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AMST 1140
Course Description
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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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
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Evans, D
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
AMST 1147
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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
FWS Session.
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 187
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Goldberg, J
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
AMST 1160
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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
Regular Academic Session.
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2 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- M Alice H. Cook House 101
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Ayorinde, S
Samuels, S
Thompson, B
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This is a Learning Where You Live course. Priority given to residents of North and West campus.
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AMST 1290
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 1290
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3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- TR Uris Hall 202
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Strang, D
AMST 1313
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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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1313
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Lincoln Hall B20
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Pond, S
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- F Lincoln Hall 140
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- F Lincoln Hall 140
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- F Lincoln Hall 149
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- F Lincoln Hall 149
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AMST 1585
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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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1585
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
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Glickman, L
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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- F Rockefeller Hall B15
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
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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: AIIS 1110
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Caldwell Hall 100
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Richardson, T
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- T Warren Hall 173
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- W Bradfield Hall 105
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- M Plant Science Building G37
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AMST 1885
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 1885
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Johnson, A
AMST 1951
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 1951, LATA 1951
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Craib, R
Loos, T
AMST 2000
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Moisey, A
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Moisey, A
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Moisey, A
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Moisey, A
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Moisey, A
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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Moisey, A
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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Moisey, A
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- W White Hall 110
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Moisey, A
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- W White Hall 106
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Moisey, A
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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1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M Uris Hall G01
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Earle, C
Samuels, S
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For questions about enrollment, please email Corey Earle, cre8@cornell.edu
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AMST 2060
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2060
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Attell, K
AMST 2112
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2112, HIST 2112, RELST 2112
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall B15
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Washington, M
AMST 2220
Course Description
This seminar will explore some of the major political and cultural trends in the United States, from the era of the Democratic New Dealer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through the era of the conservative Republican, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2220
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR McGraw Hall 366
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Glickman, L
AMST 2320
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LSP 2320, MUSIC 2320, SPAN 2330
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Lincoln Hall 124
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Madrid, A
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AMST 2405
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ITAL 2400
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Morrill Hall 102
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Fulginiti, V
AMST 2504
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2504, GOVT 2604, SOC 2520
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Stimson Hall 206
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Gosa, T
AMST 2512
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2512, FGSS 2512, HIST 2512
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
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Washington, 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Giacomelli, J
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- R McGraw Hall 366
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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- R McGraw Hall 366
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AMST 2620
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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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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Sibley Hall 115
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Wong, S
AMST 2621
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2621, STS 2621
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 105
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Rock-Singer, C
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Department Consent Required (Add)
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
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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: AIIS 2660, HIST 2660
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Mcgraw Hall 165
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Parmenter, J
AMST 2680
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2680
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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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: ART 3810, ARTH 3010, VISST 3010
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- TR Morrill Hall 404
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Gaskins, B
AMST 3033
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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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3032
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Klarman Hall KG70
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Michener, J
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- T McGraw Hall 145
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- T Stimson Hall 206
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- W Stimson Hall 206
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- F McGraw Hall 366
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- W White Hall 106
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- F McGraw Hall 365
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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AMST 3131
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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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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
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Chutkow, D
AMST 3140
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Students examine the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. The course focuses on the domestic sources of foreign policy and the assumptions of the major policy makers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 3140, HIST 3140
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Von Eschen, P
AMST 3142
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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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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M McGraw Hall 365
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Michener, J
AMST 3185
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 3181, HIST 3181, STS 3181
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Sibley Hall 211
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Slayton, R
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AMST 3248
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3248, AIIS 6248, AMST 6248, ANTHR 3248, ANTHR 6248, ARKEO 3248, ARKEO 6248
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Morrill Hall 111
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Jordan, K
AMST 3330
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
AMST 3360
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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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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
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Warner, S
AMST 3405
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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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 3405, EDUC 3405, LSP 3405
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Malott Hall 253
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Villenas, S
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- R Morrill Hall 110
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- R Morrill Hall 110
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- R White Hall 114
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- R Uris Hall 438
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AMST 3560
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3550, FGSS 3540
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Lincoln Hall B08
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Rooks, N
AMST 3590
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3590, HIST 3590
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Uris Hall 202
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Rickford, R
AMST 3661
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3660
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 283
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Samuels, S
AMST 3675
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3675
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Hutchinson, G
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Stimson Hall 105
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Cheyfitz, E
AMST 3703
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The common perception of ethnicity is that it is a "natural" and an inevitable consequence of cultural difference. "Asians" overseas, in particular, have won repute as a people who cling tenaciously to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3030, ANTHR 3703, ANTHR 6703
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR McGraw Hall B65
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Munasinghe, V
AMST 3760
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PMA 3560, VISST 3760
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
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Haenni, S
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Most films will be available online, but students will be expected to occasionally attend Cornell Cinema screenings.
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 283
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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AMST 3820
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3800, ENGL 3910, LATA 3800, SPAN 3800
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR White Hall B14
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Monroe, J
AMST 3870
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3870, ILRLR 3870
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- MW Ives Hall 305
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Hyman, L
AMST 3980
Course Description
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
AMST 3990
Course Description
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
AMST 4031
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4031
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R White Hall B04
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Sanders, M
AMST 4039
Course Description
This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4390, ASRC 6391, HIST 4390, HIST 6391
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Washington, M
AMST 4130
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: WRIT 4130
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Evans, D
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Additional Information
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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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Washington, DC
Instructors
O'Connor, J
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC.
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AMST 4220
Course Description
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
AMST 4516
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4516, ASRC 6516, SOC 4520
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Gosa, T
AMST 4519
Course Description
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
AMST 4619
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4619, MUSIC 4454, SHUM 4619
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 110
Instructors
Braddock, J
AMST 4620
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4616, FGSS 4620, LATA 4620, LSP 4621, ROMS 4625, SHUM 4620, VISST 4620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
Carroll, A
AMST 4633
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4635, ENGL 4635, LSP 4635
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Diaz, E
AMST 4670
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4670, ENGL 4670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Warrior, C
AMST 4705
Course Description
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
AMST 4720
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4720, ENGL 6720, LSP 4720, LSP 6720
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Olin Library 303
Instructors
Brady, M
AMST 4900
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4900, HIST 4900, HIST 6900
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Parmenter, J
AMST 4994
Course Description
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
AMST 6011
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6011
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W White Hall B02
Instructors
Mettler, S
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Additional Information
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AMST 6202
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6102, GOVT 6202, HIST 6202, SOC 6200
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 114
Instructors
Bensel, R
AMST 6220
Course Description
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
AMST 6248
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3248, AIIS 6248, AMST 3248, ANTHR 3248, ANTHR 6248, ARKEO 3248, ARKEO 6248
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Jordan, K
AMST 6322
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6322, HIST 6322
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Rickford, R
AMST 6819
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6408, ENGL 6919, LSP 6819, SHUM 6819
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Mapping Urban Memory in an Ahistorical Age
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Diaz, E
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Additional Information
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