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Cat. No./Title	Instructor	Dates	Location	Days	Time	Cr	Class No.	Fee	Register
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AMST101 Popular Culture in America HU	S King	Feb 9 - May 4	W-1-012 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 012	Sa	8:15 - 11:15am	3	2550		The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST101: This course introduces students to the varieties of popular culture in America, including popular literature, live entertainment, radio, movies, and television. In-depth case studies of such particular forms of popular culture as humor and music are included. In class viewing and listening accompany case studies. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities
[PR] AMST203 The Thirties HU	P Raub	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	5737	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST203: A study of American society and culture during the years from the Panic of 1929 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 using several kinds of evidence: the accounts of people who lived during the decade, the interpretations of historians, and the representations of artists, writers, and filmmakers. The objective of the course is to develop an idea of the main characteristics of American society and culture during the 1930s, a conception of the decade’s significance, and an increased understanding of the processes of historical and cultural analysis and interpretation. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities
[PR] AMST206 The Sixties HU	R Goff	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	4576	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST206: The course focuses on protest and the role of youth. Who protested and why? Was the phenomenon of the sixties an aberration or part of a larger radical tradition in America? What was the impact on the seventies? Readings are drawn from the works of participants in the student, black, feminist and peace protest movements, from the intellectuals who defended and attacked them, and from the growing body of retrospective, analytic, and historical literature which attempts to explain what really happened in that tumultuous decade. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
[PR] AMST210 American Society and Culture, 1600-1860 HU	P Raub	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	3458	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST210: Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830-60). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and "women’s place"; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
[PR] AMST301L Childhood in America	R Sieber	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-010 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010	F	2:30 - 5:30pm	3	3608		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST301L: An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement. Prerequisite: a minimum of 30 credits or Permission of Instructor. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: United States focus Cross listed: ANTH 301L.