American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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AMST 1144

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17448 AMST 1144   SEM 101

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AMST 1500

At the inception of this department at Cornell University in 1969, the ASRC became the birthplace of Africana studies and is now an institution increasingly defining the "new Africana studies." Africana ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16809 AMST 1500   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Richardson, R

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AMST 1581

This course propels students into the chaos, destruction, and often brutal violence experienced by inhabitants of North America prior to the 20th century. Students will analyze armed conflict ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15702 AMST 1581   LEC 001

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  • 15703 AMST 1581   DIS 201

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AMST 1600

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the diverse cultures, histories and contemporary situations of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Students will also be introduced to important ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIS 1100

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7649 AMST 1600   LEC 001

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  •  7650 AMST 1600   DIS 201

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AMST 2003

Creating Contemporary Cornell will examine the history of Cornell from 1945-Present. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the course will address the bureaucratization, politicization, and globalization ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 2002HIST 2501

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16720 AMST 2003   LEC 001

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AMST 2006

Punk Culture-comprised of music, fashion, literature, and visual arts-represents a complex critical stance of resistance and refusal that coalesced at a particular historical moment in the mid-1970s, and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 2006ENGL 2006MUSIC 2006

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16938 AMST 2006   LEC 001

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  • 17030 AMST 2006   DIS 201

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  • 17031 AMST 2006   DIS 202

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AMST 2030

This course begins with a look at the philosophies of the first Americans, Native Americans, using the example of the Navajo creation narratives, and then proceeds to read European, African American, and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15905 AMST 2030   SEM 101

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AMST 2220

This seminar will explore some of the major political and cultural trends in the United States,  from the era of the Democratic New Dealer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through the era of the conservative Republican, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16958 AMST 2220   SEM 101

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AMST 2331

Surveys the major themes in the development of agriculture and agribusiness in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include particular individuals (e.g., Liberty Hyde Bailey, Luther ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 2331

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8453 AMST 2331   LEC 001

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AMST 2640

An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2130HIST 2640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9639 AMST 2640   LEC 001

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AMST 2650

This course will introduce students to the African American literary tradition. Through aesthetic and contextual approaches, we will consider how African American life and culture has defined and constituted ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2650ENGL 2650

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8916 AMST 2650   SEM 101

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AMST 2675

This class aims to approach the literature and culture of the Cold War as the birth of the present "Age of Information," as well as the origin of modern notions of privacy that are now being superseded. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2675

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16877 AMST 2675   LEC 001

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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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  •  6750 AMST 2710   LEC 001

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  •  6751 AMST 2710   DIS 201

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  •  6755 AMST 2710   DIS 205

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AMST 3010

Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits Grade(GRV)

  • 16613 AMST 3010   SEM 101

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AMST 3020

Hip Hop Brooklyn. Hipster Brooklyn. Immigrant Brooklyn. Brownstone Brooklyn. While today Brooklyn is New York City's hippest borough and the site of swift gentrification, booming real estate, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3020ASRC 3020

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16785 AMST 3020   SEM 101

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AMST 3140

Students examine the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. The course focuses on the domestic sources of foreign policy and the assumptions of the major policy makers ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 3140HIST 3140

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17405 AMST 3140   LEC 001

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  • 17406 AMST 3140   DIS 201

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  • 17682 AMST 3140   DIS 203

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AMST 3230

Surveys problems in American economic history from the first settlements to early industrialization. NOTE: Formerly ECON 3230. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16414 AMST 3230   LEC 001

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AMST 3281

This course investigates the United States Supreme Court and its role in politics and government. It traces the development of constitutional doctrine, the growth of the Court's institutional power, and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3281LAW 3281

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17190 AMST 3281   LEC 001

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AMST 3330

Based on indigenous and local "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes by which ... view course details

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  •  8418 AMST 3330   LEC 001

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    Enrollment limited to: Juniors, seniors, and grad students. Sophomores require permission of instructor (ksk28@cornell.edu).

AMST 3380

This is a seminar 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 ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 3380

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17788 AMST 3380   SEM 101

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AMST 3450

An examination of the development of cultural and intellectual diversity in the United States. Topics covered include: slavery and abolition; landscape and environment; religion; Darwinism; professionalization; ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 3450

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15733 AMST 3450   LEC 001

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  • 15734 AMST 3450   DIS 201

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  • 15735 AMST 3450   DIS 202

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AMST 3470

This course examines the experiences and representations of Asian American women from the mid-19th century to the present. It explores the lives and contexts of immigrant women and of women born in the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3470FGSS 3470HIST 3470

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17799 AMST 3470   LEC 001

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AMST 3515

Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details

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  • 16348 AMST 3515   LEC 001

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AMST 3560

Using written and visual biographies as a starting point, this class follows African and African American women in the fashion industry to explore perceptions of beauty, race, gender and class. Contemporary ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3550FGSS 3540

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16822 AMST 3560   SEM 101

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AMST 3605

Considers the contextual features of American art from the 1930s through the late 1980s. Examines art in relation to contemporary politics, society and literature. A few of the developments on which the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3605

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8428 AMST 3605   LEC 001

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AMST 3665

A survey of American political thought from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Particular attention will be devoted to the persistence of liberal individualism in the American tradition. Politicians, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3665HIST 3160

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8176 AMST 3665   LEC 001

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    FA14 will be the last time that this course is taught by Prof. Kramnick, as he will be retiring in June 2015.

  • 16135 AMST 3665   DIS 201

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  • 16140 AMST 3665   DIS 206

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AMST 3672

Visualizing El Barrio immerses students in a semester-long contemplation and class project that integrates artistic praxis with art history and literary studies to document the historical murals of East ... view course details

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  • 16921 AMST 3672   LEC 001

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AMST 3703

The common perception of ethnicity is that it is a "natural" and an inevitable consequence of cultural difference. "Asians" overseas, in particular, have won repute as a people who cling tenaciously to ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3030ANTHR 3703

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17786 AMST 3703   LEC 001

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AMST 3777

The anthropological inquiry into one's own culture is never a neutral exercise. This course will explore issues in the cultural construction of the United States as a "pluralistic" society. We will look ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3777LSP 3777

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16099 AMST 3777   LEC 001

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AMST 3830

How would our understanding of U.S. History change if we began the national narrative in 16th century New Mexico rather than 17th century Virginia? What does U.S. history look like when examined as hemispheric ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3800LSP 3800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15754 AMST 3830   LEC 001

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AMST 3845

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3845ILRLR 3845

  • 4 Credits Grade(GRV)

  • 16313 AMST 3845   SEM 101

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AMST 3980

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8244 AMST 3980   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Kirshner, J

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AMST 3990

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6495 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

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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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4021

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16808 AMST 4021   SEM 101

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AMST 4039

This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details

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  • 15775 AMST 4039   SEM 101

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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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4218HIST 4030

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17326 AMST 4218   SEM 180

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    Taught in Washington, D.C.

AMST 4301

The Rabinor Seminar explores the role of diversity in the formation of a distinct American tapestry. The specific topic varies each year, but the general subject is the promise and experience ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4620LSP 4620

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Chicano/a & US Latino/a Art Stories

  •  8257 AMST 4301   SEM 101

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AMST 4404

Using film, primary documents, literature, art, and secondary sources, this course explores the ten-year period between the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and 1978, when The Supreme Court ... view course details

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  • 16874 AMST 4404   SEM 101

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AMST 4600

An American whose life and writing ranged over the globe, Herman Melville (in the estimation of C.L.R. James) "saw the tendency of things." Our study of the fiction and poetry will turn on some of those ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9458 AMST 4600   SEM 101

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AMST 4655

Topic: Equality Efforts to reduce inequality are central to the pursuit of justice. We will investigate leading philosophical controversies about the moral basis of these efforts. To what extent, in what ... view course details

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  •  8651 AMST 4655   LEC 001

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AMST 4701

This seminar examines some of the political and cultural visions of Africa and Africans held by African-American intellectuals and activists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4701HIST 4701

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16976 AMST 4701   SEM 101

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AMST 4745

The War. The Bomb. Planetary Consciousness. Film Noir. In one of the most pivotal decades in history, the United States emerged as a superpower and its literature achieved a prestige unmatched before or ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4745

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15957 AMST 4745   SEM 101

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AMST 4770

This course examines early American travel literature by and about Native Americans in a comparative perspective. Beginning with Columbus's Diario, we will move sweepingly through to the 1830s, viewing ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4770

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18024 AMST 4770   SEM 101

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AMST 4805

In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4270LGBT 4270PMA 4805

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17187 AMST 4805   SEM 101

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AMST 4851

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4851LSP 4851

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15769 AMST 4851   SEM 101

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AMST 4993

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5790 AMST 4993   IND 601

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    • Staff

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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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  •  6756 AMST 5710   LEC 001

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  •  6757 AMST 5710   DIS 201

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AMST 6015

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6015

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16629 AMST 6015   SEM 101

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AMST 6201

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6201

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16101 AMST 6201   SEM 101

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AMST 6332

This course will survey emerging digital humanities techniques, scholarship, and theory. We will cover the history of humanities computing, text-mining, "big data" questions, geographic information systems, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6332

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16959 AMST 6332   SEM 101

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AMST 6404

Using film, primary documents, literature, art, and secondary sources, this course explores the ten-year period between the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and 1978, when The Supreme Court ... view course details

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  • 16909 AMST 6404   SEM 101

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AMST 6606

This seminar will explore the intersection of political theory and American pragmatism. While questions of political theory have often been seen as external to the concerns of pragmatism as a philosophy, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6606

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16811 AMST 6606   SEM 101

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AMST 6612

The American Revolution was a war fought by European settlers against England that ended the colonial domination of these settlers in the founding of the United States. But the settlers were themselves ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6612

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16454 AMST 6612   SEM 101

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AMST 6656

Topic: Equality Efforts to reduce inequality are central to the pursuit of justice. We will investigate leading philosophical controversies about the moral basis of these efforts. To what extent, in what ... view course details

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  •  8654 AMST 6656   LEC 001

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AMST 7320

This seminar focuses on the political economy of sound and listening in the configuration of urban space in Latin America and among Latino communities in the U.S. The city will be approached ... view course details

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  • 16957 AMST 7320   SEM 101

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