An introduction to African-American literature in the context of a variety of cultural perspectives. Photography and American Culture Interdisciplinary study of the relationship between photography and the literature, art, politics, and history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduces theories of photography as well as works of individual artists. Topics vary from year to year. Film in American Culture Advanced, focused study of American cinema.
Topics vary from year to year and with instructor.
Interdisciplinary study of the varied nature of American religious experience and its relationship to other aspects of American culture. Team-taught course studying the impact of gender on the lives and works of selected American artists. Not offered every year. The African American Experience in the Twentieth Century Investigates the music, literature and social history of African American America in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, in the Great Depression, World War II, and in the 1960's. Special attention to the theme of accommodation with and rejection of dominant white culture.