American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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AMST 1140

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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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session.  Combined with: EDUC 1140WRIT 1400

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17711 AMST 1140   SEM 101

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

AMST 1147

We know that racism isn't just about feelings, but rather it is institutional. What about the legal life of racism? That is, what if racism wasn't just a result of how the legal system (courts, police, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17604 AMST 1147   SEM 101

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

AMST 1160

This course explores both the joyful and the dark sides of eating and traces how "taste" informs the various ways in which we ingest the world, specifically "racial and cultural otherness." We will explore ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • 17585 AMST 1160   LEC 001

  • This is a Learning Where You Live course. Priority given to residents of North and West campus.

AMST 1290

Introduces students to the sociological analysis of American society through the lens of film. Major themes involve race, class, and gender; upward and downward mobility; incorporation and exclusion; small ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 1290

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16771 AMST 1290   LEC 001

AMST 1313

This course addresses jazz from two perspectives: the various sounds of jazz, as well as the historical streams-musical and cultural-that have contributed to its development. Listening and writing assignments ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1313

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16531 AMST 1313   LEC 001

  • 16532 AMST 1313   DIS 201

  • 16533 AMST 1313   DIS 202

  • 16534 AMST 1313   DIS 203

  • 16535 AMST 1313   DIS 204

AMST 1585

This course will explore the relationship between sports and politics over the course of American history since the 19th century.  Sports and politics have come together surprisingly frequently in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9029 AMST 1585   LEC 001

  •  9030 AMST 1585   DIS 201

  •  9031 AMST 1585   DIS 202

  •  9032 AMST 1585   DIS 203

  •  9033 AMST 1585   DIS 204

  •  9034 AMST 1585   DIS 205

  •  9035 AMST 1585   DIS 206

  • 18308 AMST 1585   DIS 207

  • 18309 AMST 1585   DIS 208

  • 18310 AMST 1585   DIS 209

  • 18311 AMST 1585   DIS 210

AMST 1601

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 1110

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5360 AMST 1601   LEC 001

  •  5361 AMST 1601   DIS 201

  •  5362 AMST 1601   DIS 202

  •  9008 AMST 1601   DIS 203

AMST 1885

This course will examine consumerism in the United States, first focusing on the rise of advertising, mass market goods, shop windows, and department stores at the turn of the 20th century. We will examine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1885

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17800 AMST 1885   LEC 001

AMST 1951

To what extent does the ideal of the US as a vanguard for democracy and freedom in the world match up with other aspects—military, economic, and humanitarian—of US foreign policy? This same question about ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1951LATA 1951

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17801 AMST 1951   LEC 001

AMST 2000

This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies.  Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2000COML 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7289 AMST 2000   LEC 001

  • 17275 AMST 2000   DIS 201

  • 17276 AMST 2000   DIS 202

  • 17277 AMST 2000   DIS 203

  • 17278 AMST 2000   DIS 204

  • 17279 AMST 2000   DIS 205

  • 17280 AMST 2000   DIS 206

  • 18434 AMST 2000   DIS 207

  • 18435 AMST 2000   DIS 208

AMST 2001

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2999HIST 2005

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • 18348 AMST 2001   LEC 001

  • For questions about enrollment, please email Corey Earle, cre8@cornell.edu

AMST 2060

Some of the best novels of the last 70 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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2060

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14999 AMST 2060   LEC 001

AMST 2112

This course examines Black spirituality, religion, and protest from an historical perspective, beginning with African traditions and Christianity during enslavement, which created resistance ideology and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2112HIST 2112RELST 2112

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17325 AMST 2112   SEM 101

AMST 2220

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9374 AMST 2220   SEM 101

AMST 2320

Music and dance cultures have been central topics of study in the development of Chicano studies, Puerto Rican studies, and Latino studies in general. From Americo Paredes to Frances Aparicio and from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2320MUSIC 2320SPAN 2330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16500 AMST 2320   LEC 001

AMST 2405

Between 1880 and 1920, 4 million Italians moved to the United States in search of better fortunes. As a result, today there are 17 million US citizens of Italian descent, among them famed artists ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 2400

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16307 AMST 2405   SEM 101

AMST 2504

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency has raised new questions in the American debate on race, politics, and social science. Has America entered a post-racial society in which racism and inequality ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2504GOVT 2604SOC 2520

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8490 AMST 2504   LEC 001

AMST 2512

This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2512FGSS 2512HIST 2512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17107 AMST 2512   LEC 001

AMST 2581

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2581HIST 2581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9258 AMST 2581   LEC 001

  •  9259 AMST 2581   DIS 201

  •  9260 AMST 2581   DIS 202

  •  9261 AMST 2581   DIS 203

  • 18567 AMST 2581   DIS 204

AMST 2620

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2620ENGL 2620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17220 AMST 2620   LEC 001

AMST 2621

There are several "just-so stories" about science and religion: the world's religions are parallel systems of belief in the supernatural; science has a set method that produces universal truths; and religion ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2621STS 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18010 AMST 2621   LEC 001

AMST 2655

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 2650LSP 2010SOC 2650

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6986 AMST 2655   LEC 001

AMST 2660

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2660HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17122 AMST 2660   LEC 001

AMST 2680

Fifty years ago, American society exploded; but 1968 was only a moment in the decade when the civil rights movement, the counter culture, and the Vietnam war stimulated alternative lifestyles and powerful ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2680

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15551 AMST 2680   LEC 001

AMST 3010

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ART 3810ARTH 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9070 AMST 3010   SEM 101

AMST 3033

Public policies are political outcomes determined by processes that are complex, convoluted and often controversial. The aim of this course is to equip students with the conceptual tools necessary to understand ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3032

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16403 AMST 3033   LEC 001

  • 16404 AMST 3033   DIS 201

  • 16405 AMST 3033   DIS 202

  • 16406 AMST 3033   DIS 203

  • 16407 AMST 3033   DIS 204

  • 18316 AMST 3033   DIS 205

  • 18317 AMST 3033   DIS 206

  • 18714 AMST 3033   DIS 207

  • 18715 AMST 3033   DIS 208

AMST 3131

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3131LAW 4131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17454 AMST 3131   LEC 001

AMST 3140

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 3140HIST 3140

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17082 AMST 3140   LEC 001

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

  •  9585 AMST 3142   SEM 101

AMST 3185

This course explores the history, sociology, and ethics of risk. In particular, we will focus on the complex and often ambiguous relationship between science, technology, and risk. A historical perspective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 3181HIST 3181STS 3181

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18137 AMST 3185   LEC 001

AMST 3248

This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective.  Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 14980 AMST 3248   LEC 001

AMST 3330

Based on indigenous and place-based "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3330NTRES 3330NTRES 6330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18598 AMST 3330   LEC 001

AMST 3360

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3360PMA 3757

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15971 AMST 3360   LEC 001

AMST 3405

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 3405EDUC 3405LSP 3405

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15002 AMST 3405   LEC 001

  • 15206 AMST 3405   DIS 201

  • 15207 AMST 3405   DIS 202

  • 15208 AMST 3405   DIS 203

  • 15209 AMST 3405   DIS 204

AMST 3560

This course explores written and visual biographies of African American and African women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about beauty, race, gender and class. Some of the questions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3550FGSS 3540

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17382 AMST 3560   SEM 101

AMST 3590

This course provides a critical historical interrogation of what Black Marxism author Cedric Robinson called "the Black Radical Tradition." It will introduce students to some of the major currents in the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3590HIST 3590

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8018 AMST 3590   LEC 001

AMST 3661

The course asks you to think about the role of fiction in producing a sense of history, politics, and culture in the nineteenth-century United States. In particular, we will think about the relations among ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8596 AMST 3661   SEM 101

AMST 3675

This course focuses on works that exemplify environmental consciousness—a sense that humans are not the center of the world and that to think they are may have catastrophic consequences for humans themselves. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3675

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15563 AMST 3675   LEC 001

AMST 3690

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3690FGSS 3691

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15565 AMST 3690   SEM 101

AMST 3703

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3030ANTHR 3703ANTHR 6703

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9104 AMST 3703   LEC 001

AMST 3760

In 1968, amongst cultural and political turmoil, the American film industry adopted the ratings system, which helped usher in the kinds of cinema we know today. This course focuses on developments in U.S. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PMA 3560VISST 3760

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16750 AMST 3760   LEC 001

  • Most films will be available online, but students will be expected to occasionally attend Cornell Cinema screenings.

  • 16753 AMST 3760   DIS 201

  • 16756 AMST 3760   DIS 202

  • 16759 AMST 3760   DIS 203

AMST 3820

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16351 AMST 3820   SEM 101

AMST 3870

Whether buying at a general store, shopping at a department store, or loitering at a mall, consumption has always formed an important part of the American experience. More than just commodities bought ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3870ILRLR 3870

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9105 AMST 3870   LEC 001

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

  •  5472 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

  •  5473 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 4031

Social movements are collective efforts through which people at the margins of power unite to press their grievances on the state. It is difficult to name a major political reform that did not begin with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4031

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18189 AMST 4031   SEM 101

AMST 4039

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

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  • 17150 AMST 4039   SEM 101

AMST 4130

To what extent is civic engagement fundamental to democratic citizenship? This course seeks to answer that question by exploring the components of service learning as a discipline and to strengthen the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: WRIT 4130

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18326 AMST 4130   SEM 101

AMST 4194

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4291PMA 4190

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9569 AMST 4194   LEC 001

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 4220

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9545 AMST 4220   SEM 101

AMST 4516

We will undertake an in-depth study of racial inequality and its relationship to schooling. The course content is centered primarily on the schooling challenges facing Black, Latino, Asian, and Native ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4516ASRC 6516SOC 4520

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8493 AMST 4516   SEM 101

AMST 4519

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955.  To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details

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  • 16566 AMST 4519   SEM 101

AMST 4619

This course examines the way audiotape both corrupted and enabled the aesthetic and political culture of the 1970s. The possibilities of editing (via the cut, the loop, or the overdub) on one hand, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4619MUSIC 4454SHUM 4619

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16472 AMST 4619   SEM 101

AMST 4620

In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as "undocumentation." Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices ... view course details

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  • 16490 AMST 4620   SEM 101

AMST 4633

This course begins in the center of the poetry, politics, and art of the U.S. civil rights movements, but also makes connections with the poetic and visual cultures of twenty-first century activism. Our ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4635ENGL 4635LSP 4635

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15599 AMST 4633   SEM 101

AMST 4670

What techniques, tools, and contexts are needed to perform reasonably well-informed readings and interpretations of Native American poetry? If a poem illuminates an injustice, what historical context do ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4670ENGL 4670

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15637 AMST 4670   SEM 101

AMST 4705

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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  •  9605 AMST 4705   LEC 001

AMST 4720

Contemporary Latinx writing explores an extraordinary range of experiences using a variety of experimental forms. This course will examine the poetry, fiction, memoirs, plays, and new media produced within ... view course details

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  • 15652 AMST 4720   SEM 101

AMST 4900

The discovery of the Americas, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created." Five centuries ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4900HIST 4900HIST 6900

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17158 AMST 4900   SEM 101

AMST 4994

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 Graded

  •  5475 AMST 4994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 6011

The American state is depicted by many scholars as small and unusual, and yet in many respects it has been at least as involved in American society and the economy as that of other nations. How is the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6011

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16463 AMST 6011   SEM 101

AMST 6202

This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details

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  • 16466 AMST 6202   SEM 101

AMST 6220

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9547 AMST 6220   SEM 101

AMST 6248

This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective.  Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 14988 AMST 6248   LEC 001

AMST 6322

This graduate seminar will explore major currents in historical writing about African-American life and culture in the twentieth century. Focusing on social, intellectual, and labor history, we will identify ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6322HIST 6322

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9456 AMST 6322   SEM 101

AMST 6819

Urban Representation Labs are intended to bring students and faculty into direct contact with complex urban representations spanning a wide media spectrum and evoking a broad set of humanist discourses. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Mapping Urban Memory in an Ahistorical Age

  • 17093 AMST 6819   SEM 101