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Introduction to Comparative American Studies

Comparative American Studies 100

Usual Description

The course will introduce students to the complexity of American social and cultural formations, with particular emphases on sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and to various methodologies of comparative analysis.

Themes

Course Listings

These are all of the listings of this course recorded in the Oberlin course catalog since the fall of 2007.

Listing	Semester	Professor
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2017	Taught by Shelley Lee
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2016	Taught by Wendy Kozol
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2015	Taught by Wendy Kozol
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2015	Taught by Wendy Kozol or Shelley Lee
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2014	Taught by Wendy Kozol or Shelley Lee
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2014	Taught by Pablo Mitchell
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2013	Taught by Wendy Kozol
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2013	Taught by Pablo Mitchell
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2012	Taught by Meredith Raimondo
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2012
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2011	Taught by Meredith Raimondo
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2011
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2010	Taught by Meredith Raimondo
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2010
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2009
Comparative American Studies 100	Spring 2009	Taught by Meredith Raimondo
Comparative American Studies 100	Fall 2008	Taught by Meredith Raimondo

Related courses

Intro to Comparative Amer Stud

Course

Listed As	Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies 100
Taught By	Wendy Kozol Shelley Lee

Wendy Kozol

Faculty/staff member

Departments	Comparative American Studies Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Courses Taught	Debating Citizenships Debating Citizenships Equal Rights to Human Rights: Feminist Perspectives on Social Justice Introduction to Comparative American Studies Intro to Comparative Amer Stud Justice in America? Research Seminar: Expanding the Archive Seminar: Picturing War and Human Rights: Trauma, Violence and Spectatorship Visible Bodies Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
Geographic Expertise	North America
Time Periods	Post-1900
Thematic Interests	Citizenship Feminist Theory Globalization Human Rights Militarization Visual Culture Studies

Meredith Raimondo

Faculty/staff member

Departments	Comparative American Studies Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Courses Taught	Disease, Democracy, and Difference HIV/AIDS in America Introduction to Comparative American Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Identities Seminar: Transnational Sexualities: National Borders, Global Desires
Geographic Expertise	The Americas
Time Periods	Post-1865
Languages	French (Basic) Spanish (Intermediate)
Thematic Interests	Affect African American Studies Anti-Colonialism Anti-Racism Asian American Studies Biomedicalization Bisexual Black Feminist Theory Chronic Illness Citizenship Class Class Formation Colonialism Community-Based Research Comparative Studies Critical Race Theory Diasporic Studies Disability Studies Discrimination Diversity Education Empire Environmental Justice Equity Ethnography Feminist Theory Film Gay Gay Liberation Gender Gender And Sexuality Geography Global Health Globalization Graphic Novels Health Justice Health Policy Heath Disparities HIV/AIDS Human Rights Immigration Imperialism Indigenous And Native American Studies Infectious Disease Intersectionality Labor Latino Studies Lesbian LGTBQ Marxism Media And Politics Media Theory Mental Health Neoliberalism New Media Participatory Action Research Performance Studies Performativity Political Activism Politics Of Space Popular Culture Positionality Post-Colonial Theory Post-Modernism Prison Industrial Complex Public Health Queer Queer Of Color Theory Queer Studies Queer Theory Racial Capitalism Radicalism Rural Studies Settler Colonialism Sexuality Sexualized Violence Social Change Social Discrimination Social Movements Soverignty Spatial Representation Spatial Theory Transgender Transnational Advocacy Transnational Queer Identities Visual Culture Studies Women Of Color Feminisms Youth

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Identities

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 211
Taught By	Evangeline Heiliger Meredith Raimondo
Themes	Community Formation Gender And Sexuality Race And Ethnicity Studies Social Justice Socioeconomic Class

Shelley Lee

Faculty/staff member

Departments	Comparative American Studies Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies History
Courses Taught	Afro-Asian America American History, 1877 to the Present American Orientalism Asian American History Asian American History Climate Change and Disaster in History Colloquium: Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970s Immigration in U.S. History Immigration in U.S. History Introduction to Comparative American Studies Intro to Comparative Amer Stud Research Seminar: Expanding the Archive Senior Honors Senior Honors Westward Bound: The West in American History
Geographic Expertise	United States
Time Periods	1900 - 2000
Thematic Interests	American West Asian American Studies Immigration Race And Ethnicity Studies Urban Communities

Debating Citizenships

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 235
Taught By	Wendy Kozol
Areas Covered	United States
Themes	Citizenship Class Gender And Race Gender And Sexuality Popular Culture Popular Media

Seminar: Transnational Sexualities: National Borders, Global Desires

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 321
Taught By	Meredith Raimondo
Themes	Gender And Sexuality Globalization HIV/AIDS Human Migration Militarization Race And Ethnicity Studies Reproduction Sex Work Social Justice Tourism Transnational Queer Identities

Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 202
Taught By	Wendy Kozol
Areas Covered	United States
Themes	Agency Gaze Gender And Sexuality Nationalism Race And Ethnicity Studies Race And Sexuality Socioeconomic Class Visual Culture Studies

How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 240
Taught By	Afia Ofori-Mensa
Areas Covered	United States
Themes	Gender And Sexuality Race And Ethnicity Studies

Asian American History

Course

Listed As	Comparative American Studies 260
Taught By	Maria Paz G. Esguerra Shelley Lee
Areas Covered	United States
Themes	Asian American History Community Formation Gender And Sexuality Human Migration Immigration Labor History Race And Ethnicity Studies Socioeconomic Class