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PLEASE NOTE: Courses outside the American Studies program
that focus predominantly on U.S. culture may be counted towards
the American Studies major or minor. Students must seek approval
from the Program Director for each individual course they hope
to apply to the major or minor.
AMST 117. Introduction to American Studies (3 credits)
This course is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary
field of American Studies while also empowering them to use
the tools and perspectives of several disciplines, such as history,
literature, art history, and anthropology. This course aims
to introduce students to the various disciplines that constitute
American Studies while paying special attention to the ways
in which these disciplines can work together to illuminate the
study of American cultures, past and present. Students will
combine different methodologies in the process of completing
assignments designed to make use of a variety of University
Circle institutions. For the purposes of this course, biography
is treated as a constructed genre that comes in a variety of
forms, including autobiography, biographical novels, oral histories,
and film. The class will discuss how certain biographies have
created archetypal American identities, and how gender/race/class/historical
context, etc. have affected the writing and reading of biography
and restructured notions of identity.
AMST 270. American Art & Culture Before 1900 (3 credits)
Survey of the development of American art from colonial times
to the present, which will explore how art has expressed both
American values and American anxieties. Painting will be emphasized,
but the course will also consider architecture, the decorative
arts, film, literature, and music. Cross-listed as: ARTH 270.
AMST 271. American Art & Culture - 20th Century (3 credits)
Survey of the development of American art from 1900 to the present
(and the future) which will explore how art has expressed both
American values and American anxieties. Painting will be emphasized,
but the course will also consider architecture, the decorative
arts, film, literature, and music. Cross-listed as: ARTH 271.
AMST 327. American Theater and Playwrights (3 credits)
Designed to provide students an overview of the development
of theater in the United States and to familiarize them with
the work and themes of selected American playwrights. Cross-listed
as: THTR 327.
AMST 390. Independent Study (1-3 credits)
Under the direction of an appropriate faculty member, a student
majoring in American Studies must complete an independent research
project of their own design during their junior or senior year.
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