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Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Gregory M. Pfitzer
Office: Tisch Learning Center, Room # 330
(518) 580 - 5026

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Susan Matrazzo
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Fall 2011Courses

AM 103: A Humorous (Dis) Course (4)
TuTh, 9:40-11:00, TLC 301, Beck Krefting

* AM 103W 001: Natural and Unnatural Disasters (4)
WF, 10:10-11:30, TLC 307, Mary C. Lynn

AM 250A 001:  Regular Culture: Hudson River (4)
MWF 10:10-11:05, TLC 303 Gregory M. Pfitzer

AM 250C 001: Regular Culture: the South (3)
WF, 12:20-1:40, TLC 301  Leonard Slade

AM260 001:  Hip Hop Culture (3)
Tu, 6:00-9:00, TLC 202 Lisa Gill


AM 260C 001:  African American Experience (3)
M, 6:00-9:00, TLC 301, Lisa Gill


AM 260J 001:  Diversity in the United States (3)
TuTh, 12:40-2:00, TLC 305, Beck Krefting

AM 331:  Critical Whiteness in the United States 
MW, 2:30-3:50, TLC 308, Beck Krefting

AM 360A:  The 1920s(3)
TuTh, 2:10-3:30, TLC 308, Mary C. Lynn

AM 374:  Senior Seminar (4)
TuTh, 3:40-5:40, Library 213, Gregory M. Pfitzer

 

* AM 103W NATURAL AND UNNATURAL DISASTERS

An interdisciplinary analysis of American natural and unnatural disasters, this course will examine floods, fires, earthquakes, epidemics, and other disasters to explore the development of American culture. The course will emphasize writing and research, reading critically, thinking historically, practicinginterdisciplinarity, acknowledging diversity, and making connections. The class will study the Revolutionary War Smallpox Pandemic, the Chicago Fire, the Galveston Hurricane, the San Francisco Earthquake, the 1910 Big Burn ForestFire, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, the 1927 Mississippi Flood, and Hurricane Katrina, among others.