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Spring 2006 Course Offerings in American Studies
SPRING 2006 REGISTRATION
Here is a list of courses that satisfy requirements for the American Studies major and minor being offered in Spring 2006. In addition, students can also sign up for independent study courses (AMS 377, AMS 477), honors thesis (AMS 480), and internship credits (AMS 340). There are a variety of opportunities for internships, both locally and nationally. In order to register for an internship, independent study, or honors thesis, you will need to fill out an Independent Study Permit Form available in the programs office or from the registrar. Faculty in American Studies would be happy to talk with you about the courses you are considering or possible internships or independent study projects. Please contact the director of American Studies if you have any questions: Marguerite “Peggy” Shaffer, Director of American Studies, 9-7527, shaffems@muohio.edu
American Studies
MPF 101 Introduction to American Studies (3)
Please click here to see the syllabus for this course, for sections A-F.
A--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; F 10-10:50am--Cayton
B--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; F 10-10:50am--Shaffer
C--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; R 8-8:50am--Miller
D--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; R 9-9:50am--Miller
E--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; R 2-2:50pm--Weaver
F--MW 10-10:50am--Cayton & Shaffer; R 3-3:50pm--Weaver
G--TR 9:30am-10:45am--Sheumaker. Click here for the syllabus for G+H sections.
H—TR 12:30pm-1:45pm--Sheumaker
I and K--TR 11:00am-12:15pm--Stevens. Click here for syllabus for I + K sections.
J--MWF 1-1:50pm--Armitage. Click here for syllabus for the J section.
This course will introduce students to the study of culture in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing from a variety of source materials ranging from literary and historical texts to visual images and material objects, and relying on a range of interpretive techniques, students examine aspects of thought, expression, and behavior that have shaped and defined the complex modern society of the US.
AMS 105 American Studies Film Series (1) – W 7:00-10:00pm—Cobb
Please click here for the syllabus for this course.
This is a credit/no credit sprint course. The film series focuses on representations of and dissent against mainstream America. We will show and discuss the following eight films: “The Best Years of Our Lives,” “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Manchurian Candidate” (orginal version), “Nashville,” “Networked,” “White Man’s Burden,” “Smoke Signals,” “The Truman Show.”
AMS 201 Approaches to American Culture “Visual Culture/Public Culture” (3) – TR 12:30-1:45pm--Brown. Click here for the syllabus for this course.
This section of AMS 201will focus on the role of the visual in shaping ideas of public and private cultures in 20th century America. The interpretation of visual culture is a historically contingent process, shaped by racial and gender difference, class and sexuality, and global flows of both people and capital. In this course we will closely analyze elements of visual culture, especially photography, advertising, and television, to ask how images can work both to stabilize and contest dominant notions of belonging. We will pose questions about the role of the image’s producer in encoding preferred meanings, as well as the role of the viewer in constructing meanings that might be oppositional in nature. Students will learn to analyze a variety of cultural artifacts including family snapshots, activist posters, and commercial images as a means of understanding how visual culture shapes the shifting meanings of both private and collective identities. The main text for the course is Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, The Practices of Looking (Oxford 2001), along with a course packet. There are weekly assignments. Required for American studies majors.
AMS 222 Italian American Culture (3) – MWF 9-9:50am—Matteo + movie screenings W 7:30-10:00pm. Please click here for a syllabus for this course.
A survey and investigations of the history of Italian immigration in America, the development of Italian American communities across the land, and the contributions that Italian Americans have made to American society and culture. Taught in English. No prerequisites.
MPT 242 Religious Pluralism in Modern America (4) –TR 2-3:30pm--Poirier
Historical and cultural analysis of religious communities of the U.S. of primarily non-European origin. Includes African American, native American, Latino, and Middle Eastern and Asian traditions, including Islam. Cross-listed with REL 242.
248 Asian American Literature (3) –12:30-1:45pm--Roley
Survey of Asian American writing (including the novel, poetry, drama, nonfiction, etc.) from the early 20th century to the present. Addresses immigration experiences, growing up in America, and writing as cultural expression. Course uses an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature, drawing on history, sociology, ethnic studies, and current trends in American literary studies. IIB, IIIA. CAS-B-LIT.
302 U.S. and the World (3) --MWF 2-2:50pm--Croucher
This course is designed to explore issues of American culture, politics and history in the context of growing global interconnectedness. The focus is on America's membership in a larger international community, and how the United States both shapes and is shaped by patterns and processes of globalization. We begin with a focus on the varied definitions and implications of globalization. Next, we explore how globalization is not only shifting borders and weakening states, but it is also reconfiguring political and cultural identities and attachments throughout the world. Immigration policies and politics will provide a primary lens for viewing America's role and identity in a globalizing world. We will also look from the outside in to explore how the US is viewed by other countries and cultures. Finally, we will engage in a philosophical debate about the virtues and vices of patriotism and cosmopolitanism in a changing world. Specific topics we will address include: *How American identity and citizenship are being reconfigured by immigration; *How the US as a global power is perceived by other countries around the world; *The political and moral implications of American patriotism in a global age; and, *How 9/11 intensified debates over who and what is 'truly American'
310 Special Topics in American Studies (3) “Minorities in American Culture”
TR 11:00am-12:15pm--Blake
This course examines how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been constructed over time in the United States. We all comprise combinations of racial, sexual, class, religious, or gender identities. We will consider how an individual’s relationship to American popular and political culture is shaped by inhabiting or bearing more than one identity. How have identity politics affected individual or group efforts to reconcile such identity combinations? We will read major texts (fiction, historical studies, memoirs) and scholarly articles concerning Jewish-American, Mexican-American/Latino, African-American and gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer identities to help us shape answers to our questions. The course is not a lecture – students are expected to read and think critically. You must come to class having read the assigned texts, prepared to participate in intelligent, informed discussion.
MPT 341 Protestantism and the Development of American Culture (4)--TR 2-3:50--Williams
Please click here for the syllabus for this course.
History and symbolic structure of American Protestantism and its role in the development of American culture. Cross-listed with REL 341.
MPT 382 Women in American History (3) --MWF 1-1:50pm--Frederickson
Survey of the history of women's lives and roles in American society from the colonial period to present. Emphasis on examining women's individual and collective roles in private and public spheres and on exploring how specific economic and political transformations have affected women's lives. Cross-listed with HST and WMS 382.
397 American Environmental History (3) --TR 12:30-1:45pm--Armitage
Please click here for the syllabus for this course.
Introduction to human-natural environmental relationships in English North America and the United States, ca. 1600 to present. Chronological and regional approach with emphasis upon political economy and the American conservationist/environmentalist movement. Cross-listed with HST 397.
MPC 401 Senior Capstone in American Studies “True Stories: The Writer’s Craft in Narrative Nonfiction” (3)--2-3:15pm--Tobin
You know narrative nonfiction even if you don’t know its name. It’s the genre that includes Seabiscuit and A Beautiful Mind, Friday Night Lights and Black Hawk Down. Each was a book that became a movie because a writer told a compelling true story—a narrative built out of facts, thoroughly researched and documented. Narrative nonfiction has become a major genre in its own right—a vehicle for journalism, history, cultural commentary and literary insight. We’ll start with this deceptively simple question: What is a story and how does it really work? Then: What challenges arise when the writer decides to tell a story that presents itself as true? We’ll study at least one milestone work as a guiding example, and we’ll compare several techniques for constructing nonfiction narratives. From these you’ll devise a plan for developing your own true story on a topic of your choice—a major piece of writing that you’ll draft and revise with help from the instructor and fellow students.
AMS 435/ HST 435/535 Public History: Practicum--Sheumaker. Click here for syllabus.
In 1884, when the American Historical Association was founded, most of its elected officers were ‘local’ historians – they were men (at that time, all men) who researched local history, state history, and many were amateur scholars. Today, public history continues that tradition by speaking to a local public about its own history. ‘Local’ is no longer simply defined as one’s town, village, or city, but is the national historical narrative told to the non-academic public. Public historians don’t simply speak to other historians – public historians use public venues to present local audiences with historical narratives. Public history offers the opportunity to practice history and engage in the community in which you live. Students will conduct research projects in community history using the McGuffey Museum collection, the Oxford Museum Association, Smith Library of Regional History, and the Miami University Archives. You will create a web exhibit that presents your research to the general public. The web exhibits will be posted on the new William Holmes McGuffey Web Museum of Local History. In addition, we will examine what public history is and what careers it offers for History majors; the challenges and rewards of doing public history; and the implications of creating historical narratives.
Courses from the following cognate departments and programs:
(these courses are especially useful in fulfilling the American Culture Focus for the major and the minor)
Anthropology
ATH 185 Cultural Diversity of the US (3)--MWF 8-8:50a--Owens; MWF 12-12:50pm--Owens
Anthropological introduction to the diversity of contemporary cultural life in the United States.
ATH 303 Native American Cultures (4)--TR 10-11:50am--Hamill
Description and analysis of native American cultures from prehistoric to modern times.
ATH 312 Intro. To North American Archeology (4)--TR 12-1:50pm--R.Spielbauer
Survey of the prehistory of North America including Middle America from the first peopling to contact times.
ATH 325 Identity, Race, Gender and Class (3)--MWF 1-1:50pm--Gardiner
No description available.
ATH 443 The Museum Exhibit (3)--M 6-8:40pm--J.Speilbauer
Practical course in museum design, exhibit philosophy and interpretation, and in techniques of exhibit installation.
ATH 444 The Museum Exhibit (3)--TR 7-8:15pm--J.Speilbauer
Practical course in curatorial techniques and responsibilities in registration, cataloging, security, storage, and handling of museum specimens and problems in the conservation of specimens along with appropriate initial solutions.
Black World Studies
BWS 151 Introduction to Black World Studies (4)
A--TR 2:00-3:50pm--Hunter
B--TR 11:00am-12:15pm--Hunter
Introduces the Afrocentric perspective as it has developed in anthropology, history, political science, geography, sociology, religious studies, mass communications, theater, art, etc. Covers theories, research, methodologies, and practice of Africana studies. Students develop historical and contemporary understanding of the African diaspora.
BWS 336 African American Writing (3)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Taylor
Survey of the beginnings of African American literature to the end of Reconstruction. Among the various writers discussed are Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas, Frances E.W. Harper, William Wells Brown, Linda Brent, and Harriet Wilson. Particular attention given to the origins of poetry, fiction, slave narratives, and drama as well as to the relative importance of speeches, political tracts, newspaper writing, and folk forms of literature.
BWS 337 African American Writing, 1878-1945 (3)--TR 3:30-4:45pm--Taylor
Survey of African American writing from after the Reconstruction era to World War II, with special attention to the emergence and history of the New Negro Renaissance. Among the writers studied are Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling A. Brown, Alain Locke, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wright.
BWS 338 Contemporary African Politic (3)--TR 8-9:15am--Herbst
An overview of major issues in African politics and the international politics of Africa. Its scope is "Africa south of the Sahara" and is intended to appeal to a variety of interests, from global and continental to modernization, gender and Marxist theories of development, conflict, inequality, and underdevelopment.
BWS 348 American Minority Relations (3--TR 2:00-3:15pm--Coates
Description and analysis of emergence and trends of minority relations in the U.S.
BWS 370E Fem.& Diaspora: US Women of Color--TR 2-3:15pm--Johnson
Concerns issues of language, history, geography, social-psychology, and culture for U.S. women of color (black, Asian-American, Latina, American Indian, and others). Includes works by and about women on gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other differences.
Communication
COM 143 Intro. To Mass Communications (3)--TR 9:30-10:45pm--Vogel
Introduction to major mass communication theories as a context to examining some major issues surrounding mass media in American society.
COM 146 Media Aesthetics (3)--MWF 8-8:50am--German; MWF 1-1:50pm--Silas
This course is an introduction to media aesthetics. Students will develop an awareness of the artistic choices necessary for good television production and will be introduced to design elements and techniques available for use.
COM 205 American Film as Communication (3)--TR 2-3:15pm&T 6-9pm--Scott
Introduction to the study of communication via American motion pictures. Focuses on analysis of technical and narrative elements found in motion pictures. Screening of films provides backdrop for discussing visual impact of motion pictures as significant form of mass communication.
COM 215 Electronic Media History (3)--TR 2-3:15pm--Blake
Survey of electronic media history. Beginning with early experiments in electromagnetism, students examine development and impact of electronic media in the United States and international settings. Prerequisite: major status or permission of instructor.
COM 354 Media and Society (3)--TR 9:30-10:45am&R 6-7pm--Becker; TR 12:30-1:45pm&M 6:45-7:45pm--Becker
Survey of the place of electronic media in society. Topics covered include media and culture; media economics, industries, and institutions; politics of media content; media and social representation. Prerequisite: junior standing, major status, or permission of instructor.
COM 437 Advocacy in Contemporary America (3)--TR 2-3:15pm--Voth
Analyzes post-World War II public persuasion, including messages from a broad variety of media contexts.
COM 447 Mass Media Criticism (3)--TR 8-9:15am--Scott
Examination of the performance of mass media, especially television, in current social settings. Topics include news and entertainment programming and relationship between media industry and its products. Prerequisite: senior standing, major status, or permission of instructor.
Comparative Religion
REL 341 Protestanism and the Development of American Culture (4)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Idinopulos
History and symbolic structure of American Protestantism and its role in the development of American culture.
Economics
ECO 427 The Great Depression Revisited (3)--MWF 1-1:50pm--Hall; MWF 2-2:50pm--Hall
The Great Depression of the 1930s was a traumatic period in our history, still widely discussed and analyzed by economists, and its specter has influenced our leaders and their policies to this day. Vigorous debate continues over the cause(s) of its unprecedented severity, and therefore, what its lessons are. A wide range of competing theories have been proposed, each involving different assumptions based upon opposing ideological foundations, about the way our macroeconomic system functions. In this team-taught course, students read original literature that offers opposing views of the causes. Competing theories are applied in a computer simulation program, which allows students to capture the relationships implied by the institutional framework of the period and the economic literature in order to judge the degree to which opposing views can be supported.
Educational Leadership
EDL 334 Youth Subcultures, Popular Culture, and Non-Formal Education (3)--
TR 5:00-6:15pm--McGough
Using contemporary social and educational theory, this course covers recent development in understanding youth cultures including work from England, the United States, and other countries. Focuses on youth subcultures and popular culture in the United States.
English
ENG 141 Life and Thought in American (3)--TR 3:30-4:45pm--Melley
Introduction to multiplicity of voices in American culture as expressed in literary texts written in and about America: (141) from colonial period through 1865; (MPT 142) 1865 - 1945 (MPT 143) 1945 to present.
ENG 142 Life and Thought in American Literature 1865-1945 (3)--MWF 9-9:50am--Robertson; MWF 11-11:50am--Daiker
See 141 above.
ENG 143 American Literature 1945 to Present (3)--TR 11am-12:15pm--Peters; TR 9:30-10:45am--Staff
See 141 above.
ENG 144 (MPF) Major American Authors (3)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Rosenberg
Introduction to American literature and culture through the study of a small group of important writers. Selected authors represent a range of traditions and may include writers as diverse as Bradstreet, Franklin, Dickinson, Douglass, Whitman, Melville, Wharton, Twain, Cather, Baldwin, Faulkner, and Morrison.
ENG 162 (MPF) Literature and Identity (3)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Wilson
Study of literary constructions of individual and collective identity. Focuses on depictions of racial and ethnic types, gender, sexuality, social class, and regional or geographical differences.
ENG 293 (MPT) Contemporary American Fiction (3)--TR 11am-12:15pm--Phillips
Study of new trends and movements in American fiction of the last 10 to 15 years, focusing upon such issues as vision of society, experiments in narrative form and content, mode of humor, treatment of reality, and changing images of the self.
ENG 336 (MPT) African American Writing, 1746-1877 (3)--TR 12:30-1:45--Taylor
Survey of the beginnings of African American literature to the end of Reconstruction. Among the various writers discussed are Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas, Frances E.W. Harper, William Wells Brown, Linda Brent, and Harriet Wilson. Particular attention given to the origins of poetry, fiction, slave narratives, and drama as well as to the relative importance of speeches, political tracts, newspaper writing, and folk forms of literature.
ENG 337 African American Writing, 1878-1945 (3)--TR 3:30-4:45pm--Taylor
Survey of African American writing from after the Reconstruction era to World War II, with special attention to the emergence and history of the New Negro Renaissance. Among the writers studied are Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling A. Brown, Alain Locke, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wright.
ENG 352 American Literature, 1810-1865 (3)--TR 2-3:15pm--Schoolman
Intensive study of issues animating American culture between 1810 and the end of the Civil War, as articulated in selected texts from a variety of literary forms.
ENG 355 American Literature, 1945-Present (3)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Melley
Intensive study of issues animating American culture from 1945 to the present as articulated in selected texts from a variety of literary forms and traditions.
Film Studies
FST 205 American Film as Communication (3)--TR 2-3:15pm&T 6-9pm--Scott
Introduction to the study of communication via American motion pictures. Focuses on analysis of technical and narrative elements found in motion pictures. Screening of films provides backdrop for discussing visual impact of motion pictures as significant form of mass communication.
Geography
GEO 451 Urban and Regional Planning (3)--TR 11am-12:15pm--Prytherch
Introduction to the purposes and possibilities of urban and regional land use planning. Topics include historical development of planning, theoretical rationale for planning, and major analytical and legal tools and techniques available to planners at urban and regional levels.
GEO 454 Urban Geography (3)--F 1-5:30pm--Rubenstein
Geographic principles related to the distribution, function, structure, and regional settings of urban centers. Prerequisite: some other urban course in social sciences or permission of instructor.
GEO 458 Cities of Differences (3)--R 2-630pm--Ehrkamp
Description not available.
GEO 459 Advanced Urban and Regional Planning (3)--M 4-6:40pm--Prytherch
Application of planning tools and techniques to significant urban and regional land use problems. Evaluation of major planning tools for redevelopment of central cities and declining regions in the U.S. Innovative techniques for solving American urban spatial problems at local to national levels.
Gerontology
GTY 154 Aging in American Society (3)
A--MWF 1-1:50pm--Staff D--TR 3:30-4:45pm--Stanley
B--TR 9:30-10:45am—Wellin E--MWF 10-10:50--Caffrey
C--TR 2-3:15pm--Kenney
Overview of the processes of aging. Emphasis placed on "typical" aspects of aging from three perspectives: the aging individual, social context of aging, and societal responses to an aging population.
History
HST 111 Survey of American History (3)
A--MWF 8-8:50am—Wolcott B--MWF 1-1:50pm--Wolcott
Survey of the interplay of forces that have brought about evolutionary development of American economic, cultural, and political history from 1492 to the present. A functional and synoptic treatment of America's great historical problems.
HST 112 Survey of American History (3)
Please see on-line course list; there are 17 sections of this class available.
See description for HST 111.
HST 222 U.S. Diplomatic History Since 1914 (3)--TR 8-9:15am--Kaufman
Survey of U.S. foreign policy from 1914 to the present, with emphasis on issues of neutrality, isolationism, collective security, imperialism, the Cold War, nuclear policy, arms control, and relations with the Third World.
HST 250 History and Popular Culture (3)--MWF 11-11:50am--Armitage
Topical studies of historical imagery as presented in the popular communications media: best-selling fiction, documentaries, school texts, "popular" histories, and especially film.
HST 363 The Early American Republic, 1783-1815 (3)--TR 11am-12:15pm--Cayton
Emphasizes the Constitution, the Federalists, and the Jeffersonians with study of Washington, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, and Jefferson as major figures.
HST 367 The United States in the 1960s (3)--T 7-9:40--Kaufman
Examines political, social, and cultural changes in the United States in the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Describes the consensus that existed in the 1950s, and then explores such topics as the civil rights movement, the women's movement, expansion of the welfare state, war in Vietnam, and the growth of a counterculture.
HST 372 Native American History since 1800 (3)--MWF 1-1:50--Cobb
Native Americans in North and Latin America from the early decades of the nineteenth century through the present.
Interdisciplinary Studies
IDS 153 American and World Cultures (1)
A--R 4-4:50pm--Lopez-Monsalve D--T 4-4:50pm--Mogga
B--W 5-5:50pm—Johnson E--M 4-4:50pm--Berman
Seminar designed to enable students to enhance knowledge and understanding of the contributions diversity makes in society. Students will learn about and reflect on the intersections of the social identities of gender, age, class, race, sexual orientation, ability, religion, and culture. Course involves attending a series of lectures by eminent scholars, followed by class discussion and critique of the scholarships and presentations of these eminent scholars.
IDS 159 Strength Through Cultural Diversity (3)
A--TR 12:30-1:45pm—Heuberger F--W 4-6:40pm--Staff
B--TR 2-3:15pm--Staff N--TR 4-5:15pm--Hunter
D--T 4-6:40pm--Staff P--W 5-7:40pm--Green
E--M 4-6:40pm--Staff
Helps students function effectively in an increasingly diverse global society. With culture defined as "the way we do things around here," conflict is viewed as a natural result of interactions among people. Emphasis on applying the concepts of culture to a variety of countries and to subcultures of the U.S. so that students learn how conflict arises and how negotiation skills can be used to manage conflict.
Italian
ITL 222 Italian American Culture (3)--MWF 9-9:50am&W 7:30-10pm--Matteo
A survey and investigations of the history of Italian immigration in America, the development of Italian American communities across the land, and the contributions that Italian Americans have made to American society and culture. Taught in English.
Latin American Studies
LAS 260 Latin America in the United States—TR 3:30-4:45pm--LaBotz
No description available.
Music
MUS 135 (MPF, MPT) Understanding Jazz, Its History and Evolution (3)--TR 9:30-10:45am--Bowen
Evolution of jazz in the United States from its origins to the present. Emphasis placed on developing aural perceptions of stylistic differences between historical periods and significant performers.
MUS 385 The Roots of Black Music: Blue, Gospel & Soul (3)--MWF 2-2:50pm--Bowen
Development of these music genres in America. In-depth analysis of stylistic differences and musical and cultural relationships between each.
MUS 386 The History and Development of Hip Hop Culture in America (3)--MWF 12-12:50--Kernodle
Surveys development of the Hip Hop culture (rapping, graffiti art, breaking, DJing) from black vernacular forms in Africa and America.
MUS 461 American Music (3)--MWF 10-10:50--Kernodle
Music in American cultural life, including all levels and types of cultivated and vernacular expressions. Native American musical traditions through our present musical diversity.
Physical Education, Health, and Sports Studies
PHS 279 African Americans in Sport (3)--MWF 11-11:50am--Harris
Socio-historical analysis of participation of African Americans in sport and society, and examination of the role sport has played in African Americans' integration into the larger society. Investigates the way the image of African Americans has been constructed and maintained through sporting practices. Sociological theories and concepts used to examine the impact of historical events, such as Reconstruction, black migration, and World Wars, on African American involvement in sport and other institutions.
PHS 378 Sport and Social Status (3)--MWF 9-9:50am--Harris
Focuses on allocation and socialization. Emphasis upon power in social structure as evidenced in class, status, gender, and race relations.
Political Science
POL 141 American Political System (4)—
A--W 2:30-10:00pm--Forren E--MWF 11am-12:10pm--Scott
B--TR 12-1:50pm--Kelley F--MTWR 8-8:50am--Staff
C--MWF 2-3:10pm--Scott G--MWF 11am-12:10pm--Kelley
D--MW 4-5:50pm--Morrris H--TR 10-11:50am--Staff
Theories and methods of political analysis applied to the American political system. Political beliefs, behavior, institutions, and public policies in the American case will be examined.
POL 343 American Presidency (3)--MWF 11-11:50am--Barilleaux
Evolution of the presidency, its powers and restraints; organizing and using White House staff; executive decision-making; contemporary views of the office.
POL 352 Constitutional Law and Politics (4)--M 6:30-10pm--Forren
Supreme Court as a legal and political institution; leading judicial decisions with respect to separation of powers and federalism.
POL 353 Constitutional Rights and Liberties (4)--MWF 2-3:10pm--Jones; TR 2-3:50pm--Jones
Leading cases and related materials on the Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment.
POL 356 Mass Media and Politics (3)--MWF 1-1:50pm--Kelley
Mass media, especially television, in politics in the United States, with comparisons to nature, roles, and impacts on politics of the mass media in other countries. Emphasis given to mass media as instruments of political communication and opinion leadership, and as tools of political influence and control.
POL 357 Politics of Organized Interests (3)--TR 4-5:50--Brown
Nature, functions, organizations, and activities of interest groups in the American political system with a comparative analysis of interest groups in other political systems.
POL 364 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations (3)--TR 2-3:15pm--Shumavon
Power and policymaking in the American federal system. Problems in managing, coordinating, and administering intergovernmental system, with case studies on fiscal federalism and grants management, intergovernmental coordination, interstate relations, and federal reorganization.
POL 373 American Foreign Policy (3)--MWF 10-10:50am--Rothgeb; MWF 9-9:50am--Vasi
Theoretical and case studies in the formulation and conduct of American foreign policy; analysis of the role of personality, intelligence gathering, decision making, and diplomacy in the execution of foreign policy.
Psychology
PSY 210 Psychology Across Cultures (3)--TR 8-9:15am--Doh; TR 8-9:15am--Thiagarajan
No description available.
PSY 325 Psychology of Prejudice and Minority Experience (3)--MWF 1-1:50-- Hugenberg
Consideration of psychological factors underlying prejudice toward racial, ethnic, and other minorities. Impact of prejudice and discrimination on members of minority groups.
Sociology
SOC 152 Social Relations and US Cultures (4)--TR 8-9:50am--Cassedy; TR 10-11:50am--Wagenaar
No description available.
Speech Pathology
SPA 211 Deaf Culture and Community (3)--TR 9:30-10:45am--Hutchinson
This course is intended to provide a comprehensive orientation to the deaf and hard-of-hearing population of the United States. Some consideration will also be given to sign systems in Europe and Africa. The students will be introduced to the sociolinguistic aspects of educational, political, and environmental impacts on deaf culture, identity, and language. Students will also learn the basic vocabulary and grammar of American Sign Language.
Theater
THE 391 Modern American Theatre (3)--TR 2-3:15pm--Jackson
Major forces that shaped American theatre from Eugene O'Neill and Provincetown Playhouse through avant-garde of the Off-Off Broadway movement. Emphasis placed on leading dramatists, performers, and designers of the period as well as such organizations as Group Theatre, Federal Theatre Project, and Living Theatre.
THE 393 Culture, Ethnicity, and Gender Issues in Dramatic Literature (3)--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Armstrong
May be offered with various focuses (including African, African American, Latin American, Asian American, feminist perspectives, as well as others); explores alternative cultural, ethnic, and gender issues in dramatic literature. Emphasis on developing student appreciation of and critical response to traditional and nontraditional forms of drama.
Women’s Studies
WMS 201 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)--
A--TR 2:00-3:15pm--McGough D--TR 11:00am-12:15pm--Safier
B--TR 9:30-10:45am--Sircar E--TR 12:30-1:45pm--Safier
C--TR 11:00am-12:15pm--Sircar F--T 4:00-6:30pm--Pelle
Interdisciplinary introduction to the study of women which focuses on determinants and expressions of women's roles.
WMS 370 Selected Topics in Women's Studies, WMS 370.E Feminism & Diaspora: Women of Color (3)—TR 2-3:15pm--Johnson
Examines specific aspects of women's roles, status, and experiences.
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