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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)

L98 AMCS 101Lewis and Clark and the American Challenge3.0 Units
Description:This central multidisciplinary course in the American Culture Studies program is taught by faculty members from the humanities and social sciences, with guest lecturers from the natural sciences. Its focus is the 1804 to 1806 "Voyage of Discovery" led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, which will serve as a basis for examining American cultures, past and present. This expedition of more than 7,000 miles dramatically altered the nation's identity by expanding its perception of America's enormous human and physical diversity and by forcing Americans to confront the issue of how much difference the United States could contain. Starting with selections from the expedition's journals, the course will introduce the varied and often contradictory ways (then and now) that different disciplines examine a problem: history, literature, art, anthropology, economics, political science, and biology, as well as race and gender perspectives. In this way, the course seeks to investigate how peoples of different perspectives and cultures interact: how they explore the unknown and try to explain it; how they gather and develop "knowledge"; and how they accept or reject information. To draw together these varied strands of inquiry and to expose students to the research process, the lectures will be complemented by weekly small-group discussions, with field trips to sites along the expeditionary route, including those of the upper Missouri River in North Dakota. Students will choose specific questions they wish to investigate and, organized into research groups of four or five, will create a website. In addition to this core seminar, students will enroll in a special section E Comp.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 114AFrequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
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