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Fall 2019 | AMST 8920 Section 001: Topics in American Studies -- Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research (33841)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 364
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (15 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Description:
- This course examines epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions related to research analyzing personal narrative sources such as oral histories, in-depth interviews, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, and even music. As narrative constructions about selves, these sources can provide unique insights into subjectivity, meaning, emotion, and desire that other kinds of social science and historical evidence cannot. The evidence presented in personal narratives is unabashedly subjective and its narrative logic presents a story of an individual subject changing and developing over time. Their analyses can provide important insights into the history of the self and its variations at the same time that they have the potential to enrich theories of human agency and social practices. Analyses of personal narratives can also illuminate historical, cultural, and social dimensions. In this light, personal narratives are never solely individual. The seminar begins by considering epistemological, theoretical, and methodological issues related to personal narrative analysis in work by literary scholars, historians, and social scientists. The next section focuses on a number of studies analyzing personal narratives drawing from different kinds of sources such as oral histories, memoir, letters, diaries, and songs in fields such as American studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, history, anthropology, and sociology. In the final section, we consider hybrid forms of personal narrative analysis, the difficulties researchers encounter when they find "ephemeral traces of subjectivity," and the politics and ethics of conducting personal narratives research.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33841/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 February 2017
Fall 2019 | AMST 8920 Section 003: Topics in American Studies -- Research Social Justice Advocacy and Social Change (34323)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 119
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- This seminar would explore the role and impact of public intellectuals, scholars involved in advocacy, and careers outside the academy where research, scholarship, and advocacy co-occur and are valued. The course looks at the history of public intellectuals, their role and impact in American society and globally, and the theories about social movements and social change, as well as explores ways to translate knowledge into real world practice and careers which are outside of purely academic teaching.
- Class Description:
- In the post-war era, the American landscape, both its physical environment as well as social and cultural worlds, have been influenced by the development and transformation of cities and suburbs. This course looks at how the relationship between the economic imperatives and spatial qualities of American capitalist development, as well as cultural dynamics both reflect and influence urban and suburban phenomena. The first part of the class emphasizes political economy and theory; Marx and David Harvey and in particular, as well as cultural theories of power from Antonio Gramsci and Doreen Massey, and Michel Foucault's study of heterotopias. The remainder of readings includes ethnographies and historical studies of urban and suburban space, covering issues from urban neoliberalism to planning and the transformation of the American working class.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Graduate students
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34323/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 July 2019
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