Current American Studies Course Offerings

Spring 2026 Course Offerings in American Studies

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

 

Spring 2026 American Studies Electives

Courses that may be taken as American Studies electives:

American Studies

  • AMST 200 Race, Prisons and Policing

  • AMST 201 Topics in American Studies: New Deal Art in Context

Anthropology

  • ANTH 322 Anthropology of Borderlands

Art History

  • ARTH 280 History of Art in the United States

  • ARTH 400 Art of the WPA

Business

  • MGMT 262 Business Law I

  • MGMT 262 Business Law II

English 

  • ENGL 111 Octavia Butler & AI
  • ENGL 114 Sustainability & Literature: Ecomedia
  • ENGL 337 African American Literature

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 American Populism

  • HIST 204 United States Since 1945

  • HIST 262 American Indian Law & Public Policy

  • HIST 263 Civil War and Reconstruction Era 1830-1890

  • HIST 266 Civil Rights Movement in America

  • HIST 302 Modern US Environmental History

  • HIST 407 Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World

  • HIST 430 History of Black Television

  • HIST 430 Civil Rights Youth & Social Justice

Interdepartmental

  •  INTD Social Foundations of Education in the United States

Music

  • MUSC 100 History of Rock n’ Roll

  • MUSC 100 Music in American

Political Science

  • PLSC 110 American Politics

  • PLSC 411 Public Opinion and the Mass Media

  • PLSC 436 The American Founders

Sociology

  • SOCL 213 Sociology of Medicine

  • SOCL 225 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

  • SOCL 230 Race & Ethnicity

  • SOCL 333 Sociology of Education

Spring 2026 AMST Cultural Intersections

Courses that fulfill the AMST Cultural Intersections requirement:

American Studies

  • AMST 200 Race, Prisons and Policing

Anthropology 

  • ANTH 322 Anthropology of Borderlands

English

  • ENGL 111 Octavia Butler & AI

  • ENGL 337 African American Literature

History 

  • HIST 262 American Indian Law & Public Policy

  • HIST 263 Civil War and Reconstruction Era 1830-1890

  • HIST 266 Civil Rights Movement in America

  • HIST 407 Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World

  • HIST 430 History of Black Television

  • HIST 430 Civil Rights Youth & Social Justice

Sociology

  • SOCL 225 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

  • SOCL 230 Race & Ethnicity

 

Spring 2026 AMST Transnational

Courses that fulfill the AMST transnational requirement: 

Anthropology 

  • ANTH 322 Anthropology of Borderlands

  • ANTH 301 Religion, Society, and Culture

Business 

  • MKTG 339 International Marketing

  • MGMT 370 International Business

English 

  • ENGL 112 Caribbean Narratives

History 

  • HIST 271 History of Latin America Since 1825

  • HIST 470 History of Modern Mexico

Political Science

  • PLSC 120 Comparative Politics

  • PLSC 140 International Politics

  • PLSC 382 U.S. Foreign Policy

Sociology 

  • SOCL 105 Introduction to Global Social Change

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