Listed in: American Studies, as AMST-468
Formerly listed as: AMST-68 | ENGL-95 | HIST-83
Robert T. Hayashi (Section 01)
This course is designed to provide American Studies juniors (and others) with a methodological grounding in the discipline and an opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choosing. We will engage a wide range of materials and methodologies in this course in order to grasp the broad interdisciplinarity of the field of American Studies. Through short written exercises addressing a variety of documents including manuscripts, journals, census records, images and printed books, students will gauge the utility of various methodological approaches to determine which are most useful for their own independent work. The major requirement of this course is a research presentation that will be presented in a public forum at the end of the semester.
Limited to 15 students. Open to juniors and seniors as a research seminar; underclassmen admitted only under special circumstances. Spring semester. Professor Hayashi.
Section 01
Th 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM CLAR 100
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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Building Suburbia | Dolores Hayden | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Wisconsin Death Trip | Michael Lesy | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
The Machine in the Garden | Leo Marx | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Blue Colonial | David Roderick | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Border Matters | José David Saldivar | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
The Last Best Place | Leah Schmalzbauer | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Noxious New York | Julie Sze | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.