3854GOVT 3494

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Growth and Development

  •  8140 AMST 3854   LEC 080

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 3980

Affords opportunities for students to carry out independent research under appropriate supervision. Each student is expected to review pertinent literature, prepare a project outline, conduct the research, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6438 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 3990

Individualized readings for junior and senior students. Topics, requirements, and credit hours will be determined in consultation between the student and the supervising faculty member. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6439 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 4021

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4021

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9276 AMST 4021   SEM 101

AMST 4102

This course examines the importance of government and political processes for improving urban environments, human health, and resilience in the face of climate change. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6104GOVT 4102GOVT 6102

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15954 AMST 4102   SEM 101

AMST 4212

Black women first began to shape the genre of autobiography during the antebellum era slavery.  They were prolific in developing the genre of autobiography throughout the twentieth century, to the point ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4212ENGL 4912FGSS 4212

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17206 AMST 4212   SEM 101

  • In Fall 2017 this course will run as The Rabinor Seminar in American Studies.

AMST 4283

This class will examine the history and contemporary role of Latinos as a minority group in the U.S. political system. This course is intended as an overview of the political position of Latinos y Latinas ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4283LSP 4283

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18344 AMST 4283   SEM 101

AMST 4331

The Velvet Underground remains one of the most acclaimed and influential rock groups to emerge within the culturally turbulent era of the late 1960s. From their association with Andy Warhol beginning in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16175 AMST 4331   SEM 101

  • Please contact Professor Judith Peraino (jap28@cornell.edu) for permission to enroll.

AMST 4627

Since the 1960s, American Indians have been producing a significant body of award-wining novels and short stories. In 1969, for example, N. Scott Momaday, from the Kiowa nation, won the Pulitzer Prize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4625ENGL 4625

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16424 AMST 4627   SEM 101

AMST 4733

How should decent, anti-racist people respond to the new racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States? What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18571 AMST 4733   SEM 101

AMST 4740

The colonial expansion of Christian Europe continues to leave its mark on the world of the twenty-first century. Two of the peoples caught up in that colonial project, in very different ways, are Jews ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16349 AMST 4740   SEM 101

AMST 4993

To graduate with honors, AMST majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an AMST faculty member and defend that thesis orally before a committee. Students interested in the honors program ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5807 AMST 4993   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 5710

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  6662 AMST 5710   LEC 001

  •  6663 AMST 5710   DIS 201

  •  6664 AMST 5710   DIS 202

  •  6665 AMST 5710   DIS 203

  •  6666 AMST 5710   DIS 204

  •  6667 AMST 5710   DIS 205

AMST 6104

This course examines the importance of government and political processes for improving urban environments, human health, and resilience in the face of climate change. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4102GOVT 4102GOVT 6102

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15959 AMST 6104   SEM 101

AMST 6210

This course uses artifacts, spaces, and texts to examine the emergence of the "modern world" in the 500-plus years since Columbus.  This is a distinctive sub-field of archaeology, not least because modern ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16284 AMST 6210   LEC 001

AMST 6331

The Velvet Underground remains one of the most acclaimed and influential rock groups to emerge within the culturally turbulent era of the late 1960s. From their association with Andy Warhol beginning in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16187 AMST 6331   SEM 101

AMST 6596

This seminar explores the politics of violence and nonviolence from a theoretical perspective. We will examine classic and contemporary theories of violence and nonviolence with attention to disputes concerning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6596

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15964 AMST 6596   SEM 101

AMST 6650

This course explores movement through and across water in both actual and metaphorical terms. Readings include such classics as Beloved, Moby-Dick, and Huckleberry Finn. They also include lesser read accounts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6650ENGL 6650FGSS 6651

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17842 AMST 6650   SEM 101

AMST 6733

How should decent, anti-racist people respond to the racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States?  What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? Or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18572 AMST 6733   SEM 101