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AMS 150 IS NOT OPEN TO JUNIORS OR SENIORS EXCEPT BY SPECIAL PERMISSION. AMS 205 AND 206 ARE NOT OPEN TO SENIORS EXCEPT BY SPECIAL PERMISSION.
100. SPECIAL TOPICS: One to three hours. Selected American topics for lower division undergraduate students offered by AMS faculty members or supervised teaching assistants. Recent examples include the following five week one-hour courses: Bluegrass Music in America, Contemporary American Youth, The Hollywood Western, Wealth in America, Love American Style, American Organized Crime, Psychedelic America, Oliver Stone's America, The Boys of Summer, First Freedoms, Murder She Solved, Race Class and Gender in Science Fiction, Gay/Lesbian Images in Popular Culture, The World of Robert Heinlein, Homicide: Life on TV, The Many Lives of Frederick Douglass, Murder in Miami, American Youth Culture, Civil War in Fiction, The Dukes of Hazzard, Mythology of Star Wars, Ellison's Invisible Man, Rock and Global Culture, Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, Black Masculinity, Jackie Robinson's Legacy, Myths of Isadora Duncan, Rock Critic Lester Bangs, American Music in the World, Hip Hop: Droppin' Science, Dottie Rambo and Gospel Music, The Harlem Renaissance, Country Music Culture, Satire and Critical Laughter, Introduction to the Blues, Jim Henson's America, Modern Gay America, Horror Before Stephen King, The Hollywood Red Scare, Kerouac's On the Road, Homer Simpson's America, and The American Biker.
Return to top of page150. INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURE: ARTS & VALUES: Three hours. An exploration of the relation between the arts--popular, folk, and elite--and American culture in four selected periods: Victorian America, The Twenties and Thirties, World War II and the Postwar Era, and The Sixties. Class presentations and discussions revolve around novels, movies, slides, music, artifacts, and readings about the periods. (This course is team-taught by all the members of the American Studies faculty.) Offered fall semester.
Return to top of page151. INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURE: WORLD, NATION, REGIONS: Three hours. A broad survey of American culture formed by global, national, and regional influences. The first section, "World," looks at the United States as a product and shaper of international movements, ideas, and cultures from 1500 to the present. The second section, "Nation," examines the creation of a distinctly American identity between 1790 and 1890 that ultimately incorporated and reflected global issues. The third section, "Regions," focuses on the South and other regions as contributors to and consequences of national and global interactions. Team-taught by the entire AMS faculty, lectures will include topics on film, music, literature, art, sports, and other cultural artifacts. (Offered Spring Semester.)
Return to top of page200. SPECIAL TOPICS: Three hours. Selected American topics for lower division undergraduate students offered by AMS faculty members or Americanists from related departments. (Recent examples include Baseball in America, The Contemporary South, African American Performance, Fields of Dreams, Popular Music in America, Southern Lives, Technology and Culture, The American Western, Lives in the Black South, The Asian American Experience, and The American Road.)
Return to top of page201. INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: Three hours. This course provides a basic outline of the diversity and complexity of the African American experience in the United States. It surveys the early academic and social concerns of Black Studies advocates; the changes in the field's objectives which arise from its connections to contemporary social movements for Black Power, women's liberation, and multi-culturalism; and its major theoretical and critical debates.
Return to top of page203. SOUTHERN LIVES: Three hours. This course examines the lives of individual southern figures�who lived, are living, or live only in our imaginations�to explore critically the characteristics that constitute a "southern life," the history and popular understandings of the South, and the role of the individual, biography, and narrative in history and contemporary culture. Moving chronologically, we will consider how the attributes of southern lives change over time, while keeping mindful of the ways in which regional identities and stories are always contested, dialectic, and variable. The class draws upon a variety of texts, including historical and theoretical work, visual arts, music, literature, material culture, and documentary and feature film.
Return to top of page204. WESTERN AMERICAN LIVES: Three hours. A lecture/discussion course utilizing a biographical approach to the salient themes, issues,and episodes of the American West. Some of these lives are real, some of them imagined, and others are a little of each. All of them, however, reveal much about both region and nation and how each has changed over time.
Return to top of page205. WORKING LIVES: Three hours. This lecture/discussion course focuses on individual American lives in their working experiences as they are expressed in the personal forms of autobiographies, oral histories, diaries, and letters. What does work mean to Americans as they construct their lives and judge their personal success or failure? What is the role of work in constructing a "good life" in this culture? And do these views vary according to the individual's position in the ethnic, gender, class, and regional richness and diversity of the American experience?
Return to top of page231. CONTEMPORARY AMERICA: Three hours. This course has two principal objectives. Students will analyze the changing nature of American cultural values for the period dating from the early 1970s to the present. By placing materials drawn from literature, film, the visual arts, music, and popular culture within broader social and historical contexts, we will examine key developments in the everyday life patterns and cultural expressions of Americans in contexts that range from the local to the international. In addition, the course will familiarize students with a sampling of the interdisciplinary methodologies applicable to work in the field of American Studies: e.g. analysis of images and primary documents, oral history, and ethnography. (Offered Fall semester.)
Return to top of page251. AMERICAN FOLKLORE: Three hours. Survey and analysis of the processes, groups, and genres of folk culture in American life. Through ethnographic writing, film, and discussion, this course considers case studies of folktales, legends, humor, music, folk art, and custom as they function in folk groups.
Return to top of page27l. FILM AND AMERICAN CULTURE: Three hours. An interdisciplinary investigation of American culture through motion pictures and film history. The emphasis is upon how this medium has influenced and reflected the needs, aspirations, and values of the American people.
Return to top of page280. RHYTHM & BLUES AND ROCK: Three hours. An interdisciplinary investigation of the American popular music tradition in its commercial Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll idioms. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between these unique forms of expression and American culture and character. Technical musical skills or training are not required.
Return to top of page300. SPECIAL TOPICS: Three hours. Selected American topics for advanced undergraduate students offered by AMS faculty members or Americanists from related departments. Examples: Jewish-American Literature, Mobility in America, The American Folk Revival, Jazz and the Jazz Life, Lesbian and Gay Cultures, The American West, Divorce and Stepfamilies, American Hobo Subculture, Southern Iconoclasts, Interracial Intimacies, World War II and Modern Memory, African American Folk Art, P.T. Barnum's Century, 20th Century American West, Women's Liberation Movement, Justice and Civil Society, and Southern Sexual Cultures.
Return to top of page302. THE BLACK CHURCH: Three hours. The religious history and culture of African Americans is a rich and varied part of the American experience. This course surveys mainstream Christian expressions of black spirituality as well as other forms of sacred collective consciousness. The study of local churches and theology is encouraged.
Return to top of page303. THE EDUCATION OF SOUTHERN BLACKS: Three hours. Various intellectuals have been concerned with the "miseducation" of Africans in America. This course explores education from West Africa at the middle of the second millennium and early American society down to emergence of the separate but inferior school system of the 19th and 20th century.
Return to top of page304. BOB MARLEY: ALABAMA IN JAMAICA: Three hours. A travel-study course that investigates the life of Bob Marley, with an emphasis on the arts of resistance to cultural and material domination as practiced and developed by the poorest people in the Black Atlantic. Immersion into Jamaican history and culture is the essential methodology of the class.
Return to top of page306. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Three hours. A study of the North American landscape as altered and used by successive waves of native peoples, explorers, immigrants, westering pioneers, and industrial/urban builders. (Cross-listed as UH 306.)
Return to top of page310. AMERICAN YOUTH CULTURE: Three hours. An interdisciplinary investigation of Postwar America focusing on American youth of the 50s. Said to be apathetic, these were the youth who demanded black music, rejected traditional mainstream culture, invented Rock & Roll, established a national, commercialized, adolescent, peer Youth Culture, and revealed the hypocrisy between what American society professed and how it actually operated. This course will focus on Cultural Season of 1954-1955 in particular, when white American youth begin to adapt, adopt, and appropriate aspects of minority culture as their own.
Return to top of page319. P.T. BARNUM'S CENTURY: Three hours. Examines 19th-century American popular culture, as epitomized by the famous showman, P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) by using Barnum as a prism to focus on how American culture offered spectacular possibilities for self-advancement and self-delusion.
Return to top of page321. AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK ART: Three hours. This course will focus on the examination of objects created by African Americans variously classified as "folk," "self-taught," and "outsider" artists. Course material will address the African origins and American transformations of traditional arts and crafts (architecture, pottery, iron work, and quilting), as well as the work of selected twentieth century artists in such media as painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Key concerns will include not only analysis and cultural/historical contextualization of these artists and their works, but also political and theoretical debates with respect to issues of collection, modes of exhibition, and use of the above listed classifications.
Return to top of page325. AMERICA, THE WEST, & THE 19TH CENTURY: Three hours. Few things remained so central to the 19th American century experience as the West, a region to be explored, inhabited, and incorporated into an expanding urban-industrial society. From Lewis and Clark to Buffalo Bill, this lecture/discussion course examines the relationship between America and the West as it developed throughout the 19th century.
Return to top of page326. THE MODERN WEST: Three hours. This lecture/discussion course examines the growth of the American West during the 20th century as both the embodiment of modernity and, as mythic imagination, an escape from the very modernity it represents.
Return to top of page330. AMERICA BETWEEN THE WARS: This course explores the first two decades of America's "Modern Times." Adjusting to modernity required Americans to square old values with new departures, something that makes this period more than merely two decades linked by the calendar and the Stock Market Crash. Top to bottom, between 1919 and 1941, Americans redefined themselves and their society, embracing and debating (sometimes hotly) old beliefs, new conceptions, and the implications of a machine-driven modern mass society. The course is intended to focus of many points of that debate, especially as they are reflected in such crucial areas as popular culture and the visual arts.
Return to top of page33l. WRITER AND ARTIST IN AMERICAN CULTURE: Three hours. An examination of the changing social and cultural background of American writers and artists during the l9th and 20th centuries. Topics will include the definition of the developing role of the artist in American culture, an assessment of the American and European influences on artists, and an appraisal of the influence of artists on American culture. Painting, literature, music, photography, and architecture are among the arts dealt with.
Return to top of page332. POPULAR CULTURE IN AMERICA: Three hours. The evolution of American popular culture since the late-eighteenth century, considering the subject in its broad historical overview, defining and examining the origins of terms (popular culture, mass culture, elite culture, consumer society, culture producers, and culture consumers) and focusing in depth on historical examples that illuminate the content, forms and functions of the popular culture of specific class, age, gender, and ethnic groups. Various media (theater, movies, magazines, radio, television) and popular phenomena (manners, fashion, advertising, sport) will be analyzed.
Return to top of page340. WOMEN IN THE SOUTH: Three hours. An examination of the cultural concepts, myths, and experiences of black and white Southern women from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Special attention is given to the interaction of race, class, and gender in Southern women's lives. Texts include historical studies, autobiographies, biographies, oral histories, and novels written by and about women in the l9th and 20th century South.
Return to top of page345. WORLD WAR II: THE "GOOD WAR": In the popular memory, then and since, it is, say many, the defining moment of the twentieth century, perhaps all the American experience. Between 1941 and 1945, the American people waged global war, an undertaking of unprecedented scale and urgency. After Pearl Harbor, the national will stiffened and at least for the duration, Americans forgot their differences, rallied to the cause, and in their suffering and sacrifice saved the world. This was not just a necessary war; it was a good war fought against a palpable evil , one that reduced the world to rival spheres of right and wrong and justified any means for the only acceptable end: victory. Virtue abroad, cohesion at home, and prosperity in the marketplace, the war united all three in a way previous Americans had only dreamed about and never achieved. Small wonder, then, that over the years since 1945, in a world less simple and a society more divided, that the memory of World War II has hardened into myth, a golden moment of rectitude, shared sacrifice, and uncomplicated moral triumph.
This course is very much about that moment and the myth it established. Please note, it is not a military history of the Second World War, replete with situation maps, and production figures, and casualty reports. It is instead a topical examination of the American experience at home and abroad during this pivotal moment in the history of this society and the world.
Return to top of page364. THE BEATLES ERA: An interdisciplinary investigation of American culture from the Kennedy assassination in 1963 to the Kent State University massacre in 1970, using the popular cultural explosion of the Beatles as a prism which informs the whole. Reading includes works by James Baldwin, Truman Capote, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Primary consideration is given to the Beatles' early singles, along with their contributions to the development of the LP: Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, and Abbey Road.
Return to top of page367. THE AMERICAN GAME: Lecture topics, course readings and classroom discussions will pursue three major connections between baseball and American society arranged in overlapping chronological sections: 1) the modernization of American society and the rise of an urban, industrial game; 1840-1930; 2) baseball and race, 1880-1963; and 3) post-war America and the baseball film, 1945-present
Return to top of page PREREQUISITE FOR 400-LEVEL COURSES: 12 HOURS IN THE DEPARTMENT OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.
400. INTERNSHIP: One to Three hours. (Pass/Fail). Prerequisite: permission of the departmental chairperson. An internship opportunity which combines independent study and practical fieldwork experience focusing on a particular problem or topic related to America culture and experience. (Examples: Internship in Archival Fieldwork, Material Culture Fieldwork, Museum Management, Sound Recordings, and Internship with Alabama Heritage Magazine.)
Return to top of page401. THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Three Hours.
This course is an interdisciplinary investigation of the complexities of the African American experience in American culture. The course will explore important comparative questions about race and gender relations, the American education system, and the human condition.
Return to top of page402. SPECIAL TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES. Selected African American topics for advanced undergraduate students.
Return to top of page403. HONORS RESEARCH: AMERICAN STUDIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE: Three hours. Prerequisite: sponsorship of a faculty member. An internship opportunity which combines guided and independent study with on- or off-campus research experience involving a particular methodological approach to American culture and experience. (Examples: social science methods, oral history, original manuscript research.)
Return to top of page405. DIRECTED STUDY: One to Three hours. Prerequisite: Sponsorship of a faculty member.
Return to top of page406. DIRECTED STUDY: An independent study or directed reading opportunity for the exploration of a particular problem or topic related to America culture and experience.
Return to top of page430. SPECIAL TOPICS: Three hours. Selected American topics for advanced undergraduate majors in American Studies offered by AMS faculty members or Americanists from related departments.
Return to top of page440. SEXUALITY AND CULTURE: Three hours. This course examines sexuality as a category of historical and cultural analysis. With an interdisciplinary focus on representation in film, science, visual culture, literature, and politics, we will investigate how sexual categories and identities are produced and contested over time. The course emphasizes the complex intersection of sexuality with race, gender, class, and region to reveal the deep linkages among them as locations of power, oppression, and resistance. Students will become familiar with a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of sexuality, including cultural studies, history, and critical theory.
Return to top of page450. WOMEN IN AMERICA: Three hours. A lecture/discussion course on the role of women in American culture which concentrates on the major social and cultural contributions of women from all backgrounds and walks of life. Key question involve the historic roles of women in America and how their status reflects the structure of society as a whole. Most of the readings focus on the twentieth century and the relationships between individual women and the cultural networks in which they participate and help create.
Return to top of page485. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: l620-l865: Three hours. An exploration of the formative years of the American cultural experience, from early European encounters with the New World to the attainment of continental nationhood. The course will draw upon insights from many disciplines and will include several kinds of cultural evidence (for example: literature, art, and photography; religious, political, and social thought and behavior; economic, technological, and geographical development) as well as consideration of recent major synthetic works of cultural scholarship. Topics covered include: the growth of colonial societies; the Revolutionary movement and the political foundations of the American Republic; the Market Revolution and the rise of middle class culture; the Antebellum South and the emerging West; and the origins and evolution of American cultural diversity. (Offered Fall semester.)
Return to top of page486. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, l865-l960: Three hours. An exploration of the development of American cultural experience since 1865, focusing on the major material forces and intellectual currents that helped to shape American attitudes, assumptions, institutions, behavior, and values. The course will draw upon insights from many disciplines and will include several kinds of cultural evidence (for example: literature, art, and photography; religious, political, and social thought and behavior; economic, technological, and geographical development) as well as consideration of recent major synthetic works of cultural scholarship. Topics addressed and readings assigned are chosen to enlarge awareness of the transformation of America to a diverse, metropolitan, industrial society. These will include: the relationship between nature and the city, the industrial revolution and changes in the workplace, immigration, changing class and gender relationships, the rise of leisure, and the development and triumph of modern corporate/consumer culture. (Offered Spring semester.)
Return to top of page49l. AMERICAN PERIOD SEMINAR: Three hours. In-depth study of a particular period or era in American historical experience. Recent examples include The Ragtime Era, The Jazz Age, The Great Depression, The Season of l954-l955, The Sixties, Contemporary America, The Romantic Revolutionaries (l905-l9l4), The Postwar Era, American Avant Garde, The South and 30s Expression, The Civil Rights Movement, The American Twenties, The Fifties, America Between the Wars, The Colonial Period, The Aspirin Age, Post Modern America, and Contemporary America.
Return to top of page492. AMERICAN TOPIC SEMINAR: Three hours. Study of special topics within the American cultural experience. Examples: American Thought, Sports in American Life, American Perspectives on the Environment, Women in America, The Civil Rights Movement, The Picture Press, Music and Ethnicity, The Politics of Culture, Regionalism, The Changing American Family, Homelessness in America, American Autobiography, American Monuments, Southern Popular Culture, Politics and Culture, Historical Memory, America By Design, The Other in America, Women in America, Race in America, and 19th Century Popular Culture.
Graduate Program
500. INTERNSHIP: One to Three hours (Pass/Fail). An internship opportunity which combines independent study and practical fieldwork experience focusing on a particular problem or topic related to American culture and experience. (Recent examples include Internships in: Museum Management, Historic Preservation, Archaeological Research, Television Production, Category Fiction, Promotion of Academic Programs, Documentary Television, Academic Public Relations, and Internship with Alabama Heritage and Louisville magazines.) Return to top of page
501. AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Three hours. An investigation of the influence of Africa and people of African descent on the development of American cultural experience, from the emergence of the Atlantic world and the slave trade to the freedom struggles of the late twentieth century. The course will explore insights from various disciplines and examine several kinds of cultural artifacts (for example: music such as Gospel, Blues, Jazz and Hip Hop; the written and spoken word; sculpture, painting, and photography; the built environment in rural and urban contexts; religious and political economic ideas and phenomena) as well as engage canonical and cutting edge works of cultural scholarship related to Africans in the Americas. Topics covered include: the establishment of plantation societies and racialized chattel enslavement; the creation of an African American culture within the USA; Afro-centricity and the theory of African Americans as Omni-American; the South as black national territory; and late capitalist challenges to black identity. (Offered Spring semester.) Return to top of page
502. SPECIAL TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected African American topics. Return to top of page
505:506. DIRECTED STUDY: One to three hours each semester.
Prerequisite: sponsorship of a faculty member. Undergraduates need permission from Graduate Dean. Return to top of page
530. SPECIAL TOPICS: One to three hours. Selected American topics in American Studies offered by AMS faculty members or Americanists from related departments. Recent example: Women in America. Return to top of page
53l. STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in American popular culture: literature, music, network broadcasting, advertising, film, and drama. Return to top of page
532. STUDIES IN THE ARTS: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in literature, film, painting, photography, architecture, and the role of the artist in l9th and 20th century America. Return to top of page
533. STUDIES IN AMERICAN THOUGHT: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in American intellectual history: the law, nature and the city, religion and the state, liberalism and conservatism, Utopianism, science and society. Return to top of page
534. STUDIES IN THE SOUTH: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in Southern culture: ethnicity, regional consciousness, women in the South, change and continuity, Southern iconoclasts. Return to top of page
535. STUDIES IN ETHNICITY, CLASS, AND GENDER: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in ethnicity, class, and gender in America. Return to top of page
536. STUDIES IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in the American social experience. Return to top of page
537. STUDIES IN THE WEST: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in the American West as period, place, experience, and imagination: discovery and exploration; physical and cultural transformation; value, ethic, and ideal. Return to top of page
538. STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: Three hours. Research and discussion of selected topics in African American culture. Return to top of page
540. SEXUALITY AND CULTURE: Three hours. This course examines sexuality as a category of historical and cultural analysis. With an interdisciplinary focus on representation in film, science, visual culture, literature, and politics, we will investigate how sexual categories and identities are produced and contested over time. The course emphasizes the complex intersection of sexuality with race, gender, class, and region to reveal the deep linkages among them as locations of power, oppression, and resistance. Students will become familiar with a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of sexuality, including cultural studies, history, and critical theory. Return to top of page
550. WOMEN IN AMERICA: Three hours. A lecture/discussion course on the role of women in American culture which concentrates on the major social and cultural contributions of women from all backgrounds and walks of life. Key question involve the historic roles of women in America and how their status reflects the structure of society as a whole. Most of the readings focus on the twentieth century and the relationships between individual women and the cultural networks in which they participate and help create. Return to top of page
585. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: l620-l865: Four hours. An exploration of the formative years of the American cultural experience, from early European encounters with the New World to the attainment of continental nationhood. The course will draw upon insights from many disciplines and will include several kinds of cultural evidence (for example: literature, art, and photography; religious, political, and social thought and behavior; economic, technological, and geographical development) as well as consideration of recent major synthetic works of cultural scholarship. Topics covered include: the growth of colonial societies; the Revolutionary movement and the political foundations of the American Republic; the Market Revolution and the rise of middle class culture; the Antebellum South and the emerging West; and the origins and evolution of American cultural diversity. (Offered Fall semester.) Return to top of page
586. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, l865-l960: Four hours. An exploration of the development of American cultural experience since 1865, focusing on the major material forces and intellectual currents that helped to shape American attitudes, assumptions, institutions, behavior, and values. The course will draw upon insights from many disciplines and will include several kinds of cultural evidence (for example: literature, art, and photography; religious, political, and social thought and behavior; economic, technological, and geographical development) as well as consideration of recent major synthetic works of cultural scholarship. Topics addressed and readings assigned are chosen to enlarge awareness of the transformation of America to a diverse, metropolitan, industrial society. These will include: the relationship between nature and the city, the industrial revolution and changes in the workplace, immigration, changing class and gender relationships, the rise of leisure, and the development and triumph of modern corporate/consumer culture. (Offered Spring semester.) Return to top of page
587. AMS COLLOQUIUM: SCHOLARLY WRITING: Three hours. Preparing manuscripts for the academic/scholarly journal marketplace. Return to top of page
588. TEACHING INTERNSHIP. One hour. Pass/Fail. Required of all American Studies graduate teaching assistants in AMS 150. Includes administrative techniques and test construction. Return to top of page
589. APPROACHES TO TEACHING AMERICAN STUDIES. Three hours. Prerequisite: consent of the department. A study of basic approaches to interdisciplinary teaching in American culture at the college level, along with supervised teaching experience. Return to top of page
59l. AMERICAN PERIOD SEMINAR: Three hours. In-depth study of a particular period or era in American historical experience. Recent examples include: The Ragtime Era, The Jazz Age, The Great Depression, The Season of l954-l955, The Sixties, Contemporary America, The Postwar Period, The Romantic Revolutionaries (1905-1914), The American Avant Garde (1893-1920), World War II: The Good War, The South and 30s Expression, The Civil Rights Movement, The Fifties, America Between the Wars, and The Colonial Period. Return to top of page
592. AMERICAN TOPIC SEMINAR: Three hours. Study of special topics within the American cultural experience. Recent examples include: American Literary Realism, Women in America, The Civil Rights Movement, The Picture Press, Music and Ethnicity, The Politics of Culture, Regionalism in American Culture, The Changing American Family, Homelessness in America, American Autobiography, American Monuments, Contemporary American Folklore, Southern Popular Culture, Southern Iconoclasts, Politics and Culture, and Historical Memory. Return to top of page
595. AMS COLLOQUIUM: METHODS. One hour. Discussions of methodological and theoretical issues in American Studies. Students must be concurrently enrolled in AMS 585. Return to top of page
596. AMS COLLOQUIUM: RESEARCH. Two hours. Discussions of methodological and theoretical issues in American Studies. Students must be concurrently enrolled in AMS 586. Return to top of page
597. TOPICS IN AMERICAN CULTURAL ANALYSIS: One hour. Coordinating course required of MA candidates in their last semester. Return to top of page
598. NON-THESIS RESEARCH: One to Three hours. (Pass/Fail.) Return to top of page
599. THESIS RESEARCH: Three hours. (Pass/Fail.) Return to top of page Rev. 02/2004
