USF 1997-98 Undergraduate Catalog - Pages 127 - 129

HUMANITIES AND AMERICAN STUDIES COURSES

AMS 2030 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES -SS -HP (3)

An overview of American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of American culture. Analysis of the arts and literature, including music; social issues; popular culture; material culture; cultural diversity; and social change. These approaches will be applied to a specific cultural era.

AMS 2363 ISSUES IN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (1-4)

An examination of selected topics such as natural environment and the quality of life, sports and American society, popular music, American communities, vigilante tradition, jazz music, role of the family, American success myth, youth in America. Topic varies.

AMS 3001 AMERICAN CULTURE 1880-1915 -6A -HP (4)

Integration of major aspects of American life between the 1880s and World War I.

AMS 3201 COLONIAL AMERICAN CULTURE -HP (4)

An examination of cultural patterns in America as they developed between 1600 and 1780 with an emphasis on the texture of everyday life.

AMS 3210 REGIONS OF AMERICA -HP (4)

The pattern of American culture as revealed through an examination of selected writings and other pertinent materials dealing with selected American regions. Topic varies. Repeatable up to eight credit hours.

AMS 3230 AMERICA DURING THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES (4)

Selected interdisciplinary materials are used to examine the relationships among regionalism, nationalism and internationalism during the twenties and thirties. Emphasis is placed on the measure of cultural nationalism attained by the United States during this period.

AMS 3260 AMERICAN CULTURE, 1830-1860 -6A -HP (4)

Examines the patterns of American culture in the years leading up to the Civil War. Topics include religion and social reform, race relations, and the impact of industrialization.

AMS 3302 ARCHITECTURE AND THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT (3)

By means of slides, lectures and discussion the course examines 350 years of American architectural history. Architectural styles, aesthetics and the relation between a building and its social environment are stressed.

AMS 3370 SOUTHERN WOMEN: MYTH AND REALITY -6A -HP (3)

This course will identify the myths surrounding Southern Women, discern their sources and purposes, and contrast them with history. (Also offered under Women's Studies.)

AMS 3601 MATERIAL CULTURE AND AMERICAN SOCIETY -SS -HP (3)

By means of slides, lectures and student projects, examines connections between artifacts and American cultural attitudes from 17th century to present. Topics include: architecture, furniture, gravestones, toys, and the material subcultures of women, African-Americans and communal societies.

AMS 3700 RACISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY -SS - HP (3)

An introduction into the causes and effects of racism in American history, literature, art, the media, and folklore. Related concepts of ethnocentrism and class conflict will also be studied. (Also offered under Africana Studies.)

AMS 3930 SELECTED TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES (1-4)

Offerings include Cultural Darwinism in America, America Through Foreign Eyes, and The Female Hero in American Culture.

AMS 4152 FILM IN AMERICAN CULTURE (3)

Surveys the contributions to American culture of major films, studios, directors, stars, theaters, and controversies from the perspectives of genres and styles, critical methodologies and theories. Variable topics such as: series on a region, director, performer, subject, or period of time.

AMS 4804 MAJOR IDEAS IN AMERICA -XMW (3)

Investigates the role of one or more influential ideas in American culture, for example: individualism, identity, community, dissent, reform, utopianism, democracy. Emphasizes the critical analysis of a variety of primary texts. Topic varies. May be repeated up to 6 credit hours.

AMS 4910 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH (1-4)

The content of the course will be governed by student demand and instructor interest. Instructor approval required prior to registration.

AMS 4930 SELECTED TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES (1-4)

Offerings include social implications of American Painting, Technology in Twentieth Century America, American Environmental Problems, Popular Culture in America, American Military Experience, and Labor in America.

AMS 4935 SENIOR SEMINAR IN AMERICAN STUDIES (4)

PR: Senior in American Studies or CI.

AMS 4936 SENIOR SEMINAR IN AMERICAN STUDIES (4)

PR: Senior in American Studies or CI.

HUM 2024 THE ARTS -FA (3)

Analysis of selected works of literature, music, film, and visual art, representing artists of diverse periods, cultures, genders, and races. Especially recommended for students who later take 4000-level Humanities courses.

HUM 2211 STUDIES IN CULTURE: THE ANCIENT THROUGH MEDIEVAL PERIODS -HP (3)

A survey of literature and the arts of ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe. Issues to be examined may include the dialogue between local traditions and cosmopolitan cultures, the relationship of the individual to society, and the bases for moral values.

HUM 2243 STUDIES IN CULTURE: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -HP (3)

A historical survey of the visual arts, literature, music and thought of Europe from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Issues to be examined may include the relationship between science and the arts and the consequences of the growing contacts among world civilizations and the impact of technological change.

HUM 2930 SELECTED TOPICS (1-4)

An introductory course dealing with a recurrent theme in the arts or focusing on a particular artistic center (a nation or city at a particular time). May be repeated up to 8 credit hours with change of content.

HUM 3251 STUDIES IN CULTURE: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -HP (3)

Analysis of selected works of twentieth century art, including films, paintings, music, and literature, in the context of major political, social, and economic events, such as war, depression, totalitarianism, and technological change.

HUM 3271 EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1400 -AF (3)

A comparative treatment of music, visual arts, theatre, literature, and philosophy in the East and West, proceeding chronologically from Ancient times through the Middle Ages, emphasizing Europe and India.

HUM 3273 EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURE SINCE 1400 -AF (3)

A comparative treatment of music, visual arts, theatre, literature, and philosophy in the East and West, proceeding chronologically from the Renaissance through the present, emphasizing Europe, the United States, and India.

HUM 4402 HUMANITIES IN INDIA (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Examples from the arts and letters of India and the relationship of these arts to the Hindu and Buddhist philosophy-religions.

HUM 4404 HUMANITIES IN CHINA (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Examples from the arts and letters of China; their relationship to Taoism, Confucianism and other Chinese philosophies; Western influences on twentieth century Chinese arts and letters.

HUM 4405 HUMANITIES IN JAPAN (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Examples from the arts and letters of Japan, their relationship to Zen Buddhism and other Japanese philosophy-religions; Western influences on twentieth century Japanese arts and letters.

HUM 4433 ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the poetry, drama, philosophy, historical writing, painting, sculpture and architecture of ancient Greece, including such authors as Homer, Sophocles, and Plato, and monuments such as the Parthenon.

HUM 4434 THE CULTURE OF ANCIENT ROME (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the poetry, drama, philosophy, historical writing, painting, sculpture and architecture of ancient Rome, including such authors as Virgil, Livy, and Cicero, the monuments of Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum.

HUM 4435 EARLY MEDIEVAL CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the culture of Europe and the Mediterranean world from the 4th to 11th centuries through readings of early Medieval historians, poets, and theologians, as well as the study of illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, painting and architecture.

HUM 4436 HIGH MEDIEVAL CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the culture of Western Europe from the 11th to 14th centuries. Readings will include poetry and religious works; examples of painting, architecture, sculpture and music will be studied.

HUM 4437 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the painting, literature, music, sculpture and architecture of early modern Italy (1300-1600), emphasizing humanism, the revival of antiquity, the tension between sacred and secular, and artists such as Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael.

HUM 4438 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the Northern Renaissance, 1400-1580, as exemplified in Germany, France, the Netherlands, England, and Spain. The course includes painting, architecture, literature and music, with special study of Durer, Van Eyck, El Greco, and Bosch.

HUM 4440 ARTS AND LETTERS IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of the visual arts, literature, and music from the mysticism and ornament of the Baroque to the rationalism and classicism of the Enlightenment, including such artists, authors and composers as Rembrandt, Gentilleschi, Voltaire, Bach and Mozart.

HUM 4442 ARTS AND LETTERS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Continental masterworks of fiction, painting, and music in the context of European cultural history from the French Revolution to the Revolutions of 1848.

HUM 4444 NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEAN ARTS AND LETTERS (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. A study of continental literary, musical, and artistic masterworks from the Revolutions of 1848 until the outbreak of World War I.

HUM 4445 TWENTIETH CENTURY ARTS AND LETTERS I (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or Cl. Analysis of selected works of twentieth century art. The course will focus on a particular phase in the development of modernism, a set of themes, or certain stylistic aspects of various arts of the twentieth century.

HUM 4446 TWENTIETH CENTURY ARTS AND LETTERS II (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or Cl. Analysis of selected works of twentieth century art. The course will focus on a particular phase in the development of modernism, a set of themes, or certain stylistic aspects of various arts of the twentieth century.

HUM 4452 NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Study of selected works of art, tracing the course of American expansionism in civilization, and the interaction between the arts and the sciences in American ways of life and work, 1790-1890.

HUM 4455 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Study of selected works, tracing the course of expansion in the production and enjoyment of works of art, and interaction between the idealistic and pragmatic concerns for development of the arts in the 20th century.

HUM 4462 ANCIENT LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Analysis of selected Latin American works of art in their cultural context, with emphasis on major art forms selected from the Pre-Columbian period.

HUM 4464 LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE 1492 (4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. Analysis of selected Latin American works of art in their cultural context, with emphasis on major art forms selected from the colonial through contemporary periods.

HUM 4905 DIRECTED STUDY (1-4)

PR: CI. Specialized individual study determined by the student's needs and interests.

HUM 4930 SELECTED TOPICS IN HUMANITIES (1-4)

PR: Sophomore standing or CI. This course will deal with a recurrent theme in the arts as, for example, love or death, or will focus on artistic centers such as Renaissance Florence or Paris in the 1920s. Topics will vary; course may be repeated for credit with change of content.

HUM 4931 SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES -6A (4)

PR: Humanities major or CI; Senior standing. Discussion of interdisciplinary humanities. Includes essay.

HUM 4938 MAJOR ISSUES IN THE HUMANITIES -XMW (3)

The study of an important topical issue in the Humanities. Materials representing diverse views relating to that issue will be read, and works of art in different media that have relevance to the debate will be studied. Available to majors and non-majors. May be repeated up to 6 credit hours with change in content.

HUM 4941 STUDY ON LOCATION (1-4)

The art of a culture will be examined during travel in groups, led by an instructor, to important cities or sites. Monuments, museums, architecture, plays, and/or concerts will be studied. Reading assignments and lectures.

PGY 3000 PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICAN CULTURE (3)

A survey of photography as an art and a craft in America since the mid-nineteenth century. Attention devoted to technological innovations, leading personalities, major movements, and memorable icons. Open to majors and non-majors.

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Effective Date: Semester I, 1997