AMS 100 |
Instructor:
S. Crouthamel
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
An introduction to American lifestyles and culture through art,
literature, beliefs, values, and the resulting social forms.
Regional and interdisciplinary approaches will be used to evaluate the
multicultural American identity and culture in terms of American people and
impact on the rest of the world.
Emphasis will be placed on folk culture and popular culture as a measure of the
pulse of
TEXT:
Temperley and Bigsby: A
New Introduction to American Studies
1. American Art Review 50 points
2. American Food Cuisine Review 50 points
3. Midterm Exam 100 points
Total 400 points
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: AMS 100
Students
will be able to…
1.
…recognize the multidisciplinary contribution to understanding
the totality of American culture with an emphasis of the arts as
reflective and effective phenomena.
2.
…recognize the factors that contribute to individual identity
and be able to apply that recognition to articulating their own
individual identity.
3.
…recognize and analyze the subjective and objective imagery in
art that expresses symbols and metaphors that reveal deeper
values and ideas in American culture.
4. …elicit
culture changes through identification of changes in artistic
styles and forms in American culture.
5.
…identify the benefits of cultural diversity that keeps the
society together in tenuous or crisis times.
6. …analyze
various levels of identity (national, state, etc) and how they
interrelate to building a shared culture.
In turn the student will be able to apply this analysis
to formulating his/her own identity and culture.
7. …become
aware of the global context of American culture’s impact,
positive and negative; as well as developing sensitivity to
traveling, working or fighting in different cultural contexts.
I.
American Studies
A. Americans:
Names and Identity
B. Folk Culture and American
Studies
II.
American Identity
1. Geographic regions
2. Resources
B. People
1. Indigenous people
2.
Nation of immigrants
3. Cultural regions
C. Images
1. Nation/State
2. Local/Cultural
3. Individual
III.
Family Histories and Genealogy
A. Genealogy Libraries and
Records
B. Documentation and Forms
C. Family History & Culture
IV.
American Culture
A. American Arts & Media
1. American Literature
2. American Visual Arts:
American Film
3. American Music:
American Songbook
B. Native
1. Native American People
2. Native American Culture
and Arts
C. Early Immigrant Cultures
& the American Frontier 1600-1890
1. Immigrant Groups:
Coming to
2. Manifest Destiny and
Western Frontiers
*American Songbook
D. American Progressive
Movement, Industrialization, Imperialism 1890-1939
1. Gilded Age and WWI
2. Depression and WWII
*American Film
American Art Review:
Due
MIDTERM Exam
E. Post War
1. Post War Baby Boomers
1950s
2. Civil Rights Movement
early 1960s
3.
4. 1980s and beyond
V.
Family History Notebooks
A. Notebook
B. Documentation and
Archival Material
C. Individual Cultural
Identity
FAMILY HISTORY NOTEBOOK/IDENTITY PAPER: Due
FINAL Exam