Course	AS 101 Introduction to American Studies
Professor	Geoffrey Sanborn
CRN	15122
Schedule	Wed Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: B / C	NEW: History

Rather than a survey of any one aspect or period of American history, literature, or popular culture, this course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, a field defined both by the range of texts we read (essays, novels, autobiographies, photographs, films, music, architecture, historical documents, legal texts), and by the questions we ask of them. Those questions include: How have different Americans imagined what it means to be an American? What ideas about national history, patriotism, and moral character shape their visions of Americanness? How do they draw the boundaries that define who belongs within the nation and who gets excluded? What uses have been made of the claim to an American identity, and what is at stake in that claim? How have Americans imagined a national landscape, a national culture, and to what ends? The course will drive toward a consideration of the place that September 11 has begun to assume in American cultural memory.

Course	AS 334 Topics in Sexual Identity
Professor	Aureliano DeSoto
CRN	15035
Schedule	Fr 2:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Gender Studies, SRE

This course focuses on the emergence and development of lesbian and gay identities in the USA from World War Two to the present. Reading a variety of textual genres (history, sociology, memoir, literature) as well as documentary visual media, the course will examine the consolidation of lesbian and gay identities in the years before 1969 (Stonewall), the effect of the Stonewall Rebellion, the divergence of lesbian and gay male subcultures in the 1970s (with their different utopian variations: separatism and hedonism), the AIDS crisis and racialized lesbian feminisms of the 1980s, and the new queer activism and subsequent commercialization of gay identity in the 1990s.