Normally a craft project is required of students. The emerging American of our times. The forces shaping American culture as revealed in literature, the media, social criticism, and psychology. The American film and its relationship to American myths, society, and culture. Representative classic films screened.
American folk narratives, myths, legends, tales, ballads, and songs.
How folklore functions in American society and institutions. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Topics of contemporary interest that lend themselves to inter-disciplinary treatment. Open only to students majoring or minoring in American Studies. A methodological survey of American culture emphasizing the origin, development, and influence of the ideas and assumptions that have shaped fundamental American values.