The Scherer Center helps students coordinate programs of research on American culture; it does not offer a degree in the study of American culture. Below you will find a list of courses offered in 2010-11 by departments and schools across the University. For previous years’ course offerings in American Studies, please visit our Course Archive.
The Scherer Center sponsors an annual seminar for PhD students. The seminar for 2010-11, cross-listed in the departments of English and History as well as the Divinity School, is entitled “Multidisciplinary Study of American Culture” and features the recent scholarship of (and visits from) faculty members who teach in Anthropology, Art History, the Divinity School, Economics, English, History, the Law School, Philosophy, and Social Thought.
ENGL 55405/HIST 62304/RLIT 48801/HCHR 48801
Multidisciplinary Study of American Culture (Scherer Center Seminar for 2010 -11) This seminar treats classic scholarship on American culture, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, and traces the institutionalization of the interdisciplinary project known as American Studies. Faculty members from across the University (Humanities, Social Sciences, Divinity, and Law) join seminar members each week to discuss the lasting significance of the books under discussion. E. Slauter. Autumn
Anthropology
34000: Introduction to Chicago Anthropology Staff, Autumn
34823: Hemingway P. Friedrich, Autumn
35110: Cultural Psychology R. Shweder, Autumn
35325: History and Culture of Baseball J. Kelly, Spring
Art History
35900: Theories of Media W. Mitchell, Autumn
48750: Documentary: New Histories in Progress S. Miller, Autumn
Cinema and Media Studies
37800: Theories of Media W. Mithcell, Autumn
40000: Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies T. Gunning, Autumn
Comparative Human Development
42402: Trial Research in Human Development R. Taub, Autumn
Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
37200: African-American History to 1877 T. Holt, Autumn
30173: Inequality in American Society M. Small, Spring
Comparative Literature
37300: The Modern Regime in Art I: The End of Romanticism R. Pippin, D. Wellberry, Autumn
Divinity
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
53500: Religious Authority B. Lincoln, Autumn
History of Christianity
42901: Christianity and Slavery in America, 1619 – 1865 C. Evans, Autumn
43301: Religion in Modern America, 1865 – 1920 C. Evans, Autumn
42100: The Enlightenment in America C. Brekus, Winter
42101: Evangelicanism in America C. Brekus, Winter
44300: Religion and Emotion in American Culture W. Gilpin, Winter
44901: Race and Religion in 20th Century American Culture C. Evans, Winter
42000: Research on American Religious History C. Brekus, Spring
53100: US Social History: Catholics and Americans K. Conzen, Spring
Religious Ethics
43900: Religion and Democracy F. Gamwell, Autumn
Economics
32200: Population and the Economy R. Fogel, Autumn
42900: Innovators D. Galenson, Autumn
51200: Workshop: Econometrics J. Heckman, Autumn
52200: Workshop on the Economics and Biodemography of Aging R. Fogel, Autumn
32000: American Economic History D. Galenson, Winter
42800: Creativity D. Galenson, Winter
English
32800: Theories of Media W. Mitchell, Autumn
35932: Representing Finance in 20th Century American Literature and Film L. LaBerge, Autumn
42408: Cultural Policy: Analysis and Chance L. Rothfield, Autumn
42800: Chicago J. Knight, Autumn
43713: America’s Asia R. So, Autumn
48800: Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies T. Gunning, Autumn
55200: Diverging Modernities R. Coronado, Autumn
55405: Multidisciplinary Study of American Culture E. Slauter, Autumn
67801: The Intimate Public Sphere L. Berlant, Autumn
45405: Hawthorne and Melville J. Knight, Winter
45510: From Sentimentality and Affective Publics L. Berlant, Winter
31404: Writing Speeches: Reagan and Obama L. McEnerney, Spring
46100: The Aesthetics of Comics H. Chute, Spring
57501: Ethics and Literature: Edgar A. Poe J. Schleusener, C. Vogler, Spring
History
37200: African-American History to 1877 T. Holt, Autumn
38000: Us Latinos: Origins/Histories R. Gutierrez, Autumn
38301: American Political Culture, 1600 – 1820 J. Cook, M. Edward, Autumn
38800: Historical Geography: The US M. Conzen, Autumn
55700: Colloquium: Atlantic Worlds, 1700 – 1800 P. Cheney, Autumn
60302: Colloquium: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life R. Gutierrez, Autumn
62304: Multidisciplinary Study of American Culture E. Slauter, Autumn
62305: Colloquium: The Politics of Black Culture T. Holt, Autumn
63002: US Politics and Social Movements in the 20th Century E. Clemens, J. Sparrow, Autumn
64002: Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective C. Stansell, Autumn
84501: Research Seminar in US History J. Saville, Autumn
37300: African-American History since 1877 T. Holt Winter
37305: History of American Capitalism A. Stanley, Winter
37506: Changing America in the Last 100 Years M. Conzen, Winter
47901: Command and Control: Social Engineering in US History J. Sparrow, Winter
63003: The American South, 1865 – Present J. Dailey, Winter
38704: Race in the 20th Century Atlantic World T. Holt, L. Auslander, Spring
42801: Revolutionary Culture in 18th-Century France and America E. Slauter, P. Cheney, Spring
62503: American Legal History A. LaCroix, Spring
Music
32801: Music since 1900 B. Hoeckner, Autumn
33800: Ethnographic Methods P. Bohlman, Autumn
42211: Jazz and Popular Music Documentaries T. Jackson, Spring
Philosophy
50010: The Modern Regime in Art I: The End of Romanticism R. Pippin, D. Wellberry, Autumn
Political Sciences
36100: Civil War P. Staniland, Autumn
39900: Strategy R. Pape, Autumn
43100: Maximum Likelihood J. Brehm, Autumn
46410: Co-Evolution of States and Markets J. Padget, Autumn
54500: American Politics W. Howell, Autumn
37000: Law and Politics: US Courts as Political Institutions G. Rosenberg, Winter
42515: Political Nature of the American Judicial System G. Rosenberg, Winter
49500: American Grand Strategy J. Mearsheimer, Winter
50101: Constitutional Law: Governmental Structure A. LaCroix, Winter
54500: American Politics W. Howell, Winter
36601: Political Philosophy and Race R. Gooding-Williams, Spring
38201: African-American and Jewish Political Thought R. Gooding-Williams, J. Cooper, Spring
41600: Liberalism and American Foreign Policy J. Mearsheimer, Spring
Psychology
33000: Cultural Psychology R. Shweder, Autumn
31503: Urban Neighborhoods and Urban Schools: Community Economic Opportunity and the Schools I. Keels, R. Taub, Winter
45300: When Cultures Collide R. Shweder, Winter
Social Thought
32930: Hemingway P. Friedrich, Autumn
38111: The Modern Regime in Art I: The End of Romanticism R. Pippin, D. Wellberry, Autumn
39122: American Originals: Franklin and Lincoln D. Hutchinson, R. Lerner, Autumn
43290: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness R. Pippin, Winter
Sociology
30003: History of Social Theory A. Abbot, Autumn
30120: Urban Policy Anaylsis T. Clark, Autumn
30150: Consumption C. Knorr, Autumn
30184: Political Culture, Social Capital, and the Arts T. Clark, Autumn
30191: Social Change in the United States R. Stolzenberg, Autumn
30303: Urban Landscapes as Social Text M. Conzen
50043: US Politics and Social Movements in the 20th Century E. Clemens, J. Sparrow, Autumn
50077: Religious Authority B. Lincoln, Autumn
30105: Educational Organization/Social Inequality C. Bidwell, Winter
30104: Urban Structure and Process O. McRoberts, Spring
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