AMCS Harvey Scholar Seminar

This senior seminar for AMCS Undergraduate Harvey Scholars, the first half of the fall-spring scholar experience, examines the many possible cultural roles of the citizen scholar outside the academy. By first looking at the American history of the so-called public intellectual, we'll work to define how Harvey Scholars find traction for their ideas and intellectual identities in their future cultural situations. Our activities include discussions of important texts that transitioned from fields of specialization to wide public audiences while we also explore a variety of pop culture and elite cultural ephemera. These will form our understanding of how actors then and now engaged audiences outside specific vernaculars of specialties and disciplines to confront vexatious social problems in their moments. In turn, we'll develop our own models for being everyday scholars who translate our insights for public broadcast, along the way thinking carefully how our academic work prepares us to assist in aggregating meaningful change. Students will draft plans for spring projects that serve as proofs of concepts on these models of public engagement. Permission of Program required for participation.
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM

AMCS Harvey Scholar Seminar

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 450A

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