All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 610 Cultural Encounters: The U.S. in the World
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
U.S. cultural historians have increasingly moved in the direction of transnational studies, raising new questions about American culture and offering fresh insights into other fields, including political and diplomatic history. This course examines recent cultural histories that integrate the modern United States in the rest of the world. Readings will reflect a variety of historical subjects, theoretical frameworks, and interdisciplinary methodologies, as well as a set of primary documents and artifacts. Topics include: cultural studies of empire and international relations; business and consumer culture; travel and tourism; entertainment and media; anthropology, museums, and other disciplines of cross-cultural knowledge production and dissemination; borderlands; the relationship of domestic and foreign, intimate and public. Students will write several historographical reviews and a research proposal.
