My primary teaching assignment at Columbia is a year-long sequence of courses (“Introduction to American Studies” and “Methods in American Studies”) for first-year graduate students at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. When I first began teaching these courses, I was very happy to find other people’s syllabi online, and so I’m sharing a few of mine here…
Fall 2019, “Introduction to American Studies”
Spring 2020, “Methods in American Studies”
Fall 2018, “Introduction to American Studies”
Spring 2019, “Methods in American Studies”
Over the years, I’ve taught a range of other classes, mostly for early undergraduates; here’s a few of the more fun and generative of those…
“Poetries of Slavery”
”American Poetry Archives”
”Introduction to African-American Literature”
”Modern Love”
”Conduct of Life”