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Fall 2005 Courses
American StudiesGRS AM 736 Literature of American Studies Required course for all first year Ph.D. students. Stamped approval required for graduate students outside of AMNESP. Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture. Halter T 12:30-3:30 GRS AM 767 American Material Culture 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 in all times and places. Sewell F 1:00-4:00
African American StudiesCAS AA 504 African American and Asian American Women Writers Cross-cultural comparison of African American and Asian American women writers. Explores and evaluates the cultural impact of their work and looks at how these two groups bound together by "otherness" pursue the theme of conflicting cultures. Kim T 11:00-2:00 CAS AA 505 Black Community and Social Change Forces within the larger society that enhance and/or inhibit development of the black community. Assesses potential of the black community to initiate and implement changes affecting its own development locally and nationally. Teele W 9:00-12:00 CAS AA 507 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural prid and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Kim R 11:00-2:00 CAS AA 514 Comparative Slavery The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Thornton W 12:00-3:00 CAS AA 580 The History of Racial Thought Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Blakely M 12:30-3:30 GRS AA 871 African American History The history of African Americans from African origins to the present; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as GRS HI 871. Heywood MWF 10:00-11:00
ArchaeologyCAS AR 572 Studies in Industrial Archaeology Grad Prereq: CAS AR 101 & CAS AR 102 or consent of instructor. The study of the remains of our industrial heritage including above-ground excavations. Topics include mills, dams, canals, bridges, and other material remains of America's industrial development. Field trips to New England industrial sites. Beaudry TR 3:30-5:00 GRS AR 701 The Intellectual History of Archaeology Grad Prereq: graduate standing. The historical development of archaeological methods and theory from the Renaissance to the present day, including comparison of major developments in Western Europe and the Americas with developments in other regions. Basic concepts in archaeological record and society. Runnells W 9:00-12:00 GRS AR 780 Archaeological Ethics and Law In this course students examine archaeology and professional ethics; archaeology as a public interest; legal organization of archaeology; international approaches to heritage management; looting, collecting, and the antiquities market; maritime law and underwater archaeology; cultural resource management in the United States. Elia TR 2:00-3:30
Art HistoryCAS AH 520 The Museum and Historical Agency Grad Prereq: consent of the instructor and stamped approval. The history, present realities, and future possibilities of museums and historical agencies. Emphasis on the collection, preservation, and use of objects, as well as on the interaction of artists, dealers, collectors, donors, scholars, trustees, and museum professionals. Hall R 2:00-5:00 CAS AH 584 Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning Examines the buildings, development patterns, and open space planning of greater Boston, with particular emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Vernacular architecture and the growth of neighborhoods are addressed. Morgan T 2:00-5:00
Communications: Film and TelevisionCOM FT 560 The Documentary Surveys the history of the documentary and the changes brought about by the advent of television. Examines the outlook for the documentary idea in national and international markets. Periodic highlighting of special areas such as the portrayal of war, historical events, drama-documentary, and propaganda. Students develop critical and professional skills. Lectures, screenings, discussions. Murray-Brown TR 2:00-3:30, W 4:00-6:00
EnglishCAS EN 533 American Literature: Beginnings to 1855 American literature from the beginning to the brink of the Civil War. Puritan origins, print culture, American poetic taste, entertainment, and the debate over slavery. Works by Bradstreet, Jefferson, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Jacobs, and Melville. Lukasik TR 12:30-2:00 CAS EN 545 The Nineteenth-Century American Novel From beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works by Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and others. Van Anglen MWF 3:00-4:00 CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Mizruchi TR 9:30-11:00; Van Anglen MWF 3:00-4:00 CAS EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction An examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WWII. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison; topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, "world-making," and the fate of character. Chodat TR 11:00-12:30 CAS EN 579 American Renaissance Poetry The poetic practices and programs of Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson examined in relation to their modes of publication and to the verse of their popular contemporaries. Lee MWF 2:00-3:00 CAS EN 580 Studies in American Writers Topic for Fall 2005: Faulkner. Principal novels and short fiction, including The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet. Considerations of biographical, social, cultural contexts. Relations to regionalism, Southern Renaissance, modernism. Influence and status as world writer. Matthews MWF 11:00-12:00 CAS EN 584 Literature of the Migrant Primary focus on the experiences of immigration and exile, with reading also of fiction on other kinds of human migration. Works by Willa Cather, O.E. Rolvaag, Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul, Shusaku Endo, and contemporary authors. HaJin W 12:00-3:00 CAS EN 598 Contemporary American Poetry What do the poems of our time look like? What new themes and techniques have emerged, and from what older forms and genres have been renewed? We will consider the state of contemporary lyric, with close study of selected poets. Costello M,W,F 12:00-1:00 GRS EN 604 Literary Criticism I A survey of the most representative and influential trends in western literary criticism – from its classical foundations to the late 19 th century – with special attention to the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped these responses. Martin T, R 3:30-5:00 GRS EN 674 Genre Film/Genre Theory Cultural analysis of four Hollywood film genres, selected from the following: film noir, the western, musicals, gangster films, the horror film, pornography, road movies, buddy pictures. Readings in literature and genre theory. Weekly screenings. Monk M,W 2:00-4:00 GRS EN 696 Poetries and Theories Modern poets' and critics' prose about poetry, with selected poems. Emphasis on esoteric, revolutionary, kabbalah-like positions in dialogue with rationalist, public ones. Oulipo, New York School, Black Mountain Language poets, Pound, Auden, Bloom, Winters, Paredes, others. Fogel M,W,F 10:00-11:00 GRS EN 698 Contemporary Fiction and Moral Philosophy An examination of the place of narrative and character in recent fiction and theory. Contemporary moral philosophers (e.g., MacIntyre, Nussbaum, Taylor) are put in conversation with novelists such as Bellow, Murdoch, Pynchon, and Morrison. Chodat T,R 2-3:30 GRS EN 729 Pre-detection: Crime Narratives, 1760-1845 English, American, and French crime literature leading up to the emergence of the modern detective story, 1760-1845. Attention to models of narrative reconstruction and notions of evidence, induction, and investigation in emergent historical and criminological sciences. Rzepka M 3:00-5:30 GRS EN 733 Hawthorne and James The seminar will study Hawthorne and James with special attention to the ways in which genre and cultural history intersect: we will be concerned with the shaping power of literary conventions (those of the romance, the courtship novel, the gothic, and the literary portrait) and of political, social, and intellectual events (the turmoil over American slavery, the growth of the post war world of commerce, and changes in gender and sexuality). Otten M 12:00-2:30 GRS EN 784 Aspects of Poetry and Religion: Analysis of Selected TextsClose reading of poems primarily by British and American poets from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Students are required to undertake further reading in the selected authors and their historical contexts. Also offered as UNI HU 658. Hill W 3-6 GRS EN 791 Law and American Narrative This course will examine the intersections of law and narrative in American literature and culture. Our texts will include judicial opinions, novels, law review articles, trial studies, historical materials, literary criticism. We begin with a series of readings on the ways that law (the rule of law, constitutions and statutes, appeals court decisions, courtroom trials) operates through language and narrative. Because law is created and decreed through discursive texts written by empowered decision makers, it can be usefully understood through rhetorical, narrative, deconstructive and other lenses originally developed in relation to literary texts. We then turn to a series of paired readings examining specific issues in both legal and literary contexts. These will include: the problems of judicial decision making, conflicts between law and morality ( Billy Budd , essays by Robert Cover and Martha Nussbaum, materials on the Amistad case); outsiders and the law ( Native Son, essays on race, gender, and voice in law by Richard Delgado, Derrick Bell, Mari Matsuda, others); the juror as reader/ the reader as juror ( Lolita, articles by Alan M. Dershowitz, Peter Brooks, others, on storytelling in the courtroom, case studies); marriage and divorce ( The Age of Innocence , divorce and criminal conversation cases); personal narrative, testimony and subjectivity ( Wieland , essays by Patricia Williams, Marie Ashe). Among many other questions, we will ask how narrative and storytelling function within the law, why trials and law are so central to American literature, how the language of the law privileges, suppresses, or excludes certain speakers, how the juridical frame of testimony, evidence, and judgment are key to the genre of fiction. We will end with a study of Harriet Beecher Stowe's underread novel, Dred, which folds into its fictional frame the entire text of key proslavery legal decisions and ordinances. Korobkin R 2-4:30 GRS EN 792 Introduction to Recent Critical Theory and Method A selective study of recent literary theory and criticism, with emphasis on comparison of critical frameworks and methodologies. Fulfills the graduate requirement in literary theory. Wagenknecht T 3:30-6
HistoryGRS HI 856 The American Revolution, 1750-1800 The political, economic, and ideological causes of the American War for Independence; the construction of a new political system amid the passions of a revolutionary upheaval; and the gradual emergence of a new economic and cultural order in the United States. McConville TR 12:30-2:00 GRS HI 861 The Civil War Era Examines the Civil War experience in a broad social and cultural context, looking at Northern and Southern society in antebellum, war-time, and post-war years. Emphasizes issues of slavery, race, and emancipation, as well as political crises of the era. Silber MWF 10:00-11:00 GRS HI 866 History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898 Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems: emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems. Mayers MWF 12:00-1:00 GRS HI 872 The Twentieth-Century American Presidency Focuses on the alterations in the institution of the presidency during the twentieth century. Consideration of Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan.Zelizer TR 11:00-12:30 GRS HI 873 Intellectual History of the United States, 1776 to 1900 Grad Prereq: graduate standing. Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history from the Revolution to 1900. Topics include Revolutionary republicanism, evangelical theology and democratic theory, Transcendentalism and Romantic culture, antislavery and nationality, Victorian realism, liberal Protestantism and Darwinism, and evolutionary social science. Capper MWF 10:00-11:00 GRS HI 877 Economic History of the United States Analysis of American economic development; role of factory and frontier; changes in economic structure and institutions; parts played by government and business enterprise in development. Influence of economic conditions and occupation groupings on political alignments and on public policy. Ferleger TR 2:00-3:30
Metropolitan CollegeMET AD 600 Tourism: Development and Management Provides a market oriented, strategic planning framework to address a broad range of tourism and regional economic and development issues that relate to tourism industry development and growth. The interplay of private, public and government organizations is discuss as they relate to the development of a comprehensive tourism plan. The combination of theory and practice will prepare students to analyze tourism markets, assess area, regional and national weakness and strengths as well as the security, infrastructure/logistics, marketing and costs associated tourism. Topics include: importance of tourism to the economy, developing the ourism strategy, ecotourism, research and analysis, positioning and marketing, funding tourism and developing new attractions. Cahaley T 6:00-9:00 MET UA 515 Urban Planning History, concepts, and methods of contemporary urban and regional planning practice. Governmental, nonprofit, and private settings of professional planning; plans, research, and policy development; uses and implementation of planning. Political analysis of planning issues, such as comprehensiveness, public interest, advocacy, negotiation, and future orientation. Case materials drawn from redevelopment, growth management, land use conflicts, and service delivery. Staff M 6:00-9:00 MET UA 611 Community Development Examination of community development challenges in several areas, including housing, economic development, community policing, and resident activism. Analysis of past and present strategies for strengthening communities through case studies, actual government and community programs, guest lectures, and related readings. McCluskey W 6:00-9:00
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