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AMST
101 - Introduction To American Culture Studies
The concepts of interdisciplinary culture studies, focusing on analysis of
cultural change in complex, literate society. American culture, including cross-cultural
comparisons. Topics include popular culture, subculture, regionalism, myths
and symbols, and culture and personality.
Meets G.E. Requirements: III. C.1 (Introduction to the Social Sciences)
AMST 201 - Introduction To American
Studies
With the concept of culture as a unifying principle, focus
is on four separate time periods in order to provide the framework
for an understanding of American civilization. Several different
kinds of documents will be used to illustrate the nature and
advantages of an interdisciplinary approach.
Meets G. E. Requirements: II.B.1 (American History)
  AMST
300 - Introduction To American Popular Culture
An historical exploration of popular culture in America as it both reflects
and contributes to the search for meaning in everyday life. Themes include
heroes, myths of success, symbols of power, images of romance, consumerism,
race and sexual identity.
Meets G.E. Requirements: III.C.2 (Implications and Explorations in the
Social Sciences)
AMST 301 - American Character
Cultural environment and personality. The extent to which there
have been and continue to be distinctly American patterns
of belief and behavior. Similarities, as well as class, ethnic,
sex and regional differences among Americans.
Meets G.E. Requirements: III.C.2 (Implications and Explorations in the
Social Sciences) and V. (Cultural Diversity)
 AMST
320 - Women In American Society (formerly AMST 450)
Socio-cultural history of women and women's movements in American society.
Emphasis on 19th and 20th centuries. Examination of cultural models of American
womanhood - maternal, domestic, sexual, social - their development and recent
changes.
Meets G.E. Requirements: III.C.2 (Implications and Explorations in the
Social Sciences), IV. (Life-Long Learning), and V. (Cultural Diversity)
AMST 395 - California Cultures
Examines how a variety of cultures -- Native American, European, Latino, Asian, African American, -- have interacted in California's past and present. Topics include: cultural diversity in frontiers and borderlands, shifting meanings of sex and gender, function of regional and racial myths.
Meets G.E. Requirements: III.C.2 (Implications and Explorations in the Social Sciences) and V. (Cultural Diversity)
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