Entertaining the Masses: An Introduction to American Studies
AMST 180
Spring 2023
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01
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This course will explore the ways in which people living in the United States entertained themselves from colonial times to the present. From the circus to movie theaters, from pubs to video games, from hunting expeditions to football matches, from church choirs to hip hop battles, we will use mass entertainment as a window into American culture. We will question what American society has considered fun, how leisure became separate from labor, how capitalists have commodified and authorities have disciplined entertainment, how different groups created and/or appropriated different forms of entertainment. Through these questions, we will study classic and new topics of and approaches to American Studies. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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| Instructor(s): Saba,Roberto Times: ..T.R.. 08:50AM-10:10AM; Location: FISK413; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 3 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 8 | FR: 8 |
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