Classes in AMST
| AMST101 | Introduction American Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST101 or AMST201. Formerly AMST201. Introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of American Studies by examining concepts such as culture, identity, cultural practices, and globalization, as well as theories underlying these concepts. Engages key themes, especially constructions of difference and identity, cultures of everyday life, and America and the world. | |||||
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| AMST202 | Cultures of Everyday Life in America (3 credits) | ||||
| Examine the structures and patterns of everyday life in the U.S., utilizing methods such as ethnography, oral history, survey research, and textual, visual, and material cultural analysis. | |||||
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| AMST204 | Film and American Culture Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Exploration of the American film from a historical perspective, illustrating the motion picture's role as an institutional phenomenon, as a form of communication, and as a source of cross-cultural study. | |||||
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| AMST207 | Contemporary American Cultures (3 credits) | ||||
| World views, values, and social systems of contemporary American cultures explored through readings on selected groups such as middle-class suburbanites, old order Amish, and urban tramps. | |||||
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| AMST260 | American Culture in the Information Age (3 credits) | ||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST260 or AMST298I. Formerly AMST 298I. Examines the ways in which content and form of public information interact with the culture, families & individuals. | |||||
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| AMST289A | Shifting Sands: Constructing Cultural Mainstreams and Margins in the U.S. (3 credits) | ||||
| Formerly: AMST298B. One of the "I" Courses for Spring 2012: Issues-Inspiration-Imagination; http://www.iseries.umd.edu/ Click here for more course information. | |||||
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| AMST298C | Introduction to Asian American Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as AAST 200. | |||||
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| AMST298W | Selected Topics in American Studies:Introduction to Queer Latina/o Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as LGBT298L. | |||||
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| AMST328A | Perspectives on Identity and Culture:Migration and Sexuality (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as USLT498F. | |||||
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| AMST328N | Perspectives on Identity and Culture:Introduction to Native American Cultures of the United States (3 credits) | ||||
| Also Offered as ANTH648F. | |||||
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| AMST340 | (PermReq)Introduction to History, Theories and Methods in American Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: Two AMST courses. Sophomore standing. For AMST majors only. Introduction to the process of interdisciplinary research, including research literatures, questions, first-hand sources and library and analytic methods in American Studies. Each student will craft a prospectus for original research. | |||||
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| AMST418B | Cultural Themes in America:Digital Diversity (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: At least three credit hour of prior coursework in AMST. | |||||
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| AMST418L | Asian Religions in American Culture (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: AMST201. | |||||
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| AMST429J | Perspectives on Popular Culture:Social Activism and Popular Culture (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: At least three credit hours of prior coursework in American Studies. | |||||
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| AMST432 | Literature and American Society (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: Prior course in AMST, SOCY, American literature, or American history. Examination of the relationship between literature and society: including literature as cultural communication and the institutional framework governing its production, distribution, conservation and evaluation. | |||||
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| AMST450 | (PermReq)Seminar in American Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: Nine hours prior coursework in American Studies, including AMST201. Senior standing. For AMST majors only. Developments in theories and methods of American Studies scholarship, with emphasis upon interaction between the humanities and the social sciences in the process of cultural analysis and evaluation. | |||||
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| AMST498D | Special Topics in American Studies:Asian American Material Cultures (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as AAST498N. | |||||
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| AMST498L | Special Topics in American Studies:Craft and Production (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: AMST205 or permission of instructor. | |||||
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| AMST498M | Special Topics in American Studies:Latinas/os and U.S. Popular Culture (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as USLT498B. | |||||
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| AMST498N | Special Topics in American Studies:Citizens, Refugees, and Immigrants (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as USLT498I. | |||||
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| AMST498V | Special Topics in American Studies:Latina Lives: Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as USLT498D. | |||||
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| AMST603 | Current Approaches to American Studies (3 credits) | ||||
| For AMST majors only or permission of department. Permission of instructor required for non-A MST graduate students. Builds on AMST601 and explores contemporary literature, theory, and intellectual issues in American Studies. | |||||
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| AMST628W | Seminar in American Studies:History of Sexuality (3 credits) | ||||
| Also offered as HIST639L. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST628W or HIST639L. | |||||
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| AMST851 | Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes (3 credits) | ||||
| A research seminar that provides students an opportunity to survey the principal approaches to studying a cultural landscape, learn how to apply and adapt a field research method, and produce a primary research report on a cultural landscape of their choice. | |||||
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