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American Studies

List of Modules 2012-2013

Module outlines, can be obtained by following the hyper-linked module codes.

Abbreviations : C=core; E=elective; O=option

 

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Module
Description
Module Title Tutor(s) more DH SH EAL

Level I - Semester 1

         

AMS-10022

A Beginner's Guide to Contemporary America

Jon Parker

 more

C

 C

EP

AMS-10025

Starting Out: An Introduction to American Literature

Tim Lustig

 more  EP C C

Level I - Semester 2

AMS-10023

The Unreliable Truth: Studies in 20th Century English and American Literatues

Oliver Harris

more EP  EP EP

AMS-10024

New York, New York: An Introduction to American Culture

James Peacock

 more C C  EP

AMS-10026

The American Past: Explorations in US History

Axel Schaefer

 more EP O/EP  EP
AMS-10027 

Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in 19th Century English and American Literatures

Tim Lustig

 more EP  EP C

Level II - Semester 1

AMS-20058

The Detective and the American City

Katie McGettigan

more O/EP    EP

AMS-20063

History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

Axel Schaefer

 more O/EP  O/EP  

AMS-20064

The Romance of Fiction: History and Society in Nineteenth Century American Literature

Ian Bell

 more O/EP  O/EP C

Level II - Semester 2

AMS-20056

Burning Crosses: Religion and American Culture

James Peacock

more O/EP EP

AMS-20061

Alfred Hitchcock's America

Oliver Harris

 more O/EP O/EP EP

AMS-20065

From Modernity to Counter Culture: American Literature and Social Criticism in the Twentieth Century

Ian Bell

 more O/EP O/EP C

AMS-20074

Discovering America: From Empires to Revolutions

Laura Sandy

 more  O/EP  O/EP  
 

 

 

       

Level III - Semester 1

AMS-30029

Social Thought and Social Movements in the US

Axel Schaefer

more  O/EP  O/EP  

AMS-30031

Silence, Strength and Sentiment: Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Writing

Ian Bell

more  O/EP  O/EP  O/EP
AMS-30036

Dissertation Module for Dual and Single Honours

 Laura Sandy
more
 O/EP  C  

AMS-30039

Dissertation Module for English and American Literatures

Laura Sandy


more
     O/EP

Level III - Semester 2

 AMS-30033  Writing Slavery

 Tim Lustig

       

AMS-30035

'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America

Laura Sandy

more  O/EP  O/EP  

AMS-30038

High Culture: Drink, Drugs, and the American Dream

Oliver Harris

more  O/EP  O/EP  O/EP
 

List of Approved Electives

Level I - Semester 1

         
FIL-10027 Reading Film     EA EA  
HIS-10030

Historical Research and Writing

    EA EA  
PIR-10039

Debates in American Politics

    EA EA  
PIR-10048

Mass Media in America: It it Bleeds, Its Leads

     EA  EA  
 

 

         
 

List of Approved Electives

Level 1 - Semester II

         
ENG-10025

Approaches to American Film

    EA EA  
PIR-10039

Debates in American Politics

    EA EA  
 FIl-10002  Approaches to Film      EA  EA  
 

List of Approved Electives

Level II - Semester I

         
ENG-20036

Twentieth Century Novels into Films

    EA EA  
ENG-20041

Aspects of the Novel 1740-1930

    EA EA  
HIS-20066

Imperialism and Empire

    EA EA  
PIR-20070

The UN in World Politics

    EA EA  
PIR-20071

U.S. Government and Politics

    EA EA  
 

List of Approved Electives

Level II - Semester II

         
HIS-20067

Sources and Debates

    EA EA  
HIS-20078 Power in the Modern World     EA EA  
MDS-20017 Politics and Cinema     EA EA  
MDS-20019 Analysing Culture     EA EA  
PIR-20061 Peace, Conflict and Security: Theories and Practice     EA EA  
PIR-20068 Why Policy Changes     EA EA  
ENG-20036 Twentieth Century Novels into Films     EA EA  
 

List of Approved Electives

Level III - Semester I

         
PIR-301117

The U.S. Presidency

    EP EP  
ENG-30067

The Writer as Pychologist - the Great Russian Realists

    EA EA  
SOC-30025

Streets. Skyscrapers, and Slums: The City in Social, Cultural, and Historical Cont

    EA EA  
 

List of Approved Electives

Level III - Semester II

         
CRI-30041

The Politics and Cultures of the Death Penalty in the 21st Century

         
ENG-30053

Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

    EA  EA  
ENG-30063

The Canadian Metropolis

    EA  EA  
ENG-30056

Postcolonial and World Literature in English

         
PIR-30128

Protest and social movements

    EA EA  
PIR-30129

Environmental Politics in the USA

    EA  EA  
PIR-30131

Education Politics and Policy

    EA  EA  
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