American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

AMST 1101

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16404 AMST 1101   LEC 001

AMST 1149

The United States is supposed to exemplify the First World and the global North. But poverty, colonialism, and marginalization are everywhere, evident in income inequality, environmental injustices, gun ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17692 AMST 1149   SEM 101

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

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

  •  9084 AMST 1290   LEC 001

AMST 1312

This course examines the development and cultural significance of rock music from its origins in blues, gospel, and Tin Pan Alley up to alternative rock and hip hop. The course concludes with the year ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1312

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16350 AMST 1312   LEC 001

  • 16351 AMST 1312   DIS 201

  • 16352 AMST 1312   DIS 202

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  • 16356 AMST 1312   DIS 206

AMST 1321

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17197 AMST 1321   LEC 001

AMST 1500

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

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16985 AMST 1500   LEC 001

AMST 1540

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16753 AMST 1540   LEC 001

  • Please contact Judy (jly5) in history if you are interested in this class.

  • 16754 AMST 1540   DIS 201

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  • 18237 AMST 1540   DIS 210

  • 18238 AMST 1540   DIS 211

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

  •  8196 AMST 1585   LEC 001

  • Milman course on sports & American Culture.

  •  8197 AMST 1585   DIS 201

  •  8198 AMST 1585   DIS 202

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  •  8200 AMST 1585   DIS 204

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  •  9491 AMST 1585   DIS 209

  •  9492 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

  •  5263 AMST 1601   LEC 001

  •  5264 AMST 1601   DIS 201

  •  5265 AMST 1601   DIS 202

  •  8181 AMST 1601   DIS 203

AMST 1640

An introductory survey to United States history since the Great Depression, this course explores the dramatic social, economic, and political transformations of the last century. It emphasizes domestic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1640

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16473 AMST 1640   LEC 001

AMST 2000

This course introduces 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.  It contains ... 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

  •  7107 AMST 2000   LEC 001

  •  9263 AMST 2000   DIS 201

  •  9264 AMST 2000   DIS 202

  •  9265 AMST 2000   DIS 203

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  •  9535 AMST 2000   DIS 207

  •  9536 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

  •  9506 AMST 2001   LEC 001

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

AMST 2108

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2100ARTH 2101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17639 AMST 2108   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

  •  9296 AMST 2112   SEM 101

AMST 2152

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

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16410 AMST 2152   LEC 001

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

  •  8319 AMST 2220   SEM 101

AMST 2274

On August 9-10, 1969, ex-convict, aspiring rock star, and charismatic leader Charles Manson ordered his so-called Family to brutally murder a few of LA's rich, white, "beautiful people" and leave clues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2274

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16435 AMST 2274   SEM 101

AMST 2391

This course engages the rich cartographic record of colonial North America via an in-depth analysis of two dozen iconic maps.  Integrating visual and textual analysis, students will assess human representations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2391

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16482 AMST 2391   SEM 101

AMST 2423

How did some intoxicating substances come to be illegal, while others are socially accepted? What is the role and responsibility of the state in managing the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol? This seminar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2423

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16506 AMST 2423   SEM 101

AMST 2470

Digital technology has been a part of modern life in the U.S. since the Cold War. A growing population of users works, plays, become politically active and fight-off boredom through digital technology. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2470STS 2470

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18271 AMST 2470   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

  •  9162 AMST 2512   LEC 001

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

  •  9225 AMST 2620   LEC 001

AMST 2645

This course surveys modern U.S. history, from Reconstruction to the contemporary period. It will examine how race has been the terrain on which competing ideas of the American nation have been contested. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AAS 2641ASRC 2631HIST 2641

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16443 AMST 2645   LEC 001

  • 16444 AMST 2645   DIS 201

  • 16445 AMST 2645   DIS 202

  • 16446 AMST 2645   DIS 203

  • 16447 AMST 2645   DIS 204

  • 16448 AMST 2645   DIS 205

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

  •  6819 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.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 2660HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9174 AMST 2660   LEC 001

  • 16559 AMST 2660   DIS 201

  • 16560 AMST 2660   DIS 202

  • 16561 AMST 2660   DIS 203

    • F
    • Parmenter, J

  • 16562 AMST 2660   DIS 204

    • F
    • Parmenter, J

AMST 2841

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18303 AMST 2841   LEC 001

AMST 2955

"Why no socialism in America?" Scholars and activists have long pondered the relative dearth (compared to other industrialized societies) of sustained, popular, anticapitalist activity in the United States. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2955HIST 2955

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16456 AMST 2955   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

  •  8208 AMST 3010   SEM 101

AMST 3020

Hip Hop/Hipster/Immigrant/Brownstone Brooklyn. This course borrows from hip hop's notion of "representing" to explore popular and cultural understandings of race and place in Brooklyn as depicted in print, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3020ASRC 3020

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16964 AMST 3020   SEM 101

AMST 3071

The US and the global community face a number of complex, interconnected and enduring issues that pose challenges for our political and policy governance institutions and society at large.  Exploring how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3071

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18398 AMST 3071   LEC 001

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 3121

This is a class about the American criminal justice system—from policing to prisons, from arrest to reentry.  In many ways, the operation of the modern criminal justice system is taken for granted, which ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3121

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16657 AMST 3121   LEC 001

  • This class was formerly GOVT 3141, Prisons, taught by Prof. Margulies. It has been renamed and renumbered as GOVT 3121 to distinguish it from the distance learning course taught by Prof. Katzenstein. If you have taken GOVT 3141 with Prof. Margulies, you cannot take GOVT 3121.

  • 17022 AMST 3121   DIS 201

  • 17023 AMST 3121   DIS 202

  • 17024 AMST 3121   DIS 203

  • 17025 AMST 3121   DIS 204

  • 18192 AMST 3121   DIS 205

  • 18199 AMST 3121   DIS 206

  • 18564 AMST 3121   DIS 207

  • 18565 AMST 3121   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 Opt NoAud

  • 16703 AMST 3131   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: EDUC 3143GOVT 3142

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8413 AMST 3142   SEM 101

AMST 3321

This course explores the history of the globalization of jazz and offers a survey of local jazz scenes in various parts of the planet. Rather than presenting jazz as an exclusive U.S. tradition spreading ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3321

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18190 AMST 3321   LEC 001

AMST 3370

How has theatre shaped our notion of America and Americans in the second half of the 20th century and beyond? What role has politics played in recent theatrical experimentation? How has performance been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3370PMA 3758

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17931 AMST 3370   SEM 101

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

  •  8508 AMST 3405   LEC 001

  •  8541 AMST 3405   DIS 201

  •  8542 AMST 3405   DIS 202

  •  8543 AMST 3405   DIS 203

  •  8544 AMST 3405   DIS 204

AMST 3420

Topic Spring 2019: Child Refugees and Politics: Children comprised 52 percent of the worldwide refugee population of 68.5 million in 2017. Traveling with families as well as unaccompanied, they appear ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3400GOVT 3401LSP 3402

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17577 AMST 3420   LEC 001

AMST 3506

This interdisciplinary undergraduate lecture examines the visual culture of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th century to the present. Lectures present artifacts, prints, paintings, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16726 AMST 3506   LEC 001

AMST 3581

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16642 AMST 3581   SEM 101

  • Taught in English.

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

  •  8216 AMST 3703   LEC 001

AMST 3719

This course will explore the relationship between DNA and Jewish life. We will conceive of Jews and Judaism broadly, in terms of religious, ethnic, and national discourses as we consider theories of kinship ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 3719RELST 3719STS 3719

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17626 AMST 3719   LEC 001

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
  •  8884 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

  • 18046 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

  •  5369 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 3981

This course analyzes several areas of Latinx popular culture that deeply impacted U.S. politics and history, artistic productions, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as popular and civic cultures. Mapping ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3980LSP 3980

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16289 AMST 3981   SEM 101

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

  •  5370 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 4021

American conservative thought rests on assumptions that are strikingly different from those made by mainstream American liberals.  However, conservative thinkers are themselves committed to principles ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16460 AMST 4021   SEM 101

AMST 4030

A close study of three major 20th century poets (Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks) who attended scrupulously to the diversity of life, both social and biological, while expanding the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks

  • 16293 AMST 4030   SEM 101

AMST 4051

The death penalty has gotten increased media attention due to high profile death row exonerations, and has long been under siege for other reasons, such as racial disparities in its imposition and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 4051

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18326 AMST 4051   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: WRIT 4130

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9502 AMST 4130   SEM 101

AMST 4194

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4291PMA 4190

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8403 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
  •  8394 AMST 4220   SEM 101

AMST 4533

American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16662 AMST 4533   SEM 101

AMST 4550

What is a university, what does it do, and how does it do it? Moving out from these more general questions, this seminar will focus on a more specific set of questions concerning the place of race within ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 4550ENGL 4961HIST 4551

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18105 AMST 4550   SEM 101

  • Students seeking permission to register for this class should contact aasp@cornell.edu.

AMST 4630

This seminar considers new directions in thinking about political authority that focus on the claims of non-state groups. It considers leading 20th century political theorists who have recognized authority ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17915 AMST 4630   SEM 101

AMST 4655

Advanced discussion of topics in social and political philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Equality, Democracy, and Solidarity

  • 17460 AMST 4655   SEM 101

AMST 4671

The Civil War haunts the United States. Its legacy still drives protests over confederate monuments. Nineteenth-century writers and artists confronted war in their own backyards. Taking advantage of our ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4671

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16305 AMST 4671   SEM 101

  • Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.

AMST 4851

Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16917 AMST 4851   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

  •  5372 AMST 4994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 6015

This graduate seminar explores the making of photographic archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4015ARTH 6015

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17378 AMST 6015   SEM 101

AMST 6201

The United States Congress will be examined: first, as a "closed system" in which institutional arrangements decisively apportion political power; and, second, as the product of electoral and social forces ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16483 AMST 6201   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
  •  8396 AMST 6220   SEM 101

AMST 6321

This seminar explores the international and transnational dimensions of the Black Power Movement, broadly defined. Beginning with an examination of transnationalism in the early 20th century, it examines ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6321HIST 6321

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16926 AMST 6321   SEM 101

AMST 6630

This seminar considers new directions in thinking about political authority that focus on the claims of non-state groups. It considers leading 20th century political theorists who have recognized authority ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17157 AMST 6630   SEM 101

AMST 6656

Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Equality, Democracy, and Solidarity

  • 17465 AMST 6656   SEM 101

AMST 6818

This course engages with new and foundational writings in sound studies that center the racialized body -- be it of the performer, listener, or critic -- as well as racialized histories, places, and practices. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 6818PMA 6818

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18473 AMST 6818   SEM 101