American Studies 355 - Seminar: Tiny Homes in America--Building History, Politics, Aesthetics, and Cultures of Small Homes

This seminar combines historical, theoretical and material cultural sources about housing justice, and housing injustice, in the United States. A significant component of the course involves teaching students how to build a tiny house, while critically considering scholarly and popular cultural sources engaging the present, past and (potential) future roles of small homes in America. The course pays particular attention to cultural-historical trends in home size and location as a way to better understand race, class, disability, settler colonialism, gender, age, sexuality, “the urban,” nature, sustainability, nation, and other analytics key to cutting-edge American Studies scholarship. Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only. Enrollment limited to 10. (E)

[CE] JR/SR only