General description

Comparative, thematic courses or a book exam on North American cultures and societies from various perspectives.

Learning outcomes

Familiarize students with concepts of North American cultures and societies.

Contents

Courses or an book exam on North American cultures and societies from various perspectives.

Teaching methods

Courses advertised on North American Studies teaching schedule or a book exam.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

Donald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte and Miguel Basañez, The North American Trajectory: Cultural, Economic, and Political Ties among the United States, Canada, and Mexico (1996), and Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (1991), 3 ECTS Book examination on Ethnicity and Urbanization: Louise Lamphere, Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration, (1992) or Roediger, David R. Working toward Whiteness : how America’s immigrants became White : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs (2005) or Sinke, Suzanne M. Dutch immigrant women in the United States, 1880-1920 (2002) and Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society (1991).

Further information

Please choose only one of the following: NAM-5a Culture and Society or NAM-5b Women's Studies and Gender.
For book exam dates on NAM-5a please see the departmental exam dates of the Department of History.