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Graduate students may not take courses below the 500 level
for credit.
Required Courses for Ph.D. Students
GRS AM 735 Studies in American Culture, Sewell.
Prereq: AM 736 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the handling
of primary materials from a number of disciplines in order to develop
an American Studies perspective. Spring.
GRS AM 736 Literature of American
Studies, Schulman. Stamped approval required for graduate
students outside of AMNESP. Introduction to classic problems in
the interpretation of American society and culture. Fall.
American Studies
Electives
CAS AM 501 Topics in American Studies:
Four American Masters of the Short Story, Carney.
An in–depth analysis of four masters of the short
story form representing four different periods in American art and
culture: Nathaniel Hawthorne (stories from 1830–1850); Henry
James (stories from 1890–1910); Eudora Welty (stories from
1930–1950); and Joyce Carol Oates (stories from 1980 to the
present). What can these artists tell us about our culture and ourselves?
Spring.
CAS AM 502 Topics in American Studies: Popular Culture,
TBA. Stamped approval required. This course introduces the major
approaches contemporary scholars use to study and analyze popular
culture and surveys some of the major substantive issues in the
field today. Required texts include both academic and journalistic
studies of expressions of popular culture, but students will also
be expected to do in-depth analyses of their own through assignments
based on popular culture artifacts of their own choosing. The subject
matter of this course will range from 19th century popular novels
to hip hop music, with special emphasis on music and performance.
One major goal is to examine not only the producers and texts of
popular culture, but its audiences as well. The main objective is
to develop a new vocabulary for studying popular culture which draws
from, but is not limited by, language borrowed from other academic
disciplines. Spring.
CAS AM 524 New England Cultural Landscapes,
Dempsey. This course examines the historic forces that have shaped
our distinctive regional landscape and catalogues the changing forms
that make up that landscape. Beginning in the early colonial period,
the course moves chronologically to consider how human activity
affects the natural as well as the cultural environment and how
each new development interacts with the existing landscape, preserving
some features while altering and destroying others. Within each
historic period, the course considers landscapes large and small
and associated with home, work, and public life. Readings will be
selected from the fields of social and cultural history, cultural
geography, and architectural history, giving students an opportunity
for interdisciplinary reading, discussion, and research. TBA.
AM 765 Readings in American Vernacular Architecture,
Dempsey. This seminar provides an opportunity to examine influential
interpretive frameworks employed in the study of American buildings
and the historic landscape, examples of the approach known as vernacular
architecture. This approach emphasizes social and cultural forces
in the production, use, and understanding of the built environment
and examines innovative and interdisciplinary studies that have
resulted in a reinterpretation of the forms and meanings of the
American landscape. Each semester the course focuses on recent scholarship
to examine how a number of authors have contributed to changing
definitions, methods, and theories. TBA.
GRS AM 767 American Material Culture, Sewell.
This course introduces the theory and practice of the study of material
culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life. Material
culture includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing
to art and buildings. We will read a wide range of contemporary
scholarship on material culture from a range of disciplines, including
anthropology, history, sociology, art and architectural history,
and cultural studies. The course focuses particularly on American
material culture and on material culture in the context of mass
consumption but places it in a larger context of international studies
in material culture and material culture in all times and places.
Fall.
Courses Offered by Affiliated Departments
at Boston University
For more information, consult the department's website.
African American Studies
CAS AA 502 Topics in African
American Literature, Kim.
CAS AA 505 Black
Community and Social Change, Teele.
CAS AA 506 Images
of Blacks and Asians in American Culture, Kim.
CAS AA 507 Literature
of the Harlem Renaissance, Kim.
CAS AA 514 Comparative
Slavery in America,TBA.
CAS AA 571 African
American Art, Hills.
CAS AA 586 African
Americans Abroad, Blakely.
CAS AA 590 The World and the West,
Richardson.
Archaeology
GRS AR 775 Oral History and Written
Records in Archaeology, Beaudry.
GRS AR 770 New
World Historical Archaeology: Colonial America,
Beaudry.
GRS AR 780 Archaeological
Ethics and Law, Elia.
GRS AR 810 International
Heritage Management, Mughal.
GRS AR 883 Archaeological and Ethnographic
Materials: Analysis and Preservation, Hansen.
Art History
CAS AH 520 The
Museum and the Historical Agency, Hall.
CAS AH 521 Curatorship:
Exhibition Development, McCarroll.
CAS AH 570 Early
American Architecture, Dempsey.
CAS AH 571 African
American Art, Hills.
CAS AH 584 Greater
Boston: Architecture and Planning, Morgan.
GRS AH 779 Visual
Culture 19th Century U.S., Hills.
GRS AH 804 Seminar
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, TBA.
GRS AH 888 Seminar:
20th Century American Painting, Stebbins.
GRS AH 895 Seminar: 20th Century
Art, Sichel.
Communications: Film and Television
COM FT 533 American Independent
Film, Carney.
COM FT 536 Film Theory
and Criticism, Grundmann.
COM FT 554 Hitchcock,
Kelly.
COM FT 554 Special
Topics, TBA.
COM FT 560 The
Documentary, Murray-Brown.
COM FT 712 Television,
Culture, and Society, Murray-Brown.
COM FT 721 International Masterworks,
Carney.
English
CAS EN 533 American Literature
until 1855, Lukasik.
CAS EN 534 American
Literature: 1855 to 1918, Mizruchi.
CAS EN 536 Twentieth-Century
American Poetry, Fogel.
CAS EN 545 19th Century
American Novel, Korobkin & VanAnglen.
CAS EN 546 Modern
American Novel From 1900 to 1950, Matthews & Mizruchi.
CAS EN 547 Contemporary
American Fiction, Mizruchi.
CAS EN 575 American
Renaissance Poetry, TBA.
CAS EN 576 American
Frontiers, Patterson.
CAS EN 579 The South
in History and Literature, Matthews & Silber. (Meets
with CAS HI 660.)
CAS EN 580 Word
and Image, Lukasik.
CAS EN 583 Melville,
Korobkin.
CAS EN 584 American
Drama, Smith.
CAS EN 589 Nineteenth-Century
Transatlantic Fiction, Korobkin.
CAS EN 591 Poets
and Their Letters, Costello.
CAS EN 596 Gender
in American Culture, Mizruchi.
GRS EN 733 American
Postmodernism, Smith.
GRS EN 736 Observation
in Modern Lyric, Costello.
GRS EN 788 Transculturation
in American Literature, Patterson.
GRS EN 834 19th Century American
Poetry, Richards.
History
CAS HI 586 African Americans
Abroad, Blakely.
CAS HI 590 The World
and the West, Richardson.
CAS HI 660 The South
in History and Literature, Silber & Matthews.
(Meets with CAS EN 579.)
GRS HI 763 American
Intellectual History, Capper.
GRS HI 854 Religious
Thought in America, Roberts.
GRS HI 856 American
Revolution 1750-1800, TBA.
GRS HI 861 Civil
War Era, Silber.
GRS HI 862 Gilded
Age, Ferleger.
GRS HI 864 United
States from 1945-1968, Schulman.
GRS HI 865 United
States since 1968, Schulman.
GRS HI 866 American
Foreign Relations since 1898, Mayers.
GRS HI 869 Science
and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500,
Roberts.
GRS HI 871 African
American History, Heywood.
GRS HI 873 American
Thought I 1630-1865, Capper.
GRS HI 874 History
of American Thought, 1865 to the Present, Capper.
GRS HI 877 Economic History of the
United States, Ferleger.
Political Science
CAS PO 514 The Judiciary and
Civil Liberties, Silverstein.
CAS PO 519 The Political
History of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ebeid.
GRS PO 789 The United States and
the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Berger.
(Meets with GRS IR 788.)
Religion
GRS RN 613 Hinduism in America,
Prothero.
GRS RN 727 Topics
in American Religion, Prothero.
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