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AMST 1101
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Haenni, S
AMST 1140
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This course offers you a chance to become a more engaged member of the Ithaca community as part of your first-year writing experience. For two afternoons a week, Cornell students will engage with Ithaca ... view course details
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- TR Uris Hall G22
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Evans, D
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Student schedules must accommodate TR trips (3-5 PM) to Boynton Middle School.
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AMST 1321
Course Description
This class is a survey of music practices among Mexican communities both in Mexico and in the U.S. Taking contemporary musical practices as a point of departure, the class explores the historical, cultural, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: LATA 1321, LSP 1321, MUSIC 1321, SPAN 1321
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Lincoln Hall 124
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Madrid, A
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- F Lincoln Hall 149
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Staff
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- F Lincoln Hall 149
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AMST 1601
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This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIS 1110
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
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- T Warren Hall 138
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Kassam, K
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- W Warren Hall 113
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Kassam, K
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- R Kennedy Hall 101
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Kassam, K
AMST 1800
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This course examines immigration as a major theme in U.S. history and culture. We will discuss immigration in different periods of our national history, and in different locations, from Boston and New ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1800, LSP 1800
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
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Garcia, M
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- F White Hall 104
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Department Consent Required (Add)
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- F Rockefeller Hall 231
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- F Stimson Hall 206
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- R Stimson Hall 119
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AMST 2000
Course Description
Provides a broad introduction of modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. The question of "how we see" is ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000
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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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Finley, C
AMST 2001
Course Description
Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University "the first American university," referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2999, HIST 2005
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- M Uris Hall G01
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Baptist, E
Earle, C
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Department Consent Required (Add)
AMST 2040
Course Description
This course will introduce students to American literature from the Civil War to the present. We will consider a wide range of authors and literary movements while paying close attention to radical shifts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2040
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
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Hutchinson, G
AMST 2060
Course Description
Some of the best novels of the last 50 years were written by people who were students or professors at Cornell. Reading a selection of these great Cornell novels, we will also be tracing the history and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2060
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Attell, K
AMST 2105
Course Description
The musical is a distinct and significant form of American performance. This course will consider the origins, development, and internationalization of the American musical and will emphasize ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2150, MUSIC 2250, PMA 2650
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
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Lind, B
Salvato, N
AMST 2108
Course Description
This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 2100, ARTH 2101
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Warren Hall 150
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Jordan, K
Rickard, J
AMST 2251
Course Description
Americans are conflicted about immigration. We honor and celebrate (and commercialize) our immigrant heritage in museums, folklife festivals, parades, pageants, and historical monuments. We also build ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2251, LSP 2251
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR McGraw Hall 1M01F
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Garcia, M
AMST 2260
Course Description
In this class, we will examine how musicians working in such genres as rock, jazz, folk, classical, soul, and experimental music responded and contributed to the major themes of the 1960s in the US: the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 2260, MUSIC 2260
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Lincoln Hall B20
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Piekut, B
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Lincoln Hall B21
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Staff
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Lincoln Hall 124
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AMST 2560
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This course examines the widespread perception and the varied responses to the notion that the American K-12 education system is failing to adequately prepare its students. We review the structure of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PAM 2550
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW M Van Rensselaer Hall G71
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Fitzpatrick, M
AMST 2581
Course Description
This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity's interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2581, HIST 2581
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Mcgraw Hall 165
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Sachs, A
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- W White Hall 110
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Staff
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Department Consent Required (Add)
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- W White Hall 104
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Staff
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Department Consent Required (Add)
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- W McGraw Hall 365
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Staff
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AMST 2600
Course Description
Both oral and written, Native literatures of the U.S. comprise a critical commentary on a range of ongoing issues facing the international community: the environment, sustainability, gender, capitalism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 2600, ENGL 2600
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Stimson Hall 105
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Cheyfitz, E
AMST 2620
Course Description
This course will introduce both a variety of writings by Asian North American authors and some critical issues concerning the production and reception of Asian American texts. Working primarily with novels, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2620, ENGL 2620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
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Wong, S
AMST 2655
Course Description
Exploration and analysis of the Hispanic experience in the United States. Examines the sociohistorical background and economic, psychological, and political factors that converge to shape a Latino group ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DSOC 2650, LSP 2010, SOC 2650
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3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
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Velez, H
AMST 2660
Course Description
One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 2660, HIST 2660
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Parmenter, J
AMST 2680
Course Description
Nearly half a century ago, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and Vietnam stimulated critiques and alternative lifestyles that changed American society forever. What can the experiences of young ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2680
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Sawyer, P
AMST 3010
Course Description
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 GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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- TR Rockefeller Hall B16
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Gaskins, B
AMST 3032
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3031, HIST 3031, LATA 3031
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
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Washington, M
AMST 3060
Course Description
Focuses on the social history of American workers and the role of organized labor in American life since the 1960s. Course themes often center on the complexities of social class in the United States. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRLR 3060
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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- MW Ives Hall 215
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Cowie, J
AMST 3065
Course Description
Immigration discourse and policy has played a central role in shaping the modern American nation-state, including its composition, values, and institutions. This course begins in the late nineteenth century, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRLR 3065, LATA 3065, LSP 3065
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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- TR Ives Hall 215
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Martinez-Matsuda, V
AMST 3131
Course Description
A general-education course to acquaint students with how our legal system pursues the goals of society. The course introduces students to various perspectives on the nature of law, what functions it ought ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3131, LAW 4131
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
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Chutkow, D
AMST 3142
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3142
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W White Hall B02
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Katzenstein, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisite:participation as a Teaching Assistant in the CPEP program in Auburn or Cayuga or work in a juvenile or other correctional facility.
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AMST 3200
Course Description
Historical archaeology attempts to bring textual and archaeological data to bear on questions of the past. In practice this can mean many different approaches, including some that are not traditionally ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6210, ANTHR 3210, ANTHR 6210, ARKEO 3210, ARKEO 6210
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Morrill Hall 107
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Jordan, K
AMST 3360
Course Description
Explores major American playwrights from 1900 to 1960, introducing students to American theatre as a significant part of modern American cultural history. We will consider the ways in which theatre has ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3360, PMA 3757
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
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Warner, S
AMST 3402
Course Description
This course is about being Black throughout the Atlantic world. What constitutes Blackness? What experiences, cultural understandings and social problems shape the identities of people of African descent? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3400, ASRC 3400, LSP 3400
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr B01
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LaBennett, O
AMST 3405
Course Description
This course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3405, EDUC 3405, LSP 3405
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Morrill Hall 106
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Villenas, S
AMST 3430
Course Description
A survey of the turning point of US. history: The Civil War (1861-1865) and its aftermath, Reconstruction (1865-1877). We will look at the causes, the coming, and the conduct, of the war, and the way in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 3430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Egerton, D
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- R Stimson Hall 119
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Staff
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- R Lincoln Hall B08
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- R Stimson Hall 119
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- R White Hall 104
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AMST 3520
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3515, HIST 3515
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 189
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Lau, C
AMST 3525
Course Description
Twentieth-century poetry has been closely identified with what Ezra Pound famously termed the challenge to "Make It New." Yet the question of just what "making it new" might mean was hotly contested throughout ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3525
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Hutchinson, G
AMST 3581
Course Description
What role should imaginative arts play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping community and communication today? Focusing on literature and film from the late ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3580, GERST 3581, PMA 3481, VISST 3581
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Uris Hall 204
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Adelson, L
Haenni, S
AMST 3590
Course Description
This course provides a critical historical interrogation of what Black Marxism author Cedric Robinson called "the Black Radical Tradition." It is designed to introduce students to some of the major currents ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3590, HIST 3590
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
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Rickford, R
AMST 3690
Course Description
Poverty is an ongoing issue in the United States, and has intensified since the recession of 2008. As such, poverty has disproportionately affected women and underrepresented racial and ethnic communities. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3690, FGSS 3691
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Cheyfitz, E
AMST 3740
Course Description
Art and everyday life in nineteenth and early-twentieth century America with emphasis on Anglo-European traditions. Considers democratic cultures and identities through topical units: the Peale family ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3740, VISST 3740
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Meixner, L
AMST 3742
Course Description
This course will examine a variety of voices in contemporary African American poetry, focusing on works produced in the decades following the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. We will consider how ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3740, ENGL 3740
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Woubshet, D
AMST 3744
Course Description
"America Becomes Modern" offers an upper-level survey of major themes in American history between 1877 and 1917. The course will have a lecture/discussion format; student participation is highly valued ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 3740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 104
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Glickman, L
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- F White Hall 110
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Staff
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- F Uris Hall G88
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Staff
AMST 3854
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CRP 3854, GOVT 3494
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Section Topic
Topic: Social Justice& Urban Issues:Case of Washington,DC
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- M Washington, DC
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Lekus, I
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Taught in Washington, DC.
Department Consent Required (Add)
AMST 3860
Course Description
Examines the experience of black Americans from the start of the Great Migration just before World War I. Topics include the effects of migration on work experiences and unionization patterns, the impact ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3860, HIST 3760, ILRLR 3860, LAW 7060
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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- MW Ives Hall 108
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Salvatore, N
AMST 4021
Course Description
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 Stimson Hall 119
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Bensel, R
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4080
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4080, LSP 4080, PMA 4080, VISST 4580
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Judith Eisner Pavillion 201
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Perillo, J
AMST 4112
Course Description
President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 amid hopes of his supporters that the United States would address numerous pressing domestic policy issues. In this course, we assess Obama's first term, examining ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4112
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- W White Hall B04
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Mettler, S
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4194
Course Description
What is distinctive about American Shakespeare? Is it merely a less confident cousin of its more prestigious UK relative; or does it have a character of its own? What is currently happening with 'American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4291, PMA 4190
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- F Washington, DC
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O'Connor, J
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Taught in Washington, DC.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4300
Course Description
The Milman Seminar: Baseball in American Culture. Through a reading of fiction and nonfiction, we examine the role of baseball as it has shaped and reflected the attitudes and values of Americans. (Novels ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- T Lincoln Hall 117
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Altschuler, G
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4306
Course Description
Topic for spring 2015: Mass Culture in the Great Depression. This seminar explores public art and popular entertainments as the means for everyday people to politically engage or escape the Great Depression ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4761, VISST 4761
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
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Meixner, L
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4313
Course Description
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. The course will begin from the declaration made by Martin Luther King, Jr. that the struggle ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4313
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR McGraw Hall 365
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Maxwell, B
AMST 4393
Course Description
In 1850 American politicians banded together cross-regionally, passed a Fugitive Slave Law and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they had once again dodged the slavery issue that threatened disunion. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4393, HIST 4393, HIST 6393
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Uris Hall 498
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Washington, M
AMST 4402
Course Description
This course will explore how women are portrayed in hip hop music and culture, addressing women both as consumers and producers. We will draw on texts that analyze misogyny in hip hop music and music videos, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4102, ASRC 4402, FGSS 4402, LGBT 4402
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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LaBennett, O
AMST 4585
Course Description
This seminar will provide a survey of the history of American political thought, with emphasis placed on four significant periods: Puritan New England, the Revolution and Founding, Abolition and Civil ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4585
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- W Washington, DC
Instructors
Frank, J
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Taught in Washington, DC.
AMST 4610
Course Description
Topic for spring 2015: U.S. Art of the 1960's view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4600
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: US Art in the 1960's
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- T Stimson Hall 116
Instructors
Bernstock, J
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4661
Course Description
This senior research seminar offers students the opportunity to engage the vibrant history of the Great War for Empire (also known as the Seven Year's War, and the French and Indian War) from multiple ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4661
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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
- W Stimson Hall 105
Instructors
Parmenter, J
AMST 4944
Course Description
This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4944, COML 6944, ROMS 4944, ROMS 6944
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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
- W Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Diabate, N
Traisnel, A
AMST 4990
Course Description
This course brings together the fields of sound, popular music, and performance studies in order to investigate how "racial common sense" has been constituted at various moments in U.S. cultural history. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 4333, PMA 4964, SHUM 4993
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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
- T A D White House 109
Instructors
Balance, C
AMST 6210
Course Description
Historical archaeology attempts to bring textual and archaeological data to bear on questions of the past. In practice this can mean many different approaches, including some that are not traditionally ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3200, ANTHR 3210, ANTHR 6210, ARKEO 3210, ARKEO 6210
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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
- MW Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
Jordan, K
AMST 6308
Course Description
This seminar examines the relationships between consciousness and the body, as leading thinkers on Caribbean colonial and postcolonial conditions have posited them. Readings will be organized around three ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6308, LATA 6308, ROMS 6308
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Student Option(OPI))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Aching, G
AMST 6424
Course Description
This course examines the role that both law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We approach the law from a critical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6424, LAW 7231, LSP 6424
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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 McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Santiago-Irizarry, V
AMST 6472
Course Description
In June 2013, in the space of a week, the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the legacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While the first two decisions ... view course details