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Teaching

Members of staff at the Center for Transnational American Studies are involved in a wide range of teaching within the English program at Engerom. All students in the BA English program at Copenhagen take the first-year, second-semester introductory course American History and Literature (AHL). Subsequently, BA English students have the opportunity to take a range of optional courses (valgfag) in American studies subjects. Recent and forthcoming optional undergraduate courses in American studies have included "The Rise of the Modern: A Social History of American Art, 1900-1950"; "Contemporary American Dilemmas, 1989-2011"; "Freedom and Race in Nineteenth Century American Literature"; "Twentieth Century African American Women's Fiction"; "Reinventing the Southern Renascence: Literature of the American South, 1930-1955"; "Women's Literature of the American West"; "American Fiction 1865-1915: Different Americans, Different Americas"; "Native American Autobiography, 1830-1936"; "The American Political System"; "American Poetry from the Colonial Period to the mid-Twentieth Century"; "American Fiction Between the Wars"; and "Urban Ethnic Geographies in the U.S."

Much of the most intensively research-based teaching in American studies takes place at MA level. Recent and forthcoming MA courses in American studies have included "Globalization, World Order, and Theories of International Relations"; "A History of Chinese Americans"; "Hellfire Nation: A History of American Religion"; "Plantation Images: Sex and Violence/Society and Selfhood"; "Bob Dylan in American Culture"; "Literature after 9/11"; "Literature of the Harlem Renaissance"; "African American Urban Culture"; "Cosmopolitanism in Practice: Boundary Formation in the United States"; "Turn of the Century Multicultural American Literature"; "First Contact: Early Japanese Writings on America, 1852-1924"; "From Custer's Last Stand to Last Superpower Standing: U.S. 1877-1991"; "At Sixes and Sevens: U.S. Society in Flux"; "Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the Transnational City."

American studies staff at Engerom also supervise a large number of BA projects (BA-projekter) and MA theses (specialer).

The Center for Transnational American Studies is currently involved in developing MA courses in collaboration with colleagues at the Center for Latin American Studies. The first such course will run in the fall 2010: "Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles: Racial and ethnic tensions in the transnational city." The course will be co-taught by Dr. Sandi Michele De Oliveira (Latin American studies) and Dr. Gregory Stephenson (American studies).