AMST 7460:Movements in American Culture

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Arts in American Studies program or permission of the graduate program director.
This course will explore artistic, literary, or other cultural movements in the broad context of American Culture. It may include courses in literary, film or art history, and discussions of broad cultural movements such as romanticism, realism, modernism and post-modernism as they appear in multiple cultural forms. Other examples of movements in American culture might include historically specific cultural movements such as the Black Arts Movement, historical surveys of cultural movements based in a particular ideology, community or social group, such as feminist cultural movements, or nationalism in American literature and the arts. This course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.