As a FLTA, you can audict upto three courses in the campus and one of them must related to American Studies. For the fall semester, I choose American Art.
TEXT BOOK
"Framing American"
BUY AT CAMPUS BOOKSTORE 
https://gsustore.com/CourseMaterials?src=2
WHAT IS THE COURSE ABOUT ?
This course examines the history of American Art from the Colonial Period through the present. Works of art and other forms of material culture will be explored and discussed within the context of philosophical, historical, social, and cultural developments. Attention will be given to the writings of artists and critics, as well as texts by contemporary art historians, historians, and other scholars which illustrate the variety of methodologies and interpretations that are currently being brought to bear on American art, architecture, and material culture. The format for this course is lecture with discussion. Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of "C" in ARTH 2532 or permission of instructor. (CREDIT BY JULIE MCQUIRE)
class schedule
there are two classes per week and each class is 75 minutes.
week 1
class 1 : explain the syllabus
Success in the course is contingent upon the student's attending classes, keeping up with reading assignments, writing a research paper, and preparing for examinations. This is a 3-credit course, so students should plan on spending at least two hours of study for every one-hour in class. Students that come to all class periods and regularly engage with the material. (CREDIT BY JULIE MCQUIRE)
Academic Honesty : Georgia Southern University's Student Code of Conduct for policies and procedures
https://students.georgiasouthern.edu/conduct/
grading : quizzes *4 (100%) + exam *3 (300%) + essay *1 (100%) + extra (10%) = 510 /5 = your final grade
homework: watch American Visions: The Promised Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=eZlu_d6GTmE
class 2
viewing the youtube and have a simple discuss with students
Summary: Desperate bands of settlers strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land ( America ) In the west, Spainish missions use art to convert the natives to Catholicism ; In the east, plain protest settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures and in Virginia, an exited aristocracy recreates its ideal of England.
the colonialism - the first American
America is a new world for those people who want to seek for religious freedom. (discovery - exploration - conquest - colonization)
UK PILGRIMS : Due to the corruption of Rome, pilgrims searched for an utopia to live in 1627
Spanish: build church to establish Catholic (adobe style) in 1720
German
Amish ( traditional - weaving quilt "German folk art")
Shaker ( love quivering dancing - inovation "use device well so that you may have more time to pray" - intergrate religion into art / furniture )
English celebraties in Virginia
aristicratic privilege ( hierachy)
WHO THERE IS AMERICAN IS NEW MEN SEEK FOR RELIGION FREEDOM
week 2
Viewing: American Visions: The Republic of Virtue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfzwr8C5kQk
Read Pohl, 15-75
week 3
Read Pohl, 79-136.
week 4
Read Pohl, 137-160. / QUIZ 1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH (over Pohl 137-160)
Viewing: American Visions: The Wilderness & West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkNE23Q0fU4
week 5
Read Pohl, 162-191.
week 6
Read Pohl 195-248.
EXAM 1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25th
week 7
Viewing: American Visions: The Gilded Age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFvW-AHQhI8&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpTBr21L9g&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szCtAkKHuo8&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0OdPkWQgI&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhtOGGV6U4&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=20
Read Pohl 251-318.
week 8
Read Pohl 321-354
read “The Armory Show,” in McCoubrey American Art Sources and Documents, 188-196 (Folio).
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collection-features/1913-armory-show/about
QUIZ 2 MONDAY OCTOBER 7th (over McCoubrey, above)
week 9
Read Pohl 359-383
week 10
Read Pohl 387-425.
Viewing: American Visions: Streamlines and Breadlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8W6vsnZWBk
QUIZ 3 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23rd (over Pohl 457-86)
week 11
Read Pohl 427-450.
EXAM 2 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30TH
week 12
Read Pohl 457-486.
Viewing: American Visions: The Empire of Signs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLEBow_6qA
week 13
Read Pohl 488-538.
QUIZ 4 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13th (over Pohl 488-538)
week 14
Viewing: American Visions: The Age of Anxiety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXZug8M5A0
week 15
thanksgiving
week 16
AMERICAN ART ESSAY DUE MONDAY DECEMBER 2nd
week 17
FINAL EXAM WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11TH 10-12
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