An introduction to digital culture, visual images, audio content, archives, and new media. Critical approaches include a focus on formal analysis, historical perspective, reception and audience, and cultural theory.
Interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture. Focus on issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Readings drawn from literature, history, the social sciences, philosophy and fine arts. Supplemented with audio-visual materialsofilms, slides of paintings, architecture, photography and material culture, and music. Required for students with a concentration in American Studies. (Gen.Ed. AL, U)
Introduction to Asian American Literature as an evolving field and to the history, politics, and cultural production of Asian American communities. Themes may include citizenship, borders, space, youth culture, labor, and the body, using texts by and about Asian Americans, including theoretical works, fiction, ethnographic studies, and documentary film. (Gen.Ed. I, U)
An introduction to primary and secondary education policy in the United States, and to research on education policy. Emphasizes history and qualitative political science, but also includes other methodological and disciplinary approaches.
Literature that deals with our relationship to society. Topics may include: the utopian vision; the notion of the self, politics and literature. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)
Literature that deals with our relationship to society. Topics may include: the utopian vision; the notion of the self, politics and literature. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)
Literature that deals with our relationship to society. Topics may include: the utopian vision; the notion of the self, politics and literature. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)
Literature that deals with our relationship to society. Topics may include: the utopian vision; the notion of the self, politics and literature. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)
Literature that deals with our relationship to society. Topics may include: the utopian vision; the notion of the self, politics and literature. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)