American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

AMST 1115

A policy-centered approach to the study of government in the American experience.  Considers the American Founding and how it influenced the structure of government;  how national institutions operate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1111

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16636 AMST 1115   LEC 001

  • 16637 AMST 1115   DIS 201

  • 16638 AMST 1115   DIS 202

  • 16639 AMST 1115   DIS 203

  • 16640 AMST 1115   DIS 204

  • 16641 AMST 1115   DIS 205

  • 16642 AMST 1115   DIS 206

  • 16643 AMST 1115   DIS 207

  • 16644 AMST 1115   DIS 208

AMST 1145

What role should the U.S. play in the world? Can national security include humanitarian efforts, environmental protection, and foreign aid? This course focuses on current events to provide an overview ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18455 AMST 1145   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

AMST 1500

this course introduces its registrants to Africana Studies, primarily those who propose to major in it and, secondarily, all those who are interested in broadening their horizons regarding the place of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9585 AMST 1500   LEC 001

AMST 1540

This course studies the history of American capitalism. It helps you to answer these questions: What is capitalism? Is the U.S. more capitalist than other countries? How has capitalism shaped the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1540ILRLR 1845

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16256 AMST 1540   LEC 001

  • A University Course.

  • 16257 AMST 1540   DIS 201

  • 16258 AMST 1540   DIS 202

  • 16259 AMST 1540   DIS 203

  • 16260 AMST 1540   DIS 204

  • 16960 AMST 1540   DIS 205

  • 16961 AMST 1540   DIS 206

  • 16962 AMST 1540   DIS 207

  • 16963 AMST 1540   DIS 208

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9010 AMST 1581   LEC 001

  •  9011 AMST 1581   DIS 201

  •  9012 AMST 1581   DIS 202

  •  9013 AMST 1581   DIS 203

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    • Staff

  •  9014 AMST 1581   DIS 204

    • F
    • Staff

AMST 1595

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction "Nadir" of black life; the mass black ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1595

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17907 AMST 1595   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIS 1100ANTHR 1700

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7594 AMST 1600   LEC 001

  •  7595 AMST 1600   DIS 201

  •  7596 AMST 1600   DIS 202

  •  8172 AMST 1600   DIS 203

AMST 1640

An introductory survey to United States history since the Great Depression, this course explores the dramatic social, economic, and political transformations of the last century. It emphasizes domestic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1640

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17909 AMST 1640   LEC 001

AMST 1800

This course examines immigration as a major theme in U.S. history and culture. We will discuss immigration in different periods of our national history, and in different locations, from Boston and New ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1800LSP 1800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16321 AMST 1800   LEC 001

  • 16322 AMST 1800   DIS 201

  • 16323 AMST 1800   DIS 202

  • 16324 AMST 1800   DIS 203

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    • Staff

AMST 2010

This course deals with American popular culture in the period between 1900 and the end of World War II. As we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17197 AMST 2010   LEC 001

  • 17198 AMST 2010   DIS 201

  • 17199 AMST 2010   DIS 202

  • 17201 AMST 2010   DIS 204

AMST 2030

From a "brave new world" in European settlers' eyes to a "house divided" by the mid- nineteenth century, "America" is seen in an assemblage of richly layered tales, poems, novels, essays, first-hand accounts, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9128 AMST 2030   SEM 101

AMST 2090

The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Even though a myriad of books have been written about this endlessly fascinating episode in American history, many aspects of it remain unexplored. After reading some ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2090HIST 2090

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16363 AMST 2090   SEM 101

AMST 2106

This course is an introduction to Latina/o Studies, a discipline that investigates the historical, socio-political and economic conditions and experiences of Latina/os in the United States, including but ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2100

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16153 AMST 2106   LEC 001

AMST 2310

This course takes a critical approach to our contemporary understanding of the figure of the zombie and its inextricable link to discourses on race and blackness in the Americas. An introductory grounding ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2310ENGL 2931

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18898 AMST 2310   SEM 101

AMST 2320

Music and dance cultures have been central topics of study in the development of Chicano studies, Puerto Rican studies, and Latino studies in general. From Americo Paredes to Frances Aparicio and from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16302 AMST 2320   LEC 001

AMST 2390

This seminar explores the history and culture of Iroquois people from ancient times, through their initial contacts with European settlers, to their present-day struggles and achievements under colonial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIS 2390HIST 2390

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16369 AMST 2390   SEM 101

AMST 2511

This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16378 AMST 2511   LEC 001

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

  •  8803 AMST 2640   LEC 001

AMST 2710

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  6719 AMST 2710   LEC 001

  •  6720 AMST 2710   DIS 201

  •  6721 AMST 2710   DIS 202

  •  6722 AMST 2710   DIS 203

  •  6723 AMST 2710   DIS 204

  •  6724 AMST 2710   DIS 205

AMST 2910

In her memoir Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston identified a conundrum familiar to many US-born children of Chinese immigrants when she asked: "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2910ENGL 2910

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16987 AMST 2910   SEM 101

AMST 2980

Explores the history of information technology from the 1830s to the present by considering the technical and social history of telecommunications (telegraph and the telephone), radio, television, computers, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16946 AMST 2980   LEC 001

  • 16947 AMST 2980   DIS 201

  • 18507 AMST 2980   DIS 202

  • 18508 AMST 2980   DIS 203

AMST 3001

Constitutional Law provides the setting for some of the most contentious disputes in American life. Decisions by the Supreme Court about the meaning of the Constitution can change the country in dramatic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3001

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17843 AMST 3001   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9521 AMST 3010   SEM 101

AMST 3012

Poverty is a phenomenon of enduring importance with significant implications for democratic governance. This course explores contemporary poverty in America, with a particular emphasis on its political ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3012

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17847 AMST 3012   LEC 001

  • 17848 AMST 3012   DIS 201

  • 17849 AMST 3012   DIS 202

AMST 3082

This course focuses on political campaigns, a central feature of American democracy. We will examine how they work and the conditions under which they affect citizens' decisions. The course looks at campaign ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3082

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16207 AMST 3082   LEC 001

  • 16241 AMST 3082   DIS 201

  • 16242 AMST 3082   DIS 202

  • 16243 AMST 3082   DIS 203

  • 16244 AMST 3082   DIS 204

AMST 3161

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16209 AMST 3161   LEC 001

  • 16591 AMST 3161   DIS 201

  • 16592 AMST 3161   DIS 202

AMST 3205

We will examine the phenomenon of the global dimensions of post- World War II African American struggles for equality through the writings of black expatriates in Europe and Africa, and the international ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3210HIST 3211

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17630 AMST 3205   LEC 001

AMST 3230

Surveys problems in American economic history from the first settlements to early industrialization. view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9427 AMST 3230   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3281LAW 3281

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17187 AMST 3281   LEC 001

AMST 3330

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  8243 AMST 3330   LEC 001

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

AMST 3331

In this course, we shall look at Russia's perception of America as reflected in the works of its writers for over a hundred-year period. What motivated these writers? Did they go to the United States with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3330RUSSL 3330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17897 AMST 3331   SEM 101

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9863 AMST 3380   SEM 101

AMST 3420

In 2014, 60,000 children and mothers fled Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, seeking refuge in the U.S. because of gang threats, domestic violence, and child abuse.  The Obama administration responded ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18946 AMST 3420   SEM 101

AMST 3461

This course explores the rich and diverse history of African American filmmaking.  Focusing on films written and/or directed by African Americans, this seminar traces the history of filmmaking from the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17933 AMST 3461   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3470FGSS 3470HIST 3470

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9869 AMST 3470   LEC 001

AMST 3580

In this course, we'll be reading literature—primarily novels—produced by hemispheric American women writers of the mid- to late twentieth-century.  We will look at how these writings articulate concerns ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3580ENGL 3580FGSS 3581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17229 AMST 3580   SEM 101

AMST 3604

This course features readings of central American themes and texts from the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The readings range across the genres of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3604

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17131 AMST 3604   SEM 101

AMST 3615

In order to assess whether mass incarceration has transformed urban life, this course will (1) paint a portrait of the lives of marginalized Americans prior to mass incarceration, (2) define mass incarceration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PAM 3610SOC 3610

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18589 AMST 3615   LEC 001

AMST 3655

What is political authority and how is it constituted? How do we judge and act when torn by conflicting obligations? How do political actors in the present negotiate the legacies of past injustice (for ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3655

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16561 AMST 3655   LEC 001

AMST 3678

A historical introduction to democratic theory through the writings of its greatest thinkers and their critics. Beginning with a study of the theory and practice of democratic rule in ancient Athens, we ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CLASS 3675GOVT 3675

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16605 AMST 3678   LEC 001

  • 16674 AMST 3678   DIS 201

  • 16675 AMST 3678   DIS 202

  • 16676 AMST 3678   DIS 203

AMST 3687

This seminar examines the history of the United States' involvement with the conflict between Israelis and Arabs, from 1948 to the present. Recently a great deal of attention has been paid to political ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3687JWST 3687NES 3687

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17768 AMST 3687   LEC 080

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 3710

The course draws on the world's storehouse of writing, song, and film about bandits, pirates, malingerers, revolutionary appropriators, and other defectors from the sacral order of property. Loyalty and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3730ENGL 3710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17854 AMST 3710   LEC 001

AMST 3731

Critical reflection on the refusal of work, including but not limited to: non-cooperation with routines of production and/or reproduction (among which, strikes, sexual and otherwise),the right to laziness, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3731ENGL 3931

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17858 AMST 3731   LEC 001

AMST 3754

In this course, we will critically examine the production and performance of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender through literature and contemporary performance genres such as spoken word, slam poetry, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17937 AMST 3754   LEC 001

AMST 3762

The Latino experience in the United States may be impinged upon by state regulation and governmentality to a greater extent than for non-Latin@s. Drawing from a theoretical and methodological toolkit developed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3762LSP 3762

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16733 AMST 3762   LEC 001

AMST 3773

In the poem "Return of the Native," Amiri Baraka writes, "Harlem is vicious modernism. BangClash." This class will compare the "BangClash" of the 1920s and 1930s Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s and 1970s ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3773ENGL 3773

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16222 AMST 3773   SEM 101

AMST 3911

This course reviews the changing political relations between science, technology, and the state in America from 1960 to the present. It focuses on policy choices involving science and technology in different ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17210 AMST 3911   LEC 001

AMST 3980

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6478 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 3990

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6479 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 4202

This research seminar explores how Americans and their elected leaders struggled to respond to economic and social inequality throughout the twentieth century. It traces the expansions and retractions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4202

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17910 AMST 4202   SEM 101

AMST 4393

In 1850 American politicians banded together cross-regionally, passed a Fugitive Slave Law and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they had once again dodged the slavery issue that threatened disunion. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4393HIST 4393HIST 6393

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16414 AMST 4393   SEM 101

AMST 4412

The importance of sports to American society and popular culture cannot be denied, and this seminar will study sports films' vital significance in representing the intersection of sports, history, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4412PMA 4412VISST 4412

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17935 AMST 4412   LEC 001

AMST 4505

From court decisions about the voting rights act to legislation involving abortion, many social issues are shaped by civil rights temporalities—narratives making amorphous conceptions of "how long," "time ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4550SHUM 4505

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17367 AMST 4505   SEM 101

AMST 4650

Following the lead of Richard Hofstadter's classic 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," this course will examine the "paranoid style" in contemporary American fiction and film. The paranoias ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4650

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16273 AMST 4650   SEM 101

AMST 4667

This course gives an in-depth reading of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Some readers consider Whitman and Dickinson the two greatest American poets of any century, and one signal ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4667

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17129 AMST 4667   SEM 101

AMST 4702

This seminar examines how confrontations over race, class, and gender unfolded in the cultural arena during the 1970s. It explores the role of culture in shaping some of the decade's major political and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4702HIST 4702

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17911 AMST 4702   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  •  9061 AMST 4851   SEM 101

AMST 4880

What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's textual environment look like, and how does ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4860ENGL 4960SPAN 4880

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17871 AMST 4880   SEM 101

AMST 4993

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5804 AMST 4993   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

AMST 5710

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  6725 AMST 5710   LEC 001

  •  6726 AMST 5710   DIS 201

  •  6727 AMST 5710   DIS 202

  •  6728 AMST 5710   DIS 203

  •  6729 AMST 5710   DIS 204

  •  6730 AMST 5710   DIS 205

AMST 6121

This course will survey the literature on American political development from the Founding to the late twentieth century.  The format each week will include a  critical reading of one of the major works ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6121HIST 6121

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16581 AMST 6121   SEM 101

  • To enroll in this course: Please complete add/drop form and obtain instructor's initials. Then stop by 210 White Hall for Department Stamp.

AMST 6321

This seminar explores the international and transnational dimensions of the Black Power Movement, broadly defined. Beginning with an examination of transnationalism in the early 20th century, it examines ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6321HIST 6321

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17912 AMST 6321   SEM 101

AMST 6585

This seminar will provide an advanced survey of the history of American political thought, with emphasis placed on four significant periods: Puritan New England, the Revolution and Founding, Abolition ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6585

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16620 AMST 6585   SEM 101

AMST 6596

This course will examine the theory and practice of nonviolence from the perspective of its key theorists, practitioners, and critics. Questions we will consider include: Why nonviolence? How should we ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6596

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18058 AMST 6596   SEM 101

  • Undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor.