01:050:101Introduction to American Studies (3) Introduces the American studies method through the use of primary documents including novels, autobiographies, paintings, photographs, and films. Note: Students who wish to major in American studies must complete this course with a grade of C�or better.

01:050:202American Regionalism (3) Multidisciplinary study of the regions of the United States, with focus on their literature, folklore, music, and other arts.

01:050:216America in the Arts (3) What is "American" about American art and design; examination of the architecture as well as fine, folk, and industrial arts and artifacts of the United States. Normally a craft project required of students.

01:050:228The Contemporary American (3) The emerging American of our times. Forces shaping American culture as revealed in literature, the media, social criticism, and psychology.

01:050:240Latino/Latina American Cultures (3) Introductory survey of recent texts and films by and about Latinas/os in the United States. Discussion of exile, integration, and assimilation; political presence and nationalism; and examination of literary modes and genres (autobiography, poetry, novel, film, music). Special attention to the migration experiences of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican communities.

01:050:259Popular Culture (3) How popular culture shapes and reflects society in advertising, music, popular entertainments, fads, fashion, radio, television, sports, and games.

01:050:261The American Best Seller (3) Representative best-selling novels of recent decades and what they and their popularity indicate about American values and assumptions.

01:050:262American Film and American Myth (3) American film and its relationship to American myths, society, and culture. Representative classic films screened.

01:050:263American Folklore (3) Traditional verbal and material lore. American folk narratives, myths, legends, tales, ballads, and songs. How folklore functions in American society and institutions. One field trip: $10.

01:050:264American Folklife (3) Examination of the lifestyles of American folk groups with emphasis on artifacts: folk architecture, handicrafts, art, costume, and foods. One field trip: $10.

01:050:281,282,283,284Topics in American Studies (1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5) Half-term minicourses given each year on topics of contemporary interest that lend themselves to interdisciplinary treatment. Lec. 3 hrs. May be repeated for credit when topic differs.

01:050:291Jerseyana: New Jersey as a Culture (3) Interdisciplinary, regional approach to New Jersey, examining its landscape, the peculiarities of its history, its folklore and myths, arts and architecture, music, and literature. One field trip: $10.

01:050:300,301Topics in American Studies (3,3) Topics of contemporary interest that lend themselves to interdisciplinary treatment. May be repeated for credit when topic differs.

01:050:303A Decade in American Culture (3) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding a particular decade in American culture, employing the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Decade studied depends on the instructor. Open only to American studies majors. To be completed prior to enrollment in 01:050:389. Prerequisite: 01:050:101 in which student has received a grade of C�or better.

01:050:304The American City (3) Interdisciplinary approach to the origin, development, and problems of the American city. One field trip: $10.

01:050:305Images of Vietnam (3) Examination of the various ways that the Vietnam war has been represented in American popular culture. Material includes films, novels, memoirs, reportage, and histories.

01:050:306American Detective Fiction and Film (3) Examination of the distinctively American literary genre of the hard-boiled detective novel and the many films that this genre has inspired, including a look at film noir.

01:050:307The Culture of the 1960s (3) Examination of the culture of the 1960s, with emphasis on the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and student radicalism, Woodstock, women's liberation, and the sexual revolution, using social history, literature, music, and film.

01:050:308The Culture of Metropolis (3) Examination of the urban culture of New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the impact of race, class, gender, and ethnicity on developing subcultures.

01:050:309Nineteenth-Century Architecture in the United States (3) Overview of the social and intellectual history of architecture in the United States to 1900. Role of architecture in societal transformations (the development of nationhood, industrialization, and urbanization). Emphasis on the invention of new building types, including universities, government buildings, prisons, hospitals, railroad stations, and the architecture of World's Fairs. Prerequisite: 01:082:105,106 or permission of instructor.

01:050:312Sports in American Culture (3) Examines the place of sports in American life and how sports may be thought of as "the American religion," as a metaphor for American ideals and values. Figures from the world of sports-players and coaches-will be regular guest speakers.

01:050:314Technology and Culture in America (3) Cultural responses to the growth and elaboration of American technology as reflected in literature, art, and popular culture.

01:050:315Documentary Expression in America (3) Relationship between the social and aesthetic functions of documentary in film, photography, journalism, biography, and the nonfiction novel.

01:050:324Wayward Americans (3) Cultural approach to the means by which socially dominant groups in American society have sought to control deviant behavior. Examination of social theory, social history, literature, and film.

01:050:325Women on the Fringe: Perceptions of Women as Social and Sex-Role Deviants in American Civilization (3) Societal reaction to female behavior deviating from social and feminine norms. Use of historical narratives, literature, and film to treat such themes as heresy, madness, prostitution, adultery, criminality, political protest, and lesbianism.

01:050:326The Culture of American Women (3) Construction of feminine culture as distinct from the dominant patriarchal culture, examining social history, religion, psychology, sociology, oral history, literature, and film.

01:050:329The United States as Seen from Abroad (3) United States as perceived by foreign commentators, such as Dickens, Trollope, and Waugh, and American expatriate intellectuals and artists, such as James, Hemingway, and Baldwin.

01:050:330American Cults and Communes (3) Examination of historic and fictional communal and religious experiments, illuminating their surprising similarities and what they tell us about American society and culture. From the Shakers and the Oneida community through Jonestown and the Hare Krishnas. Texts include novels and feature films.

01:050:331Ethnic America (3) Examination of cultural pluralism and the means by which ethnic groups such as Irish, Italians, Jews, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics have constructed their ethnic identities and the political and cultural forces that shaped those constructions.

01:050:332The American Jewish Experience in Literature (3) Patterns of alienation and assimilation of an American ethnic group as portrayed in its literature. Attention to early narratives as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Roth, Potok, Bellow, Malamud, and Singer.

01:050:333The Cultures of Consumption (3) Examination of the development of mass society, mass production, and consumption from the 1880s to the present. Areas considered may include industrialization and the development of work in relation to leisure, the development of the advertising industry, television, technology, and popular and mass production and consumption.

01:050:335Jewish-American Women: Contested Lives (3) Explores the Jewish-American female identity in autobiography and memoir, social history, literature, and film. Examines interplay of religious belief, secularism, social mobility, and acculturating influences within American experience. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:335 or 01:988:334.

01:050:341The Child in America (3) Evolution of concepts of childhood and adolescence in America and of child-rearing practices through an examination of social history, religious tracts, novels, poetry, film, and child care manuals.

01:050:342American Sexuality (3) Changing American attitudes toward sexual expression and changes in sexual behavior. Examination of literature, film, 19th- and 20th-century advice manuals, and reports on sexual behavior such as the Kinsey Report and the works of Masters and Johnson.

01:050:365American Folk Song and Ballad (3) Social concerns in folk songs-sources and circulation in oral tradition, with reference to lyrical folk songs, narrative folk songs, traditional ballads, broadside ballads, and Native-American ballads.

01:050:366Folklore of American Occupational and Regional Groups (3) Folklore of occupational groups such as sailors, lumbermen, cowboys, and miners, and of regional groups such as southern mountaineers, Mississippi Delta blacks, Louisiana Cajuns, and Jersey Pineys.

01:050:389Junior Seminar in American Studies (4) A required interdisciplinary seminar for majors. Theme dependent on instructor. To be taken by American studies majors in their junior year after completing 01:050:101 and 303.

01:050:390Special Problems in American Culture (4) Independent study of an interdisciplinary nature, which may be expressed in a paper, audiovisual project, or other creative enterprise. Permission of department and instructor during preceding term required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.

01:050:450Seminar: Folk Festival Management (4) Designed to accompany presentation of New Jersey Folk Festival. Readings in histories of folk performance and fieldwork in folklore, as well as planning and production of public event. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor during preceding term required.

01:050:487,488,489Seminars in American Studies (4,4,4) Interdisciplinary seminars for majors. Themes dependent on instructor. For American studies majors who have completed 01:050: 389.

01:050:490Advanced Problems in American Culture (4) Independent study of an interdisciplinary nature, which may be expressed in a paper, audiovisual project, or other creative enterprise. Permission of department and instructor during preceding term required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.