Introduction to
American Studies |
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Professor: Peter L'Official |
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Course
Number: AS 101 |
CRN
Number: 10179 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being,
Value D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Literature |
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American studies, as some have observed,
is not defined by what it chooses to include, but by what it refuses to
exclude. This course introduces students to the capacious multidisciplinary
field of American studies. An inter-discipline that, at its birth in the
mid-twentieth century, united literary and historical studies at its core in
an attempt to define what, among its many myths and symbols, constituted
“American civilization,” American studies now is in close dialogue with
ethnic studies, environmental and urban studies, Native American and Indigenous
studies, queer studies, disability studies, critical geography, sociology,
media studies, labor studies, art history, and more, while strengthening its
links to questions of politics and social justice. Scholars in American
studies read and interpret a broad range of artifacts (essays, literary
texts, photographs, film, music, architecture, visual art, historical
documents, and legal texts) in order to think critically about “America” and
who and what makes it—in a hemispheric, transnational, and global sense. In
this course, “The Discovery of What it Means to Be an American” describes
both a piercing 1961 James Baldwin essay, as well as it does our process of
tracing lines of connection across historical moments and media in order to
understand the aftereffects of enslavement, genocide, colonization, war, and
migration as they have shaped U.S. history and culture, at home and abroad.
Issues of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic difference will be
discussed at length. This course is open both to intended American and
Indigenous Studies Program majors and to others interested in developing
skills in close-reading, critical analysis, and cultural criticism. |
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Introduction to
Indigenous Feminist Critiques and Geographies |
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Professor: Margaux Kristjansson |
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Course
Number: AS 222 |
CRN
Number: 10180 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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This course considers the writing and
organizing of Indigenous feminists in the Americas and globally over the past
two centuries. Students will analyze place, state power, gender, race and
capitalism through the analytics offered by Indigenous women and non-men. We
ask: what is colonialism, and how does it persist through claims over Native
lands? How are colonialism, capitalism and racism gendered? How is place
connected to embodiment? We will deconstruct colonial images of and desires
to ‘know’ Indigenous women and non-men and move towards a critical analysis
of heteropatriarchy, colonialism and capitalism. Texts by: A Simpson,
Belcourt, Silko, Hunt, Million, Green, Maracle, Goeman, Miles, Lethabo-King,
Chrystos, J Simpson. |
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Cross-listed
Courses:
The American
Afterlife: Pandemics, Death and the Supernatural |
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Course Number: ARTH 259 |
CRN
Number: 10088 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Susan Aberth and Donna
Grover |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Reem
Kayden Center 103 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality
Studies |
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The Right to
Employment |
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Course
Number: ECON 227 |
CRN
Number: 10678 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor:
Kyle
Mohr |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Hegeman 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies;
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights;
Sociology |
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The Peculiar
Institution of American Slavery |
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Professor: Myra
Armstead |
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Course Number: HIST
191 |
CRN Number: 10702 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
Thurs 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin
304 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and
Justice |
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Crosslists:
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights |
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U.S. LGBTQ+ History
and Culture |
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Course Number: HIST 211 |
CRN
Number: 10329 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Shay Olmstead |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin
201 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality
Studies |
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Migrants and
Refugees in the Americas |
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Course Number: HIST 225 |
CRN
Number: 10311 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Miles Rodriguez |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin
305 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Global &
International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies |
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The United States in the
20th Century |
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Course
Number: HIST
121 |
CRN
Number: 10687 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor:
Jeannette
Estruth |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 5:10 PM
- 6:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global &
International Studies |
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Latin-Americans in
the United States |
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Professor: Miles Rodriguez |
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Course
Number: HIST 2101 |
CRN
Number: 10308 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: American &
Indigenous Studies; Global and International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian
Studies |
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Re-Thinking Silicon
Valley |
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Course Number: HIST 382 |
CRN
Number: 10316 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Jeannette Estruth |
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Schedule/Location: |
Thurs
12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem
Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture;
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights |
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Constitutional Law |
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Course Number: HR 243 |
CRN
Number: 10300 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Roger Berkowitz Peter
Rosenblum |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Henderson
Comp. Center 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Philosophy; Politics |
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A Human Right to
Homes or Homelessness |
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Course Number: HR 278 |
CRN
Number: 10616 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Kwame Holmes |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem
Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental &
Urban Studies |
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Water-Bodies:
Confluences, Deltas, Gulfs |
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Professor: Juliana Steiner |
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Course
Number: HR 353 |
CRN
Number: 10303 |
Class cap: 7 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Wed 12:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 302 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being,
Value D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental Studies |
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Queer of Color
Critique |
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Course Number: HR 397 |
CRN
Number: 10617 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Kwame Holmes |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 1:30 PM - 3:50
PM Reem Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender
and Sexuality Studies |
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Asian/American
Lives |
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Course Number: LIT 256 |
CRN
Number: 10263 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Hua Hsu |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Asian Studies |
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The Power of
Feeling: Black Music, Literature and the Creation of an Aesthetic |
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Course Number: LIT 264 |
CRN
Number: 10568 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Donna Grover Marcus
Roberts |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin
204 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Music |
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T.S. Eliot: The
Poetics of Modernity |
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Course Number: LIT 3147 |
CRN
Number: 10393 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Matthew Mutter |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Reem
Kayden Center 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies |
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Race and Real
Estate |
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Course Number: LIT 328 |
CRN
Number: 10387 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Peter L'Official |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 12:30 PM - 2:50
PM Olin 304 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies |
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Transpacific
Crossings |
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Course Number: LIT 364 |
CRN
Number: 10390 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Hua Hsu |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Olin
101 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies |
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Reading Emily
Dickinson |
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Course Number: LIT 379 |
CRN
Number: 10294 |
Class cap: 14 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Philip Pardi |
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Schedule/Location: |
Fri 10:30 AM - 4:30
PM Olin Languages Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Experimentlal
Humanities; Written Arts |
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Genre and Beyond:
150 Years of American Popular Music |
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Course Number: MUS 124 |
CRN
Number: 10553 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Franz Nicolay |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Blum
Music Center N119 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies |
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American Popular Song
II 1930-1950 |
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Course Number: MUS 266B |
CRN
Number: 10490 |
Class cap: 10 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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John Esposito |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Blum
Music Center N211 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies |
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Issues,
Institutions, Ideas: Introduction to American Politics |
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|
Course Number: PS 102 |
CRN
Number: 10209 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Simon Gilhooley |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin
204 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies |
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Coalition and the
Politics of Listening |
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|
Course Number: PS 217 |
CRN
Number: 10634 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Mie Inouye |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin
201 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights |
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Labor and Democracy |
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|
Course Number: PS 308 |
CRN
Number: 10281 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Mie Inouye |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin
308 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights |
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"All Men Are Created
Equal": Dissent and the Declaration of Independence |
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|
Course Number: PS 329 |
CRN
Number: 10280 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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|
Professor:
|
Simon Gilhooley |
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Schedule/Location: |
Fri 9:10 AM - 11:30
AM Reem Kayden Center 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies |
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Introduction to
Sociology |
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|
Course Number: SOC 101 |
CRN
Number: 10218 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Allison McKim |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin
204 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies |
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Wealth, Poverty,
and Inequality |
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|
Course Number: SOC 120 |
CRN
Number: 10217 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Yuval Elmelech |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin
204 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality
Studies; Human Rights |
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Punishment,
Prisons, & Policing |
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|
Course Number: SOC 224 |
CRN
Number: 10264 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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|
Professor:
|
Allison McKim |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem
Kayden Center 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human
Rights |
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Pain and
Possibility: Black Feminism in Sociology |
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|
Course Number: SOC 279 |
CRN
Number: 10224 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
|
Jomaira Salas Pujols |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin
203 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender
and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights |
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Social Problems |
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|
Course Number: SOC 332 |
CRN
Number: 10265 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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|
Professor:
|
Yuval Elmelech |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 3:30 PM
- 5:50 PM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights |
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Tricks of the
Trade: Qualitative Research Practicum |
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|
Course Number: SOC 333 |
CRN
Number: 10266 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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|
Professor:
|
Jomaira Salas Pujols |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin
309 |
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|
Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental &
Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights |
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