Kompendium:
1. Jan Radway, “What’s in a Name?” in The Future of American Studies Donald Pease & Robyn Wiegman, eds. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 45-75.
2. Charles Bright & Michael Geyer, “Where in the World is America?” in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Thomas Bender, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 63-99.
3. Rob Kroes, “American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End” in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Thomas Bender, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 295-313.
4. David W. Noble, extract from Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), xxiii-xlvi, 1-37.
5. Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 1-10.
Also Required: (Can be found on Fronter)
- James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr., “Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism,” Chapter 6 in Writing Research Papers, 11th Ed. (NY: Pearson Longman, 2005).
- Barbara Welter: "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" i American Quarterly, 1966. 18, 151-174.
- Class handouts and exercises
- Remainder of pensum will be individually chosen in consultation with the teacher.