Friday, August 21, 2009
Last minute graduate addition!
AMS is cross-listing one more graduate seminar for this fall- AMS 998 Sociology of Race. Jessica Vasquez, our friend in the Sociology Department, will bring her expertise in theories of race and the Latino/a experience in the U.S. to this seminar. If you are a grad student in need of another class, don't miss it!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Graduate Course Available for Fall
AMS 803 Research Methods in American Studies
Program in American Studies, KU
Prof. Ben Chappell
Mondays, 4:30-7:00 pm.
Requires: graduate standing
A limited number of seats for non-AMS students are available in this course, which is a core requirement for the MA and PhD in American Studies. The course is a critical and theoretically informed consideration of qualitative methods in interdisciplinary cultural research. Taught by an anthropologist, the course emphasizes issues raised by ethnography-- that is, the epistemological, political, and ethical questions that come up when the subjects of cultural inquiry are living human beings, and the process of inquiry places the researcher in relationship with them. More generally, our concern is how to design a project such that the actual practice of research responds to the motivating questions in ways that are significant, appropriate, and feasible. Assignments are geared toward giving students practice in the professional genres of academic writing, including conference papers and proposals for research funding. The course is recommended for graduate students pursuing research in area studies, cultural studies, and other disciplinary or interdisciplinary formations across the humanities and social sciences.
Program in American Studies, KU
Prof. Ben Chappell
Mondays, 4:30-7:00 pm.
Requires: graduate standing
A limited number of seats for non-AMS students are available in this course, which is a core requirement for the MA and PhD in American Studies. The course is a critical and theoretically informed consideration of qualitative methods in interdisciplinary cultural research. Taught by an anthropologist, the course emphasizes issues raised by ethnography-- that is, the epistemological, political, and ethical questions that come up when the subjects of cultural inquiry are living human beings, and the process of inquiry places the researcher in relationship with them. More generally, our concern is how to design a project such that the actual practice of research responds to the motivating questions in ways that are significant, appropriate, and feasible. Assignments are geared toward giving students practice in the professional genres of academic writing, including conference papers and proposals for research funding. The course is recommended for graduate students pursuing research in area studies, cultural studies, and other disciplinary or interdisciplinary formations across the humanities and social sciences.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Research seminar focuses on social movements
AMS 550, Research Seminar, is the capstone course of the AMS major. The course combines a topical focus reflecting the instructor's expertise with individual projects that allow students to pursue advanced research in their own areas of interest. This fall the course will focus on struggles for equality and justice in American history with the theme "Social History and Social Movements." Dr. Ray Pence, a graduate of the KU Ph.D. program will be your guide. Majors, don't miss this chance to satisfy a graduation requirement while developing your research skills and exploring how history has been not only written, but made. For permission numbers, contact the AMS office.
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