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AMST0202A-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0202A-F13 CRN: 92205	The American Mind Please register via HIST 0202A The American Mind We will consider the history of influential American ideas, and ideas about America, from the Revolution to the present, with particular regard to changing cultural contexts. A continuing question will be whether such a consensus concept as “the American Mind” has the validity long claimed for it. Among many writers we will read are Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, William James, Martin Luther King, Reinhold Niebuhr and Betty Friedan. (Previously taught as HIST/AMST 0426) Instructors: John McWilliams Location: Munroe Hall 320 Schedule: 1:45pm-2:35pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: HIS, NOR
AMST0203A-F13 Cross-Listed As: WRPR0203A-F13 CRN: 92209	Media, Sports, & Identity Please register via WRPR 0203A Media, Sports, & Identity In this course we will examine the relationship between media, sports, and the formulation of one’s identity. We will examine issues pertaining to gender identification, violence, and hero worship. Reading critical essays on the subject, studying media coverage of sporting events, and writing short analytical essays will enable us to determine key elements concerning how sports are contextualized in American culture. Student essays will form the basis of a more in-depth inquiry that each student will then present, using media, at the end of the course. (Not open to students who have taken WRPR 1002) Instructors: Hector Vila Location: Library 230 Schedule: 11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: CW, NOR, SOC
AMST0206A-F13 Cross-Listed As: ENAM0206A-F13 CRN: 91057	19th Century American Lit. Please register via ENAM 0206A Nineteenth-Century American Literature This course will examine major developments in the literary world of 19th century America. Specific topics to be addressed might include the transition from Romanticism to Regionalism and Realism, the origins and evolution of the novel in the United States, and the tensions arising from the emergence of a commercial marketplace for literature. Attention will also be paid to the rise of women as literary professionals in America and the persistent problematizing of race and slavery. Among others, authors may include J. F. Cooper, Emerson, Melville, Douglass, Chopin, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, Wharton, and James. 3 hrs. lect./disc. Instructors: Deborah Evans Location: Munroe Hall 314 Schedule: 9:30am-10:45am on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: LIT, NOR
AMST0209A-F13 Cross-Listed As: ENAM0209A-F13 CRN: 91060	Am. Lit. & Cult: origins-1830 American Literature and Culture: Origins-1830 A study of literary and other cultural forms in early America, including gravestones, architecture, furniture and visual art. We will consider how writing and these other forms gave life to ideas about religion, diversity, civic obligation and individual rights that dominated not only colonial life but that continue to influence notions of "Americanness" into the present day. 3 hrs. lect./dics. Instructors: Michael Newbury Location: Axinn Center 219 Schedule: 11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: LIT, NOR
AMST0226A-F13 CRN: 92474	Global American Studies Global American Studies The intensification of globalization since the 1980s has transformed the United States and the field of American Studies. In this course we will explore cultural and social changes that are linked to global flows of media, money, and migration in and out of the United States. Contemporary theories of globalization in the humanities and social sciences will be explored through a number of case studies. Some of the themes covered will include: the relationship between globalization and Americanization, imperialism and American militarization, transnationalism and media, and neoliberalism and finance. Instructors: Rachael Joo Location: Axinn Center 219 Schedule: 1:30pm-2:45pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: NOR, SOC
AMST0231A-F13 CRN: 92370	Tourism in American Culture See the U.S.A.: The History of Tourism in American Culture In this course, we will explore the history and evolution of American tourism, beginning in the 1820s, when middle-class tourists first journeyed up the Hudson River valley, and ending with our contemporary and continuing obsession with iconic destinations such as Graceland, Gettysburg, and the Grand Canyon. We will explore how the growth of national transportation systems, the development of advertising, and the rise of a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure shaped the evolution of tourism. Along the way, we will study various types of tourism (such as historical, cultural, ethnic, eco-, and 'disaster' tourism) and look at the creative processes by which places are transformed into 'destinations'. Our texts will come from visual art, travel literature, material culture, and film and television. We will consider their cultural meaning and reflect on our own motivations and responses as tourists, and by so doing contemplate why tourism was-and still is-such an important part of American life. 3 hrs. lect. Instructors: Deborah Evans Location: Old Chapel 401 Schedule: 1:30pm-2:45pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: CW, HIS, NOR
AMST0309A-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0309A-F13 CRN: 92371	Tech & Power in American Hist. Technology and Power in American History In this course we will consider how technological artifacts and systems have constituted, mediated, and reproduced relationships of power with a particular attention to hierarchies of race, gender, class, and nation. We will examine the relationships between humans and technologies within the context of globalization from early colonial America through the 21st century. We will consider a variety of technologies and social settings such as guns, slave ships, plantations, factories, prisons, physical and virtual border fences, computers, mobile phones, human bodies, and reproduction. We will ask whether technology has produced a better America, and for whom. 3 hrs. sem. Instructors: Darla Thompson Location: Axinn Center 103 Schedule: 3:00pm-4:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: HIS, NOR
AMST0358A-F13 Cross-Listed As: ENAM0358A-F13 CRN: 92547	Reading Slavery and Aboliltion Reading, Slavery, and Abolition In this course we will study both black and white writers' psychological responses to, and their verbal onslaughts on, the "peculiar institution" of chattel slavery. We will work chronologically and across genres to understand how and by whom the written word was deployed in pursuit of physical and mental freedom and racial and socioeconomic justice. As the course progresses, we will deepen our study of historical context drawing on the substantial resources of Middlebury's special collections, students will have the opportunity to engage in archival work if they wish. Authors will include Emerson, Douglass, Jacobs, Thoreau, Stowe, Walker, and Garrison. 3 hrs. sem. Instructors: William Nash Location: Munroe Hall 404 Schedule: 12:15pm-1:30pm on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: HIS, LIT, NOR
AMST0365A-F13 CRN: 92175	Art and Lang of the Civil War The Art and Language of the Civil War The course will begin with a review of the major historical events of the Civil War. We will then study the conflict through the paintings of Winslow Homer and Frederic Church, the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman, the photographs of Matthew Brady, and the political writings of Abraham Lincoln. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the thoughts and attitudes of the common soldier as reflected in his diaries and journals. 3 hrs. lect./disc. Instructors: Christopher Wilson Location: Library 201 Schedule: 7:30pm-10:25pm on Tuesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: ART, HIS, NOR
AMST0373A-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0373A-F13 GSFS0373A-F13 CRN: 92176	History of American Women Please register via HIST 0373A History of American Women: 1869-1999 This course will examine women's social, political, cultural, and economic position in American society from 1869 through the late 20th century. We will explore the shifting ideological basis for gender roles, as well as the effects of race, class, ethnicity, and region on women's lives. Topics covered will include: women's political identity, women's work, sexuality, access to education, the limits of "sisterhood" across racial and economic boundaries, and the opportunities women used to expand their sphere of influence. 3 hrs lect./disc. Instructors: Amy Morsman Location: Gifford LCT Schedule: 10:10am-11:00am on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: CMP, HIS, NOR
AMST0373X-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0373X-F13 GSFS0373X-F13 CRN: 92178	History of American Women Please register via HIST 0373X History of American Women: 1869-1999 This course will examine women's social, political, cultural, and economic position in American society from 1869 through the late 20th century. We will explore the shifting ideological basis for gender roles, as well as the effects of race, class, ethnicity, and region on women's lives. Topics covered will include: women's political identity, women's work, sexuality, access to education, the limits of "sisterhood" across racial and economic boundaries, and the opportunities women used to expand their sphere of influence. 3 hrs lect./disc. Instructors: Amy Morsman Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126 Schedule: 10:10am-11:00am on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0373Y-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0373Y-F13 GSFS0373Y-F13 CRN: 92179	History of American Women Please register via HIST 0373Y History of American Women: 1869-1999 This course will examine women's social, political, cultural, and economic position in American society from 1869 through the late 20th century. We will explore the shifting ideological basis for gender roles, as well as the effects of race, class, ethnicity, and region on women's lives. Topics covered will include: women's political identity, women's work, sexuality, access to education, the limits of "sisterhood" across racial and economic boundaries, and the opportunities women used to expand their sphere of influence. 3 hrs lect./disc. Instructors: Amy Morsman Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126 Schedule: 11:15am-12:05pm on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0373Z-F13 Cross-Listed As: HIST0373Z-F13 GSFS0373Z-F13 CRN: 92180	History of American Women Please register via HIST 0373Z History of American Women: 1869-1999 This course will examine women's social, political, cultural, and economic position in American society from 1869 through the late 20th century. We will explore the shifting ideological basis for gender roles, as well as the effects of race, class, ethnicity, and region on women's lives. Topics covered will include: women's political identity, women's work, sexuality, access to education, the limits of "sisterhood" across racial and economic boundaries, and the opportunities women used to expand their sphere of influence. 3 hrs lect./disc. Instructors: Amy Morsman Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126 Schedule: 12:30pm-1:20pm on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0400A-F13 CRN: 90013	Theory and Method Theory and Method in American Studies (Junior Year) A reading of influential secondary texts that have defined the field of American Studies during the past fifty years. Particular attention will be paid to the methodologies adopted by American Studies scholars, and the relevance these approaches have for the writing of senior essays and theses. (Open to junior American studies majors only.) 3 hrs. lect./disc. Instructors: Michael Newbury Location: LaForce 121 Schedule: 1:30pm-4:15pm on Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0408A-F13 CRN: 91404	Am Art In Context: Art & Life of Winslow Homer American Art in Context: Art and Life of Winslow Homer Although generally regarded as a popular painter of American life, Winslow Homer often provides a penetrating and sometimes disturbing view of post-Civil War America. Among the topics to be considered: Homer's paintings of the Civil War; his illustrations of leisure and recreation; and his depictions of women and children in the Gilded Age. During the second half of the course, we will turn our attention to Homer's landscape paintings of the Adirondacks, the Caribbean and the Maine coast, as well as his seascapes of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic. 3 hrs. lect./disc. Instructors: Christopher Wilson Location: Library 201 Schedule: 7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013) Requirements Satisfied: ART, HIS, NOR
AMST0500A-F13 CRN: 90107	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500B-F13 CRN: 90112	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Holly Allen Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500D-F13 CRN: 90125	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Deborah Evans Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500E-F13 CRN: 90126	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500F-F13 CRN: 90127	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: William Nash Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500G-F13 CRN: 90128	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Michael Newbury Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500H-F13 CRN: 90129	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Timothy Spears Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500I-F13 CRN: 90130	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Jason Mittell Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500J-F13 CRN: 90131	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: John McWilliams Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500K-F13 CRN: 90132	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Christopher Wilson Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500L-F13 CRN: 90133	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Rachael Joo Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500M-F13 CRN: 91184	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0500N-F13 CRN: 91373	Independent Study Independent Study Select project advisor prior to registration. Instructors: Roberto Lint Location: Main Schedule: 7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
AMST0705A-F13 CRN: 92065	Senior Research Tutorial Senior Research Tutorial This seminar will focus on the development of sophisticated research skills, the sharing with peers of research and writing in progress, and the completion of a substantial research project. Those writing one-credit essays will complete their projects over the course of this tutorial. Instructors: Holly Allen Location: Library 230 Schedule: 7:30pm-10:25pm on Monday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)

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Fall 2013

Spring 2014 »

AMST0202A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0202A-F13

CRN: 92205

The American Mind
Please register via HIST 0202A

The American Mind
We will consider the history of influential American ideas, and ideas about America, from the Revolution to the present, with particular regard to changing cultural contexts. A continuing question will be whether such a consensus concept as “the American Mind” has the validity long claimed for it. Among many writers we will read are Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, William James, Martin Luther King, Reinhold Niebuhr and Betty Friedan. (Previously taught as HIST/AMST 0426)

Instructors:: John McWilliams
Location:: Munroe Hall 320
Schedule:: 1:45pm-2:35pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: HIS, NOR

AMST0203A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
WRPR0203A-F13

CRN: 92209

Media, Sports, & Identity
Please register via WRPR 0203A

Media, Sports, & Identity
In this course we will examine the relationship between media, sports, and the formulation of one’s identity. We will examine issues pertaining to gender identification, violence, and hero worship. Reading critical essays on the subject, studying media coverage of sporting events, and writing short analytical essays will enable us to determine key elements concerning how sports are contextualized in American culture. Student essays will form the basis of a more in-depth inquiry that each student will then present, using media, at the end of the course. (Not open to students who have taken WRPR 1002)

Instructors:: Hector Vila
Location:: Library 230
Schedule:: 11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: CW, NOR, SOC

AMST0206A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
ENAM0206A-F13

CRN: 91057

19th Century American Lit.
Please register via ENAM 0206A

Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This course will examine major developments in the literary world of 19th century America. Specific topics to be addressed might include the transition from Romanticism to Regionalism and Realism, the origins and evolution of the novel in the United States, and the tensions arising from the emergence of a commercial marketplace for literature. Attention will also be paid to the rise of women as literary professionals in America and the persistent problematizing of race and slavery. Among others, authors may include J. F. Cooper, Emerson, Melville, Douglass, Chopin, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, Wharton, and James. 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:: Deborah Evans
Location:: Munroe Hall 314
Schedule:: 9:30am-10:45am on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: LIT, NOR

AMST0209A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
ENAM0209A-F13

CRN: 91060

Am. Lit. & Cult: origins-1830

American Literature and Culture: Origins-1830
A study of literary and other cultural forms in early America, including gravestones, architecture, furniture and visual art. We will consider how writing and these other forms gave life to ideas about religion, diversity, civic obligation and individual rights that dominated not only colonial life but that continue to influence notions of "Americanness" into the present day. 3 hrs. lect./dics.

Instructors:: Michael Newbury
Location:: Axinn Center 219
Schedule:: 11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: LIT, NOR

AMST0226A-F13

CRN: 92474

Global American Studies

Global American Studies
The intensification of globalization since the 1980s has transformed the United States and the field of American Studies. In this course we will explore cultural and social changes that are linked to global flows of media, money, and migration in and out of the United States. Contemporary theories of globalization in the humanities and social sciences will be explored through a number of case studies. Some of the themes covered will include: the relationship between globalization and Americanization, imperialism and American militarization, transnationalism and media, and neoliberalism and finance.

Instructors:: Rachael Joo
Location:: Axinn Center 219
Schedule:: 1:30pm-2:45pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: NOR, SOC

AMST0231A-F13

CRN: 92370

Tourism in American Culture

See the U.S.A.: The History of Tourism in American Culture
In this course, we will explore the history and evolution of American tourism, beginning in the 1820s, when middle-class tourists first journeyed up the Hudson River valley, and ending with our contemporary and continuing obsession with iconic destinations such as Graceland, Gettysburg, and the Grand Canyon. We will explore how the growth of national transportation systems, the development of advertising, and the rise of a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure shaped the evolution of tourism. Along the way, we will study various types of tourism (such as historical, cultural, ethnic, eco-, and 'disaster' tourism) and look at the creative processes by which places are transformed into 'destinations'. Our texts will come from visual art, travel literature, material culture, and film and television. We will consider their cultural meaning and reflect on our own motivations and responses as tourists, and by so doing contemplate why tourism was-and still is-such an important part of American life. 3 hrs. lect.

Instructors:: Deborah Evans
Location:: Old Chapel 401
Schedule:: 1:30pm-2:45pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: CW, HIS, NOR

AMST0309A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0309A-F13

CRN: 92371

Tech & Power in American Hist.

Technology and Power in American History
In this course we will consider how technological artifacts and systems have constituted, mediated, and reproduced relationships of power with a particular attention to hierarchies of race, gender, class, and nation. We will examine the relationships between humans and technologies within the context of globalization from early colonial America through the 21st century. We will consider a variety of technologies and social settings such as guns, slave ships, plantations, factories, prisons, physical and virtual border fences, computers, mobile phones, human bodies, and reproduction. We will ask whether technology has produced a better America, and for whom. 3 hrs. sem.

Instructors:: Darla Thompson
Location:: Axinn Center 103
Schedule:: 3:00pm-4:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: HIS, NOR

AMST0358A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
ENAM0358A-F13

CRN: 92547

Reading Slavery and Aboliltion

Reading, Slavery, and Abolition
In this course we will study both black and white writers' psychological responses to, and their verbal onslaughts on, the "peculiar institution" of chattel slavery. We will work chronologically and across genres to understand how and by whom the written word was deployed in pursuit of physical and mental freedom and racial and socioeconomic justice. As the course progresses, we will deepen our study of historical context drawing on the substantial resources of Middlebury's special collections, students will have the opportunity to engage in archival work if they wish. Authors will include Emerson, Douglass, Jacobs, Thoreau, Stowe, Walker, and Garrison. 3 hrs. sem.

Instructors:: William Nash
Location:: Munroe Hall 404
Schedule:: 12:15pm-1:30pm on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: HIS, LIT, NOR

AMST0365A-F13

CRN: 92175

Art and Lang of the Civil War

The Art and Language of the Civil War
The course will begin with a review of the major historical events of the Civil War. We will then study the conflict through the paintings of Winslow Homer and Frederic Church, the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman, the photographs of Matthew Brady, and the political writings of Abraham Lincoln. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the thoughts and attitudes of the common soldier as reflected in his diaries and journals. 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:: Christopher Wilson
Location:: Library 201
Schedule:: 7:30pm-10:25pm on Tuesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: ART, HIS, NOR

AMST0373A-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0373A-F13 GSFS0373A-F13

CRN: 92176

History of American Women
Please register via HIST 0373A

History of American Women: 1869-1999
This course will examine women's social, political, cultural, and economic position in American society from 1869 through the late 20th century. We will explore the shifting ideological basis for gender roles, as well as the effects of race, class, ethnicity, and region on women's lives. Topics covered will include: women's political identity, women's work, sexuality, access to education, the limits of "sisterhood" across racial and economic boundaries, and the opportunities women used to expand their sphere of influence. 3 hrs lect./disc.

Instructors:: Amy Morsman
Location:: Gifford LCT
Schedule:: 10:10am-11:00am on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: CMP, HIS, NOR

AMST0373X-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0373X-F13 GSFS0373X-F13

CRN: 92178

History of American Women
Please register via HIST 0373X

Instructors:: Amy Morsman
Location:: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126
Schedule:: 10:10am-11:00am on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)

AMST0373Y-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0373Y-F13 GSFS0373Y-F13

CRN: 92179

History of American Women
Please register via HIST 0373Y

Instructors:: Amy Morsman
Location:: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126
Schedule:: 11:15am-12:05pm on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)

AMST0373Z-F13

Cross-Listed As:
HIST0373Z-F13 GSFS0373Z-F13

CRN: 92180

History of American Women
Please register via HIST 0373Z

Instructors:: Amy Morsman
Location:: Mahaney Center for the Arts 126
Schedule:: 12:30pm-1:20pm on Friday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)

AMST0400A-F13

CRN: 90013

Theory and Method

Theory and Method in American Studies (Junior Year)
A reading of influential secondary texts that have defined the field of American Studies during the past fifty years. Particular attention will be paid to the methodologies adopted by American Studies scholars, and the relevance these approaches have for the writing of senior essays and theses. (Open to junior American studies majors only.) 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:: Michael Newbury
Location:: LaForce 121
Schedule:: 1:30pm-4:15pm on Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)

AMST0408A-F13

CRN: 91404

Am Art In Context:
Art & Life of Winslow Homer

American Art in Context: Art and Life of Winslow Homer
Although generally regarded as a popular painter of American life, Winslow Homer often provides a penetrating and sometimes disturbing view of post-Civil War America. Among the topics to be considered: Homer's paintings of the Civil War; his illustrations of leisure and recreation; and his depictions of women and children in the Gilded Age. During the second half of the course, we will turn our attention to Homer's landscape paintings of the Adirondacks, the Caribbean and the Maine coast, as well as his seascapes of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic. 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:: Christopher Wilson
Location:: Library 201
Schedule:: 7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday (Sep 9, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013)
Requirements Satisfied:: ART, HIS, NOR

AMST0500A-F13

CRN: 90107