This guide contains links to the reading for this course. The guide does NOT contain your assignments. Those can be found on the syllabus.
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Welcome to Perspectives in American Culture
The goal of this class is to enhance your ability to read and interpret American texts by learning how to see them in context, to understand the way we approach texts from interpretative lenses, and to figure out how we want to express our insights.
The fieldwork assignments involve outside activities to stimulate active learning and active engagement with how ideas manifest themselves in the world. These assignments are meant to put learning into action.
What is American Studies?
Lens and Contexts
Week 3:
Week 4: Success
Julia Freeland Fisher, "How to Get a Job Often Comes Down to One Elite Personal Asset"
Week 5: Success
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
