Introduction to American Studies

 

Professor: Peter L'Official  

 

Course Number: AS 101

CRN Number: 10179

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Literature

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and interpret a broad range of artifacts (essays, literary texts, photographs, film, music, architecture, visual art, historical documents, and legal texts) in order to think critically about “America” and who and what makes it—in a hemispheric, transnational, and global sense.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.

 

Introduction to Indigenous Feminist Critiques and Geographies

 

Professor: Margaux Kristjansson  

 

Course Number: AS 222

CRN Number: 10180

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 202

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

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.

 

Cross-listed Courses:

 

 

The American Afterlife: Pandemics, Death and the Supernatural

 

Course Number: ARTH 259

CRN Number: 10088

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Susan Aberth and Donna Grover

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 103

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

The Right to Employment

 

Course Number: ECON 227

CRN Number: 10678

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor: Kyle Mohr  

 

 

 

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 204

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Sociology

 

The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery

 

Professor: Myra Armstead  

 

Course Number: HIST 191

CRN Number: 10702

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 304

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

 

U.S. LGBTQ+ History and Culture

 

Course Number: HIST 211

CRN Number: 10329

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Shay Olmstead

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 201

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

Migrants and Refugees in the Americas

 

Course Number: HIST 225

CRN Number: 10311

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

The United States in the 20th Century

 

Course Number: HIST 121

CRN Number: 10687

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor: Jeannette Estruth  

 

 

 

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM - 6:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies

 

Latin-Americans in the United States

 

Professor: Miles Rodriguez  

 

Course Number: HIST 2101

CRN Number: 10308

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 309

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global and International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Re-Thinking Silicon Valley

 

Course Number: HIST 382

CRN Number: 10316

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth

 

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights

 

Constitutional Law

 

Course Number: HR 243

CRN Number: 10300

Class cap: 30

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Roger Berkowitz Peter Rosenblum

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Henderson Comp. Center 106

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Philosophy; Politics

 

A Human Right to Homes or Homelessness

 

Course Number: HR 278

CRN Number: 10616

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Kwame Holmes

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Water-Bodies: Confluences, Deltas, Gulfs

 

Professor: Juliana Steiner  

 

Course Number: HR 353

CRN Number: 10303

Class cap: 7

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Queer of Color Critique

 

Course Number: HR 397

CRN Number: 10617

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Kwame Holmes

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon      1:30 PM - 3:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

Asian/American Lives

 

Course Number: LIT 256

CRN Number: 10263

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Hua Hsu

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Asian Studies

 

The Power of Feeling: Black Music, Literature and the Creation of an Aesthetic

 

Course Number: LIT 264

CRN Number: 10568

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Donna Grover Marcus Roberts

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Music

 

T.S. Eliot: The Poetics of Modernity

 

Course Number: LIT 3147

CRN Number: 10393

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Matthew Mutter

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies

 

Race and Real Estate

 

Course Number: LIT 328

CRN Number: 10387

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Peter L'Official

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 304

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Transpacific Crossings

 

Course Number: LIT 364

CRN Number: 10390

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Hua Hsu

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Olin 101

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies

 

Reading Emily Dickinson

 

Course Number: LIT 379

CRN Number: 10294

Class cap: 14

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Philip Pardi

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Olin Languages Center 115

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Experimentlal Humanities; Written Arts

 

Genre and Beyond: 150 Years of American Popular Music

 

Course Number: MUS 124

CRN Number: 10553

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Franz Nicolay

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Blum Music Center N119

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies

 

American Popular Song II 1930-1950

 

Course Number: MUS 266B

CRN Number: 10490

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

John Esposito

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Blum Music Center N211

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies

 

Issues, Institutions, Ideas: Introduction to American Politics

 

Course Number: PS 102

CRN Number: 10209

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Simon Gilhooley

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies

 

Coalition and the Politics of Listening

 

Course Number: PS 217

CRN Number: 10634

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Mie Inouye

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 201

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

 

Labor and Democracy

 

Course Number: PS 308

CRN Number: 10281

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Mie Inouye

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 308

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

 

"All Men Are Created Equal": Dissent and the Declaration of Independence

 

Course Number: PS 329

CRN Number: 10280

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Simon Gilhooley

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies

 

Introduction to Sociology

 

Course Number: SOC 101

CRN Number: 10218

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Allison McKim

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies

 

Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

 

Course Number: SOC 120

CRN Number: 10217

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Punishment, Prisons, & Policing

 

Course Number: SOC 224

CRN Number: 10264

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Allison McKim

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

 

Pain and Possibility: Black Feminism in Sociology

 

Course Number: SOC 279

CRN Number: 10224

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jomaira Salas Pujols

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 203

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Social Problems

 

Course Number: SOC 332

CRN Number: 10265

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Olin 309

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

 

Tricks of the Trade: Qualitative Research Practicum

 

Course Number: SOC 333

CRN Number: 10266

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jomaira Salas Pujols

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 309

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights