Undergraduate Courses
E/AU 300 American Lives-Methods in American Studies
Prerequisite: AUCC 200, AUCC 201An investigation of the methods and principles of American Studies, E/AU 300 uses a variety of personal narratives as illustrations of those changing methods. The course attends to the origins of American Studies in an approach that emphasizes American myths and symbols, and proceeds to the most recent thinking about popular culture. In each case, autobiographies like those of Teresa Jordan (Riding the White Horse Home), Brent Staples (Parallel Time), and Alfred Kazin (A Walker in the City) or scholarship that is intensely personal, like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Students pursue a final project involving a cultural “map” of some aspect of the Colorado State University campus.
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