COURSE LISTINGS:

undergraduate courses
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The images accompanying the course listing come from materials instructors will use in their classes. The images are a starting point for classroom conversation and critical engagement with cultural texts. They will be posted for a limited amount of time and include attribution.

featured courses for SP2019

L98-220

Topics in AMCS: "What's Opera Doc?" Music, Taste, and American Identity

Megan Steigerwald Ille

TuTh 1:00 - 2:30

Image Source:

Image Credit: Chris Lee, Boston Globe, https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/27/wascally-wabbit-symphony-hall/yaQoS6Ai7tpxdpv2oOuLTM/story.html

image source:

Image Credit: Chris Lee, Boston Globe, https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/27/wascally-wabbit-symphony-hall/yaQoS6Ai7tpxdpv2oOuLTM/story.html

L98-253

Sports & Society: Histories of American Sports

Cohan

TuTh 10:00 - 11:30

Image Source:

Image: “marked for reuse by Wikimedia Commons”

image source:

Image: “marked for reuse by Wikimedia Commons”

L98-266

Topics in Sequential Art: Understanding Comics: An Introduction to Sequential Artistry

Coogan

MW 1:00 - 2:30

Image Source:

The image is a still from a talk:

Kelly, John F.  (2017) . How To Read Nancy - CAB 2017 [Interview and discussion with Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik]. Online video. Retrieved from  https://vimeo.com/243907121

image source:

The image is a still from a talk:

Kelly, John F.  (2017) . How To Read Nancy - CAB 2017 [Interview and discussion with Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik]. Online video. Retrieved from  https://vimeo.com/243907121

L98-301B

Individual and Community

Darnell

MW 2:30 - 4:00

Image Source:

Image credit: Darnell, "Fourth of July"

image source:

Image credit: Darnell, "Fourth of July"

L98-3190

The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson

Bernstein and Kolk

-T-T- 4:00 - 5:30

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L98-336

Topics in American Culture Studies: Reading American Fan Cultures

Cohan

TuTh 1:00 - 2:30

Image Source:

Caption: “Theater patrons at opening night of Orson Welles’s adaptation of Macbeth. Taken outside the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem (April 14, 1936). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.” 

URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Lafayette-Theatre-Macbeth-1936-1.jpg

image source:

Caption: “Theater patrons at opening night of Orson Welles’s adaptation of Macbeth. Taken outside the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem (April 14, 1936). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.” 

URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Lafayette-Theatre-Macbeth-1936-1.jpg

L98-3360

Topics in American Culture Studies: Passing Time: Contested Racial Boundaries in Modern Am Culture

Thurman

MW 10:00 - 11:30

Image Source:

Caption: Mexican- and Jewish- American actress Susan Kohner passes for a black woman passing as white in Douglas Sirk's 1959 film Imitation of Life. 

Source: Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 30 April 1959. 

image source:

Caption: Mexican- and Jewish- American actress Susan Kohner passes for a black woman passing as white in Douglas Sirk's 1959 film Imitation of Life. 

Source: Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 30 April 1959. 

L98-375A

American Culture: Methods & Visions: Hot Takes: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age

Maciak

TuTh 1:00 - 2:30

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https://www.collegefashion.net/shopping/bringing-fashion-to-you-a-guide-to-subscription-fashion-sites/)

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https://www.collegefashion.net/shopping/bringing-fashion-to-you-a-guide-to-subscription-fashion-sites/)

U89-474

Studies in American Cultural Identity: The Civil War to the Jazz Age

Allen Schwab

--W-- 6:00 - 8:30

Image Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer#/media/File:Winslow_Homer,_American_-_The_Life_Line_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg (1884)

image source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer#/media/File:Winslow_Homer,_American_-_The_Life_Line_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg (1884)

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