Current American Studies Course Offerings

Fall 2024/Summer 2024 Course Offerings in American Studies

For more information, please contact American Studies Coordinator Caroline Woidat.


American Studies Electives

Courses that may be taken as American Studies electives:


Business

  • MGMT 263 Business Law I

English 

  • ENGL 111 Diversity, Pluralism, and Power in American Literature and Culture: Expulsion and the Housing Crisis
  • ENGL 329 American Visions: Filming the Seventies
  • ENGL 431 Conversations: Environmental Justice 
  • ENGL 439 American Ways: Captivity Narratives 
  • ENGL 467 Topics in Modern Literature: Women and the Civil War

Film Studies

  • FMST 369 Connections in Film: Black Queer Cinema

Geography

  • GEOG 201 Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning

History

Note: HIST 302 is restricted to History majors, minors & concentrators, sophomore standing or higher OR permission of History Department.

  • HIST 120 Military History of the U.S.A 
  • HIST 161 Issues in American History: American Populism
  • HIST 204 U.S. Since 1945
  • HIST 249 Studies in American History: Black Lives Matter: Past and Present
  • HIST 261 Native American History
  • HIST 266 Civil Rights Movement in America

History (Continued)

  • HIST 302 Research in History: Indian Boarding Schools
  • HIST 302 Research in History: US Women's History
  • HIST 410 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1918
  • HIST 415 Environmental History of Modern America
  • HIST 430 Advanced Studies in American History: Intersectional Early America

Interdepartmental 

  • INTD 203 Social Foundations of Education in the United States

Music

  • MUSC 100 Understanding Music: Woody Guthrie
  • MUSC 100 Understanding Music: History of Rock-n-Roll 
  • MUSC 217 Jazz in America

Performance as Social Change

  • PASC 105 Performance as Social Change I

Political Science

  • PLSC 110 American Politics
  • PLSC 373 Presidential Politics 
  • PLSC 415 Legislative Process 
  • PLSC 418 Constitutional Law 

Sociology

  • SOCL 210 Sociology of Families
  • SOCL 213 Sociology of Medicine
  • SOCL 230 Race and Ethnicity
  • SOCL 310 Sociology of Law

AMST Cultural Intersections

Courses that fulfill the AMST Cultural Intersections requirement:


Black Studies 

  • BLKS 200 Introduction to Black Studies

English

  • ENGL 111 Diversity. Pluralism, and Power in American Literature and Culture: Expulsion and the Housing Crisis
  • ENGL 329 American Visions: Filming the Seventies 
  • ENGL 431 Conversations: Environmental Justice 
  • ENGL 439 American Ways: Captivity Narratives 
  • ENGL 467 Topics in Modern Literature: Women and the Civil War

Film Studies 

  • FMST 369 Connections in Film: Black Queer Cinema

History

Note: HIST 302 is restricted to History majors, minors & concentrators, sophomore standing or higher OR permission of History Department.

  • HIST 249 Studies in American History: Black Lives Matter: Past and Present 
  • HIST 261 Native American History
  • HIST 266 Civil Rights Movement in America
  • HIST 302 Research in History: Indian Boarding Schools

History (Continued)

  • HIST 302 Research in History: U.S. Women's History
  • HIST 415 Environmental History of Modern America
  • HIST 430 Advanced Studies in American History: Intersectional Early America

Music

  • MUSC 217 Jazz in America

Sociology

  • SOCL 210 Sociology of Families
  • SOCL 230 Race and Ethnicity

AMST Transnational

Courses that fulfill the AMST transnational requirement: 

Anthropology 

  • ANTH 226 Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean 
  • ANTH 318 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
  • ANTH 319 Cross-Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Business

Note: Courses have prerequisites and are restricted to School of Business majors and minors. Others may seek permission from the School of Business.

  • FNCE 316 International Finance 
  • MGMT 370 International Business

Communication

  • COMN 317 Culture and Communication

English 

  • ENGL 203 Reader and Text: Canadian Literature 
  • ENGL 424 The Novel: Novels of the Caribbean 

Film Studies

  • FMST 369 Connections in Film: Black Queer Cinema

History 

  • HIST 270 History of Latin America to 1825

Philosophy 

  • PHIL 202 World Religions and Contemporary Issues

Political Science

  • PLSC 120 Comparative Politics
  • PLSC 140 International Politics 

Sociology 

  • SOCL 105 Introduction to Global Social Change 
  • SOCL 325 Global Social Change 

Summer 2024 Course Offerings in American Studies 


American Studies Electives 

Courses that may be taken as American Studies electives:


Black Studies 

  • BLKS 225 Black Cinema

History 

  • HIST 163 African American History to 1877 

Interdepartmental 

  • INTD 203 Social Foundations of American Education 

Women's and Gender Studies 

  • WGST 202 Topics in Representation in the Humanities and the Arts: Dismantling Disney & Pixar: Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Class in Animations 

AMST Cultural Intersections 

Courses that fulfill the AMST Cultural Intersections requirement:


Black Studies 

  • BLKS 225 Black Cinema 

History 

  • HIST 163 African American History to 1877 

Women's and Gender Studies 

  • WGST 202 Topics in Representation in the Humanities and the Arts: Dismantling Disney and Pixar: Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Class in Animations

AMST Transnational 

Courses that fulfill the AMST transnational requirement: 


Communications 

  • COMN 317 Culture and Communication 

Political Science 

  • PLSC 120 Comparative Politics 

Anthropology 

  • ANTH 326 Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Americas 

English 

  • ENGL 431 Conversations: Poem/Border/Citizen