This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the values and cultural expressions of the people of the United States from the Puritans to our own time.
We examine the roles colleges and universities play in American society; the differential access students have to college based on family background and income, ethnicity, and other characteristics.
This seminar explores the transformation of cultural institutions in the US and considers the continuing contemporary debates on the practices and public role of museums.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar will explore the formation of identity in two great American cities: New York and San Francisco in the 20th and early 21st century.
This seminar is designed to provide opportunities for readings and reflections on the experience of volunteer service work in the "At Your Service" program at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center.
An intensive seminar on American cultural criticism since the late 19th century, with particular emphasis on debates over modernist currents in the arts from the 1910s through the 1960s.
This course examines a galaxy of compellingly eccentric outsiders-the "freak" or "queer" figure, the misfit-and looks at how their status, power, fate is dramatized.
The aim of this course is to read closely and slowly short prose masterworks written in the United States between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century, and to consider them in disciplined discussion.