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AMERICAN STUDIES

SPRING 2017 & INTERSESSION 2017


The department of AMERICAN STUDIES | INTRODUCTION | WHAT IS AMERICAN STUDIES?

American Studies explores American culture in the past and present. Our courses examine American life with the aim of helping students to better understand how the society that surrounds us has been shaped--locally, nationally, and transnationally. We study how Americans have thought about and experienced such matters as ethnic, racial, gender, and regional identities, popular culture, humor, religion, technology, crime, childhood, family, the built environment, community, mental health, and other dimensions of American culture. American Studies classes teach you to recognize cultural and historical contexts, to interpret a range of interdisciplinary sources, to appreciate diversity, to understand and analyze events from multiple perspectives, and to communicate clearly in speech and writing.

We are a department of engaged, energetic professors. In an American Studies class you will encounter a wide range of cultural sources for study. You may read novels or autobiographies, analyze historical evidence or texts, examine movies or television shows as cultural documents, consider the visual arts and music, or view examples of the built environment. You will also be exposed to the most recent scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of American cultural studies.

WHAT CAN I DO WITH MY AMERICAN STUDIES DEGREE?

American Studies majors learn to be careful readers and effective writers who know how to analyze ideas and evidence. These kinds of skills can then be used in a wide range of careers. Some American Studies majors become professors in universities and community colleges: others earn a "single subject" credential that qualifies them to become middle school or high school social studies teachers. This major offers excellent preparation for students interested in law or journalism. Recent majors have also become government workers, librarians, business managers, nonprofit organizers, museum curators, public relations specialists, marketing analysts, and videogame designers.

HOW DO I MAJOR, DOUBLE-MAJOR, OR MINOR IN AMERICAN STUDIES?

The 36-unit undergraduate major requires 4 American Studies core courses (AMST 201, 301, 350, and 401), and 8 electives. Students may take all 8 electives in American Studies or they may include up to 4 courses from other departments , chosen with an advisor. Because of this interdisciplinary option, American Studies is especially well- suited to students interested in a double-major, especially with fields such as communications, history, ethnic studies, or sociology. The minor is 21 units, including 3 core courses (AMST 201, 301, and 401) and 4 electives.

HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE?

You can check out http://amst.fullerton.edu/ . To learn any professor’s office hours, you can stop by the American Studies office in UH-313 or phone the department office at (657) 278-2441.

PLEASE NOTE: CLASS SCHEDULING CAN CHANGE, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO DOUBLE-CHECK WITH TITAN ONLINE

The department of AMERICAN STUDIES


| COURSE OFFERINGS – SPRING 2017 |

AMST 1O1 – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement D.1: Introduction to Social Sciences.

The concepts of interdisciplinary culture studies, focusing on analysis of cultural change in complex, literate society; American culture, including cross-cultural comparisons. Topics include popular culture, subcultures, regionalism, myths and symbols, and culture and personality.

AMST 101 01 19850 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM HORWITZ

AMST 101 02 16979 MW 10:00 AM 11:15 AM ANDERSON

AMST 101 04 16106 MW 1:00 PM 2:15 PM ANDERSON

AMST 101 05 16426 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM HORWITZ

AMST 101 06 16471 TTH 10:00 AM 11:15 AM ANDERSON

AMST 101 07 16524 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM FALERO

AMST 101 50 17112 WEB HARGROVE

AMST 101 51 17113 WEB HARGROVE

AMST 2O1 – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement D.3, American History, Institutions and Values

With the concept of culture as a unifying principle, focus is on four separate time periods in order to provide the framework for an understanding of American civilization. Several different kinds of documents will be used to illustrate the nature and advantages of an interdisciplinary approach.

AMST 201 01 15398 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM BAXTER

AMST 201 02 16317 MW 11:30 AM 12:45 PM LOFTIN

AMST 201 03 16318 MW 1:00 PM 2:15 PM SNYDER

AMST 201 04 15399 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM WOO

AMST 201 05 16427 M 4:00 PM 6:45 PM SOUSA

AMST 201 06 16319 W 4:00 PM 6:45 PM SOUSA

AMST 201 07 16049 W 7:00 PM 9:45 PM SOUSA

AMST 201 08 15400 TTH 8:30 AM 9:45 AM BAXTER

AMST 201 09 15401 TTH 10:00 AM 11:15 AM PATTERSON


AMST 201 10 16428 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM BATTAN

AMST 201 11 16525 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM LOFTIN

AMST 201 12 16477 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM BAXTER

AMST 201 13 16526 TTH 2:30 PM 3:45 PM BAXTER

AMST 201 15 19852 F 10:00 AM 12:40 PM HAWKINS

AMST 201 16 17072 MWF 10:00 AM 10:50 AM LINKLETTER

AMST 3OO – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement D.5: Exploration in Social Sciences.

Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. A historical exploration of popular culture in America as it both reflects and contributes to the search for meaning in everyday life. Themes include heroes, myths of success, symbols of power, images of romance, consumerism, race, and sexual identity.

AMST 300 01 15402 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM HAWKINS

AMST 300 02 15403 MW 10:00 AM 11:15 AM LOFTIN

AMST 300 04 16527 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM GOLUB

AMST 300 07 15405 W 4:00 PM 6:45 PM EDMOUNDSON

AMST 300 08 15406 TTH 8:30 AM 9:45 AM EDMOUNDSON

AMST 300 09 16321 TTH 10:00 AM 11:15 AM ABNET

AMST 300 10 16528 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM LOFTIN

AMST 300 11 16429 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM HASKINS

AMST 300 12 16980 TTH 2:30 PM 3:45 PM FALERO

AMST 300 13 19853 T 4:00 PM 6:45 PM EDMOUNDSON

AMST 300 50 17117 WEB SUAREZ


AMST 300 52 17119 WEB JACKSON

AMST 300 53 17120 WEB JACKSON

AMST 300 54 17121 WEB FALERO

AMST 3O1 – AMERICAN CHARACTER [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirements D.5: Explorations in Social Sciences; and Z: Cultural Diversity.

Prerequisite: completion of the General Education Category D.1. Cultural environment and personality. The extent to which there have been and continue to be distinctly American patterns of belief and behavior. Similarities as well as class, ethnic, gender, and regional differences among Americans.

AMST 301 01 17223 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM LINKLETTER

AMST 301 02 15407 MW 10:00 AM 11:15 AM COVERT- ORTIZ

AMST 301 03 16431 MW 11:30 AM 12:45 PM COVERT- ORTIZ

AMST 301 04 15408 MW 1:00 PM 2:15 PM BARBIERI

AMST 301 05 16981 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM BARBIERI

AMST 301 06 16322 M 4:00 PM 6:45 PM RING

AMST 301 07 16432 W 7:00 PM 9:45 PM BIGGS

AMST 301 08 16612 TTH 8:30 AM 9:45 AM BARBIERI

AMST 301 09 16466 TTH 10:00 AM 11:15 AM HASKINS

AMST 301 10 16529 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM HASKINS

AMST 301 11 19854 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM ANDERSON

AMST 301 12 19855 TTH 2:30 PM 3:45 PM PEREZ

AMST 301 13 19856 T 4:00 PM 6:45 PM SEKHON

AMST 301 50 17114 WEB SEKHON

AMST 301 51 17115 WEB LINKLETTER



AMST 32O – WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirements D.5, Explorations in Social Sciences; E: Lifelong Learning and SelfDevelopment; and Z: Cultural Diversity.

Socio-cultural history of women and women’s movements in American society. Emphasis on 19th and 20th centuries. Cultural models of American womanhood - maternal, domestic, sexual, social - and their development and recent changes.


AMST 320 01 19865 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM AGNEW

AMST 320 02 19866 MW 10:00 AM 11:15 AM BARBIERI

AMST 320 05 16107 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM AGNEW

AMST 320 06 16433 M 4:00 PM 6:45 PM AGNEW

AMST 320 08 16472 TTH 8:30 AM 9:45 AM PEREZ

AMST 320 10 16750 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM PEREZ

AMST 320 11 16706 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM PEREZ

AMST 324 – AMERICAN IMMIGRANT CULTURES [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement C.3, Explorations of Arts and Humanities

Prerequisites: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Investigates American immigrant communities, both historical and contemporary, to better understand how their experiences helped shape the meaning of being American. Explores immigrant cultures through literature, music, film, oral history and photographs using interdisciplinary methods.

AMST 324 01 19861 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM BARBIERI

AMST 324 02 19862 W 4:00 PM 6:45 PM JACKON

AMST 345 – THE AMERICAN DREAM [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement C.3, Exploration in Arts and Humanities

Interdisciplinary analysis, in settings both historical and contemporary, of the myth and reality surrounding the notion of America as a land of unparalleled and unlimited possibilities, especially in the achievement of personal material success.

AMST 345 01 19863 MW 11:30 AM 12:45 PM LINKLETTER

AMST 345 02 19864 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM LEWINNEK

AMST 35O – SEMINAR IN THEORY & METHODS OF AMERICAN STUDIES [3 units]

Prerequisites: AMST 201 and 301. Provides an understanding and appreciation of methodology, theories of society, and images of humanity as they affect American Studies contributions to scholarship. Fulfills the course requirement of the university upper-division writing requirement for American Studies majors.


AMST 350 01 15409 TTH 1:00 PM 2:15 PM ABNET

AMST 395 – CALIFORNIA CULTURE S [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirements D.5 : Explorations in Social Sciences; and Z: Cultural Diversity.

Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. How various cultures-- Native American, European, Latino, Asian, and African-American -- have interacted in California’s past and present. Topics include: cultural diversity in frontiers and borderlands; shifting meanings of gender; function of regional and racial myths.

AMST 395 02 16530 MW 8:30 AM 9:45 AM COVERT-

ORTIZ AMST 395 03 19867 MW 2:30 PM 3:45 PM HAWKINS

AMST 395 06 16982 TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM HORWITZ

AMST 395 08 17224 TH 4:00 PM 6:45 PM SEKHON

AMST 401T – AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE [3 units]

Prerequisites: AMST 201 and 301, or consent of instructor. Contemporary American literature as a cultural document. The relationship between American culture and its recent fiction, focusing on several important novels and plays published since the end of the Second World War.

AMST 401T 01 15410 M 7:00 PM 9:45 PM GOLUB

AMST 401T – READING THE CITY [3 units] Prerequisites: AMST 201 and 301, or consent of instructor. Cultural life of a major American city as seen through its historical memory and self-image, its diverse racial, ethnic, and class life, and its artistic and expressive culture (literature, film, architecture, music, cuisine.)

AMST 401T 02 16983 T 4:00 PM 6:45 PM LEWINNEK

AMST 409 – CONSUMER CULTURE [3 units]

Prerequisites: Completion of G.E. Category D.3. The effect of economic, social, political, and cultural changes on American males. Emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

AMST 409 01 19876 TH 7:00 PM 9:45 PM ABNET


AMST 423 – SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY [3 units]

Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. Examining the historical transformation and modern reformation of community in America, the course emphasizes the relationship of the individual to the larger social group. Topics include: freedom, need to belong, alienation, and search for identity.

AMST 423 01 19869 MW 1:00 PM 2:15PM LANE

AMST 425 – AMERICANS AT WORK [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement D.3. American History, Institutions and Values

Explores a range of occupations, from factory worker to investment banker, nanny to drug dealer, mortician to exotic dancer. Considers the meaning work holds for those who perform it and the structures, cultures, and histories of particular occupations.

AMST 425 01 MW 11:30 AM 12:45 PM LANE

AMST 438 – AMERICAN MINDS: IMAGES OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH [3 units]

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. Historically explores cultural changes in American images of the healthy mind. Topics include medical and legal views of insanity, Freud’s impact on American thought, literary treatments of madness, and psychological themes in American popular culture.

AMST 438 01 19870 W 7:00 PM 3:45 PM ZENDERLAND

AMST 442 – TELEVISION AND AMERICAN CULTURE [3 units]

Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3. American television as an interactive form of cultural expression, both product and producer of cultural knowledge. Structure and content of television genres, social-historical context of television development and use, audience response, habits and environments of viewing.

AMST 442 01 16925 TH 4:00 PM 6:45 PM FALERO

AMST 451 – FASHION IN AMERICAN CULTURE [3 units]

Prerequisite: completion of G.E. category D.3. Cultural politics of fashion in America. Uses interdisciplinary sources, including material culture, visual arts, legal codes, protests, advertising, and popular culture to study the diverse meanings of fashion in the past and present U.S.


AMST 451 01 19872 M 4:00 PM 6:45 PM SNYDER

AMST 488 – RACE, SEX, AND AMERICAN URBAN CULTURE [3 units]

Prerequisites: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Focusing on major urban spaces at key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course will examine the ways that anxieties about race, gender, youth and sexuality have come to be identified with urban spaces and modern city life.

AMST 488 01 19873 W 4:00 PM 6:45 PM WOO

AMST 495 – INTERNSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES [1-3 units]

Learning experience for undergraduate majors or minors at any public or private institute to which an American Studies major is related

AMST 495 01 19874 TBA LANE

AMST 495 02 19875 TBA SNYDER

AMST 499 – INDEPENDENT STUDY [1-3 units]

Supervised research projects in American Studies to be taken with the consent of the instructor and department chair. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.

Contact any American Studies advisor for more information.

AMST 5O2T – GRADUATE SEMINAR: CULTURE AND DESIRE [3 units]

Theoretical Approaches to the History of the Emotions: Advanced analysis of enduring patterns and innovative shifts in the ways Americans have defined, controlled, and expressed emotions such as anger, lust, shame, pride, fear, jealously, grief, and joy from the 17th century to the present.

AMST 502T 01 16985 T 7:00 PM 9:45 PM BATTAN

END of COURSE OFFERINGS – SPRING 2017


| COURSE OFFERINGS – INTERSESSION 2017|

AMST 1O1 – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirement D.1: Introduction to the Social Sciences.

The concepts of interdisciplinary culture studies, focusing on analysis of cultural change in complex, literate society; American culture, including cross-cultural comparisons. Topics include popular culture, subcultures, regionalism, myths and symbols, and culture and personality.

AMST 101 50 10159 A WEB LEWINNEK

AMST 3OO – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE [3 units]

Meets G. E. Requirement D.5: Exploration in the Social Sciences

Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. A historical exploration of popular culture in America as it both reflects and contributes to the search for meaning in everyday life. Themes include heroes, myths of success, symbols of power, images of romance, consumerism, race and sexual identity.

AMST 300 50 10141 B WEB GOLUB

AMST 3O1 – AMERICAN CHARACTER [3 units]

Meets G.E. Requirements D.5: Explorations in the Social Sciences; and Z: Cultural Diversity

Prerequisite: completion of the General Education Category D.1. Cultural environment and personality. The extent to which there have been and continue to be distinctly American patterns of belief and behavior. Similarities as well as class, ethnic, gender, and regional differences among Americans.

AMST 301 50 10136 A WEB LANE


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