THE GREATER DALLAS EXPERIENCE

CF 3367-001H
MWF 12PM-12:50—McCord Auditorium (306 Dallas Hall)
David Doyle—G01B Clements Hall—214-768-3813
Team Taught with Professors Caroline Brettell (002H), Pauline Newton (003H), and Diana Howard (004H).

This course will introduce students to the Greater Dallas environment and to the different ways in which a city and a region can be studied. The major objective is to develop students’ knowledge of the peoples, institutions, and places in Greater Dallas and how these are related to one another. The course will introduce students to multiple disciplinary perspectives and how these can be used to develop a sophisticated and complex understanding of a single metropolitan area. At the end of the course students will demonstrate their grasp of at least two disciplinary approaches to understanding the city. Through weekly classroom discussion, written assignments, examinations, and group projects, students will demonstrate their abilities to read, write, and speak carefully and critically as well as to conduct primary research.

Readings include: 1) Harvey J. Graff, The Dallas Myth; 2) Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001; 3) Patricia Hill, Dallas: The Making of a Modern City; 4) Rachel Adler, Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas: Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance; 5) Don DeLillo, Libra.

*In addition there are several other readings that will be posted on blackboard in pdf format.