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AMST 1115
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A policy-centered approach to the study of government in the American experience. Considers the American Founding and how it influenced the structure of government; how national institutions operate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1111
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Klarman Hall KG70
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Mettler, S
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- T Morrill Hall 111
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- T Morrill Hall 111
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- T Morrill Hall 111
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Morrill Hall 111
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Clark Hall 294D
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Rockefeller Hall 115
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 1139
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The American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary engagement with what America means in the United States and in a global context. Faculty encourage students to look at the histories and cultures ... view course details
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: Gal Pals: Lesbian and Sapphic Media Fandoms
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- MWF Uris Hall G88
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Serafini, V
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AMST 1290
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Introduces students to the sociological analysis of American society through the lens of film. Major themes involve race, class, and gender; upward and downward mobility; incorporation and exclusion; small ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 1290
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3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- TR Uris Hall 202
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Strang, D
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AMST 1500
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This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas. This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1500, GOVT 1503
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Chresfield, M
Richardson, R
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AMST 1585
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This course will explore the relationship between sports and politics over the course of American history since the 19th century. Sports and politics have come together surprisingly frequently in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1585
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Glickman, L
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- F McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Morrill Hall 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F White Hall 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Morrill Hall 106
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Morrill Hall 106
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Uris Hall 262
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 1600
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This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the diverse cultures, histories and contemporary situations of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Students will also be introduced to important ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 1100, ANTHR 1700
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Caldwell Hall 100
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Jordan, K
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- W Kennedy Hall 101
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- W Kennedy Hall 101
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Kennedy Hall 101
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- W Kennedy Hall 101
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 1800
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This course examines immigration to the United States since the early national period. The course will consider the root causes of migration; its role in settler colonialism, nation-building, and empire; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1800, LSP 1800
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Garcia, M
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- F McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 1850
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On August 9-10, 1969, ex-convict, aspiring rock star, and charismatic leader Charles Manson ordered his so-called Family to brutally murder a few of LA's rich, white, "beautiful people" and leave clues ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: HIST 1850
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Plant Science Building 233
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Verhoeven, C
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Sibley Hall 208
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Morrill Hall 107
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- R Morrill Hall 111
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 2012
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As a country, we are what we remember. But who decides what facts and stories about the past are important enough to memorialize? What does that decision tell us about power and truth? This class will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 2011
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- F White Hall 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Margulies, J
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AMST 2070
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"Social Problems in the U.S." teaches students how to think like a social scientist when encountering claims about major contemporary issues. Through readings and assignments, students develop an analytical ... view course details
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrison Hall 146
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Rich, P
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AMST 2106
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This course is an introduction to Latina/o Studies, an interdisciplinary field of knowledge production that focuses on historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and economic experiences of Latinx peoples in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LSP 2100
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Santiago-Irizarry, V
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AMST 2225
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In recent years, poverty and inequality have become increasingly common topics of public debate, as academics, journalists, and politicians attempt to come to terms with growing income inequality, with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GDEV 2220, GOVT 2225, ILROB 2220, PAM 2220, PHIL 1950, SOC 2220
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- TR Klarman Hall KG70
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall G26
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall 204
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall 204
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall 204
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall G26
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Malott Hall 224
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall G26
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Malott Hall 205
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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- F Uris Hall G20
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Sullivan, J
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AMST 2251
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Americans are conflicted about immigration. We honor and celebrate (and commercialize) our immigrant heritage in museums, folklife festivals, parades, pageants, and historical monuments. We also build ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2251, LSP 2251
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR White Hall 104
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Garcia, M
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AMST 2401
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From radical manifestos written by revolutionaries and satirical plays of union organizers to experimental novels, poetry, art, and music, this course examines Latinx literatures published in the United ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2400, ENGL 2400, LSP 2400
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Castillo, D
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AMST 2600
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The production of North American Indigenous literatures began long before European colonization, and persists in a variety of printed, sung, carved, painted, written, spoken, and digital media. From oral ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 2600, ENGL 2600
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Caldwell Hall 250
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Hu Pegues, J
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AMST 2640
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An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2130, HIST 2640
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Chang, D
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AMST 2650
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This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2650, ENGL 2650, SHUM 2650
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Spires, D
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AMST 2669
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This course offers a survey of American political thought from the colonial period to the present. We will read Puritan sermons, revolutionary pamphlets, philosophical treatises, presidential orations, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2665
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 219
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Frank, J
Livingston, A
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- M McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 2690
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This course introduces students to major American poets from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is designed for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of and appreciation for poetry while ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2690
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Uris Hall G88
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Hutchinson, G
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AMST 2810
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This introductory course introduces students to issues and debates related to international migration and will provide an interdisciplinary foundation to understanding the factors that shape migration ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRLR 2810, LSP 2810, PAM 2810, SOC 2810
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- TR Ives Hall 217
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Gleeson, S
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AMST 2955
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"Why no socialism in America?" Scholars and activists have long pondered the relative dearth (compared to other industrialized societies) of sustained, popular, anticapitalist activity in the United States. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2955, HIST 2955
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Rickford, R
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AMST 3092
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How is public policy really formed in the United States today? Who are the key actors and decision makers who shape the laws and regulations that impact us at the local, state and federal levels of government? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3092, GOVT 6091, PAM 3090, PAM 5090
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- R Washington, DC
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Christie, R
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AMST 3121
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This is a class about the American criminal justice system—from policing to prisons, from arrest to reentry. In many ways, the operation of the modern criminal justice system is taken for granted, which ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3121
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Margulies, J
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- M McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- W Uris Hall G26
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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AMST 3214
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This course explores dance across multiple stages—TikTok videos, concert halls, streets—to assess how people create, sustain, and challenge markers of difference (race, gender, sexuality, ability, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3214
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Aldape Munoz, J
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AMST 3281
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This course investigates the United States Supreme Court and its role in politics and government. It traces the development of constitutional doctrine, the growth of the Court's institutional power, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3281, LAW 3281
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Chutkow, D
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AMST 3312
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If you have ever wondered what the Vietnam War was all about, how did it begin, how was it fought, why was it so controversial, why did the American people turn against it, why was it important, why were ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3312, HIST 3312
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 202
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Taylor, K
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AMST 3330
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Based on indigenous and place-based "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Fernow Hall G24
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Kassam, K
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AMST 3358
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The Korean War (1950-1953) followed the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) when the People's Republic of China promoted communist revolutions in Korea and Vietnam that were resisted by the United States. Often ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3358, HIST 3358
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 202
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Taylor, K
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AMST 3360
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Explores major American playwrights from 1900 to 1960, introducing students to American theatre as a significant part of modern American cultural history. We will consider the ways in which theatre has ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3360, PMA 3757
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB21
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Warner, S
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AMST 3430
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A survey of the turning point of US. history: The Civil War (1861-1865) and its aftermath, Reconstruction (1865-1877). We will look at the causes, the coming, and the conduct, of the war, and the way in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 3430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Baptist, E
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- R Rockefeller Hall B16
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B16
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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AMST 3434
Course Description
This seminar offers students the unique opportunity to explore the abolition movement of upstate New York and to visit and research some of the Underground Railroad routes in Ithaca and the Central New ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3434, ASRC 6464, SHUM 3434
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Meeting Pattern
- W Klarman Hall K155
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Aching, G
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3562
Course Description
The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3560, ENGL 3560
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Caldwell Hall 400
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3617
Course Description
This course is open to experienced rappers, beatmakers, and vocalists interested forging collaborative relationships with other students. Taking as a foundation hip-hop's relationship to social justice, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3616
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fall, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AMST 3745
Course Description
In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details
AMST 3854
Course Description
This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of regional development and globalization. Topics vary each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CRP 3854, GOVT 3494
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Social Justice& Urban Issues:Case of Washington,DC
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Washington, DC
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Ajinkya, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington Program.
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AMST 3885
Course Description
Across twentieth-century history, race and war have been dynamic forces in shaping economic organization and everyday livelihoods. This course will approach labor and working-class history, through a focus ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3885, HIST 3884, ILRLR 3885
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 219
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Nagaraja, T
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 3980
Course Description
Affords opportunities for students to carry out independent research under appropriate supervision. Each student is expected to review pertinent literature, prepare a project outline, conduct the research, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AMST 3990
Course Description
Individualized readings for junior and senior students. Topics, requirements, and credit hours will be determined in consultation between the student and the supervising faculty member. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AMST 4040
Course Description
Fictions of dictatorship, as termed by scholar Lucy Burns, denote both the narratives and spectacles produced by authoritarian governments and the performances, events, and cultural objects that work against ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4040, COML 4040, PMA 4740, SHUM 4040
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Library 311
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Balance, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4203
Course Description
This advanced seminar traces transformations in citizenship and the franchise throughout U.S. history. Through readings, frequent short writings, discussion, and a final paper, the class examines the struggles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4203
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Kohler-Hausmann, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4220
Course Description
This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4200, AIIS 6200, AMST 6220, PHIL 4941, PHIL 6941
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Caldwell Hall 400
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Richardson, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4533
Course Description
American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4733, ILRLR 4533, ILRLR 7533, JWST 4533, JWST 7533
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Sampson, E
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4556
Course Description
Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4556, ARTH 6556, ENGL 4556, ENGL 6565, LSP 4556, LSP 6565, VISST 4556
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Rickard, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4627
Course Description
If you haven't read contemporary U.S. American Indian fiction, then it might be fair to ask how much you know about the United States, its origins and its current condition. Since the 1960s, American Indians ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4625, ENGL 4625
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Caldwell Hall 400
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4674
Course Description
The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6674, HIST 4674, HIST 6674, SHUM 4674, SHUM 6674
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 4681
Course Description
This course explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country and examines the increasing scholarship surrounding arts programs and their efficacy for incarcerated persons. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4681
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Levitt, B
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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AMST 4993
Course Description
To graduate with honors, AMST majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an AMST faculty member and defend that thesis orally before a committee. Students interested in the honors program ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
AMST 4998
Course Description
This required course forms the core of the Cornell in Washington academic program. The foundational skill of both politics and policy is taking knowledge, analyzing it, figuring out how to convert it into ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ALS 4998, CAPS 4998, GOVT 4998, NS 4998, PAM 4060
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Washington, DC
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Silbey, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
Department Consent Required (Add)
AMST 6122
Course Description
This course examines racial and ethnic politics in the United States, highlighting its fundamental and constitutive role in shaping American politics more broadly. We will explore the political origins ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6022, GOVT 6022
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Michener, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6220
Course Description
This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4200, AIIS 6200, AMST 4220, PHIL 4941, PHIL 6941
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Caldwell Hall 400
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Richardson, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6322
Course Description
This graduate seminar will explore major currents in historical writing about African-American life and culture in the twentieth century. Focusing on social, intellectual, and labor history, we will identify ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6322, HIST 6322
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Rickford, R
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Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6585
Course Description
This course is a graduate seminar that examines a selection of important texts that have helped shape and contest the political idea—and the political ideals—of America, placing particular emphasis on ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6585
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Frank, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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AMST 6612
Course Description
What are minoritarian aesthetics? How do these inform the production and reception of performance, broadly defined? How does attending to the aesthetics involved in the production of artistic and cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 6611, LSP 6611, PMA 6611
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Jaime, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AMST 6674
Course Description
The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4674, HIST 4674, HIST 6674, SHUM 4674, SHUM 6674
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person