Chancellor Emeritus to teach for AMS

Chancellor Emeritus Robert Hemenway has joined the AMS faculty to offer a course this fall in Sport and Higher Education! Seating is extremely limited. Click the flyer for more.

New graduate course: US Ethnography

This new seminar on contemporary ethnographic research in the United States is open to all graduate students at KU. Ben Chappell, an anthropologist on the AMS faculty, has developed this course to help students prepare for their own field studies, write up completed research, or engage the ethnographic literature in an interdisciplinary project. Click the flyer for more.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

AMS maintains a strong relationship with the program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. This summer we will cross-list two courses taught by our graduate students in WGSS. Milton Wendland will offer Lesbian and Gay Cultures in the U.S. at the Edwards campus- click the flyer above for more. Back in Lawrence, Chris Robinson will offer Gender in American Popular Music. Chris says:

This course will examine the importance of, and the roles that gender, femininity and masculinity have played in shaping numerous aspects of 20th Century American popular music. We will study gender in relation to hip hop and rap, rock, country music, jazz, blues, and other genres. Central to this course will be how gender roles and perceptions are socially constructed and perpetuated in American culture. The intersectionality of race and gender will also play a central part in this course. This course will also place gender, masculinity and femininity in social and historical context. Power, politics and economics also play crucial roles in shaping the discourse surrounding musicians, their music, and American cultural conceptions of gender. This interdisciplinary course will draw on methods, disciplines and approaches including history, musicology, gender and race theory, English, African American Studies, Jazz Studies, semiotics and material culture studies.

Both courses are listed as AMS 344.

AMS rolling out new courses

Students and friends of AMS, be sure to check this space for announcements of new courses for the coming academic year.

Graduate Seminar in American Art and Culture

Once again, AMS is fortunate to offer a graduate course from renowned scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Charles C. Eldredge. Click the flyer for details, and please contact the Professor for admission to this class.

Transnational Experience in American Literature

Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture Susan K. Harris pursues the theme of "transnational experience" through diverse periods, literary genres, and ethnic groups in her course on immigrant literature for Fall 2010. Open to undergraduate or graduate students. Click the flyer for more.

Literature of the South at either Lawrence or Edwards campus

New for fall 2010- we will be offering Cheryl Lester's AMS 696 Literature of the South as a "bi-cam" course- click on the flyer for a bigger view. The bi-cam format means that the course will be taught on the Lawrence campus, but linked to the Edwards campus via webcam. Whichever campus is closer, don't miss this chance to delve into the conflicted cultural and political history of the American south through literature.

Open to graduates and undergraduates!