12301

AS 102      Intro:American Culture & Value

Donna Grover

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 205

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: American Studies

This course develops the assumptions that Americans 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

 

12302

AS 310      Art, Animals & Anthropocene

Krista Caballero

W       1:30 pm-3:50 pm

New Annandale House

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities; Environmental & Urban Studies

From species extinction to radioactive soil and climate change, we are now in the age of the Anthropocene. This recently proposed geologic period refers to the ways in which human activities have dramatically impacted and altered every ecosystem on Earth. Now in an age of mass extinction, what does it mean to visually interpret our more-than-human world and explore the often messy and complicated encounters between human and nonhuman animals? Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledges will ground our exploration as we consider the cultural, artistic, and technological implications of species decline. Our focus will include examining animal representations from caves to cages and from the living to the virtual, as well as themes of the wild and the tame, zoos, animal rights, laboratory research, and companion species. Each of these topics will be paired with an exploration of the ever-increasing presence of animals in contemporary art with particular emphasis on multimedia and inter-species installations, bio art, as well as experimental video, film, performance, and robotics. Students will work intensively to develop experimental humanities approaches that blur boundaries between physical and digital media, integrate field-based research, and experiment with interdisciplinary practices of art making in order to grapple with ways in which our understanding of other species directly relates to human self-understanding. This course is open to unmoderated and moderated students. It can be used to fulfill the American Studies Junior Seminar requirement for students moderated into that program. This course is part of the Thinking Animals Initiative, an interdivisional collaboration among students and faculty to further the understanding of animals and human-animal relationships.

Class size: 12

 

12307

ANTH 212      Historical Archaeology Historical Archaeology: Early African and German Americans near Bard

Christopher Lindner

Th     4:40 pm-6:00 pm     F     1:30 pm-5:00 pm

HEG 300 ROSE 108

HA

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies Class size: 12

 

12308

ANTH / GIS 224      A Lexicon of Migration

Jeffrey Jurgens

M  W   10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 203

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

Class size: 22

 

12305

ANTH 255      Anthropology of the Institution: Making Change through Social Service and Community Organizing

Gregory Morton

T         3:10 pm-4:30 pm     F     8:30 am-1:20 pm

HEG 201

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights Class size: 10

 

12245

ARTH 367      American Women Artists

Tom Wolf

W       1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 301

AA

AART

Cross-listed: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Class size: 15

 

12301

AS 102      Intro:American Culture & Value

Donna Grover

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 205

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 22

 

12583

EUS 216  GIS and Community Engagement: Preparing a Natural Resource Inventory

Susan Winchell-Sweeney

T        11:50 am-1:10 pm     F     4:40 pm-6:00 pm

HDR 101A HDR 101A

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 8

 

12342

EUS/SOC 319      Hudson Valley Cities/Environmental (In)Justice

Peter Klein

W      10:10 am-12:30 pm

HEG 200

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 15

 

12347

HIST 129      Urban American History

Jeannette Estruth

M  W    1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HA D+J

HIST DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12350

HIST 160      Latin-American Histories

Miles Rodriguez

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 204

HA D+J

Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American & Iberian Studies Class size: 22

 

12348

HIST 180      Technology, Labor, Capitalism

Jeannette Estruth

T  Th  3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 309

HA D+J

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society Class size: 16

 

12358

HIST 213      Immigration:American Politics

Joel Perlmann

W  F  11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 202

HA D+J

HIST DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights; Sociology Class size: 22

 

12360

HIST 2134      Comparative Atlantic Slavery

Christian Crouch

M  W   10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 204

HA

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; French Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights; Latin American & Iberian Studies

 

12357

HIST 243      African/African American Arts

Drew Thompson

M  W    3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 202

HA

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Art History; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12366

HIST 314      Violent Culture /Material Pleasure

Christian Crouch

M          1:30 pm-3:50 pm

New Annandale House

HA

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Experimental Humanities; French Studies; Human Rights; Latin American & Iberian Studies Class size: 15

 

12364

HIST 337      Public History in the U. S.

Myra Armstead

M         10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 301

HA D+J

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 15

 

12369

HR 219      Mapping Police Violence

Kwame Holmes

T  Th 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 310

SA D+J

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities Class size: 18

 

12416

HR 365      Is Black a Color?

Kwame Holmes

T         1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 306

SA D+J

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Class size: 18

 

12486

LIT 127      Who is Joaquin Murieta?

Alexandre Benson

T  Th  3:10 pm-4:30 pm

HEG 102

LA D+J

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights; Latin American & Iberian Studies

2 credits (the course will run from January 28 to March 12). Class size: 22

 

12070

LIT 2140      Domesticity and Power

Donna Grover

T  Th  1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 202

LA D+J

ELIT DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Class size: 18

 

12068

LIT 224      American Existentialism

Matthew Mutter

T  Th 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 201

LA

ELIT

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 22

 

12066

LIT 258      American Literature II

Matthew Mutter

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 201

LA D+J

ELIT

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12067

LIT 259      American Literature III

Peter L'Official

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 202

LA D+J

ELIT

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12499

LIT 356      Playing in the Dark: Toni Morrison's Literary Imagination

Peter L'Official

W       1:30 pm-3:50 pm

HEG 200

LA

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies Class size: 15

 

12222

MUS 146      Jazz Histories:Sound/Commun

Whitney Slaten

T  Th  1:30 pm-2:50 pm

BLM N210

AA

AART

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies Class size: 20

 

12177

MUS 212      Jazz in Literature II

Thurman Barker

M  W   10:10 am-11:30 am

BLM N210

AA D+J

AART DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies Class size: 22

 

12185

MUS 266B      American Popular Song 1930-1950

John Esposito

M  W   11:50 am-1:10 pm

BLM N211

PA

PART

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies Class size: 20

 

12435

PS 122      American Politics: Issues/Institutions

Simon Gilhooley

M  W    3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 203

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 22

 

12464

SOC 101      Introduction to Sociology

Peter Klein

M  W    1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 204

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies Class size: 22

 

12465

SOC 135      Sociology of Gender

Anna Gjika

M  W    3:10 pm-4:30 pm

HEG 106

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Class size: 22

 

12408

SOC 205      Intro to Research Methods

Yuval Elmelech

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

HDR 106

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

 

12411

SOC 247      The American Family

Yuval Elmelech

T  Th  3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 201

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Class size: 22

 

12412

SOC 332      Seminar on Social Problems

Yuval Elmelech

W       1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLINLC 120

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15