American Studies Courses

the college of arts and sciences

Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

The courses listed below all count toward the American Studies minor, but it is not an exhaustive listing of every single course that could conceivably count toward the minor. Depending on your area of concentration within the minor, there might well be others. If you have a question about counting a course not listed here toward the minor, please check with Carlo Rotella.

fall 2012

EN 627	American Studies Senior Seminar: "America and Its Futures" Required for all senior American Studies minors	Song
BK 104	African American History I	Miller
BK 241	Beyond Barack & Hillary: Black Feminist Culture, Literature and Theory	Jean-Charles
BK 253	The Modern Black Freedom Movement	Peters
BK 262	Gospel According to Hip Hop	McGlathery
BK 290	Gospel Workshop	McGlathery
BK 331	Afro Latin America	Morgan
BK 340	Gender and Sexuality in African American History	Summers
BK 375	African American Theatre and Drama	Houchin
BK 410	African American Writers	Young
BK 514	American Civil War and Reconstruction	Richardson
CO 285	Cultural Diversity in Media	Matelski
CO 426	TV and Society	Stanwood
CO 458	Radio in Culture and Society	Keith
CT 367	American Musical Theater	Hecht
CT 375	African American Theater and Drama	Houchin
EC 242	Public Policy in an Aging Society	Quinn
EN 086	Literature Core	Frederick
EN 141	American Literary History I	Lewis
EN 142	American Literary History II	Wallace
EN 172	City in Literature and Film	Rotella
EN 230	Literature and Social Change	Tanner
EN 246	Introduction to Asian American Literature	Song
EN 403	Hauntings: 20th Century Southern Fiction	Benes
EN 430	Literature and Journalism in America	Wilson
EN 472	Contemporary American Short Fiction	Graver
EN 478	Poe and the Gothic	Lewis
FA 263	American Icons: Nineteenth- Century Images of National Identity	Bookbinder
FA 267	From Salt-Box to Skyscraper: Architecture in America Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
FM 280	American Film History: The Early Years	Blake
FM 282	Political Fiction Film	Michalczyk
FM 290	American Film History: The Pre-War Years	Blake
FM 333	Independent American Film	Meek
FM 393	American Classic Auteur	Blake
HS 565	American Immigration I (to 1865)	Kenny, Oh
HS 566	American Immigration II (since 1865)	Kenny, Oh
HS 104	The American Presidency	Gelfand
HS 181	US History I	Lyerly
HS 186	Seeing Workers Across Americas: Cinema & Work Cl History	Johnson
HS 189	African American History I	Miller
HS 332	Afro-Latin America	Morgan
HS 500	The Plain Indians	Richardson
HS 514	The American Civil War and Reconstruction	Richardson
HS 542	Gender and Migration	Oh
HS 547	Gender and Sexuality in America	Summers
HS 551	U.S. 1929-1960	Maney
HS 565	American Immigrations I: to 1865	Kenny
HS 571	U.S. Foreign Relations I	Jacobs
HS 574	The American Pacific	Oh
PO 305	American Federalism	Landy
PO 306	Parties and Elections in America	Schlozman
PO 317	The American Presidency	Landy
PO 327	U.S. Constitutional Development	Kirsch
PO 330	Immigration: Processes, Politics, and Policies	Skerry
PO 334	Political Behavior and Participation	Hopkins
PO 350	Tip O'Neill and the Evolution of American Politics	Melnick
PO 358	Seminar: American Culture War	Wolfe
PO 360	Seminar: Rights in Conflict	Melnick
PO 531	Politics of Energy in U.S., Comparative and Global Perspective	Deese
PO 295	Honors Seminar: Debating the Modern American State	Kirsch
SC 030	Deviance and Social Control	Pfohl
SC 037	Introduction to American Indian Societies	Garroutte
SC 038	Race, Class, and Gender	McGuffey
SC 072	Inequality in America	Harker
SC 092	Peace or War: United States/ Third World	Derber
SC 369	Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexuality	Brooks
SC 375	Economic Crisis and Social Change	Derber
SC 533	Sociology and Psychoanalysis	Pfohl

UN-numbered journalism courses (fall)

The courses below are open to students across the university. American Studies minors with an area of concentration within the minor other than journalism can count one of these courses toward the minor.; American Studies minors with journalism as their area of concentration within the minor can count up to three.

UN 227	Broadcast Writing	Caswell
UN 230	News Writing	Golen
UN 230	News Writing	Blanton
UN 231	Feature Writing	Marcus
UN 231	Feature Writing	Aucoin
UN 233	Advanced Journalism	Marcus
UN 229	Intro to Magazine Writing	Nanos

spring 2013

EN 277	Introduction to American Studies Recommended for American Studies minors	Harrison- Kahan
BK 105	African American History II	Miller
BK 155	Intro to Afro American Society	McGuffey
BK 222	Black Education Movements	Peters
BK 267	Red, White, and Blues	Mcglathery
BK 280	Race and Visual Culture	Young
BK 387	Medical Knowledge, Race, Power	Summers
BK 405	American Masculinities	Summers
BK 415	Gay Life in America	McGuffey
BK 555	Slavery, Race, and Abolition	Lyerly
BK 610	Seminar on Toni Morrison	Frederick
CO 438	Rhetoric and Public Memory	Morris
EN 143	American Literary History II	Bruckner
EN 175	Jewish Writers/Russia and America	Shrayer
EN 403	Hauntings: 20th Century Southern Fiction	Benes
EN 404	Literary Boston: 1790-1860	Lewis
EN 411	American Fiction and Wild West	Kharpertian
EN 458	Rhetoric as Cultural Studies	Mathieu
EN 461	Regionalism in American Literature	Wallace
EN 486	Drama/Harlem/Irish Ren	O'Leary
EN 511	Faulkner	Ohi
EN 645	American Nature Writing	Kern
EN 762	Some American Renaissances	Wallace
SC 043	Introduction to African-American Society	McGuffey
SC 030	Deviance and Social Control	Pfohl
SC 072	Inequality in America	Spangler
SC 077	Sociology of HIV/AIDS: Global and U.S. Experiences of Epidemic
SC 087	Social Movements
SC 304	Race, Ethnicity, and Popular Culture
SC 359	Sports in American Society	Malec
SC 369	Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexuality	Brooks
SC 375	American Economic Crisis and Social Change	Derber
SC 591	From Poor Law to Working Poor: Low-Income America
SC 598	Politics of Black Sexuality	McGuffey
PO 301	Policy and Politics in the U.S.	Melnick
PO 312	Women in Politics	Schlozman
PO 341	American Political Thought I	Hale
PO 342	American Political Thought II	Kersch
PO 359	Seminar: Liberalism and Conservatism	Wolfe
PO 386	Civil Liberties	Kersch
PO 502	U.S. - Iran Relations since World War II	Banuazizi
PO 518	Liberalism, Nation Building, and American Foreign Policy	Deese
PO 061	Introduction to American Politics	Landy
HS 506	History of the American West	Johnson
HS	1863: The Year in History and Literature	Quigley
HS 566	American Migration II	Oh
HS 300	Immigration Fraud and Border Enforcement	Oh
HS 300	The Death Penalty in America	Rogers
HS 544	American Masculinities	Summers

UN-numbered journalism courses (spring)

The courses below are open to students across the university. American Studies minors with an area of concentration within the minor other than journalism can count one of these courses toward the minor. American Studies minors with journalism as their area of concentration within the minor can count up to three.

UN 227	Broadcast Writing	Caswell
UN 230	News Writing	Golen
UN 230	News Writing	Blanton
UN 231	Feature Writing	Marcus
UN 231	Feature Writing	Aucoin
UN 233	Advanced Journalism	Marcus
UN 229	News Ethics	Bergantino

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