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Spring 2018  |  AMST 3253W Section 001: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (50475)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Bell Museum Of Natural History 100
Enrollment Status:
Open (68 of 100 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.
Class Description:
What does popular culture have to do with politics? Everything. In this course, we will explore this powerful connection through an examination of the transformation of the U.S. since World War II. During those years the nation became an international power, altering the ways in which Americans understood their place in the larger world. A new consumer culture and domestic ideal became linked to American identity and Cold War politics. Within the United States, challenges to the mainstream took the form of a new counter culture, the assertion of black citizenship, and the rise of feminism, each demanding participation in public life and a redefinition of the gender and racial hierarchies of the past. At the same time, international conflicts, particularly the American war in Vietnam, created divisions in the nation that still affect us today. This course will examine how the nation itself, and life within it, changed as a result of these domestic and international struggles. We will look particularly at the ways in which conflicts at home and abroad. War, cold war, and culture war ? have changed the ways Americans think about themselves as citizens and the place of our nation in the world. We will focus particularly on American films, although we will also consider other popular media and arts. We will examine in particular issues of race, class, gender, family, and sexuality as they relate to notions of national culture and identity as expressed through the popular culture.
Grading:
45% Reports/Papers
35% Quizzes
20% Class Participation
Exam Format:
essay
Class Format:
50% Lecture
20% Discussion
30% Other Style film viewing
Workload:
80-100 Pages Reading Per Week
1 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Plus quizzes and exams
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50475/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Spring 2018  |  AMST 3253W Section 002: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (50641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 127
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.
Class Description:
Is there a relationship between popular culture and politics? How has popular culture influenced left and right-wing political campaigns as well as civil rights, feminist, and LGBT political actions? In what ways have policies shaped how popular culture is produced and consumed? This class will explore these questions by tracing the complex connections between popular culture and politics in America since the start of WWII. Far from a standard history course, we will watch movies and TV shows, listen to music, read novels, and analyze comic books and video games in order to discuss how popular culture has expressed and engaged contemporary American politics and life.

Grading:
To be determined by instructor
Class Format:
To be determined by instructor
Workload:
To be determined by instructor
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50641/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Spring 2018  |  AMST 3253W Section 004: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (50642)

Instructor(s)
Hana Maruyama (Secondary Instructor)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 127
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.
Class Description:
Is there a relationship between popular culture and politics? How has popular culture influenced left and right-wing political campaigns as well as civil rights, feminist, and LGBT political actions? In what ways have policies shaped how popular culture is produced and consumed? This class will explore these questions by tracing the complex connections between popular culture and politics in America since the start of WWII. Far from a standard history course, we will watch movies and TV shows, listen to music, read novels, and analyze comic books and video games in order to discuss how popular culture has expressed and engaged contemporary American politics and life.

Grading:
To be determined by instructor
Class Format:
To be determined by instructor
Workload:
To be determined by instructor
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50642/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Spring 2018  |  AMST 3253W Section 008: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (50643)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 209
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.
Class Description:
Is there a relationship between popular culture and politics? How has popular culture influenced left and right-wing political campaigns as well as civil rights, feminist, and LGBT political actions? In what ways have policies shaped how popular culture is produced and consumed? This class will explore these questions by tracing the complex connections between popular culture and politics in America since the start of WWII. Far from a standard history course, we will watch movies and TV shows, listen to music, read novels, and analyze comic books and video games in order to discuss how popular culture has expressed and engaged contemporary American politics and life.

Grading:
To be determined by instructor
Class Format:
To be determined by instructor
Workload:
To be determined by instructor
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50643/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Spring 2018  |  AMST 3253W Section 009: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (50644)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 139
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.
Class Description:
Is there a relationship between popular culture and politics? How has popular culture influenced left and right-wing political campaigns as well as civil rights, feminist, and LGBT political actions? In what ways have policies shaped how popular culture is produced and consumed? This class will explore these questions by tracing the complex connections between popular culture and politics in America since the start of WWII. Far from a standard history course, we will watch movies and TV shows, listen to music, read novels, and analyze comic books and video games in order to discuss how popular culture has expressed and engaged contemporary American politics and life.

Grading:
To be determined by instructor
Class Format:
To be determined by instructor
Workload:
To be determined by instructor
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50644/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 January 2016

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