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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS7939
Tracking Number - 5464
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Campus:
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2016-04-29
- Department: History
- College: HT
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: David K. Johnson
- Phone: 8139746245
- Email: davidjohnson@usf.edu
- Prefix: HIS
- Number: 7939
- Full Title: History of U.S. Consumer Culture
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: -
- Is the course title variable?:
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?:
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum):
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
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- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course offers a study of the historiographical literature on consumer culture in modern American society.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course:
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service?
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.)
- Objectives:
- Learning Outcomes: After completing this course, students will be able to:
Read more critically, write more concisely, and argue more persuasively
Use primary and secondary sources to write an original research paper
Think historically about issues of consumer culture, marketing, advertising, and branding
Identify key text and concepts in the literature of capitalism and consumer culture
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Vintage 1993)
Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (Smithsonian, 2004)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003)
Robert Weems, Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (NYU, 1998)
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture (Penn, 2011)
Alice Echols, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (Norton, 2010)
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (Norton, 1996)
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: 25% of your final grade will be based on your meaningful, thoughtful participation in class discussion. For the first ten weeks of the course we will read the equivalent of one book a week and students will be expected to come to class prepared to discuss it. I consider myself a facilitator, leading a discussion that is largely student-focused. Mere quantity of verbiage is not the goal, but evidence of reasoned engagement with the course materials and the historical issues addressed by the class. There is rarely a “right” answer to any question posed in a seminar, although those answers based on factual information, perhaps even the week’s reading, are better than those based on mere conjecture. Posing useful questions is often the most valuable way to contribute to a seminar discussion.
25% of your grade will be based on short (2 page) response essays. During the first ten weeks, one such paper will be due at the beginning of each class. The assignment is designed as an opportunity for you to reflect critically on the readings for the week and as an aid in organizing your thoughts for discussion. It should offer a critical analysis of one or more of the author’s major arguments. It is neither a book report nor a research paper. Footnotes and lengthy quotations are discouraged. All the writing assignments should be in your best, leanest, most concise prose. They should be typed and double-spaced. They are due at the beginning of each class and late papers will not be accepted. I will provide significant feedback designed to improve your writing.
50% of your final grade will be based on a 15-20 page research paper on a some aspect of consumer culture in American history. Although you should start thinking about a topic and consulting with me as soon as possible, the final five weeks of the class are devoted exclusively to researching, writing, and presenting this work. A one-page proposal and one-page bibliography are due on February 23rd. A revised proposal and updated and annotated bibliography are March 29th. During this period we will have a research orientation in the library to familiarize you with the databases and other resources available there. You are encouraged to consult with me as your project progresses, but to ensure that you do so at least once, week 11 is reserved for individual meetings with me on your projects. Students will give presentations of their work to the class during week 15. Final papers are due Thursday May 3rd.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests:
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work:
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.