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 |
| 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 |