Ampersand: Examining America: American Dreams: Art, Culture, Performance, and Politics

How do you "read" a landscape? This Ampersand course introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in everyday built surroundings-homes, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small town centers, memorial sites, parks, and even college dorms. The course encourages students to read landscapes around them as multilayered records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about cultural meanings. It also introduces students to the social, economic, and political forces that have profoundly shaped the American landscape. Students will get to practice their critical "seeing" skills during five local field trips to Cahokia Mounds, Forest Park, Bellefontaine Cemetery, The Hill (Italian neighborhood), and the St. Louis waterfront and Arch. This course is restricted to first-year students only.
Course Attributes: EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM; AMP

Ampersand: Examining America: American Dreams: Art, Culture, Performance, and Politics

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 1101

Section 01