11877

AS 102   The Politics of Culture

Mark Lytle

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30am

OLIN 201

HUM

Cross-listed: History  This course develops the assumptions thatamericans define their differences more through their culture than their politics or else they politicize their cultural differences. Those differences are sometimes muted and at others inflamed by the role of culture in the market place. The Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution is a telling example. The battles over drugs, abortion rights, and environmental justice are others. During the semester we will focus on the development of modern media, popular culture, advertising, architecture, gender roles, and official efforts to suppress cultural differences. The readings will include novelists like Twain, Fitzgerald, Salinger, and others who have had a keen sense of the sources of cultural conflicts.  Class size: 22

 

11864

AS 314   Spiritualism

Donna Grover

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50pm

OLIN 303

HUM

Cross listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies   In 1848 a series of mysterious raps soon bought notoriety to Kate and Maggie Fox, two young women from Rochester, New York and thus theamerican Spiritualist movement was born.  During the forty year period that the Fox sisters soared to fame  (and then plummeted into obscurity and ignominy when one sister claimed the raps were faked)america experienced a myriad of changes—abolition, women’s suffrage and great technological advances—all of which found a connection to Spiritualism.  In this course we will examine the social, religious, economic and political forces that helped shape the Spiritualist movement.  Essential to our discussion is the work of William James who attempted to place Spiritualism within the legitimate scientific community.    The novels of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Dean Howells will provide both a critique of Spiritualism and demonstrate its cultural impact.  The peculiar role of New York State in the shaping of the Spiritualist movement—from the politically progressive community of Rochester, to New York City and the Barnum Hotel—will also be a point of interest.  In an era when the telegraph sent messages over incredible distances, Spiritualism’s assertion that messages could be sent between two worlds interrogated the relationship between faith and science. Class size: 15

 

11736

ARTH / PHOT 215   Photography inamerica

Laurie Dahlberg

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

 

11734

ARTH 209   Art & Nation Building

Julia Rosenbaum

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50pm

OLIN 102

AART

 

12040

ARTH 364   Seminar in the History of Art

in Woodstock

Tom Wolf

. . . Th .

1:30 -3:50pm

FISHER ANNEX

 

 

11670

MUS 211   Jazz in Literature I

Thurman Barker

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30am

BLM N210

AART

 

11685

MUS 266B  americn Popular Song 1930-1950

John Esposito

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10pm

BLM N211

PART

 

11671

MUS 331   Jazz: The Freedom Principle I

Thurman Barker

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50pm

BLM N210

AART

 

11956

THTR 310I   Minstrelsy, Vaudeville,

and Melodrama

Jean Wagner

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50pm

FISHER PAC STUDIO NORTH

AART/DIFF

 

11540

LIT 258  american Literature II

Alexandre Benson

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10pm

OLIN 301

ELIT

 

11598

LIT 259  american Literature III

Matthew Mutter

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 201

ELIT

 

11562

LIT 2601  american Literature 1945-2001: "Where do we find ourselves?"

Elizabeth Frank

. . W . .

. . . Th .

11:50 -1:10pm

10:10 - 11:30am

ASP 302

ELIT

 

11564

LIT 2331   Classicamerican Gothic

Donna Grover

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30am

OLIN 308

ELIT

 

11541

LIT 3148   Writing Cultures: Literature

and Ethnography

Alexandre Benson

. T . . .

3:10 -5:30pm

OLIN 309

ELIT

 

11599

LIT 3244   Major Currents inamerican Thought

Matthew Mutter

M . . . .

10:10 - 12:30pm

OLIN 301

ELIT

 

11637

ANTH 215   Bardaeology -  the Campus

as Material Culture

Christopher Lindner

. . W . .

. . . . F

4:40 -6:00pm

11:50 -4:30pm

HEG 300

ROSE 306

SCI

 

 

11887

HIST 2105   Hawkers & Madmen:

Advertising theamerican Dream

Mark Lytle

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLINLC 206

HIST

 

11889

HIST 2142   Harlem, Bronzeville, South Central

Myra Armstead

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 201

HIST/DIFF

 

11878

HIST 217   The Progressive Era in US History

Myra Armstead

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50pm

OLIN 101

HIST

 

11664

HIST 3135   Biography and U.S. History

Myra Armstead

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50pm

OLIN 305

HIST

 

12037

HIST 3227   A Sense of Place:  A Public History Practicum on Bard College

Cynthia Koch

. T. .  .

11:50 – 2:10pm

RKC 122

HIST

 

11906

PS 122  american Politics: Issues

and Institutions

Simon Gilhooley

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30am

RKC 200

SSCI

 

11913

PS 321   The US Constitution as a Political Text

Simon Gilhooley

. . . Th .

1:30 – 3:50pm

OLIN 309

SSCI

 

11618

SOC 101   Introduction to Sociology

Clement Thery

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10pm

OLIN 205

SSCI/DIFF

 

11935

SOC 120   Inequality inamerica

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30am

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

 

11620

SOC 132   “Does it Take a Village?” Community and theamerican Imagination

Clement Thery

. T . Th .

4:40 -6:00pm

OLIN 201

SSCI

 

11936

SOC 247   Theamerican Family

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 202

SSCI

 

11621

SOC 268  A New Look at Gentrification

Clement Thery

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

HEG 308

SSCI

 

11623

SOC 322   A Sociological Classic:

Middletown andamerica

Joel Perlmann

. . W . .

3:10 -5:30pm

OLIN 107

SSCI/DIFF

 

11622

SOC 332   Seminar on Social Problems

Yuval Elmelech

. . . . F

10:10 - 12:30pm

OLIN 205

SSCI/DIFF