Below is a sample list of American Studies related courses. For more information, consult the course bulletin.

AFR 201 The African American Literary Tradition
AFR 206 Introduction to African-American History (from 1500)
AFR 207 Images of Africana People through the Cinema
AFR 212 Black Women Writers
AFR 217 The Black Family
AFR 222 Images of Women and Blacks in American Cinema
AFR 225 Introduction to Black Psychology
AFR 229 Rap Music and the African American Poetical Tradition
AFR 239 Islam in Black America: From Slavery to the Present
AFR 266 Black Drama
AFR 310 Seminar. Black Literature. Topic A: Three Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; Topic C: Writers from the Diaspora
AFR 340 Seminar. Topics in African American History
ANTH 220 Identity and Community Formation: Asian American Perspectives
ARTH 205 Breaking Boundaries: The Arts of Mexico and the United States
ARTH 225 Modern Art Since 1945
ARTH 226 History of Photography: From Invention to Media Age
ARTH 228 Modern Architecture
ARTH 230 Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Home
ARTH 231 Architecture and Urbanism in
North America
ARTH 232 American Painting
ARTH 236 Art, Architecture, and Culture in the Ancient Americas
ARTH 320 Seminar. American Architecture
ARTH 336 Seminar. Museum Issues
ARTH 340 Seminar. Topics in American Art
ECON 204 U.S. Economic History
ECON 215 Tax Policy
ECON 225 Urban Economics
ECON 232 Health Economics
ECON 238 Economics and Politics
ECON 243 The Political Economy of Gender, Race, and Class
ECON 310 Public Economics
ECON 318 Economic Analysis of Social Policy
EDUC 117 Diversity in Education
EDUC 212 Seminar. History of American Education
EDUC 215 Understanding and Improving Schools
EDUC 216 Education and Social Policy
EDUC 307 Classroom Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
EDUC 312 Seminar. History of Childhood and Child Welfare
EDUC 334 Seminar. Education, Immigration, and Social Mobility
EDUC 335 Seminar. Urban Education
EDUC 339/POL1 339S Seminar. The Politics of Urban Public Schools
ENG 114 Masterworks of American Literature
ENG 251 Modern Poetry
ENG 253 Contemporary American Poetry
ENG 262 American Literature to 1865
ENG 266 American Literature from the Civil War to the 1930s
ENG 267 American Literature from the 1940s to the Present
ENG 269 Asian American Literature
ENG 281 American Drama and Musical Theater
ENG 282 Topics in Literary Criticism. Topic A for 2008-09: Missing Persons: the Detective Story and American Literary Identities
ENG 283 Southern Literature
ENG 286 New Literatures I. Lesbian and Gay Writing from Sappho to Stonewall
ENG 320 Literary Cross Currents. Topic for 2008-09: Queer Modernisms (fall) and Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles (spring)
ENG 363 Advanced Studies in American Literature. Topic for 2008-09: Herman Melville
ENG 365/SOC 365 Images of the American City
EXTD 126 Maritime History
FREN 229 America Through French Eyes: Perceptions and Realities
HIST 203 History of the United States, 1607 to 1877
HIST 204 History of the United States in the Twentieth Century
HIST 251 Continent in Crisis: North America During the Age of Revolution
HIST 252 Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in Early America
HIST 253 First Peoples: An Introduction to Native American History
HIST 257 Women, Gender, and the Family in American History
HIST 258 Freedom and Dissent in American History
HIST 291 Marching Toward 1968: The Pivotal Year
HIST 292 The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 316 Seminar. Authority and Authenticity in Native American History
HIST 317 Seminar. The Historical Construction of American Manhood, 1600–1900
HIST 326 Seminar. American Jewish History
HIST 390 Seminar. Race, Law, and Culture in Louisiana, 1699-1904
MUS 120 Jazz Theory
MUS 209 A History of Jazz
PHIL 210 Philosophy of Business
PHIL 222 American Philosophy
POL1 200 American Politics
POL1 210 Political Participation and Influence
POL1 212 Urban Politics
POL1 213 Washington Decision-Making (Wintersession)
POL1 215 Courts, Law, and Politics
POL1 311 The Supreme Court in American Politics
POL1 313 American Presidential Politics
POL1 314 Understanding How Congress Works
POL1 315 Public Policy and Analysis
POL1 316 Mass Media in American Democracy
POL1 317 Health Politics and Policy
POL1 318 Religion and Politics in Contemporary America
POL1 319S Seminar. Campaigns and Elections
POL1 324S Seminar. Gender and Law
POL1 330S Seminar. African Americans and the U.S. Political System
POL1 331S Seminar. Political Organizing: People, Power and Change
POL1 333S Seminar. Ethics and Politics
POL1 334 Disability in American Society: Politics, Policy, and Law
POL1 335S Seminar. The First Amendment
POL1 336S Seminar. Judicial Politics
POL1 337S Seminar. The Politics of Minority Groups in the United States
POL1 339S/EDUC 339 Seminar. The Politics of Urban Public Schools
POL3 227 The Vietnam War
POL3 328S Seminar. Selected Topics in World Politics: Anti-Americanism as Politics and Performance
POL4 340 American Political Thought
PSYC 230 Psychology of Law
REL 218 Religion in America
REL 220 Religious Themes in American Fiction
REL 221 Catholic Studies
REL 319 Seminar. Religion, Law, and Politics in America
SOC 205/WOST 211 American Families and Social Equality
SOC 209 Social Inequality
SOC 212 Comparative Sociology and Demography of the Family
SOC 218 Religion in Contemporary Society
SOC 306/WOST 306 Women and Work
SOC 311/WOST 311 Seminar. Family and Gender Studies: The Family, the State, and Social Policy
SOC 314 Medical Sociology and Social Epidemiology
SOC 333 Seminar. Special Topics in Popular Culture
SOC 348 The Sociology of Conservatism
SOC 365/ENG 365 Images of the American City
SPAN 245 Ethnic Passions
SPAN 255 Chicano Literature: From the Chronicles to the Present
SPAN 305 Seminar. Hispanic Literature of the United States
THST 210 Echoes of the Homeland
WOST 211/SOC 205 American Families and Social Equality
WOST 214 Women, Reproduction and Health
WOST 216 Women and Popular Culture: Latina Nannies and the Latina Sex Pot
WOST 217 Growing up Gendered
WOST 219 Gender in the Workplace
WOST 220 American Health Care History in Gender, Race, and Class Perspective
WOST 222 Women in Contemporary American Society
WOST 223 Gendering the Bronze Screen: Representations of Chicanas/Latinas in Film
WOST 248 Asian American Women Writers
WOST 249 Asian American Women in Film and Video
WOST 305 Seminar. Representations of Women of Color
WOST 306/SOC 306 Women and Work
WOST 307 Imaging Asian/Asian American Women
WOST 308 The Changing Law, the New Family, and the State
WOST 311/SOC 311 Seminar. Family and Gender Studies: The Family, the State, and Social Policy
WOST 315 Seminar. Coalitions, Institutions, and Individual Identities
WOST 317 Seminar. History of Sexuality: Queer Theory
WOST 324 Seminar. History, Memory, and Women’s Lives
WOST 326 Crossing the Border(s): Narratives of Transgression

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