This course introduces students to the broadly interdisciplinary study of US culture in all its various forms, from everyday life, historical memory, politics, and religion to art, literature, film, photography, and music. Our emphasis throughout will be on doing American Studies, which we will model during the course’s six tightly focused units. Students will then put this learning into practice for your semester project on American foodways. All along we will examine issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, transnationality, and citizenship that have shaped key moments in the history of American culture and society. This course consists of 2 lectures a week and a separate discussion section.

Materials for this course will be posted on Neatline at http://amst2001.neatline-uva.org.