Dates: 09/06 - 12/22
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12:15 pm 1:20 pm JRC 222		12:15 pm 1:20 pm JRC 222		12:15 pm 1:20 pm JRC 222

Subject: Amer Culture & Difference (AMCD)

CRN: 40244

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 222

Old Core Requirements Met:
     UG Core Human Diversity

2020 Core Requirements Met:
     Diversity/Soc Just AND Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
     FYE Changemaking
     FYE Cultural, Social Transf
     Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
     FYE Soci Just&Cultural Transf
     FYE Social Justice
     Writing to learn

(2020 Core Planning Guide)

  David Lawrence

AMCD 200, American Culture:Power/Identity: (This course was originally titled ACST 200: Introduction to American Culture and Difference; the name change has been submitted as an information item to the UCC). In AMCD 200, students learn about the historical and theoretical foundations of Cultural Studies as an academic discipline and use cultural theory to analyze a variety of cultural products and representations. In this course, students look specifically at dominant and subversive constructions of gender, race, ethnicity, national and sexual identities, and how these constructions are deployed through cultural practices and productions such as sports, film and television, folklore and popular culture, youth subcultures, music, and so on. For example, the course may contain units on "nation" and the creation of American mythologies; the process of hero-making in American history; stereotypes and the representation of race and ethnicity in television and film; representations of gender and sexuality in advertising; as well as a section on American music from jazz, blues, folk and roots music, to rock and roll, punk, and hip-hop.

4 Credits