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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Spring 2010
Class
No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
6307 AHIS-271-01 The Arts of America 1.00 LEC Curran,Kathleen A. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  This course examines major trends in painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1900. Emphasis will be placed on how the arts in the United States reflect the social and cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries.
4035 AMST-203-01 Conflcts & Cultures Am Society 1.00 LEC Paulin,Diana R. MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  NOTE: Seats will be reserved as follows: 8 - first-year, 9 - sophomore, 5 - junior, 3 - senior This course is affiliated with the Co-Education Co-Curricular Initiative. Students in this course may enroll concurrently in College Course 150 for 0.25 or 0.50 credit.
  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 that 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.
7096 AMST-210-01 Doing Culture 1.00 LEC Baldwin,Davarian L. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Culture is not something we simply consume, inhabit or even create. Culture is serious business: pun both intended and upended. We have a dynamic relationship with the world around us and in this class we will use culture, both elite and popular, to help bridge the gap between what we do here in the “ivory tower” and how we live out there in the “real world,” hopefully changing both in the process. Here we will not take culture for granted but engage culture as a method, a tool by which to engage, analyze and critique both historical narratives and contemporary events. In this course, street life, advertisements, popular media, and clothing are interrogated as archives of dynamic meaning, arenas of social interaction, acts of personal pleasure, and sites of struggle. We will also explore what happens when a diversity of forces converge at the intersection of commerce and culture. Present day notions of popular culture, and topics such as authenticity and selling out, will be interrogated both socially and historically.
5955 AMST-298-01 Intro to HipHop Music & Cult 1.00 LEC Conway,Nicholas J. R: 6:45PM- 9:25PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: Seats will be reserved for the following classes: 10 Seniors, 10 Juniors, 5 Sophomores, 5 First-Years
  This course will examine the evolution of hip hop music and culture (Graffiti art, B-boying [break-dancing], DJ-ing, and MC-ing) from its birth in 1970s New York to its global and commercial explosion during the late 1990s. Students will learn how to think critically about hip hop culture, and also about the historical, commercial, and political contexts in which hip hop culture took, and continues to take, shape. In the broadest sense then, this is a course explores what happens when art, capitalism, identity, and democracy all run headlong into one another, illuminating, in the process, some of the specific limits, contradictions, and possibilities of what, at one time, mistakenly, one might have called this very American collision. Particular attention will be paid to questions of race, masculinity, authenticity, consumption, commodification, globalization, and good, old-fashioned funkiness.
6443 AMST-301-01 Jr. Sem.: American Texts 1.00 SEM Masur,Louis P. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM SH - N128 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.
7038 AMST-309-01 Music & Culture - Postwar City 1.00 LEC Amezcua,Mike M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  What do we make of musical proliferation in U.S. cities after 1945? Rhythm and blues, country music, rock and roll, experimental jazz, soul, funk, salsa, hip hop, and punk are just some of many musical styles that took shape in urban and suburban settings. The postwar city ushered in new musical styles and vocabularies that gave voice to, and provided expression from, for, and about urbanized sectors of the United States. How did migrant waves of people and their rural cultures change music in the city? How did the city change their music? What did the newly configured city do for cultural forms? Through various readings in primary and secondary sources, we will explore how cities helped fashion certain musical styles over others and investigate the local and cultural politics that shaped them.
6968 AMST-332-01 Road Trip:Trav&Migrat Amer Nov 1.00 SEM Maier,Brennan R: 6:30PM- 9:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Whether figured as a search for identity, a search for freedom, or a search for work, the road novel has been among the most popular genres in American literature. Although the means of conveyance have changed from the schooner and the horse to cars, airplanes, and the Internet, movement in American literature has served as a metaphor for American freedom, and proof of its denial. Divided evenly between the 19th and the 20th centuries, this course will feature authors including Parkman, Douglass, Melville, and Twain to Steinbeck, Kerouac, Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and Junot Diaz.
7095 AMST-336-01 Globalizations(s): Am Mod Wrld 1.00 LEC Baldwin,Davarian L. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  This course is an unabashed and hopeful "history of the present." By situating a history of America within the larger world, we will collectively explore a global vision for the future. Throughout modern history one of the driving claims behind global advance has been the expansion and equal distribution of freedom. But in this class we will re-think the very notion of global freedom through a series of pairings, conversations, and interconnections that cut across the world. Here, property and piracy, free labor and freedom from labor, nation states and colonies, prosperity and underdevelopment, the political and the personal all coexist as the collective building blocks for competing, yet connected visions of global social relations. From Democratic Nationalism to Soviet Internationalism to Bandung Humanism, globalization has expressed itself in various guises. Let’s look at them all. This class is an invitation to come and explore something more, to reclaim the possibilities for competing visions of worldwide freedom in the present.
7037 AMST-359-01 Violence in the Am Imagination 1.00 LEC Gac,Scott TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  "We have front row seats for the theater of mass destruction," said the narrator of the 1999 film, Fight Club. This course examines the ways in which violence has constructed America and America has constructed violence. How has the definition of violence changed over time? What are the connections between cultural understandings of pain and suffering and the larger social dynamics of the nation? We will study these important questions in a variety of settings from the 19th to the 20th century. Readings will include Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Tillie Olsen, Ralph Ellison, James Welch, Chuck Palahniuk, and others.
6145 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.
4047 AMST-402-01 Senior Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  NOTE: Requires completion of the Special Registration Form, available in the Office of the Registrar.
  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.
6967 AMST-409-01 Ralph Ellison&American Modern 1.00 SEM Maier,Brennan W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  This seminar examines the writings of Ralph Ellison, one of the most exciting novelists and thinkers of the 20th century. Attending closely to Ellison's fiction and non-fiction, students will attain the sort of familiarity with Ellison that can only come from detailed study of his work. Using Ellison as a point of entry, we will focus on American modernism as expressed in the New York City skyline, the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, the poetry of T.S. Eliot, and the collages of Romare Bearden. In so doing, we will examine the function of culture, the relationship between culture and identity, and just what it means to be modern in America.
6944 AMST-409-02 Lincoln and His Era 1.00 SEM Spencer,J. Ronald W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Drawing mainly on primary sources, this seminar will seek to understand Abraham Lincoln in his time. Among topics to be explored are: slavery's critics and defenders; the struggle over slavery expansion (including the Lincoln-Douglas debates); John Brown's raid; the secession crisis; Lincoln's views of slavery and race and his role in emancipation; dissent and civil liberties during wartime; and Lincoln as a writer. Students will write several short papers based on assigned readings and a research paper on an approved topic of their choosing.
7110 AMST-427-01 Body Art in Fiction,Film&Pract 1.00 SEM Fitzgerald,Ann T: 6:30PM- 9:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  Body art is the most common of arts, and yet the least explored. People throughout history have 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.
7114 AMST-455-01 Agency&Agenda:Comm Am Photo 1.00 SEM McCombie,Mary E. W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  This course investigates how photography has described and constructed consumer culture and current events, from selling the American Dream to the events of September 11, 2001. We will examine how advertising photography uses news imagery for its own agenda and creates enduring icons that in turn become part of the imagery of news. We will consider ethics and the roles of the image-maker; tactics of display; the creating agencies and their agendas; the manipulation of images (physical and interpretive); and how race, gender, and ethnicity are constructed in commercial and news images.
6147 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.
6149 AMST-490-01 Research Assistantship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
5853 AMST-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  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 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.)
4075 AMST-802-01 Primary Research Matls 1.00 SEM Couch,N. C. Christopher W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Course not open to undergraduates.
  This seminar is designed to enable students to identify, evaluate, and use a range of primary sources, from personal letters, vital records, and the census to photographs, oral history, and newspapers. Students will critically read secondary literature to explore how other scholars have used primary sources, and will develop research projects on topics of their own choosing, based on primary sources available in local archives and repositories. Course not open to undergraduates.
5855 AMST-825-01 Museums,Vis Cult&Crit Theory 1.00 SEM McCombie,Mary E. R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This course aims to examine the issues brought up in key theoretical readings by applying their insights to case studies, particularly cases of museum exhibitions and programs. Issues to be addressed include: reproduction and spectacle; gender and display; ethnicity, 'primitivism,' and race; and sexuality, sexual practice, and censorship. Case studies will vary each year and will range from exhibitions focusing on consumption, to ethnicity and race (such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Pequot Museum), and sexuality (The Museum of Sex; the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions). Each class will combine theoretical readings with considerations of museum practice. By the end of the semester, students shall be able to analyze exhibitions using both the tools of postmodern theory and practical observation and history.
7111 AMST-827-01 Body Art in Fiction,Film&Pract 1.00 SEM Fitzgerald,Ann T: 6:30PM- 9:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  Body art is the most common of arts, and yet the least explored. People throughout history have 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.
6945 AMST-853-01 Agency&Agenda:Comm Am Photo 1.00 SEM McCombie,Mary E. W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  This course investigates how photography has described and constructed consumer culture and current events, from selling the American Dream to the events of September 11, 2001. We will examine how advertising photography uses news imagery for its own agenda and creates enduring icons that in turn become part of the imagery of news. We will consider ethics and the roles of the image-maker; tactics of display; the creating agencies and their agendas; the manipulation of images (physical and interpretive); and how race, gender, and ethnicity are constructed in commercial and news images.
5479 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.
5897 AMST-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  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 are required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
5899 AMST-954-01 Thesis Part I 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.)
5911 AMST-955-01 Thesis Part II 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  (Continuation of American Studies 954.)
6904 ECON-214-01 Bus & Entrepreneur Hist 1.00 LEC Gunderson,Gerald A. MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Economics 101.
  The evolution of business structures and practices, primarily in the American experience. Changes in such aspects of management, finance, marketing, and information are considered. Special attention is given to the role of entrepreneurs and conditions which may have influenced their creative efforts. Both an analytical approach and case studies are employed.
6955 EDUC-307-01 Latinos in Ed: Local Realities 1.00 LEC Dyrness,Andrea M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  Prerequisite: EDUC200 or INTS/LACS majors or Hispanic Studies majors or Anthropology majors or Permission of Instructor.
  NOTE: This course is affiliated with the Co-Education Co-Curricular Initiative for 2009-2010. Students enrolled in this course may enroll concurrently in College Course 150 “Co-Education: Past, Present, and Future” for 0.25 or 0.50 credit. Permission of instructor required.
  This course investigates the education of Latinos, the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States. By examining both the domestic and transnational contexts, we explore these central questions: How do cultural constructions of Latinos (as immigrants and natives, citizens and non-citizens) shape educational policy and teaching practices? What views of citizenship and identity underlie school programs such as bilingual education, as well as Latino responses to them? This course fulfills the related field requirement for Hispanic studies majors. It will also include a community learning component involving a qualitative research project in a Hartford school or community organization.
4443 ENGL-204-01 Intro Amer Literature-I 1.00 LEC Lauter,Paul TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some that are well known—such as Emerson, Melville, Dickinson—and some who are less familiar—such as Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
7040 ENGL-217-01 Intro African Amer Lit 1.00 LEC Hager,Christopher
Paulin,Diana R.		 MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This course surveys African American literature in a variety of genres from the 18th century to the present. Through the study of texts by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and others, we will explore the ways these writers have represented and influenced the history of people of African descent in the United States, from slavery and abolition to Jim-Crow segregation and struggles for civil rights; how their work has intervened in the construction of race and imagined the black diaspora; and how their innovations in literary form have engaged with continuing political questions of nation, gender, sexuality, and class. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.
7163 ENGL-326-01 Representation of Miscegenatn 1.00 LEC Paulin,Diana R. M: 5:30PM- 8:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural content, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  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”?
5601 HISP-280-01 Hispanic Hartford 1.00 LEC Remedi,Gustavo A. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  Prerequisite: Hispanic 221 or 224 or Permission of the Instructor.
  This course seeks to place Trinity students in active and informed dialogue with the Hartford region’s large and diverse set of Spanish-speaking communities. The course will help student recognize and analyze the distinct national histories (e.g. Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Chilean, Honduran, Cuban, Colombian, Mexican) which have contributed to the Hispanic diaspora in the city and the entire northeastern region of the United States. Students will undertake field projects designed to look at the effects of transnational migration on urban culture, institution-building, and identity formation. (Also offered under the Latin American and Caribbean studies concentration of the International Studies Program.)
7020 HIST-247-01 Latinos/Latinas in USA 1.00 LEC Figueroa,Luis A. M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35
  Who are “Latinos/Latinas” and how have they come to constitute a central ethnic/racial category in the contemporary United States? This is the organizing question around which this course examines the experiences of major Latino/Latina groups—Chicanos/Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans—and new immigrants from Central America and the Caribbean. We study U.S. colonialism and imperialism in the Old Mexican North and the Caribbean; migration and immigration patterns and policies; racial, gender, and class distinctions; cultural and political expressions and conflicts; return migrations and transnationalism; and inter-ethnic relations and the construction of pan-Latino/Latina diasporic identities.
7175 HIST-303-01 "Jacksonian" Amer, 1828-1848 1.00 LEC Chatfield,John H. WF: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  An exploration of the politics and culture of America, 1828-1848. Topics will include the Second American Party System; the public career of Andrew Jackson; Protestant revivalism; abolitionism; the women's rights movement; the politics of slavery and race; westward expansion; the culture of "democracy" and competitive capitalism. Readings will include works on the political and moral controversies of the day.
7034 HIST-315-01 Star Trek and 1960s America 1.00 LEC Greenberg,Cheryl TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  NOTE: This course is affiliated with the Co-Education Co-Curricular Initiative for 2009-2010. Students enrolled in this course may enroll concurrently in College Course 150 “Co-Education: Past, Present, and Future” for 0.25 or 0.50 credit. Permission of instructor required.
  For many, the 1960s were the “final frontier,” as young people, African-Americans, women, conservatives, members of the “New Left” and many others struggled to re-imagine their lives and the life of their nation. Originally intended as a “Wagon Train to the Stars,” Star Trek came to embody the 1960s spirit, both reflecting and reflecting on the many pressing issues of the day. This course will examine important issues in the 1960s from Vietnam to the counterculture, from race to shifting sexual norms, from new technology to workers’ rights, through the television show that explored the “strange new worlds” of its time.
7021 HIST-325-07 The Civil Rights Movement 1.00 LEC Greenberg,Cheryl TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  NOTE: This course is affiliated with the Co-Education Co-Curricular Initiative for 2009-2010. Students enrolled in this course may enroll concurrently in College Course 150 “Co-Education: Past, Present, and Future” for 0.25 or 0.50 credit. Permission of instructor required.
  The course examines the major social and political developments of the civil rights era and the different strategies for social reform that emerged within the Black Freedom Movements in the North and in the South. Major topics will include the post-World War II emergence of the civil rights movement in the North, the rise of the Southern civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, urban revolt, SNCC, the Black Panthers, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, and Vietnam. We will discuss the relationship between the black movements and the broader political and social developments in post-war American society.
7142 HIST-345-01 U.S. & Vietnam: Warring States 1.00 LEC Chatfield,John H.
Lestz,Michael E.		 MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Probably no set of events in the post-war history of the United States has so torn the fabric of American political life and values as the war in Vietnam. The war tested American foreign and military policy aims in Asia and became the object of a soul-searching national controversy that engaged the energies of millions of Americans and tried the collective conscience of the nation. For the Vietnamese people, the war was a harsh experience that evoked sacrifice and suffering in the name of revolution and independence. Vietnam’s struggle with the United States represented in symbolic and practical terms an attempt to resolve questions of national identity and sovereignty that were the legacy of foreign domination and an ambiguous encounter with European culture and society. This course will examine the Vietnam War through a variety of historical materials including monographs, documents, novels, and memoirs. Films and guest-lectures will supplement the core readings. Readings will include: George Herring, America's Longest War; John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment; James Carroll, American Requeiem; Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir; and Tim O’Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone.
6963 INTS-249-01 Immigrants & Refugees 1.00 SEM Bauer,Janet L. WF: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA GLB  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  The post-cold war world is one of changing national boundaries and governments, environmental devastation and internal conflicts, resulting in an apparently unprecedented flow of people from their native homelands. At a time when multiculturalism is not a popular model for national integration, immigrants, refugees, and other sojourners find themselves in new places creating new lives for themselves. The processes by which this occurs illustrate some of the basic social, cultural, and political dilemmas of contemporary societies. Using historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and the Americas, this course looks at issues of flight, resettlement, integration, cultural adaptation, and public policy involved in creating culturally diverse nations. Questions to be raised include what are the conditions under which people leave, who can become a (authentic) member of society, what rights do non-citizens versus citizens have, are borders sacrosanct, are ethnic and racial diversity achievable or desirable, is multiculturalism an appropriate model, do people want to assimilate, what are the cultural consequences of movement, and how can individuals reconstruct their identities and feel they belong? This course includes a community learning component. (Also offered under American studies, comparative development, public policy and law, and women, gender, and sexuality.)
7092 JWST-213-01 O My America! 1.00 LEC Cancelled  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  To generations of Jews, America has been not just a place to live, but also a powerful symbol. To different Jews, the country has represented promise, opportunity, refuge, oppression, or confusion. In this course, we will read novels, poems, short stories, and comics to explore the ways Jewish writers have envisioned the United States, paying attention to the ways that the country and its Jewish population have been transformed by real and imagined encounters. Readings will include works composed in English, Yiddish, German, and Hebrew (all of which will be made available to students in English translation), by writers such as Nathan Mayer, Mary Antin, Franz Kafka, I.J. Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, Reuben Wallenrod, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Tony Kushner, Ben Katchor, and Lara Vapnyar.
5577 MUSC-274-01 Jazz: 1900-Present 1.00 LEC Allen,Kristopher D. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM AAC - 101 ART  
  Enrollment limited to 40
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for first-year students
  Through listening, discussion, and reading, this course will survey the development of jazz from ragtime and pre-jazz through New Orleans swing, be-bop, and modern jazz. Among composers and performers to be studied include Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Charles Parker, and Woody Shaw. No previous training in music is required.
7186 PBPL-344-01 Seeking JUSTICE in Amer Life 1.00 SEM Schaller,Barry R. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  Prerequisite: C- or better in PBPL 201 or PBPL 202 or permission of the instructor.
  This course will examine basic theories of ethics (common morality), found in moral and political philosophy in order to consider the extent to which traditional ethical and moral principles govern legal, political, and private decision-making. We will begin by identifying ethical and moral principles in our founding documents before proceeding with the main work of the course, which is to examine the ethical and moral reasoning behind legal and policy decisions, business decisions, and personal decisions. Among the diverse subjects that will be discussed are physician-assisted suicide, the death penalty, buying and selling of body parts, human cloning, legalizing drugs, affirmative action, national service in war, hate speech and political dissent, wealth and income distribution including disbursing public money to private business, individual rights versus the needs of the community, torture, truth and lying in private and public, equality and inequality, drug-enhancement in sports, immoral behavior on the part of public figures.
5495 POLS-102-01 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC Chambers,Stefanie 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.
5803 POLS-102-02 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC Chambers,Stefanie MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM 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.
6988 POLS-102-03 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC Dell'Aera,Anthony D. 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.
6989 POLS-216-01 Amer Political Thought 1.00 LEC Dell'Aera,Anthony D. MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  A study of the development of American political thought: the colonial period; the Revolution; Jeffersonian democracy; the defense of slave society; social Darwinism; the Populist and Progressive reform movements; and current theories of conservatism, liberalism, and the Left.
6737 POLS-316-01 Con Law:Civ Lib & Civ Ri 1.00 LEC Fulco,Adrienne TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 102, Public Policy 201or Public Policy 202 or Permission of Instructor.
  An analysis and evaluation of decisions of courts (and related materials) dealing principally with freedom of expression and equal protection of the laws.
6929 POLS-379-01 American Foreign Policy 1.00 LEC Flibbert,Andrew WF: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA GLB5  
  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.
7164 RELG-261-01 American Catholics 1.00 LEC Walsh,Andrew H. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  This historically oriented course will explore the struggle of Catholics in the United States to integrate being “Roman” with being “American.” It will survey the experience of an immigrant, authoritarian church in a country founded on belief in the excellence of Protestantism and dedicated to liberal and democratic ideals. Having arrived in the mainstream with the election of John F. Kennedy, that church now faces a new set of challenges, which will be the final consideration of the course. (May be counted toward American Studies.)
5819 RELG-262-01 Religion in Amer History 1.00 LEC Kirkpatrick,Frank MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  The historical role of religion in shaping American life and thought, with special attention to the influence of religious ideologies on social values and social reform. (May be counted toward American studies.)
6879 RELG-270-01 Religion in Amer Since WWII 1.00 SEM Cancelled  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  This seminar will explore changes in American religion over the past 60 years by focusing on the role of religion in public life and society at large. Special attention will be given to popular culture and politics.
5975 RELG-339-01 Modern American Theology 1.00 SEM Dorrien,Gary M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  This course will study the major theological movements, topics, and thinkers of American mainline Protestantism from the early 20th century to the present day, and American Catholicism from the 1950s to the present day. Major theological movements and topics will include evangelical liberalism, the Social Gospel movement, the modernist-fundamentalist controversy, Boston School personalism, Chicago School naturalistic empiricism, neo-orthodoxy and Christian realism, the ecumenical movement, the Civil Rights movement, secularism, process metaphysics, Vatican II, the death-of-God controversy, liberation theology, feminist theology, environmentalism, and postmodernism. Major theologians and philosophers will include Walter Rauschenbusch, Shailer Mathews, Edgar S. Brightman, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Martin Luther King Jr., Gregory Baum, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John B. Cobb Jr., J. Deotis Roberts, and Elizabeth Johnson.
6977 RELG-386-01 Islam in America 1.00 LEC Ziad,Homayra R: 6:30PM- 9:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This course explores Muslim social and spiritual expression in the United States. We'll look at the teachings of representative groups and their founders, asking how each group presents Islam and why, how they discourse on Muslims in America, how they discourse on America, and how they position themselves as Americans. Topics include religious movements among African-American and immigrant groups, educational, cultural and youth initiatives, Sufism and new-age movements, civil rights groups, progressive Muslims, women's and feminist movements, and Islam in the media. The course requires that students participate in a community learning project to gain first-hand experience with the diverse Muslim community in Hartford.
7128 SOCL-214-01 Race & Ethnicity 1.00 LEC Johnson,LaShaune P. W: 6:45PM- 9:15PM 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.
5297 WMGS-101-01 Women,Gender & Sexuality 1.00 LEC Hedrick,Joan D. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: This course is affiliated with the Co-Education Co-Curricular Initiative for 2009-2010. Students enrolled in this course may enroll concurrently in College Course 150 “Co-Education: Past, Present, and Future” for 0.25 or 0.50 credit. Permission of instructor required.
  This course introduces students to the study of women, gender, and sexuality, paying attention to issues of power, agency and resistance. Using a variety of 19th- and 20th-century American materials, the course seeks to understand: women’s experiences and the way they have been shaped, normative and nonnormative alignments of sex, gender and sexuality across different historical periods, and the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation.