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American Studies Courses

the college of arts and sciences

Fall 2013 and Spring 2014

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 2013

EN 226 American Studies Senior Seminar: Studies in American Culture: Fear, Comfort, Risk *Required for all senior American Studies minors* Wilson
BK 104 African-American History I Miller
BK 241 Beyond Barack and Hillary: Black Feminist Culture, Literature, and Theory Jean-Charles
BK 266 R&B in America: The Reds, the White, and the Blues McGlathery
BK 284 History of Black Nationalism Miller
CO 260 American Public Address Lynch
CO 285 Cultural Diversity in the Media Metelski
CO 425 Broadcast Century Issues Keith
CO 426 TV & Society Stanwood
CO 439 Reporters in U.S. History Lynch
CO 458 Radio in Culture and Society  
CT 375 African American Theater and Drama Houchin
EC 241 Public Policy in an Aging Society Quinn
EC 341 Microeconmics of Black-White Inequality Beauchamp
EN 142 American Literary History II Harrison-Kahan
EN 143 Major American Writers III Tanner
EN 246 Introduction to Asian American Literature Song
EN 302 (BK312) Witches & Apocalypses in YA Fiction Young
EN 431 Contemporary American Poetry Anderson
EN 482 (BK 410) Afrcan-American Writers Young
EN 497 Writer's Workshop: Argument and Commentary Mathieu
EN 501 Boston: History, Literature and Culture I Lewis and Stanwood
EN 521 Advanced Topic Seminar: American Modernism Tanner
EN 577 Modern American Poetry and Poetics, 1914-1930 Mariani
EN 638 Advanced Topic Seminar: The Whitman Tradition Kern
HS 100 Major Political Rivalries in American History Gelfand
HS 111 America's War in Vietnam Jacobs
HS 115 Spies, Spying, and the Presidency Gallagher
HS 176 Business in American Life Gelfand
HS 181 United States History I Lyerly
HS 285 African American Life Stories Miller
HS300 Study and Writing of History: The Clinton Presidency Maney
HS 514 The American Civil War and Reconstruction Richardson
HS 515 Colonial North America Stanwood
HS 534 Nannies, Maids, and Mail-Order Brides: Gender, Secuality, and Migration in U.S. History Oh
HS 547 (BK 340) Gender and Sexulaity in African American History Summers
HS 551 U.S. 1929-1960 Maney
HS 565 American Immigration I (to 1865) Kenny
HS 571 U.S. Foreign Relations I Jacobs
HS 600 Making History Public: Boston Common and the Changing Uses of Public Space Johnson
HS 691 Senior Colloquium: Topics in U.S. Immigration History Oh
SC 036 Introduction to Latin American Societies Morello
SC 092 Peace or War Derber
SC 304 Race, Ethnicity, and Popoular Culture Magubane
SC 375 American Economic Crisis and Social Change Derber

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 Mccarron
UN 229 Introduction to Magazine Writing Nanos
UN 230 News Writing Blanton, Golen
UN 231 Feature Writing Marcus, Aucoin
UN 232 Investigative Journalism Bergatino
UN 233 Advanced Journalism Marcus

spring 2014

EN 277 Introduction to American Studies Harrisson-Kahan
BK 155 Introduction to African-American Society McGuffey
BK 201 (EN 201) Versions in Black: Black Women Writers Frederick
BK 222 Black Education Movements Peters
BK243 Gender and Slavery Copeland
BK 266 R&B in America: The Reds, the White, and the Blues McGlathery
BK 267 Red, Whites, and the Blues: Fears & Faith in America McGlathery
BK 280 Race & Visual Culture Young
BK 405 American Masculinities Summers
CO 260 American Public Address Lynch
CO 439 Reporters in U.S. History Lynch
CO 458 Radio in Culture and Society  
CT 364 American Theatre and Drama Hecht
EN 141 American Literary History Lewis
EN 175 Jewish Writers in Russia and America Shrayer
EN 235 Second Voices: 21st Century American Fiction by Immigrants Graver
EN 400 Making and Remaking Americans: Race in Literture Harrison-Kahan
EN 411 American Fiction and the Wild West Kharpertian
EN 430 Literature and Journalism in America Wilson
EN 461 Regionalism in America Wallace
EN 478 Poe and the Gothic Lewis
EN 502 Boston: History, Literature and Culture II Rotella and Quigley
FA 356 Art Since 1945 Howe?
FM 290 American Film History: Pre War Period Blake
FM 392 American Film History III:Post Classical Period Blake
HS 115 Spies, Spying, and the Presidency Gallagher
HS 182 U.S. History II  
HS 300.40 Study and Writing of History: The Death Penalty in the United States Rogers
HS 502 Church and State in America O'Toole/Rogers
HS 540 Modern American Women Lyerly
HS 553 The Old South Lyerly
HS 566 American Immigration II (since 1865) Kenny
HS 570 Social Action in America Johnson
HS 575 Terror and the American Century Gallagher
HS 5?? Happy Days: American Families from the Bomb to the Sexual Revolution Oh
HS 543 Journalism and American Democracy Gelfand
PO 061 Introduction to American Politics Skerry
PO 309 The U.S. Congress Hopkins
PO 322 Courts and Public Policy Melnick
PO 335 Conflict and Polarization in American Politics Hopkins
PO 342 American Political Thought II Kersch
PO 358 Seminar: American Culture War Wolfe
PO 363 Muslims in U.S. Society and Politics Skerry
SC 092 Peace or War Derber
SC 375 Economic Crisis and Social Change Derber

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