Course |
AS 102 Introduction to American Culture and Values |
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Professor |
Donna Grover |
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CRN |
16045 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 1:30
-2:50 pm OLIN 305 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW:
Humanities
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Cross-listed: Africana Studies
This course is an introduction to the
multidisciplinary study of American culture.
We will examine both the problematics and the fruits of a national
culture. Weighed down with the
authority of custom, a national culture imposes a sense of obligation to all
who belong to a society, but it affects groups and individuals differently,
according to the variables of gender, race and class. This course will compare and contrast visions of American culture
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
We will study the works of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B
DuBois, Ralph Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald among others.On-line