Suffolk University - Course Descriptions

Course Number	Name
Course descriptions may be updated periodically to reflect changes since the last published catalog.
AMST-111	Defining America and Americans...
CLOSE Prerequisites Course Credits 4.00 Description This course will examine artistic, social, and political imaginings of America and Americans. We will read works by American and foreign observers of the United States to ask how Americans define themselves and how others see them. Course assignments will introduce students to themes, perspectives, and methods in the field of American Studies. Term Offered Course Types Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement
AMST-313	American Renaissance: Emerson And His Contemporaries...
CLOSE Prerequisites Course Credits 4.00 Description Readings from Emerson and other American Renaissance writers, including Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, William and Henry James, and Emily Dickinson, and examination of their intellectual congruence with pragmatism, modernism, and postmodernism. This is a seminar in American cultural, intellectual, political, and socioeconomic history which will examine the relationship between Ralph Waldo Emerson and other contemporary American 'cultural critics', as well as their relationship to the society from which they sprang and to the values of which they were, at the same time, giving enduring cultural formulation. Term Offered