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Fall 2009

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Fall 2008

Summer 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007


 

Fall 2009

MONDAY

26:050:501 Introduction to American Studies
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Ruth Feldstein

26:350:509 Literature of the Great Depression
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Barbara Foley

26:790:501 Policy Making in America
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Keesha Middlemass

26:977:617 Globalization and Cities
5:30 - 8:20 PM
Jamie Lew

 

TUESDAY

26:050:530:01 Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Modern Society: Race, Class, Gender, and Migration: Research and Inquiry
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Sherri-ann Butterfield

26:352:523 American Literature Since 1990
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Sterling Bland

26:510:526 Readings in African American History: Slavery and Reconstruction
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Clement Price

 

WEDNESDAY

26:050:521 Topics in American Studies: The Vietnam War and American Culture, 1945-2009
5:30 - 8:10 PM
H. Bruce Franklin

26:790:515 Urban Government and Politics
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Mara Sidney

26:988:532 Feminist Theory
5:30 - 8:10
Frances Bartkowski

 

THURSDAY

26:510:533 Topics in American History: History of American Conservatism
5:00 - 7:40
Allison Perlman

26:977:608 Urban Education Systems
5:30 - 8:20
Alan Sadovnik

 

FRIDAY

26:561:501 Historiography
10:00 - 12:40 AM
Lewis Porter

26:561:506 Graduate Topics II: Miles/Wayne
1:20 - 4:00
Lewis Porter

 

 

Spring 2009

MONDAY

26:050:502:01 Research Seminar in American Studies: Newark and New York City Since 1945
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Robert Snyder

26:510:554:01 American Political and Legal History: Politics, Social Life and Law in Jeffersonian America
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Annette Gordon-Reed

26:510:593:01 Culture and Science: History of American Medicine: Aids in America
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Stephen Pemberton

26:790:501:01 Policy Making in America
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Keesha Middlemass

 

TUESDAY

26:050:521:01 Topics in American Studies: Race in the American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed

26:350:521:01 Topics in Caribbean Literature: The Colonial Caribbean
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Belinda Edmondson

26:790:511:01 Contemporary Political Thought: Comparative Social Movements
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Heidi Swarts

 

WEDNESDAY

26:050:521: 01 Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Modern Society: Intellect, Class, Race, and Gender
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Anna Stubblefield

26:352:510:01 Studies in American Literature: Contextualizing Autobiography
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Heyward Ehrlich

26:510:568:01 Topics in Environmental History
5:00 - 7:40
Neil Maher

26:790:502:01 Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Politics
5:00 - 7:40
Mara Sidney

 

THURSDAY

26:350:511:01 Critical Theories: Marxist
5:30 - 8:10
Barbara Foley

 

FRIDAY

26:501:502:01 Historiography II
10:00 - 12:40 AM
Lewis Porter

26:501:505:01 Jazz and Film (+ Piano Styles)
1:20 - 4:00
Lewis Porter

 

Fall 2008


MONDAY

26:352:518:01 Crime & Punishment
5:30-8:10 PM
Bruce Franklin

26:510:531:01 American Diplomatic History
5:00-7:40 PM
Susan Carruthers

26:977:617:01 Globalization & Cities
5:30-8:10 PM

26:510:506:01 Poetics of History
5:30-8:10PM
James Goodman

26:050:540 Topics in Urban Cultures
"New York Since 1945:
A Social and Cultural History"
5:30-810 PM
Robert Synder


TUESDAY

26:050:501 Introduction to American Studies
6:00-8:30 PM
Ruth Feldstein

26:352:511:01 American Lit to 1900
5:30-8:10 PM
Sterling Bland

26:790:518:01 Politics, History & The Arts
5:00-7:40 PM
Alex Moytl

26:977:610:01 Urban Systems
5:30-8:20 PM
Dennis Gale


WEDNESDAY

26:988:532:01 Feminist Theory
5:00-7:40 PM
Fran Bartkowski

26:510:548:01 Environmental History
5:00-7:40 PM
Neil Maher

26:510:555:01 American Urban History
5:00-7:40 PM
Beryl Satter

26:561:512:01 Charlie Parker
11:40 AM-2:20 PM
Henry Martin

26:790:571:01 U.S. Politics & Policy
5:00-7:40 PM
Dennis Gale

26:977:613:01 Urban Education
5:30-8:20 PM
Alan Sadovnik

26:561:505:01 Topics (Jazz History)
4:15-7:00 PM
John Howland


THURSDAY

26:352:514:01 American Drama
5:30-8:10 PM
Gabriel Miller

26:510:526:01 African American History
5:00-7:40 PM
Clement Price

26:510:549:01 Wealth & Poverty in Latin America
5:00-7:40 PM
Karen Caplan



FRIDAY

26:561:506:01 Ornette/Mingus
1:00-4:00 PM
Lewis Porter

26:561:501:01 Historiography
10:00 AM-12:40 PM
Lewis Porter


Summer 2008

MONDAY and WEDNESDAY

26:050:522 Topics in American Studies II "Public Scholarship in the Urban Context: The Artist as Public Scholar"
Eve: 5/27 - 7/3
6:00-9:30
Tim Raphael

 

Spring 2008

MONDAY

26:050:502 Narrating Race: Research Seminar in Race and American Studies
5:00-7:30 PM
Ruth Feldstein

26:350:524 American Literature Since 1900
5:30-8:10 PM
Barbara Foley

26:977:612:01 Policy Making in the American Political System
5:30 - 8:15 PM
Jamie Lew

 

TUESDAY

26:350:568 Topics in Women and Literature: Gender, Race and the Holocaust
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Frances Bartkowski

26:510:565 Public History
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Clement Price

26:790:505 Law & Public Policy
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Elizabeth Hull

26:790:515 Urban Government & Pol
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Mara Sidney

 

WEDNESDAY

26:050:520 Topics in American Studies: Immigration and Performance
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Kimberly Holton

26:350:521:02 Topics in Literature
5:30 - 8:10 PM
David Hoddeson

26:510:552 American Intellectual & Cultural history: Confronting Challenges in American Education
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Anna Stubblefield

 

THURSDAY

26:350:521 Topics in Literature: War Stories
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Janet Larson

26:510:554 Topics in American Political and Legal History
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Annette Gordon-Reed

26:790:578 The Politics of Past & Future
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Solari

FRIDAY

26:561:502 Historiography
10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Lewis Porter

26:561:505 Grad Topics I
1:20 - 4:00 PM
Lewis Porter

 

SATURDAY

26:350:508 Critical Theories: Hybridity and the African Diaspora
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Belinda Edmondson

 

Fall 2007

MONDAY

26:050:501 Introduction to American Studies
5:00-7:30 PM
Ruth Feldstein

26:350:568 Literary Topics: Women & Gender, Race & the Holocaust
5:30-8:10 PM
Frances Bartkowski

26:790:501 Policy Making in the American Political System
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Keesha Middlemass

26:977:617 Globalization and Cities
5:30 - 8:20 PM
Jamie Lew

TUESDAY

26:350:509 Studies in American Literature (African American Prose)
5:50 - 8:10 PM
Sterling Bland

26:510:543 Topics in World History: Evolution of the Global System
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Susan Carruthers

26:510:595 The Social History of American Medicine Since 1800
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Stephen Pemberton

26:790:502 Problems in American Government
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Heidi Swarts

26:977:610 Urban Systems: Evolution of American Metropolis
5:30 - 8:20 PM
Dennis Gale

26:988:532 Feminist Theory: History and Theory of Women’s Studies
5:30 - 8:10 PM
Frances Bartkowski


WEDNESDAY

26:350:537 Contemporary American Literature
5:30 - 8:10 PM
H. Bruce Franklin

26:510:525 Colloquium in the History of Women
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Beryl Satter

26:510:597 Technology, Culture & History
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Richard Sher

26:567:505 Literature of Jazz
4:15 - 7:00 PM
John Howland

26:790:518 Topics in Political Theory: Modern Political Terrorism
4:00 - 6:40 PM
Norman Samuels

26:977:608 Urban Educational Systems
5:30 - 8:20 PM
Alan Sadovnik


THURSDAY

26:050:510 Immigration in USA
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Jamie Lew

26:510:549 The Making of Race in Latin America, 1492 to the Present
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Karen Caplan

26:790:511 Contemporary Political Thought: Social Movements and Globalization
5:00 - 7:40 PM
Kurt Schock

26:977:611 History of Urban Education
5:30 - 8:20 PM
Christina Collins


FRIDAY

26:561:501 Jazz Historiography
10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Lewis Porter

26:561:507 Jazz and Race
1:20 - 4:00 PM
Lewis Porter



   
 
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