TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
GENDER HISTORY AND AMER FILM
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hilary-Anne Hallett
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
LANGUAGES of AMERICA
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
John H McWhorter
CULPA: 26
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TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James Stephen Shapiro
Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
SUPREME COURT IN AMER HISTORY
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Rosenberg
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tocqueville: Democratic Mind
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Lilla
CULPA: 57
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- 4 points
The Native Northeast
This course provides an interdisciplinary perspective on Native peoples of present-day New York and New England and their interactions with colonial empires (French, Spanish, British, US). Most of the reading will be by Native authors. In order to provide a firm historical foundation for understanding the dynamics of Indigenous and colonial history our emphasis will be on the period between European settlement and the nineteenth century. Coverage will not be exhaustive; there are too many Native nations in this region for that to be possible. Our focus rather will be on major turning points in Native history which have become flashpoints for controversy among scholars and in the broader public sphere: the relationship between Native nations and Pilgrims, King Philip’s War, the so-called Indian Great Awakening, and others. The course will cover topics in literary and religious history, politics, law, and anthropology, and should appeal to students in any of those fields, while providing an introduction to the history and methods of Indigenous Studies.
Democracy and De-Democratization, Theory
Democracy & De-Democratiz
The concepts of democratic backsliding, regime cycles (between oligarchy and populism, democracy and dictatorship), hybrid regimes and reverse waves, were devised with regard to newly democratized and/or insufficiently institutionalized democratic regimes. Yet today even long consolidated, wealthy western democracies seem to be at risk. This course will focus on the case of the United States. While domestic and external threats to American constitutional democracy are not new, there is widespread concern today that both liberal constitutionalism and American democracy are at grave risk. Our inquiry will involve an in-depth study of the political theory and American politics literature on the relevant concepts and dynamics. In the first part of the course, we will discuss the basic concepts and theories regarding democracy, oligarchy, constitutionalism and regime cycles developed in classical and early modern political thought. The second part of the course will focus on the U.S., the oldest constitutional representative democracy and typically deemed the exemplar of a successfully consolidated democratic regime. We analyze the processes, dynamics, reversals and limits to democratization in the US focusing on key tipping points from the founding to the present. Our focus will be on four sets of factors and modes of explanation for the relevant shifts: constitutional, political, socio-cultural, and economic. We conclude with analysis of the contemporary conjuncture and current threats to American constitutional democracy.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean L Cohen
CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info - 4 points