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AMST0104A-F12

Cross-Listed As:
FMMC0104A-F12

CRN: 92472
Television & American Culture
Please register via FMMC 0104A

Television & American Culture
This course explores American life in the last six decades through an analysis of our central medium: television. Spanning a history of television from its origins in radio to its future in digital convergence, we will consider television's role in both reflecting and constituting American society through a variety of approaches. Our topical exploration will consider the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. 2 hrs. lect./3 hrs. screen.

Instructors:
Jason Mittell
Location:
Axinn Center 232
Schedule:
9:30am-10:45am on Tuesday, Thursday at AXN 232 (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012) 7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday at AXN 232 (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
NOR, SOC

AMST0206A-F12

Cross-Listed As:
ENAM0206A-F12

CRN: 91140
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:
Brett Millier
Location:
Warner Hall HEM
Schedule:
9:30am-10:45am on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
LIT, NOR

AMST0209A-F12

Cross-Listed As:
ENAM0209A-F12

CRN: 91143
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:
Roberto Lint
Location:
Axinn Center 219
Schedule:
12:15pm-1:30pm on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
LIT, NOR

AMST0221A-F12

CRN: 92473
Baseball's Negro Leagues

Segregation in America: Baseball's Negro Leagues
Like many aspects of American life, organized baseball was segregated, black and white, from the end of the 19th century to the mid 20th century. In this course we will examine the absorbing chronicle of baseball's "Negro leagues." We will learn about the great players and teams, and consider how this sporting phenomenon reflects American values and represents this period in our history. We will address important questions about sports and their cultural significance. What do sports tell us about ourselves and our past? Can we understand our cultural heritage by looking through the lens of sports, black baseball in this case? We will also consider how art is created from these historical roots. (Student who have taken FYSE 1004 or AMST 0223 are not eligible to register for this course.) 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:
Karl Lindholm
Location:
Axinn Center 219
Schedule:
11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
CMP, NOR

AMST0221Y-F12

CRN: 92846
Baseball's Negro Leagues
Discussion

Segregation in America: Baseball's Negro Leagues
Like many aspects of American life, organized baseball was segregated, black and white, from the end of the 19th century to the mid 20th century. In this course we will examine the absorbing chronicle of baseball's "Negro leagues." We will learn about the great players and teams, and consider how this sporting phenomenon reflects American values and represents this period in our history. We will address important questions about sports and their cultural significance. What do sports tell us about ourselves and our past? Can we understand our cultural heritage by looking through the lens of sports, black baseball in this case? We will also consider how art is created from these historical roots. (Student who have taken FYSE 1004 or AMST 0223 are not eligible to register for this course.) 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:
Karl Lindholm
Location:
Adirondack House CLT
Schedule:
10:10am-11:00am on Friday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0221Z-F12

CRN: 92847
Baseball's Negro Leagues
Discussion

Segregation in America: Baseball's Negro Leagues
Like many aspects of American life, organized baseball was segregated, black and white, from the end of the 19th century to the mid 20th century. In this course we will examine the absorbing chronicle of baseball's "Negro leagues." We will learn about the great players and teams, and consider how this sporting phenomenon reflects American values and represents this period in our history. We will address important questions about sports and their cultural significance. What do sports tell us about ourselves and our past? Can we understand our cultural heritage by looking through the lens of sports, black baseball in this case? We will also consider how art is created from these historical roots. (Student who have taken FYSE 1004 or AMST 0223 are not eligible to register for this course.) 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:
Karl Lindholm
Location:
Adirondack House CLT
Schedule:
11:15am-12:05pm on Friday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0225A-F12

Cross-Listed As:
FMMC0225A-F12

CRN: 92981
Gothic and Horror

Gothic and Horror
This course examines the forms and meanings of the Gothic and horror over the last 250 years in the West. How have effects of fright, terror, or awe been achieved over this span and why do audiences find such effects attractive? Our purpose will be to understand the generic structures of horror and their evolution in tandem with broader cultural changes. Course materials will include fiction, film, readings in the theory of horror, architecture, visual arts, and electronic media. 3 hrs. lect./disc. 3 hrs lect.

Instructors:
Michael Newbury
Location:
Library 201
Schedule:
12:15pm-1:30pm on Monday, Wednesday at LIB 201 (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012) 7:30pm-10:25pm on Tuesday at MBH 220 (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
HIS, NOR

AMST0230A-F12

Cross-Listed As:
WAGS0230A-F12

CRN: 92474
Gender Images in Pop Am Cult

Gender Images in American Popular Culture
In this course, we will examine representations of gender in American popular culture. Course materials will include nineteenth-century popular music, literature, and theater, early twentieth-century advertising and film, 1950s television, and more recent electronic media. Considering a range of cultural forms over a broad historical period allows us to determine the impact that particular media have had on our conceptions of gender difference. Finally, by becoming critical readers of popular cultural forms that represent manhood and womanhood, we gain a greater appreciation for the complexity, variability, and open-endedness of gender constructions within American life. 3 hrs. lect.

Instructors:
Holly Allen
Location:
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 148
Schedule:
8:40am-9:55am on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
CW, NOR

AMST0245A-F12

CRN: 92887
American Landscape: 1825-1865

American Landscape: 1825-1865
This course will explore American landscape painting through an interdisciplinary approach, employing art, literature, religion, and history. In studying the landscape paintings of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and Frederic Church, we will also consider the commercial growth of New York City; the myths and legends of the Catskill Mountains; the writings of James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Henry David Thoreau; the opening of the Erie Canal; and the design and construction of Central Park. 3 hrs. lect./disc.

Instructors:
Christopher Wilson
Location:
Library 201
Schedule:
7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
ART, HIS, NOR

AMST0260A-F12

CRN: 92458
American Disability Studies

American Disability Studies: History, Meanings, and Cultures
In this course we will examine the history, meanings, and realities of disability in the United States. We will analyze the social, political, economic, environmental, and material factors that shape the meanings of "disability," examining changes and continuities over time. Students will draw critical attention to the connections between disability, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and age in American and transnational contexts. Diverse sources, including films and television shows, music, advertising, fiction, memoirs, and material objects, encourage inter and multi-disciplinary approaches to disability. Central themes we consider include language, privilege, community, citizenship, education, medicine and technology, and representation.

Instructors:
Susan Burch
Location:
Axinn Center 103
Schedule:
2:50pm-4:05pm on Monday, Wednesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Additional Details:
Community Connected Course
Requirements Satisfied:
HIS, NOR, SOC

AMST0400A-F12

CRN: 90015
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:
Roberto Lint
Location:
Axinn Center 109
Schedule:
1:30pm-4:15pm on Tuesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0408A-F12

CRN: 91539
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 Monday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)
Requirements Satisfied:
ART, HIS, NOR

AMST0500A-F12

CRN: 90120
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500B-F12

CRN: 90126
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Holly Allen
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500C-F12

CRN: 90140
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Brett Millier
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500D-F12

CRN: 90141
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Deborah Evans
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500G-F12

CRN: 90144
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Michael Newbury
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500H-F12

CRN: 90145
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Timothy Spears
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500I-F12

CRN: 90146
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Jason Mittell
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500J-F12

CRN: 90147
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
John McWilliams
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500K-F12

CRN: 90148
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Christopher Wilson
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500L-F12

CRN: 90149
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Rachael Joo
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500N-F12

CRN: 91500
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Roberto Lint
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0500O-F12

CRN: 91501
Independent Study

Independent Study
Select project advisor prior to registration.

Instructors:
Susan Burch
Location:
Main
Schedule:
7:00pm-8:29pm on Sunday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)

AMST0705A-F12

CRN: 92982
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 201
Schedule:
7:30pm-10:25pm on Tuesday (Sep 10, 2012 to Dec 7, 2012)