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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2021
L98 AMCS 375AAmerican Culture: Methods & Visions: Home, Bittersweet, Home: Histories of Home and Homeownership3.0 Units
Description:The idea of owning one's own home has been central to realizations of the American dream or the "good life." By1931, Herbert Hoover called the idea "a sentiment deep in the heart of our race and of American life."While the dream continues, the reality of homeownership has been elusive or fraught with struggle and sacrifice for many Americans. If the idea of home and home ownership is such a central part of American identity, why have so many generations of Americans struggled to achieve it? In this course, we will explore a wide range of American Culture Studies methodologies to understand different versions of home and homeownership. We will touch down in different locations at pivotal moments in order to investigate the varied meanings of housing and homeownership in the context of a particular place and time in American history. Using a case-study approach, the course will travel across time and space to explore diverse forms of housing, such as: the big house and slave house in the south under slavery, the immigrant tenement in New York City, the company town in south Chicago, the Midwest homestead, the planned postwar suburban neighborhood, high rise public housing and gated communities. This format will expose students to a range of frameworks and themes, including: the important role of federal and local policies as well as themes of housing including: homes as private and domestic realms; housing as a commodity and the largest form of American debt; housing as an icon and encoder of social status; housing as exclusionary and inclusionary; housing as racial or socio-economic discrimination; the suburbs and their discontents; and the causes and effects of the recent housing crisis. A Writing Intensive course, AMCS 375A serves as an occasion for students to think about matters of argument and presentation, as well as the methods and models that will serve future research. Students should expect to do a lot of writing and reading, and to produce a series of shorter assignments that culminate in a final multidisciplinary project-proposal. This course is intended for students at the Junior Level or Higher; it fulfills the "multidisciplinary" (MD) requirement for AMCS Minors and the "Methods Seminar" requirements for AMCS Majors. PREFERENCE GIVEN TO AMCS MAJORS AND MINORS
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUM, WIArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Annually / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-R---11:30A-12:50PSimon / 020 DeLairDec 20 2021 1:00PM - 3:00PM25230
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An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

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