General description

The purpose of NAM-5 is to introduce students with some aspects of American society and culture from a political perspective. NAM-5 can be studied by taking a suitable course by written assignments (essays) or a book exam.

Learning outcomes

The purpose of NAM-5 is to introduce students with some aspects of American society and culture from a political perspective.

Contents

Courses, essays or an book exam

Teaching methods

Courses advertised on North American Studies teaching schedule, essays and book exam.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

For written assignments or a book exam choose part a), b), c) or d)

a) Culture wars and American Prosperity

Fiona, Morris P, Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope. 2005. Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (2nd edition) Longman

and

Krugman, Paul R. 1995. Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W.W. Norton & Company

b) The American Voter and the American Ghetto

Venatesh, Sudhir. 2002 American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto.

and

Lewis-Beck, Michael. 2008. The American Voter Revisited. University of Michigan Press.

c) Immigration and Ethnicity

Louise Lamphere, Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration, (1992)

and

Roediger, David R., Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2005)

d) Women's Studies and Gender  

NB. Contact person and examiner: PhD, Researcher Maarit Piipponen, Dept. of English, School of Modern Languages and Translation studies. maarit.piipponen(at)uta.fi

choose two of the following:

Paula S. Rothenberg, (ed.) Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. 5th ed. (2000); Sections I, II, VII, VIII.

Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (2001).

Kathryn McPherson, Nancy M. Forestell, Cecilia L Morgan, (eds.) Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays on Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (1999).

Further information

For book exam dates on NAM-5 please see the departmental exam dates of the Department of History and Philosophy. For book exam date on NAM-5d see the the exam dates for Department of English, School of Modern Languages and Translation studies

Belongs to following study modules