American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

AMST 1101

This course is an introduction to interdisciplinary considerations of American culture. Specific topics may change from year to year and may include questions of national consensus versus native, immigrant ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8891 AMST 1101   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17912 AMST 1101   DIS 201

    • M McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17913 AMST 1101   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17914 AMST 1101   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17915 AMST 1101   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1104

This course will examine race and ethnic relations between Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in the United States. The goal of this course is for students to understand how the history of race and ethnicity ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: LSP 1105SOC 1104

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16970 AMST 1104   LEC 001

    • TR Stocking Hall 146
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Alvarado, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17888 AMST 1104   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17889 AMST 1104   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1141

Why did disco music emerge in gay, black communities? How did lesbians use punk music for political expression? From Dolly Parton to Prince, from Bikini Kill to Big Freedia, we will explore how individuals ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17391 AMST 1141   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Due to the overlap in material, you will not receive credit for this class if you have previously taken FGSS 1114 or Music 1701 taught by Lee Tyson.

AMST 1312

This course examines the development and cultural significance of rock music from its origins in blues, gospel, and Tin Pan Alley up to alternative rock and hip hop. The course concludes with the year ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1312

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8864 AMST 1312   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8865 AMST 1312   DIS 201

    • W Lincoln Hall B20
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8866 AMST 1312   DIS 202

    • W Lincoln Hall B20
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8867 AMST 1312   DIS 203

    • W Lincoln Hall B20
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8868 AMST 1312   DIS 204

    • R Lincoln Hall 124
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8869 AMST 1312   DIS 205

    • R Lincoln Hall 124
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8870 AMST 1312   DIS 206

    • R Lincoln Hall 124
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17153 AMST 1312   DIS 207

    • F Lincoln Hall B21
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17155 AMST 1312   DIS 208

    • F Lincoln Hall B21
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1350

This course will prepare students in the humanities to analyze, interpret, and visualize cultural data with computational methods. After a basic introduction to the programming language Python, we will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 1350INFO 1350

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18107 AMST 1350   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1500

This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas.  This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9216 AMST 1500   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 262
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  9092 AMST 1540   LEC 001

    • TR Klarman Hall KG70
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Baptist, E

      Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9093 AMST 1540   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9094 AMST 1540   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9095 AMST 1540   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9096 AMST 1540   DIS 204

    • F McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9097 AMST 1540   DIS 205

    • F McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9098 AMST 1540   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9099 AMST 1540   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9100 AMST 1540   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9101 AMST 1540   DIS 209

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9540 AMST 1540   DIS 210

    • F McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1601

This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 1110

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5193 AMST 1601   LEC 001

    • MW Fernow Hall G24
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kassam, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5194 AMST 1601   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5195 AMST 1601   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  7944 AMST 1601   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 1850

On August 9-10, 1969, ex-convict, aspiring rock star, and charismatic leader Charles Manson ordered his so-called Family to brutally murder a few of LA's rich, white, "beautiful people" and leave clues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 1850

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17148 AMST 1850   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Informal Session Times: Thursday: 12:20-1:10; Thursday: 1:25-2:15; Friday: 10:10-11:00; or Friday: 11:15-12:05.

AMST 2000

This course introduces the field of Visual Studies.  Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge.  It contains ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6990 AMST 2000   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8512 AMST 2000   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8513 AMST 2000   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8514 AMST 2000   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8515 AMST 2000   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8516 AMST 2000   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8517 AMST 2000   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18446 AMST 2000   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18447 AMST 2000   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2001

Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University "the first American university," referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2999HIST 2005

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  8652 AMST 2001   LEC 001

    • M Uris Hall G01
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Earle, C

      Samuels, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For questions about enrollment, please email Corey Earle, cre8@cornell.edu

AMST 2016

This course is a seminar focused on a service-learning approach to understanding the history of neoliberal transformations of the global economy through the lens of an island (Jamaica) and a community ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2006HIST 2006

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16860 AMST 2016   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8041 AMST 2220   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall B14
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2251

Americans are conflicted about immigration. We honor and celebrate (and commercialize) our immigrant heritage in museums, folklife festivals, parades, pageants, and historical monuments. We also build ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2251LSP 2251

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16868 AMST 2251   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Sophomores may sign up first, all others contact professor for permission.

AMST 2335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  • 18538 AMST 2335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2391

This course engages the rich cartographic record of colonial North America via an in-depth analysis of two dozen iconic maps.  Integrating visual and textual analysis, students will assess human representations ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2391

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8950 AMST 2391   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2581

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

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2581HIST 2581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16897 AMST 2581   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16898 AMST 2581   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16899 AMST 2581   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16900 AMST 2581   DIS 203

    • F Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16901 AMST 2581   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2620

This course will introduce both a variety of writings by Asian North American authors and some critical issues concerning the production and reception of Asian American texts. Working primarily with novels, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2620ENGL 2620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8488 AMST 2620   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2645

This course surveys modern U.S. history, from Reconstruction to the contemporary period. It will examine how race has been the terrain on which competing ideas of the American nation have been contested. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AAS 2641ASRC 2631HIST 2641

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8920 AMST 2645   LEC 001

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8921 AMST 2645   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8922 AMST 2645   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8923 AMST 2645   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8924 AMST 2645   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16583 AMST 2650   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2655

Exploration and analysis of the Hispanic experience in the United States. Examines the sociohistorical background and economic, psychological, and political factors that converge to shape a Latino group ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 2650LSP 2010SOC 2650

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6713 AMST 2655   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2660

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 2660HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8481 AMST 2660   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8987 AMST 2660   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8988 AMST 2660   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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:
  • 17575 AMST 2710   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17576 AMST 2710   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17577 AMST 2710   DIS 202

    • T Warren Hall 173
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17578 AMST 2710   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17579 AMST 2710   DIS 204

    • F Warren Hall 101
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17580 AMST 2710   DIS 205

    • F Warren Hall B02
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2722

This course examines the history of mental illness—its conception and treatment—in the United States, from the early 1800s to the present, focusing on four major questions: (1) How have understandings ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2721HIST 2721STS 2721

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17956 AMST 2722   LEC 001

    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18152 AMST 2722   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18153 AMST 2722   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18154 AMST 2722   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18155 AMST 2722   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2760

From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present moment, movies -- and in particular Hollywood -- have profoundly influenced the ways in which people see, think and talk about the world. Focusing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 2761PMA 2560VISST 2300

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17740 AMST 2760   LEC 001

    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    There will be required screenings after class on Monday some weeks.

  • 17741 AMST 2760   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17768 AMST 2760   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17769 AMST 2760   DIS 203

    • F McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17770 AMST 2760   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2841

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9552 AMST 2841   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2870

This course examines some major justice movements of the modern era, introducing students to a submerged history that should neither be idealized nor forgotten. One goal will be to connect the ongoing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2870ENGL 2870

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18628 AMST 2870   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brady, M

      Viramontes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 2983

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2983PMA 2683

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8097 AMST 2983   LEC 001

    • R Washington, DC
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • O'Connor, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 3065

Immigration discourse and policy has played a central role in shaping the modern American nation-state, including its composition, values, and institutions. This course begins in the late nineteenth century, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 3065LATA 3065LSP 3065

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17470 AMST 3065   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 105
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3071

The US and the global community face a number of complex, interconnected and enduring issues that pose challenges for our political and policy governance institutions and society at large.  Exploring how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3071

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9571 AMST 3071   LEC 001

    • F Washington, DC
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Silbey, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Taught in Washington, DC.

AMST 3072

Since its ratification the U.S. Federal Constitution has been a fixed element of the American experience. And yet the meaning Americans attribute to the document—from its structural and rights provisions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3072LAW 3920

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18456 AMST 3072   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3112

The course will be a lecture course on Congress, introducing them to the political science literature on the topic and the major research questions and approaches. We will examine the development of the ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16754 AMST 3112   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16755 AMST 3112   DIS 201

    • M White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16756 AMST 3112   DIS 202

    • M Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16757 AMST 3112   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16758 AMST 3112   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3131

A general-education course to acquaint students with how our legal system pursues the goals of society. The course introduces students to various perspectives on the nature of law, what functions it ought ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3131LAW 4131

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 18024 AMST 3131   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3142

This class is intended to provoke some hard thinking about the relationship of committed "outsiders" and advocates of change to the experience of crime, punishment, and incarceration and to the men we ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: EDUC 3143GOVT 3142

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8105 AMST 3142   SEM 101

    • R White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Margulies, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3185

This course explores the history, sociology, and ethics of risk. In particular, we will focus on the complex and often ambiguous relationship between science, technology, and risk. A historical perspective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 3181HIST 3181STS 3181

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17844 AMST 3185   LEC 001

    • TR Statler Hall 445
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Slayton, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3434

This course offers undergraduates a unique approach to exploring the abolition movement of central New York. It is an experiential course that includes visits to specific known underground stations as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3434

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18570 AMST 3434   SEM 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3562

The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3560ENGL 3560

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18571 AMST 3562   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3590

This course provides a critical historical interrogation of what Black Marxism author Cedric Robinson called "the Black Radical Tradition." It will introduce students to some of the major currents in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3590HIST 3590

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16994 AMST 3590   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3745

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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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3740LGBT 3740PMA 3740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16665 AMST 3745   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3785

This course examines the political theory of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? What makes disobedience civil rather than criminal? How do acts of protest influence public ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17270 AMST 3785   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17271 AMST 3785   DIS 201

    • W White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17272 AMST 3785   DIS 202

    • F White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 19109 AMST 3785   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 19110 AMST 3785   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3820

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8376 AMST 3820   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall G88
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3980

Affords opportunities for students to carry out independent research under appropriate supervision. Each student is expected to review pertinent literature, prepare a project outline, conduct the research, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5298 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 3990

Individualized readings for junior and senior students. Topics, requirements, and credit hours will be determined in consultation between the student and the supervising faculty member. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5299 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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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  • 17195 AMST 4039   SEM 101

    • R McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Washington, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4272

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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  • 17939 AMST 4272   SEM 101

    • MW McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Dedrick, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4280

Human bodies are inescapably enmeshed in our environments: human health and environmental health are inseparable. But human bodies are not equally impacted by environmental degradation and toxicity. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4280STS 4280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17548 AMST 4280   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4470

Long before the advent of digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter, artists began questioning the growing production and commodification of "data bodies." Groups such as Critical ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 4470STS 4470

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17544 AMST 4470   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4533

American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details

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  •  9043 AMST 4533   SEM 101

    • T Lincoln Hall B08
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sampson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4550

What is a university, what does it do, and how does it do it? Moving out from these more general questions, this seminar will focus on a more specific set of questions concerning the place of race within ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 4550ENGL 4961HIST 4551

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9494 AMST 4550   SEM 101

    • M White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Chang, D

      Wong, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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  • 17355 AMST 4556   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4619

This course examines the way audiotape both corrupted and enabled the aesthetic and political culture of the 1970s. The possibilities of editing (via the cut, the loop, the overdub, the mixtape) on one ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4619MUSIC 4454

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16611 AMST 4619   SEM 101

    • M Uris Library 311
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Braddock, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4627

If you haven't read contemporary U.S. American Indian fiction, then it might be fair to ask how much you know about the United States, its origins and its current condition. Since the 1960s, American Indians ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4625ENGL 4625

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18578 AMST 4627   SEM 101

    • TR Caldwell Hall 400
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4646

This seminar explores the sociocultural dimensions of various flows of energy as these have shaped contemporary Indigenous experience. From nuclear power to fossil fuels, and from ethnobotanicals to gaming ... view course details

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  • 16949 AMST 4646   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4647

This course explores the epochal transition from organic to mineral energy sources during the nineteenth century. The idea of an "energy transition" seems to pinpoint the underlying material transformation ... view course details

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  • 16976 AMST 4647   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4705

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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  • 16632 AMST 4705   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 4994

To graduate with honors, AMST majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an AMST faculty member and defend that thesis orally before a committee. Students interested in the honors program ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5301 AMST 4994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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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  • 17617 AMST 5710   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17618 AMST 5710   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17619 AMST 5710   DIS 202

    • T Warren Hall 173
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17620 AMST 5710   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17621 AMST 5710   DIS 204

    • F Warren Hall 101
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17622 AMST 5710   DIS 205

    • F Warren Hall B02
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 6020

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6020

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18028 AMST 6020   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 6272

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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  • 17946 AMST 6272   SEM 101

    • MW McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Dedrick, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 6322

This graduate seminar will explore major currents in historical writing about African-American life and culture in the twentieth century. Focusing on social, intellectual, and labor history, we will identify ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6322HIST 6322

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17211 AMST 6322   SEM 101

    • T Morrill Hall 404
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 6335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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  • 18539 AMST 6335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16883 AMST 6585   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AMST 6809

Urban Representation Labs are intended to bring students and faculty into direct contact with complex urban representations spanning a wide media spectrum and evoking a broad set of humanist discourses. ... view course details

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  • Topic: Edge Cities: Urban Images in Global Cinema

  • 18688 AMST 6809   SEM 101

    • W Uris Library 311
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person