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AMER-ST 301P
American Studies:Is/Tutorial:Themes In The American Popular Arts
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This course uses the popular arts as an entree to the examination of stereotypes in American life, to a better understanding of challenges to tradition, and to assessing the consequences of conflict that have resulted from cultural pluralism. This is a modified independent study course. Students are exposed to some of America's best-known literature, films and music. Instructional audio tapes and traditional literature about American Culture show the relevance of examples of popular art to broader themes.
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Credits: 4 hours
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AMER-ST 302P
Survey Of American Studies
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This course offers a look at changes and continuities in American life from the era of British colonization to the present. It emphasizes philosophical, scientific and creative ideas that have had lasting effects, changing social structure, the factors that determine lifestyle, and the consequences of the national preoccupation with pluralism and consensus. The course also covers the main features of American political history.
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Credits: 4 hours
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AMER-ST 303PW
Methods & Problems In American Studies
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This course examines four topics that are important in American culture; each topic is approached from a different methodological perspective. The topics (problems) are related to cultural resources in the Kansas City area (such as a museum exhibit or a library research collection) and may change from semester to semester. Methods of problem solving are determined by the topic; however, students should expect to participate in oral history, interpretation of material culture, and traditional archival research and document analysis.
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Credits: 4 hours
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AMER-ST 340P
American Material Culture: The 20th Century
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This course will focus on the material culture of modern and post-modern America. This is an area of inquiry particularly well-suited to the examination of material culture resources. Students will be required to write a term paper or do a material culture project.
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Credits: 4 hours
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AMER-ST 341P
American Material Culture: Objects And Images
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This course will examine American cultural and social history from earliest times to present, with a special emphasis on the ways artifacts and visual images can provide information and insight about the American experience.
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Credits: 4 hours
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AMER-ST 342P
American Material Culture: Museums
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This course will focus on local institutions that use material culture in their presentation of history and the American experience.
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Credits: 4 hours
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