American Studies I
Professor Woodling
Monday 10:30-12:30/Friday 11:30 to 1:30
Pre-fab buildings, room 6/5
Syllabus (click here)
Lecture Notes
- Understanding the Culture of the US
- Traditional American Values and Beliefs
- The American Religious Heritage
- Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the US
- Government and Politics in the US
- American Values at the Crossroads
Assignments
Links
- Elinor Ochs (1976) "The universality of conversational postulates"
- Four reasons why Americans are becoming less religious
- The Economist article that explains why Muslims immigrants assimilate more easily than their counterparts in Europe
- Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech (1963)
- ReadWorks.org article on the Civil Rights Act (1964)
- ReadWorks.org article on the Voting Rights Act (1965)
- BBC article on why segregation persists in the US
- Bill of Rights
- Johnson's Great Society Programs
- ReadWorks.org article on Native American Conflict
- ReadWorks.org article on Native American Culture
- ReadWorks.org article on the New Deal