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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Fall 2008
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2124 AMST-203-01 Conflcts & Cultures Am Society 1.00 LEC Gac,Scott T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  NOTE: Seats are reserved as follows: Senior - 3, Junior - 5, Sophomore - 9, and First Year - 8
  Focusing on a key decade in American life—the 1890s, for example, or the 1850s—this course will examine the dynamics of race, class, gender, and ethnicity as forces which have shaped and been shaped by American culture. How did various groups define themselves at particular historical moments? How did they interact with each other and with American society? Why did some groups achieve hegemony and not others, and what were—and are—the implications of these dynamics for our understanding of American culture? By examining both interpretive and primary documents—novels, autobiographies, works of art and popular culture—we will consider these and other questions concerning the production of American culture.
3710 AMST-279-01 American Autobiography 1.00 LEC Maier,Brennan T: 2:40PM- 3:55PM
R: 2:55PM- 4:10PM		 TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  With its scandals, rags-to-riches tales, and liberal attitude toward The Truth, autobiography has long enjoyed a reputation as America's favorite literary genre. In this class, we will examine the ways in which a diverse group of Americans has used autobiography to present stories of individual self-fashioning and group experience. Our readings will be eclectic in the extreme, ranging from canonical works by Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Gertrude Stein to more recent work by Maxine Hong Kingston, Samuel Delany, and Vogue Magazine's Editor-at-Large, Andre Leon Talley.
2567 AMST-301-01 Jr. Sem.: American Texts 1.00 SEM Tang,Scott H. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: Students must have completed American Studies 203 or enroll in 203 with 301.203
  This course, required for the American Studies major and ordinarily taken in the fall of the Junior year, examines central texts in American history and culture. Through intensive discussion and writing the class will explore the contexts of these works as well as the works themselves, paying particular attention to the interrelated issues of race, class, gender, and other similarly pivotal social constructs. Course is open only to American Studies majors.
3504 AMST-301-02 Jr. Sem.: American Texts 1.00 SEM Leach,Eugene E. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: Students must have completed American Studies 203 or enroll in 203 with 301.203
  This course, required for the American Studies major and ordinarily taken in the fall of the Junior year, examines central texts in American history and culture. Through intensive discussion and writing the class will explore the contexts of these works as well as the works themselves, paying particular attention to the interrelated issues of race, class, gender, and other similarly pivotal social constructs. Course is open only to American Studies majors.
3667 AMST-326-01 Representation of Miscegenatn 1.00 LEC TBA M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: for English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of those varied representations. Examining both primary and secondary texts, including fiction, film, legal cases, historical criticism, and drama, we will explore how instances of interracial contact both threaten and expand formulations of race and “Americanness” in the U.S. and beyond. How is miscegenation emblematic of other issues invoked, such as gender, nation, and sexuality? How do enactments of interracial contact complicate the subjects that they “stage”?
3505 AMST-348-01 Thought&Culture in Am Soc 1.00 LEC Masur,Louis P. T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 MCEC - 232  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: Seats are reserved: 7 Seniors, 7 Juniors, and 6 Sophomores.
  This course offers a survey of American intellectual and cultural history in the long nineteenth century – from the decades following the Revolution to the early years of the twentieth century. Among the various “isms” we will unpack are republicanism, evangelicalism, transcendentalism, individualism, populism, pragmatism, and progressivism. Readings will include work by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William James, Ida Wells, Jane Addams, Jack London and others.
2905 AMST-352-01 The Culture of Cold War Americ 1.00 SEM Tang,Scott H. M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  This course encourages students to critically analyze the relationship between the Cold War and developments in American culture. Discussion topics include the roots of the Cold War, the anxieties concerning nuclear annihilation, the fear of global and domestic communism, representations of the Cold War in social memory, political dissent and cultural politics during the Cold War, and the impact of the Cold War on gender norms, civil rights, and labor relations. In addition to reading historical monographs, students will be interpreting the era’s popular culture.
3077 AMST-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment.
3078 AMST-402-01 Senior Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Students undertake projects on American Studies topics of their own choosing. The projects will be supervised by a faculty member in an American Studies-related field. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the project adviser and director, are required for enrollment.
2903 AMST-409-01 Sr Sem: Visual Culture in Amer 1.00 SEM Masur,Louis P. T: 6:30PM- 9:00PM MCEC - 232  
  Enrollment limited to 18
  Course open only to senior American Studies majors.
  Images have always played a critical role in the construction of American culture. Drawing upon diverse media (prints, painting, cartoons, photography, movies, television and the graphic novel) and interdisciplinary readings on the interpretation of images, we will examine the changing role of visual culture in the shaping of American society. Specific topics include 18th century family portraits, Civil War photography, images of empire, documentary expression in the 1930s, and visual narratives of 9/11.
3677 AMST-416-01 Cult&Pol in Mid-Twent Cent Am 1.00 SEM Cohn,William H. W: 6:00PM- 9:00PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 5
  What role does culture play in determining who wins and loses presidential campaigns? Did Harry Truman defeat Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 because Dewey wore a mustache? Did Adlai E. Stevenson lose in 1952 and 1956 because he was an egg head? Did Richard M. Nixon’s television image of a man who needed a shave contribute to his defeat to the well groomed and younger appearing John F. Kennedy in 1960? This semester we will examine the changing cultural narrative of post World War II America delivered to Americans by the print and electronic media. We will examine how that narrative affected voter decision making in the elections of 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960. We will also attempt to understand what cultural messages persuaded American citizens to vote for or against their own economic and civic interests. References to the current cultural climate and the election of 2008 will constitute an important part of our ongoing discussion.
3681 AMST-427-01 Body Art in Fiction,Film&Pract 1.00 SEM Fitzgerald,Ann T: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 5
  Body art is the most common of arts. And yet the least explored. People have at all times painted, marked and pierced their bodies. But only recently have such practices been studied by serious scholars. This class will explore the ways in which various body-art practices have developed and evolved, especially as they are portrayed in literary texts, historical documents, and films. We will examine such interpretations of body art in order to ponder how and why people mark themselves (and others), how that has changed in significant ways over time, and how literary and visual representations of body art affect the character of the practices themselves.
3665 AMST-465-01 Post-War/Postmodern:American 1.00 SEM McCombie,Mary E. R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This course explores the specifics of design in postwar America from a variety of perspectives, particularly its social history. We will consider the growing phenomenon of postwar design templates as re-invented by contemporary designers in an attempt to understand why these icons of the baby boom have come to roost in contemporary culture. Topics include automobile design and history; housing and the creation of the American suburb; taming the exotic in tiki bars; kitchen debates and the feminine mystique; domestic ideals/queering domesticity.
3422 AMST-466-01 Teaching Assistantship 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment.
3079 AMST-498-01 Senior Thesis Part 1 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  NOTE: Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded whti the completion of Part II.)
  NOTE: Requires completion of the Special Registration Form, available in the Office of the Registrar.
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.)
3307 AMST-801-01 Appr to Amer Studies 1.00 LEC Lauter,Paul M: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Permission of instructor is required for undergraduates only.
  This seminar, which is required of all American Studies graduate students, examines a variety of approaches to the field. Readings may include several “classic” texts of 18th- and 19th-century American culture and several key works of American Studies scholarship from the formative period of the field after World War II, as well as more recent contributions to the study of the United States. Topics will include changing ideas about the content, production, and consumption of American culture, patterns of ethnic identification and definition, the construction of categories like “race” and “gender,” and the bearing of class, race, gender, and sexuality on individuals’ participation in American society and culture. Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor.
3722 AMST-805-01 American Literature: The Remix 1.00 SEM Maier,Brennan T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 5
  In this course, students will examine the ways in which a series of books are in direct and indirect conversation with another. We will do so by reading several ‘classics’ of 19th and 20th-century American literature side-by-side with both contemporary and modern authors whose own work echoes or rewrites those ‘classics’ in especially startling or suggestive ways. Given these concerns, we will be as interested in issues of continuity as we will be in matters of distinction. Another aim of this course will be to challenge insufficiently dynamic understandings of culture and the artificial barriers that have together served to separate ‘American Literature’ from various Ethnic American and African American literatures.
3678 AMST-816-01 Cult&Pol in Mid-Twent Cent Am 1.00 SEM Cohn,William H. W: 6:00PM- 9:00PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 10
  What role does culture play in determining who wins and loses presidential campaigns? Did Harry Truman defeat Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 because Dewey wore a mustache? Did Adlai E. Stevenson lose in 1952 and 1956 because he was an egg head? Did Richard M. Nixon’s television image of a man who needed a shave contribute to his defeat to the well groomed and younger appearing John F. Kennedy in 1960? This semester we will examine the changing cultural narrative of post World War II America delivered to Americans by the print and electronic media. We will examine how that narrative affected voter decision making in the elections of 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960. We will also attempt to understand what cultural messages persuaded American citizens to vote for or against their own economic and civic interests. References to the current cultural climate and the election of 2008 will constitute an important part of our ongoing discussion.
3680 AMST-827-01 Body Art in Fiction,Film&Pract 1.00 SEM Fitzgerald,Ann T: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  Body art is the most common of arts. And yet the least explored. People have at all times painted, marked and pierced their bodies. But only recently have such practices been studied by serious scholars. This class will explore the ways in which various body-art practices have developed and evolved, especially as they are portrayed in literary texts, historical documents, and films. We will examine such interpretations of body art in order to ponder how and why people mark themselves (and others), how that has changed in significant ways over time, and how literary and visual representations of body art affect the character of the practices themselves.
3331 AMST-865-01 Post-War/Postmodern:American 1.00 SEM McCombie,Mary E. R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This course explores the specifics of design in postwar America from a variety of perspectives, particularly its social history. We will consider the growing phenomenon of postwar design templates as re-invented by contemporary designers in an attempt to understand why these icons of the baby boom have come to roost in contemporary culture. Topics include automobile design and history; housing and the creation of the American suburb; taming the exotic in tiki bars; kitchen debates and the feminine mystique; domestic ideals/queering domesticity.
3316 AMST-894-01 Museums and Communities Intern 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Matriculated American Studies students have the opportunity to engage in an academic internship at an area museum or archive for credit toward the American Studies degree. For detailed information, contact the Graduate Studies Office.
3336 AMST-940-01 Independent Study 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the Graduate Adviser and Program Director. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
3332 AMST-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Under the guidance of a faculty member, graduate students may do an independent research project on a topic in American Studies. Written approval of the Graduate Adviser and the Program Director is required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
3333 AMST-954-01 Thesis Part I 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.)
3335 AMST-955-01 Thesis Part II 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  (Continuation of American Studies 954.)
3334 AMST-956-01 Thesis 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  (Completion of two course credits in one semester).
2180 ENGL-205-01 Intro to Amer Lit II 1.00 LEC Hager,Christopher MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. (15 Seats will be reserved for First-Year students)
  This course surveys major works of American literature after 1865, from literary reckonings with the Civil War and its tragic residues, to works of ‘realism’ and ‘naturalism’ that contended with the late 19th century’s rapid pace of social change, to the innovative works of the modern and postmodern eras. As we read works by authors such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, we will inquire: how have literary texts defined and redefined ‘America’ and Americans? What are the means by which some groups have been excluded from the American community, and what are their experiences of that exclusion? And how do these texts shape our understanding of the unresolved problems of post-Civil War American democracy? For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
2351 ENGL-265-01 Intro to Film Studies 1.00 LEC Riggio,Milla C. T: 2:40PM- 3:55PM
R: 2:55PM- 4:10PM
W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 65
  NOTE: 15 Seats Reserved for First Year Students
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context. Film screening only on Wednesday.
  A study of film as a genre and of the critical and technical concepts needed to analyze it. The study is undertaken largely through the examination and discussion of feature films chosen for variety of technique, style, and cultural context. Required film screenings will be scheduled accordingly. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
3715 ENGL-340-01 Jazz in American Literature 1.00 LEC Maier,Brennan W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  Hailed by some as America’s most significant cultural contribution, jazz has occupied a place of tremendous importance in the cultural life of the 20th century. This course examines representations of jazz in American literature in order to understand a few of the many ways American writers have drawn on jazz to enrich their themes and enliven their style. In addition to familiarizing themselves with the music of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, students will read works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Frank O’Hara, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Harper, and Toni Morrison. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
3089 ENGL-347-01 Black Women Wrtrs in the 21st 1.00 LEC Solomon,Asali MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. Enrollment limited to 30 students.
  This course considers the critical acclaim for and commercial hype over black women’s writing in the 20th century as a jumping off point for discussions of black women’s literature since 2000. Considering the rich diversity of aesthetic and thematic approaches in 21st century African American women’s texts, we will consider what is distinctive about this work, as well as if and how it forms a continuum with an earlier canon. Some topics for discussion will include class identity, genre, the avant-garde and the influence of Oprah Winfrey. We will read poetry by Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander and Claudia Rankine, fiction by Octavia Butler, ZZ Packer, Kim McLarin and Jamaica Kincaid, and the work of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. In order to form a basis for comparison, we will read a handful of foundational works published in the 20th century: Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and poetry collections by Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
3717 ENGL-405-01 American Literature: The Remix 1.00 LEC Maier,Brennan T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  In this course, students will examine the ways in which a series of books are in direct and indirect conversation with another. We will do so by reading several ‘classics’ of 19th- and 20th-century American literature side-by-side with both contemporary and modern authors whose own work echoes or rewrites those ‘classics’ in especially startling or suggestive ways. Given these concerns, we will be as interested in issues of continuity as we will be in matters of distinction. Another aim of this course will be to challenge insufficiently dynamic understandings of culture and the artificial barriers that have together served to separate ‘American literature’ from various Ethnic American and African American literatures. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
3565 ENGL-468-05 Edith Wharton and Henry James 1.00 SEM Hager,Christopher W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  NOTE: Same as English 868-17.
  NOTE: Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  Their lives stretched from a pre-industrial time of horses and carriages to a modern era of automobiles and skyscrapers. As members of social and cultural elites, they were front-line observers of the original Gilded Age (to which many have likened our own historical moment). With Victorian mores on the wane, they and their characters contended with complicated and shifting ideas about gender and marriage. In this course, we will study the work of two American writers who represented these profound social changes in intricate psychological dramas written in some of the most stylistically accomplished prose in the English language. By reading and discussing short stories, novels, and essays by Edith Wharton and Henry James, we will consider their influence on each other and on the literary categories of realism and modernism; their works’ implications about gender, identity, and power; and the historical and economic context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note: English 468-05 and English 868-17 are the same course.) For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a coruse emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
3566 ENGL-868-17 Edith Wharton and Henry James 1.00 SEM Hager,Christopher W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  NOTE: : For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context. (Same as ENGL 468-05.)
  Their lives stretched from a pre-industrial time of horses and carriages to a modern era of automobiles and skyscrapers. As members of social and cultural elites, they were front-line observers of the original Gilded Age (to which many have likened our own historical moment). With Victorian mores on the wane, they and their characters contended with complicated and shifting ideas about gender and marriage. In this course, we will study the work of two American writers who represented these profound social changes in intricate psychological dramas written in some of the most stylistically accomplished prose in the English language. By reading and discussing short stories, novels, and essays by Edith Wharton and Henry James, we will consider their influence on each other and on the literary categories of realism and modernism; their works’ implications about gender, identity, and power; and the historical and economic context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note: English 468-05 and English 868-17 are the same course.) For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a coruse emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
2211 HIST-201-01 US Colonial Per thru Civil War 1.00 LEC Chatfield,John H. MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 90
  An examination of the developing American political tradition with emphasis on economic and ideological factors.
3676 HIST-312-01 Form Years: 1793-1815 1.00 LEC Chatfield,John H. R: 6:30PM- 9:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  An examination of the causes and course of the American Revolution; the Confederation period; the framing of the Constitution; and the political and diplomatic history of the early republic. Special attention will also be given to the institution of plantation slavery in the South, and the paradoxical relationship between the ideals of republicanism and human bondage in the South.
2733 HIST-352-01 The Coming of the Civil War 1.00 LEC Spencer,J. Ronald T: 1:15PM- 2:30PM
R: 1:30PM- 2:45PM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  An exploration of the origins of the American Civil War, with emphasis on such topics as slavery, race, abolitionism, growing southern sectional consciousness, the struggle over slavery in the western territories, the dissolution of the national party system and the rise of the Republicans, the secession of seven states following Lincoln's election, eleventh-hour efforts at compromise, and the Fort Sumter crisis. Lectures and discussion. N.B. Not open to students who have taken History 350. The Civil War Era.
3394 HIST-862-01 American Civil War through Lit 1.00 SEM Gac,Scott W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This graduate-level seminar investigates the causes and consequences of the Civil War using a variety of nineteenth-century writings from memoirs and letters to novels and poems. We will explore different and often competing ideas about slavery and freedom, state and nation, individual rights, and family which, in many cases, were transformed by the conflict and which, in turn, forever changed American life. Understanding these issues will provide a means for serious interrogation of the way in which modern historians frame the Civil War and suggest new ways to think about the military, social, and cultural milieu of the late nineteenth century. Authors studied will include: Mary Chesnut, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses Grant, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and others.
3607 MUSC-224-01 Music of Black American Women 1.00 LEC Woldu,Gail H. T: 1:15PM- 2:30PM
R: 1:30PM- 2:45PM		 AAC - 101 ART  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  A broad survey of the music of black American women, focusing primarily on the music and lives of the great classic blues singers and the jazz singers of the 1940s through 1960s. No previous training in music is required.
3522 MUSC-272-01 Contemporary Musical Theater 1.00 LEC Moshell,Gerald T: 2:40PM- 3:55PM
R: 2:55PM- 4:10PM		 AAC - 101 ART  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  An appreciation of the corpus of recent Broadway musicals that, beginning with Stephen Sondheim's Company (1970), brought new aesthetic and intellectual vigor to an art form grown stale on the outmoded formulas of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe. "Musical comedy" no longer constitutes an appropriate term for these works born of contemporary consciousness and realism, works influenced by some of the most advanced streams of 20th-century artistic thought. Works to be studied include Hair, Pippin, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line, Cats, and many others. No previous training in music is required.
2553 PBPL-201-01 Intro to Ameri Public Policy 1.00 LEC Fulco,Adrienne MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA Y SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  This course is only open to Sophomore and Junior students.
  NOTE: Course not open to First Year Students
  This course introduces students to the formal and informal processes through which American public policy is made. They will study the constitutional institutions of government and the distinct role each branch of the national government plays in the policy-making process, and also examine the ways in which informal institutions-political parties, the media, and political lobbyists-contribute to and shape the policy process.
2976 PBPL-263-01 Art and the Public Good 1.00 LEC Power,Katharine G. T: 1:15PM- 2:30PM
R: 1:30PM- 2:45PM		 TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  NOTE: Five seats are reserved for first-year students.
  Is Art a public Good? Is government good for Art? Students will explore these questions by examining what happens when U.S. taxpayer dollars are used to fund the arts. Course topics will include: the depression era federal arts projects and the dream of a "cultural democracy" that inspired them; the State Department's export of art across the globe during the Cold War era; the legal and congressional battles over offensive art that threatened to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1990s ; and former Mayor Giuliani's attempt to withdraw funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art following public outcry over a provocative depiction of the Virgin Mary.
3719 PBPL-365-01 Crime,Punishment&Public Policy 1.00 LEC Fulco,Adrienne WF: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Public Policy 201or Public Policy 202 or Permission of Instructor.
  This course will introduce students to the public policy dimensions of crime and punishment in America. We will examine theories of punishment, the structure of the criminal justice system, and th role of the courts in defining the constitutional rights of the accused. Course materials wil include novels,policy texts, films, and court cases.
3622 POLS-102-01 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC TBA MWF: 9:00AM- 9:50AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  An examination of the institutions, processes, values, and problems of American government and democracy. Included are constitutional foundations, federalism, political parties, Congress, the presidency, the judiciary, national administration, and basic issues of American government and democracy.
3623 POLS-102-02 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC TBA MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  An examination of the institutions, processes, values, and problems of American government and democracy. Included are constitutional foundations, federalism, political parties, Congress, the presidency, the judiciary, national administration, and basic issues of American government and democracy.
3691 POLS-102-03 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC McMahon,Kevin J. T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  An examination of the institutions, processes, values, and problems of American government and democracy. Included are constitutional foundations, federalism, political parties, Congress, the presidency, the judiciary, national administration, and basic issues of American government and democracy.
2296 POLS-225-01 American Presidency 1.00 LEC Reilly,Thomas A. T: 11:20AM-12:35PM
R: 10:50AM-12:05PM		 TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  An explanation of the institutional and political evolution of the presidency with an emphasis on the nature of presidential power in domestic and foreign affairs. Attention is also given to institutional conflicts with Congress and the courts. The nature of presidential leadership and personality is also explored.
3463 POLS-301-01 American Political Parties 1.00 LEC Evans,Diana T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102.
  An analysis of American political parties, including a study of voting behavior, party organization and leadership, and recent and proposed reforms and proposals for reorganization of existing party structures.
2722 POLS-379-01 American Foreign Policy 1.00 LEC Flibbert,Andrew T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA Y SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  This course offers an examination of postwar American foreign policy. After reviewing the major theoretical and interpretive perspectives, we examine the policymaking process, focused on the principal players in the executive and legislative branches, as well as interest groups and the media. We then turn to contemporary issues: the 'war on terror,' the Iraq war, humanitarian intervention, U.S. relations with other major powers, and America's future prospects as the dominant global power.
2704 RELG-267-01 Religion and the Media 1.00 LEC Silk,Mark R. T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Western religion, and Christianity in particular, has always put a premium on employing the available techniques of mass communication to get its message out. But today, many religious people see the omnipresent “secular” media as hostile to their faith. This course will look at the relationship between religion and the communications media, focusing primarily on how the American news media have dealt with religion since the creation of the penny press in the 1830s. Attention will also be given to the ways that American religious institutions have used mass media to present themselves, from the circulation of Bibles and tracts in the 19th century through religious broadcasting beginning in the 20th century to the use of the Internet and World Wide Web today. (May be counted toward American Studies and Public Policy Studies.)
3512 SOCL-214-01 Race & Ethnicity 1.00 LEC Williams,Johnny Eric T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  A cross-national comparison of racial and ethnic differences as sources of conflict and inequality within and between societies. We will also consider the role of race and ethnicity as a basis for group and national solidarity. Topics will include the persistence of ethnic and racial loyalties in regard to language, marital choice, and politics; a comparison of social mobility patterns among various ethnic and racial groups; ethnicity and race as reactionary or revolutionary ideologies; the issues and facts regarding assimilation and pluralism in different societies.
3509 WMGS-212-01 History of Sexuality 1.00 LEC Corber,Robert J. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Sexuality is commonly understood as a natural or biological instinct, but as scholars have recently shown, it is better understood as a set of cultural practices that have a history. Starting with the ancient Greeks, this course examines the culturally and historically variable meanings attached to sexuality in Western culture. It pays particular attention to the emergence of sexuality in the 19th century as an instrument of power. It also considers how race, class, gender, and nationality have influenced the modern organization of sexuality. Topics covered include sex before sexuality, sexuality and colonialism, sexuality and U.S. slavery, and the emergence of the hetero/homosexual binarism in the late-19th century. Primary readings include The Symposium, A Passage to India, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Well of Loneliness, and The Swimming Pool Library. Secondary readings include work by Michel Foucault, David Halperin, Angela Davis, Hazel Carby, Martin Duberman, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy. (Also listed under History.)
2326 WMGS-301-01 Western Feminist Thought 1.00 LEC Hedrick,Joan D. T: 9:55AM-11:10AM
R: 9:25AM-10:40AM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Prerequisite: C- or better in one other course in Women Gender and Sexuality.
  An exploration of the main currents in American feminism, with occasional excursions into European thought. The course readings assume (rather than demonstrate) women’s historical subordination to man and put forward various explanations and strategies for change. Readings in J.S. Mill, C. P. Gilman, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, bell hooks, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde, and others. Primarily for sophomores and juniors. Permission of the instructor is required.