Inquiry-based course that focuses on various topics, depending on instructor and semester offered. Topics explore questions surrounding multiculturalism and the possibility for cultural empowerment and/or disenfranchisement of minority groups, or raise questions about social justice and human rights. Students may be encouraged to consider how constructions of race, class, and gender operate among various groups of people and how these constructions alter access to mainstream structures of power. Topics stretch from domestic cultural contexts to global concerns, allowing students to deeply and broadly consider the idea of social justice as it shifts across the landscape of diversity in the U.S. and the world. May be repeated for credit. Fulfills diversity and interdisciplinary requirements. (3-4 credits)
Undergraduate Courses
Course Delivery DEFINITIONS:
- Online Courses: In online teaching, 100% of instruction takes place online via Canvas and with supplemental platforms like Zoom. There are two types of online courses: asynchronous and synchronous.
- Asynchronous online: Course is fully online, with lessons, assignments, and activities posted in Canvas with due dates. Students complete coursework, engage in discussions, etc., based upon their own schedules, but are required to meet posted deadlines.
- Synchronous online: Online course that includes real-time class meetings using technology (e.g. Zoom). The number of required meetings varies based upon the particular class, but meetings take place during the scheduled class times. Faculty will inform students of the schedule for real-time meetings in their courses.
- Hybrid Courses: Hybrid courses combine both in-person, on-campus meetings with online instruction. All face-to-face activities take place during the regularly-scheduled meeting times in the rooms assigned on the course listing. The number of in-person meetings varies by course. Faculty will notify students of the exact meeting schedule for their courses.
If your class is not listed as online or hybrid, it will meet fully face-to-face following the noted class schedule.
Critical examination of American experiences, institutions, structures, practices, and norms, while emphasizing the multicultural, interdisciplinary, and justice-oriented nature of this inquiry. Course focuses on a wide range of texts that may include popular culture, film, art, music, material culture, historical documentation, literature, and landscape.
Formal proposal and prior consent of faculty required. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisite: AMS 250.
Prior consent of faculty required
Intended to provide students in American Studies with an opportunity to explore and discuss career alternatives, activism, and social change. Students engage in the work of cultural understanding as it intersects with social change. Placements include arts agencies, historical societies, government and policy institutes, and social service and cultural organizations. Prerequisites: AMS 250 and senior standing.