CONTEMPORARY AMERICA

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Open to graduate students and qualified undergraduates (those who have completed a minimum of 96 undergraduate credits with an overall GPA of at least 3.2). Qualified undergraduates must contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the required permission form. The course addresses the period broadly and variously defined as "contemporary America" by engaging a range of primary (literature, film, music, art) and secondary (history, theory, cultural studies) texts. The course practices what the contemporary moment itself enacts: an outline of the period that interrogates its own definition.