Fall 2015 Graduate Courses

CAS AM 501 Special Topics in American Studies

4 credits. either sem.

Topic for Fall 2015: The American South in History, Literature, and Film. Explores the American South through literature, film, and other sources. Considers what, if anything, has been distinctive about the Southern experience and how a variety of Americans have imagined the region over time. Also offered as CAS HI 462.

Section A1, FALL 2015Topics-Am Stud Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Silber	Independent	T	02:00:00 PM–05:00:00 PM	HIS 110

CAS AM 555 Boston Architectural and Community History Workshop

4 credits.

This course focuses on class readings, lectures, and research on a single neighborhood or community in Boston (or Greater Boston). Greatest emphasis is on using primary sources-- land titles and deeds, building permits, fire insurance atlases and other maps. There are both group and individual research projects.

Section A1, FALL 2015Bost Arch Wkshp Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Bluestone	Independent	T	02:00:00 PM–05:00:00 PM	HIS B06

GRS AM 736 The Literature of American Studies

4 credits. 1st sem. consent of instructor.

Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture. Required of all American Studies PhD students.

Section A1, FALL 2015Lit Amer Stdies Sep 2nd to Dec 9th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Schulman	Independent	W	02:00:00 PM–05:00:00 PM	HIS 110

GRS AM 867 Material Culture

4 credits.

Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Explore contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AH 867.

Section A1, FALL 2015Material Cultur Sep 14th to Dec 7th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Moore	Independent	M	01:00:00 PM–04:00:00 PM	HIS 110

CAS AA 507 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

4 credits.

This study of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-1935) focuses on literature with overviews of the stage, the music, and the visual arts. Authors include Du Bois, Locke, Garvey, Schuyler, Hurston, McKay, Larsen, Fisher, Hughes, Cullen. Also offered as CAS EN 377.

Section A1, FALL 2015Lit:Harlem Rena Sep 14th to Dec 7th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Boelcskevy	Independent	M	11:00:00 AM–02:00:00 PM	AAS 101

CAS AA 514 Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World

4 credits. junior standing.

The role of slavery in shaping the society and culture of the Afro-Atlantic world, highlighting the role of labor, the sexual economy of slave regimes, and the various strategies of resistance deployed by enslaved people. Also offered as CAS HI 584.

Section A1, FALL 2015Labor Afro Atl Sep 2nd to Dec 9th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Thornton	Independent	W	02:00:00 PM–05:00:00 PM	AAS 101

CAS AH 584 Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning

4 credits. either sem.

Examines the buildings, development patterns, and open space planning of greater Boston, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Weekly visits to neighborhoods and buildings throughout the city are combined with independent research projects for each member of the seminar.

Section A1, FALL 2015Boston Architec Sep 2nd to Dec 9th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Morgan	Independent	W	02:00:00 PM–05:00:00 PM	CAS 303A

GRS AH 716 African Diaspora Arts in the Americas

4 credits. graduate standing.

Study of the transmission of African artistry in the Caribbean, South America, and the United States from the period of slavery to the present. Topics include Kongo and Yoruba arts and their influence on the arts of Santeria, Vodun, and carnival. Also offered as GRS AA 716.

Section A1, FALL 2015Afr Diasp Arts Sep 2nd to Dec 9th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Becker	Independent	MWF	01:00:00 PM–02:00:00 PM	CAS 229
Becker		W	10:00:00 AM–12:00:00 PM	CAS 303A

GRS AH 867 Material Culture

4 credits.

Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Explores contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AM 867.

Section A1, FALL 2015Material Cultur Sep 14th to Dec 7th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Moore	Independent	M	01:00:00 PM–04:00:00 PM	HIS 110

GRS EN 786 Caribbean Provocations

4 credits.

Significant texts from the Anglophone Caribbean from 1912 to the present, challenging to read and to theorize. Locally inspired innovations in form, language, and perspective across genres. Likely authors: Naipaul, Harris, Kincaid, Walcott, Antoni, McKay, Goodison, Morris, Roach, Brathwaite, Johnson.

Section A1, FALL 2015Caribbean Sep 2nd to Dec 9th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Breiner	Independent	W	12:00:00 PM–02:30:00 PM	EGL 331

COM FT 722 American Masterworks

4 credits. either sem.

Subjects vary with instructor. Directors include: D.W.Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, King Vidor, Frank Borzage, Victor Fleming, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, John Huston, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, and Woody Allen.

Section A1, FALL 2015American Mstwks Sep 3rd to Dec 10th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Grundmann	Independent	TR	09:30:00 AM–12:30:00 PM	COM B05

COM FT 723 Amrcan Indepndt

4 credits. either sem.

Section A1, FALL 2015Amrcan Indepndt Sep 4th to Dec 4th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Carney	Independent	F	02:00:00 PM–06:00:00 PM	COM B05

CAS HI 560 The American Transcendentalists

4 credits.

Led by Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and others, the Transcendentalists constituted the first "counter-cultural" movement in American history. Seminar focuses on how and why they did so within the philosophical, religious, literary, antislavery, communitarian, and ecological currents they inhabited.

Section A1, FALL 2015Transcendntlsts Sep 3rd to Dec 10th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Capper	Independent	R	12:00:00 PM–03:00:00 PM	HIS 304

GRS HI 857 Topics in American Cultural History

4 credits.

Readings seminar focusing on American culture, broadly defined, in various periods of American history. Readings consist of both primary documents and secondary sources relevant to the specific topic. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 757.

Section A1, FALL 2015Amer Cult Hist Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Blower	Independent	T	12:30:00 PM–03:30:00 PM	HIS 504

GRS SO 803 Seminar: Gender Stratification

4 credits. either sem.

This course will allow students to further their understanding of the persistence of inequality between women and men in the workforce. What has changed and what has remained the same? We will examine the nature and causes of inequality in post/industrial societies, especially in the United sttes. Students will have the opportunity to engage in independent scholarship in the seminar, exploring their own questions about gender and work in greater depth.

Section A1, FALL 2015S: Gender Strat Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Connell	Independent	T	09:30:00 AM–12:30:00 PM	SOC 241

GRS SO 808 Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations

4 credits. either sem.

Formation and position of ethnic minorities in the United States, including cross-group comparisons from England, Africa, and other parts of the world. Readings and field experience.

Section A1, FALL 2015S:Minorty Grps Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Instructor	Type	Days	Times	Location
Grundy	Independent	T	12:30:00 PM–03:30:00 PM	SOC 241

American Studies Courses

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