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AMST 1101
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to interdisciplinary considerations of American culture. Specific topics change from year to year and may include: food and nature, broadly defined; the transformation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Bitar, A
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- R Uris Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Morrill Hall 102
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R White Hall 104
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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AMST 1139
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The American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary engagement with what America means in the United States and in a global context. Faculty encourage students to look at the histories and cultures ... view course details
FWS Session.
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: Adapting Musical Theatre
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- TR White Hall B04
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Colpitts, A
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
AMST 1312
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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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1312
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Klarman Hall KG70
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- R Lincoln Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- R Lincoln Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- R Lincoln Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- R Lincoln Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- F Lincoln Hall B20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- F Lincoln Hall B20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- F Lincoln Hall B20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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- F Lincoln Hall B20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Peraino, J
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AMST 1500
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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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1500, GOVT 1503
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Farred, G
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AMST 1540
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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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1540, ILRLR 1845
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Baptist, E
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- R McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Baptist, E
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- R McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Baptist, E
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- F McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Sibley Hall 115
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Uris Hall 312
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R Uris Hall 312
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F McGraw Hall 366
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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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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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Morrison Hall 334
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Kassam, K
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- T Human Ecology Building 201
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Kassam, K
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- W Warren Hall 138
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Kassam, K
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- M Warren Hall 138
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Kassam, K
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AMST 1802
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This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as "America." We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history—territorial expansion and empire, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 1802, LATA 1802, LSP 1802, SHUM 1802
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Garcia, M
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AMST 2000
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects ... 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 G76-Lewis
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickard, J
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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
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Earle, C
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For questions about enrollment, please email Corey Earle, cre8@cornell.edu
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AMST 2016
Course Description
This course is a seminar focused on a service-learning approach to understanding the history of neoliberal transformations of the global economy through the lens of an island (Jamaica) and a community ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one field studies. Combined with: ASRC 2006, HIST 2006
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Baptist, E
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AMST 2253
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This seminar examines the Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican diasporas in the United States. We will examine US relations with these three countries; the root causes of this Caribbean migration; their ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2253, LATA 2252, LSP 2253
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Garcia, M
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AMST 2330
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How does literary language depict the experience of physical suffering? Can a poem or a novel palliate pain, illness, even the possibility of death? From darkly comic narratives of black plague to the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2350, ENGL 2350, FGSS 2350, LGBT 2350, SHUM 2350
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Cohn, E
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AMST 2354
Course Description
This seminar examines some of the political and cultural visions of Africa and Africans held by African-American intellectuals and activists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2354, HIST 2354, SHUM 2354
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Rickford, R
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AMST 2512
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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. Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: ASRC 2512, FGSS 2512, HIST 2512, SHUM 2512
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 202
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Nunley, T
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- W McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Staff
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- W McGraw Hall 366
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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AMST 2562
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This course will introduce students to Black Queer literatures and media. Since these materials decenter whiteness and patriarchal heterosexism, they often seem illegible to those approaching them from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2560, ENGL 2560, FGSS 2560, LGBT 2560
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Frazier, C
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AMST 2581
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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 Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Sachs, A
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- R Uris Hall 369
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F White Hall 106
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- F Uris Hall 302
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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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 Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Hu Pegues, J
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AMST 2635
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This course looks at the American Gothic tradition as showing us the fissures in early American political life specifically around the issues of slavery and Native American land rights. While Gothic literature ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2635
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrill Hall 111
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Warren, L
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AMST 2790
Course Description
What does it mean to call a film is "Jewish"? Does it have to represent Jewish life? Does it have to feature characters identifiable as Jews? If artists who identify as Jews—actors, directors, screenwriters, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2790, PMA 2490, VISST 2790
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR White Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Shapiro, E
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AMST 2792
Course Description
In this course we will examine how we have come to narrate social, cultural, and political history in the United States, investigating the ways scholarly, curatorial, archival, and creative practices shape ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: HIST 2792, SHUM 2792
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Vider, S
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- R McGraw Hall 366
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- R McGraw Hall 366
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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AMST 2980
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Provides an introduction to the role computing and information technologies played in political public life, from tabulating machines used to calculate the census to Big Tech's impact on democratic procedures, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGRG 2980, HIST 2920, INFO 2921, STS 2921
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Upson Hall 216
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Vidan, G
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AMST 3015
Course Description
When sugar "was king," that is, when it was valued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as we might value petroleum today, European nations went to war in order to possess the sugar producing islands ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3010, LATA 3015, ROMS 3010, SHUM 3010
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Ives Hall 109
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Aching, G
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AMST 3024
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No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3051, GOVT 6051, PAM 3020, PAM 5020
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Wolpe Center 118
Washington, DC - Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Courtney, N
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Wolpe Center 118
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Taught in Washington, D.C.
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AMST 3092
Course Description
How is public policy really formed in the United States today? Who are the key actors and decision makers who shape the laws and regulations that impact us at the local, state and federal levels of government? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3092, GOVT 6091, PAM 3090, PAM 5090
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Wolpe Center 118
Washington, DC - Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Christie, R
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Wolpe Center 118
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Taught in Washington, D.C.
AMST 3112
Course Description
The course will be a lecture course on Congress, introducing them to the political science literature on the topic and the major research questions and approaches. We will examine the development of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3112
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Bateman, D
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- M McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Staff
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- W McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- W McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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- W Rockefeller Hall 128
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Staff
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AMST 3131
Course Description
A general-education course to acquaint students with how our legal system pursues the goals of society. The course introduces students to various perspectives on the nature of law, what functions it ought ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3131, LAW 4131
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4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Chutkow, D
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AMST 3145
Course Description
This course will explore the traditional dynamic and norms of political press coverage in the United States, and the impact of those patterns on both the government and the nation; some of the ways longstanding ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 3140, ENGL 3941, GOVT 3221, PAM 3140, PAM 5140
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Wolpe Center 118
Washington, DC - Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Enda, J
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Wolpe Center 118
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Taught in Washington, D.C.
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AMST 3248
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. Â 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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- TR White Hall 106
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
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Staff
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AMST 3401
Course Description
At the conclusion of World War II, the United States ushered in a new international order based on the principles of the Atlantic Charter, which became the basis for the United Nations Charter: including ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3401, GOVT 3211
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 144
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Grovogui, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3405
Course Description
This course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 3405, EDUC 3405, LSP 3405
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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 Uris Library 2B02
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Villenas, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 114
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 303
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 438
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3533
Course Description
This course explores the history, theory, and craft of writing for film, television, and other narrative media (including documentary, reality television, interactive media, etc.). We consider the vital ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3533
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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
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Bunn, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3565
Course Description
Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping "clean" at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3565, ENGL 3565, FGSS 3565
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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 Rockefeller Hall 128
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Frazier, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3590
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickford, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 3617
Course Description
This course is open to experienced rappers, beatmakers, and vocalists interested forging collaborative relationships with other students. Taking as a foundation hip-hop's relationship to social justice, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3616
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Fall, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 3675
Course Description
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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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Hutchinson, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3715
Course Description
This course overviews political theories of colonialism and empire, and in doing so, allows us to pose questions about the constitutive elements of our modernity, such as slavery, racism, dependency, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3715
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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 White Hall 106
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Adalet, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3732
Course Description
When an African and an African American meet, solidarity is presumed, but often friction is the result. In this course, we will consider how Africans and African Americans see each other through literature. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3742, ENGL 3742, SHUM 3742
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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
- MWF Uris Hall G28
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Ngugi, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3764
Course Description
What can lawyers and judges learn from the study of literature? This course explores the relevance of imaginative literature (novels, drama, poetry, and film) to questions of law and social justice from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3762, ENGL 6710, GOVT 6045, LAW 6710
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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 Myron Taylor Hall G90
- Jan 23 - Apr 28, 2023
Instructors
Anker, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3820
Course Description
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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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 Sibley Hall 115
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AMST 4021
Course Description
American conservative thought rests on assumptions that are strikingly different from those made by mainstream American liberals. However, conservative thinkers are themselves committed to principles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4021
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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 Olin Library 403
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Bensel, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 4023
Course Description
What does it mean to be Black and Indigenous? For much of United States history, at least, to be Black and Indigenous was a legal if not social impossibility. Even as societies around the world have embraced ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4023, FGSS 4023
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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
- MW Uris Library 2B02
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Chresfield, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4051
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 4051
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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
- TR Myron Taylor Hall 184
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Blume, J
Johnson, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4157
Course Description
This seminar invites students to consider major debates and historiographical problems that emerge in the history of race in nineteenth-century America. Through in-depth reading, engaging discussion, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6157, HIST 4157, HIST 6157
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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
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 348
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Nunley, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4218
Course Description
This course will offer students an opportunity to view the process of shaping national debates from the perspective of the United States Senate. The modern Senate will serve as the point of reference for ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4218, HIST 4030
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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
- TBA Washington, DC
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in Washington, DC as part of the Course in Washington program.
AMST 4434
Course Description
In this course, we examine the role that law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We will approach law from a critical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6424, ANTHR 4434, ANTHR 6424, LAW 7231, LSP 4434, LSP 6424
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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
- F McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Santiago-Irizarry, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4603
Course Description
This course takes up literatures and arts of Black speculation in the broadest terms, from science fiction and fantasy to Afrofuturism and Afropunk to Phillis Wheatley's and Outkast's poetics. We'll give ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4655, ENGL 4605, SHUM 4605
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 348
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Spires, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4701, LGBT 4701, LSP 4701, LSP 6701, PMA 4701, PMA 6701, SHUM 4701
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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
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Jaime, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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 6157
Course Description
This seminar invites students to consider major debates and historiographical problems that emerge in the history of race in nineteenth-century America. Through in-depth reading, engaging discussion, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4157, HIST 4157, HIST 6157
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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
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 348
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Nunley, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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. Â 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
- TR White Hall 106
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6424
Course Description
In this course, we examine the role that law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We will approach law from a critical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4434, ANTHR 4434, ANTHR 6424, LAW 7231, LSP 4434, LSP 6424
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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
- F McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Santiago-Irizarry, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6656
Course Description
Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6656, PHIL 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Free Speech
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 102
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Marmor, A
Shoemaker, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 6809
Course Description
Urban Justice Labs are innovative seminars designed to bring students into direct contact with complex questions about race and social justice within the context of American urban culture, architecture, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6319, ART 6419, ASRC 6819, ENGL 6919, 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: Seeing to Be in the Aftermath
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Obadike, K
Van Clief-Stefanon, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 6865
Course Description
This seminar is an intensive study of the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr. Approaching texts in contexts, we will read works including The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6865, GOVT 6865
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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 Morrill Hall 404
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Livingston, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person