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AMST 1139

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Gal Pals: Lesbian and Sapphic Media Fandoms

  • 20161 AMST 1139   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall B14
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Serafini, V

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

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

  •  7195 AMST 1312   LEC 001

  •  7196 AMST 1312   DIS 201

  •  7197 AMST 1312   DIS 202

  •  7198 AMST 1312   DIS 203

  •  7199 AMST 1312   DIS 204

  •  7200 AMST 1312   DIS 205

  •  7201 AMST 1312   DIS 206

  •  7202 AMST 1312   DIS 207

  •  7203 AMST 1312   DIS 208

  • 18647 AMST 1312   DIS 209

AMST 1500

At the inception of this department at Cornell University in 1969, the Africana Studies and Research Center became the birthplace of the field "Africana studies." Africana studies emphasizes comparative ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5836 AMST 1500   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 219
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Richardson, R

  • 17706 AMST 1500   DIS 201

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

  •  3489 AMST 1601   LEC 001

    • MW Weill Hall 226
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Kassam, K

  •  3490 AMST 1601   DIS 201

    • T Kennedy Hall 101
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Kassam, K

  •  3491 AMST 1601   DIS 202

  •  5437 AMST 1601   DIS 203

AMST 1802

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  6878 AMST 1802   LEC 001

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Garcia, M

AMST 1986

This course provides an overview of disastrous attempts at colonization in the Americas from ca. 1500 through ca. 1760. Over thirteen weeks, we will engage with the question of why some attempts at colonization ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 1986HIST 1986LATA 1986

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17528 AMST 1986   LEC 001

    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Schmitt, C

  • 17529 AMST 1986   DIS 201

  • 17530 AMST 1986   DIS 202

  • 17531 AMST 1986   DIS 203

    • F McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 17532 AMST 1986   DIS 204

  • 17533 AMST 1986   DIS 205

    • F McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 17534 AMST 1986   DIS 206

    • F McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

AMST 2000

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

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

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  4823 AMST 2000   LEC 001

  •  5674 AMST 2000   DIS 201

    • R Uris Hall G28
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5675 AMST 2000   DIS 202

    • R Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5676 AMST 2000   DIS 203

  •  5677 AMST 2000   DIS 204

    • F Morrill Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5678 AMST 2000   DIS 205

  •  5679 AMST 2000   DIS 206

    • R Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  6015 AMST 2000   DIS 207

  •  6016 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

  •  5759 AMST 2001   LEC 001

    • M Uris Hall G01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Earle, C

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

AMST 2023

This course centers Black women who have often described their reproductive health experiences as "fighting for our lives." While grounded in an exploration of Black women 's experiences in the US, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17680 AMST 2023   SEM 101

    • MW Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chresfield, M

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chresfield, M

  • 17681 AMST 2023   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  • 20165 AMST 2023   SEM 102

    • MW Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chresfield, M

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chresfield, M

AMST 2105

The musical is a distinct and significant form of American performance. This course will consider the origins, development, and internationalization of the American musical and will emphasize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2150MUSIC 2250PMA 2650

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17596 AMST 2105   LEC 001

AMST 2152

How are migration dynamics produced? How do states and communities respond to and shape complex migration processes? This course will draw on the United States as a case study, focusing on Latino immigrants. ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18629 AMST 2152   LEC 001

AMST 2212

What is the American empire? Is empire even the right word to describe U.S. power in the world today or in the past? If so, is the American empire formal or informal, and is the United States a reluctant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2212

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18752 AMST 2212   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 398
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Lawlor, R

  • 18753 AMST 2212   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 2581

This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity's interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5937 AMST 2581   LEC 001

  •  5938 AMST 2581   DIS 201

  •  5939 AMST 2581   DIS 202

  •  5940 AMST 2581   DIS 203

    • F White Hall B14
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  •  5941 AMST 2581   DIS 204

AMST 2635

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17201 AMST 2635   SEM 101

    • MW Morrill Hall 106
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Warren, L

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17574 AMST 2645   LEC 001

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chang, D

  • 17575 AMST 2645   DIS 201

  • 17576 AMST 2645   DIS 202

    • F McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 17577 AMST 2645   DIS 203

  • 17578 AMST 2645   DIS 204

    • F McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 20628 AMST 2645   DIS 205

AMST 2650

This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2650ENGL 2650SHUM 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17205 AMST 2650   SEM 101

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17587 AMST 2660   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Parmenter, J

  • 17588 AMST 2660   DIS 201

  • 17589 AMST 2660   DIS 202

    • F McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

AMST 2710

This course is a blending of the Sociology of Education and Public Policy. Front and center in this course is the question of why consistent differential educational and economic outcomes exists in American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17224 AMST 2710   LEC 001

    • MW Warren Hall 175
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17225 AMST 2710   DIS 201

    • T Warren Hall 138
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17226 AMST 2710   DIS 202

    • W Warren Hall 137
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17227 AMST 2710   DIS 203

    • R Warren Hall 137
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17228 AMST 2710   DIS 204

    • F Warren Hall 113
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17229 AMST 2710   DIS 205

    • F Warren Hall 113
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

AMST 2790

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2790PMA 2490VISST 2790

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6716 AMST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR White Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Shapiro, E

AMST 3112

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3112PUBPOL 3112

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6785 AMST 3112   LEC 001

  •  7389 AMST 3112   DIS 201

    • M McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  •  7390 AMST 3112   DIS 202

    • W McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  •  7391 AMST 3112   DIS 203

  •  7672 AMST 3112   DIS 204

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

  • 17248 AMST 3131   LEC 001

AMST 3161

This course will explore and seek explanations for the performance of the 20-21st century presidency, focusing on its institutional and political development, recruitment process (nominations and elections), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3161

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17993 AMST 3161   LEC 001

  • 17994 AMST 3161   DIS 201

    • M McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 17995 AMST 3161   DIS 202

    • W McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • 17996 AMST 3161   DIS 203

  • 20196 AMST 3161   DIS 204

AMST 3248

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  7058 AMST 3248   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall 262
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sanft, S

AMST 3380

This is a course on urban inequality in the United States. The first half of the semester will be dedicated to understanding the political, historical, and social determinants of inequality in America's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 3380

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17036 AMST 3380   SEM 101

    • TR Ives Hall 107
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Bischoff, K

AMST 3463

This course considers issues, approaches, and complexities in the contemporary television landscape. As television has changed drastically over the past fifteen years, this course provides students with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3463VISST 3463

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17643 AMST 3463   SEM 101

AMST 3616

How can we account for the contemporary popularity of podcasts? In what ways do they build on, and break from, earlier forms of writing for the ear? In this class we will study innovative podcast fictions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3615SHUM 3615

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17804 AMST 3616   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Library 311
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Braddock, J

AMST 3617

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3616

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  6159 AMST 3617   STU 501

AMST 3629

This course looks at what it means to make art in, of, and after nature, and asks how that art might contribute to shaping the world we live in. Tracing a trajectory from the collection and display of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 3620ARTH 6624

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18569 AMST 3629   LEC 001

  • 18572 AMST 3629   DIS 201

    • W White Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Presutti, K

AMST 3632

What is (or was) American empire? This course examines U.S. literature from WWII to the early 21st century. This period has been termed the "American century" because of the U.S.'s dominant role in shaping ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3630

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18380 AMST 3632   SEM 101

    • MW Sibley Hall 208
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Thomas, L

AMST 3687

This seminar examines the history of the United States' involvement with Middle East beginning with evangelical efforts in the 19th century and President Wilson's engagement with the colonial powers in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17661 AMST 3687   SEM 101

  • Taught in Washington, D.C.

AMST 3752

This course invites students to consider how Black women interacted with material objects and how these artifacts informed the contexts of their daily lives. the history of Black women as creators, consumers, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 3750HIST 3750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18746 AMST 3752   LEC 001

  • 18747 AMST 3752   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Nunley, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 3785

This course examines controversies in the theory and history of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? Can law breaking ever be civil rather than criminal? Do disruptive ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3785PHIL 2945

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18065 AMST 3785   LEC 001

    • MW Ives Hall 105
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Livingston, A

  • 18066 AMST 3785   DIS 201

    • M White Hall B04
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Livingston, A

  • 18067 AMST 3785   DIS 202

    • T White Hall B14
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Livingston, A

  • 18068 AMST 3785   DIS 203

    • T McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Livingston, A

  • 18069 AMST 3785   DIS 204

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
  • 17899 AMST 3820   SEM 101

AMST 3885

Across twentieth-century history, race and war have been dynamic forces in shaping economic organization and everyday livelihoods. This course will approach labor and working-class history, through a focus ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3885HIST 3884ILRLR 3885

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17861 AMST 3885   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 217
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Nagaraja, T

AMST 3911

This course reviews the changing relations between science, technology, and the state in America, focusing on the period from 1960 to the present. We will explore science-intensive policy controversies. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3091STS 3911

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16988 AMST 3911   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

  •  3565 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  3566 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: GOVT 4021

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6434 AMST 4021   SEM 101

    • F Olin Library 403
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Bensel, R

  • 18894 AMST 4021   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4023

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4023FGSS 4023HIST 4023

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7582 AMST 4023   SEM 101

    • MW Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Chresfield, M

AMST 4109

This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18634 AMST 4109   SEM 101

    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Baptist, E

  • 18635 AMST 4109   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4111

This course provides students with a challenging and interdisciplinary examination of race and space in North American history. It engages public history and critical geographic study through the lens ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19830 AMST 4111   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Hyman, C

  • 19831 AMST 4111   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4218

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4218HIST 4030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7322 AMST 4218   SEM 101

    • M Washington, DC
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Scott, K

  • Taught in Washington, DC as part of the Course in Washington program.

AMST 4283

What are the social, policy, and political needs of the diverse Latino community? This seminar delves into the politics of resistance and solidarity of Latinxs/Hispanics in North America, with a primary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: GOVT 4283LSP 4283

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18623 AMST 4283   SEM 101

    • R Uris Hall 494
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Villegas Rivera, F

  • 19483 AMST 4283   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Villegas Rivera, F

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4521

This seminar will investigate the narrative uses of history and memory in US fiction, focusing particularly on the impact of gender on these representations. How do US writers use history in their fiction, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4521FGSS 4521

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17983 AMST 4521   SEM 101

    • M White Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • McCullough, K

  • 17987 AMST 4521   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4674

The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17670 AMST 4674   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Parmenter, J

AMST 4681

This course explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country and examines the increasing scholarship surrounding arts programs and their efficacy for incarcerated persons. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4681

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18969 AMST 4681   SEM 101

AMST 4683

How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17138 AMST 4683   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

  •  3568 AMST 4994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 5710

Examines the goals, roles, inputs, and outcomes of schooling in American society, and the policy environment in which schools operate. Analyzes controversies and tensions (e.g., equity, market forces, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17315 AMST 5710   LEC 001

    • MW Warren Hall 175
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17316 AMST 5710   DIS 201

    • T Warren Hall 138
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17317 AMST 5710   DIS 202

    • W Warren Hall 137
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17318 AMST 5710   DIS 203

    • R Warren Hall 137
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17319 AMST 5710   DIS 204

    • F Warren Hall 113
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

  • 17320 AMST 5710   DIS 205

    • F Warren Hall 113
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sipple, J

AMST 6109

This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details

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  • 18632 AMST 6109   SEM 101

    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Baptist, E

  • 18633 AMST 6109   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6111

This course provides students with a challenging and interdisciplinary examination of race and space in North American history. It engages public history and critical geographic study through the lens ... view course details

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  • 19834 AMST 6111   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Hyman, C

  • 19835 AMST 6111   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6248

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

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  •  7113 AMST 6248   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall 262
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Sanft, S

AMST 6674

The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details

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  • 17668 AMST 6674   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Parmenter, J

AMST 6683

How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details

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  • 17142 AMST 6683   SEM 101