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AMERICAN STUDIES
First Year Seminar: Navigating America
Instructor: Dr. Rachel Willis
TR
12:30-1:45; Venable G311
51 First-Year Seminar: Navigating America (3). This seminar is designed to teach
AMST 051.001
students how to navigate new intellectual terrain and process unfamiliar information from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives with an emphasis on discussion, field study, and
documentation. Each student will plan, implement, and document an individual short journey.
This voyage of discovery on the campus or in the surrounding community will be chronicled with
a documentary journal and presented to the class in a multi-media format that conveys the
individuals perspective, journey, and discoveries. Additionally, the class will collaboratively plan,
implement, and document a common full day journey. This required field study will be a core
aspect of the experiential education connection for the course.
AMST 055.001
Literature
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Cobb
MWF 11:15-12:05
Murphy 104
This research seminar provides a broad grounding in American Indian law, history, and
literature through an exploration of the remarkable life and times of Flathead author,
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intellectual, and activist DArcy McNickle (1904-1977). We will read DArcy McNickles
novels, short stories, histories, and essays, as well as secondary works about him. Even
better, we will be working with DArcy McNickles diary. Students will have an opportunity
to transcribe, contextualize, and share (probably through digital technologies) what they
have learned about history, law, literature (and much, much more) through his life story.
AMST 089.001
FYS American Indian Art in the 20th Century
Instructor: Dr. Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
MWF 11:15-12:05;
Murphy 204
This course examines twentieth century American Indian art though secondary articles,
books, a graphic novel, and art itself. The class sharpens written and verbal
communication though in-class discussion, informal, and formal assignments. Students
will hone their visual critical thinking skills as well by examining and analyzing
contemporary American Indian art and representations of Native people.
This course connects American Indian art to vital conversations in American Indian
studies such as colonialism, identity, gender, and tribal sovereignty. We will also address
the following questions: How and why does contemporary traditional and modern
come to describe and even categorize art created by Native people in the twentieth
century? How Native people and others have constructed and contested the idea of the
American Indian art? Additionally, we will examine how artists have engaged with and at
times resisted the markets for their work and their influence on Native art.
Whitman), fiction (Ernest Hemingway and Tim OBrien), and autobiography (Frederick
Douglass and Jane Addams). Each unit will include the work of an artist or photographer,
such as Thomas Cole, Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange. Topics include the
heritage of the American Revolution; slavery, Civil War, and memory; technology and the
environment; writers, film-makers, and artists as social critics.
Rec
Students enrolling in AMST 101-001 must also enroll in one recitation section numbered
101-601 through 101-604.
AMST 110.001
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Instructor: Dr. Malinda Maynor-Lowery
MWF 10:10-11:00;
Coker 201
Recitation Sections: #601 (F) 11:15-12:05; #602 (F) 12;20-1:10; #603 (F) 9:05-9:55;
#604 (R) 3:30-4:20; #605 (R) 5:00-5:50; #606 (F) 10:10-11:00; #607 (F) 11:15-12:05,
and #608 (F) 12:20-1:10
An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses
history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience
Literary Approaches to American Studies: Southern
Writers
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt
MW 3:35-4:50 Murphey 204
What did nineteenth century tourists to resort hotels across the US South read while they
sat on porches or took the waters? What novels did the Book of the Month Club
recommend to readers interested in the US South as they sipped cocktails in the suburbs
in the middle twentieth century? What do writers tell us about southern cultures through
social media and web-based writing today? We will read popular novels and media about
the south, asking questions about the role of writers and their readers in shaping and
understanding American and southern cultures.
AMST 201.001
AMST 234.001
This course will examine the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in
New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present day. We will explore how gender shaped Jewish womens
experiences of immigration, assimilation, religious observance, home, work, motherhood, family,
and feminism. The course will also investigate how factors such as region, race, class, country of
origin, and religious denomination influenced the lives of Jewish women in America, and in turn,
how Jewish women have shaped the national expression of American Judaism. Texts and
discussions consider how these factors have created an American Jewish womens history that is
distinctive from mens. Students will examine a variety of sources, including diaries, memoirs,
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letters, film, recipes, organizational records, and artifacts that reveal womens voices that are
absent in more traditional histories. The central goal of the course is to integrate Jewish women
into the American past, and thus, fundamentally transform American Jewish history.
communities. Students will use archival material, historical scholarship, images, film, art,
and other sources to encounter rebels, revolutionaries, duelists, brawlers, gangsters,
hobos, yeggmen, cops, robbers, protestors, wardens, mobs, moonshiners, chain gangs,
judges, juries, executioners, and others with an aim to understand American history and
culture through the lens of bad behavior and responses to it.
AMST 365.001
to Veronica Mars
Instructor: Dr. Michelle Robinson
MWF 10:10-11:00
Greenlaw 305
Traces the origins of detective fiction and major developments in the history of the genre
with a focus on women authors and protagonists. Examines literary texts including fiction
and film, with close attention to historical and social contexts and to theoretical
arguments relating to popular fiction, genre studies, and gender.
Jewish southerners from the colonial era to the present, using film, museum exhibits,
literature, and material culture as resources. Throughout the course we consider the
question of southern Jewish distinctiveness. Is southern Jewish culture different from
Jewish culture in other regions of the country, and if so, why? Is region a significant factor
in American Jewish identity? Students will explore these issues through class discussion
and writing assignments.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 486
Writing Material Culture
Instructor: Dr. Bernie Herman
T
3:35-6:25 Center for the Study of the American South The Love House
410 E.
Franklin Street
Writing material Culture is a reading seminar that examines multiple perspectives that
shape the understanding and interpretation of objects and images of all sorts. Our
readings explore the ways in which material culture can be written and the application
of an array of approaches for analysis and writing. Our readings, however, do not
superintend an overview of a field as diverse as its subject matter, but offer examples of
strategies that can be combined and applied to the scrutiny of things. Consider each of
our readings as a critical tool that has a place in an analytical toolbox and recognize that
you will constantly add to your stock of tools. Together, we work on an online occasional,
student-edited journal entitled Southern Things. Each person chooses a "Southern"
object and explores its narrative richness over the course of the semester leading to
publication. For an example, see volume 1 from Spring
013 http://southernthings.web.unc.edu.
AMST 489.001
American Studies and interdisciplinary area studies in general, investigate how each
students research topic fits into these larger debates, review the writing conventions of
the appropriate discipline and field, and help students produce innovative, insightful, and
articulate research essays. EE.
Students who complete and successfully defend an honors thesis will graduate with
honors. Asian Studies students will also participate in the senior colloquium in the spring,
where each student will give a short presentation summarizing their thesis research.
Completed theses will be entered into the Carolina Digital Repository.
Students writing an honors thesis will be enrolled in AMST 691H/ASIA 691H by the
department once their thesis applications have been approved
CHEROKEE
CHER 101
FOLKLORE
FYS: Poetic Roots of Hip-Hop
TR
11:00-12:15
Wilson 217
There aint nothing new about rapping. Thats what elders from a host of African
American communities declared when hip hop first exploded onto the scene. This new
form, they claimed, was just a skilled re-working of poetic forms that had been around
for generations. Each elder seemed to point to a different formsome to the wordplay
of rhyming radio deejays, others to the bawdy flow of streetcorner poets, still others to
the rhymed storytelling of sanctified singers. And each was right; elegant rhyming has
indeed marked African American talk for generations. Yet because most such rhyming
was spoken, its history remains hidden. In this seminar, well explore this lost history,
searching the historical record to uncover hidden heritages of African American
eloquence, rhymed storytelling, and sharp social critique. Our goal is nothing short of
writing the prehistory of hip hop, by revealing the everyday poetries that, for
generations, have defined what it means to be African American. Towards this end,
students will meet with oral poets and hip hop emcees, and also conduct original archival
research, leading to team-based class presentations and individual papers. Throughout
the semester, students will also attend a range of poetic events, thus honing their skills
at hearing and appreciating the eloquence that surrounds us all.
FOLK 77.001
FOLK 202.001
Instructor: Staff
MW 9:05-9:55 Gardner 08
Recitation Sections: #601 (R 3:30-4:20); #602 (R 5:00-5:50); #603 (F 10:1011:00); #604 (F 12:20-1:10)
Folklorists seek to understand how people interpret and make sense of the world. The
study of folklore asks how, in a world flooded with commercial and highly refined cultural
products, people use those particular materials that they themselves create and reshape in order to express who they are, where they belong, and what they value. In this
course we will look at diverse forms (or genres) of folklore, including song,
architecture, legend, and food. We will consider how vernacular expressive culture is
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learned, what it does for people, and why these processes and products persist through
time and space. Students will be introduced to the discipline of Folklores central
research methodology, ethnography, and have an opportunity to practice that approach
in individual and group research projects.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL/ANTH 202.
Note: Students enrolling in FOLK 202-001 are also required to enroll in one recitation
section numbered FOLK 202-601 through FOLK 202-604.
FOLK 490.001
Ethnography
Instructor: Dr. Gabrielle Berlinger
W
3:30-6:20 Saunders 204
This course will be cross-listed with JWST (#tbd)
This course introduces students to the variety of folkloristic expression in Jewish American
communities today, as well as to the ethnographic documentation of such expression. We will
examine Jewish storytelling, humor, ritual, custom, belief, dress, and food, among other genres of
folklore, using the history of Jewish folklore and ethnology to provide context for their current
forms. Drawing upon ethnographic studies, literary sources, historical documents, films, and field
trips, we will discuss what makes these forms of vernacular expression Jewish, how source
communities interpret them, and how ethnographers document them, to engage such issues as
representation, identity, memory, and tradition. Students will learn ethnographic skills to conduct
a final community-based fieldwork project. Multimedia components are welcome.
Oral History/Performance
Instructor: Dr. Della Pollack
TR
11:15-12:05
Murphy 111
FOLK 562H
FOLK 571.001
Our course covers a vast span of southern music and its roots, from ballads to hip hop,
with numerous stops and side-trips along the way. We will examine the differences
between bluegrass and country, zydeco and Cajun, and black and white gospel. We will
also study the influences of southern music on American classical music, art, dance,
literature, and food. The class also includes guest speakers and performers. We will
listen to field recordings were made by collectors like Alan Lomax and will consider the
impact of these recordings on contemporary music. We will also view documentary films
on southern music and will discuss how these films enrich our understanding of each
musical tradition.
FOLK 790.001
Public Folklore
This graduate seminar addresses the world of public folklore, exploring theory and praxis
in public sector cultural work. Focusing on the ways that cultural workers (folklorists
and others) bring their understandings to broader publics, and the ways that we can
convey these understandings in full collaboration with the communities being
represented, this course explores broad issues of representation, cultural politics,
touristic display, and culturally-based economic development. While so doing, it remains
eminently pragmatic, drawing participants into conversation with public folklorists,
inviting them to attend (and assess) public folklore events, and charting the ways that
public cultural outreach translates in the 21st century. At the seminars close, each
participant will have written a fundable proposal for a public folklore project.
FOLK 850.001
European Modernity and had significantly different definitions and impacts in succeeding eras.
Indeed, the problem with folklore (in the sense of both a practical challenge and a fascinating
intellectual question) is that folklore is taken to stand for so many different partially overlapping
or even contradictory objects. What, then, might it mean or entail to study folklore in the 21st
century? This graduate seminar is designed to do three things. First, the readings provide one
relatively systematic overview of many of the major issues and perspectives that have
characterized the study of folklore over the past two centuries and more. Second, written work
will require students to apply selected theories to bodies of data in order to understand the
continuous process whereby theory illuminates data and data inform new theory. Third and
perhaps most importantly, our discussion is intended to model a way of thinking historically
about the discipline, recognizing how definitions of the folk and folklore and consequent ideas
about the social role of folklore and what questions one might productively ask of such material
have emerged from the political and social developments of various periods. Students challenge
will be to use this perspective to develop a form of folklore study that responds progressively to
the realities of the global culture in which we now operate.
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