Courses
Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
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 Assistant Program Director Deanna Malvesti Danforth.
Fall 2018
| Course Number | Course Title | Professor |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 227701 | Introduction to American Studies | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL 551301 | American Studies Senior Seminar | Lewis |
| AADS 110401 | African American History I | Miller |
| AADS 218201 / COMM 218201 | Black Popular Culture | Vats |
| AADS 233001 | History of Jazz | Mangin |
| AADS 235001 / ENGL 235001 | Blackness and the Problem | Howard |
| AADS 331001 | Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS 401601 / ENGL 401601 / JOUR 201601 | Reporting on Civil Rights | Ards |
| AADS 447201 / COMM 447201 | Race, Law, and Media | Vats |
| AADS 447202 / COMM 447202 | Race, Law, and Media | Vats |
| AADS 448301 / HIST 448301 | African American Life Stories | Miller |
| ARTH 226301 | American Icons: 19th Century Images of National Identity | Anderson |
| COMM 218201 / AADS 218201 | Black Popular Culture | Vats |
| COMM 218401 | Sports, Media, and Culture | Serazio |
| COMM 218402 | Sports, Media, and Culture | Serazio |
| COMM 220901 | Asian American Media | Tran |
| COMM 442501 | Broadcast Century Issues | Keith |
| COMM 447201 / AADS 447201 | Race, Law, and Media | Vats |
| COMM 447202 / AADS 447202 | Race, Law, and Media | Vats |
| ENGL 212501 / HIST 250201 | Introduction to Feminisms | TBD |
| ENGL 212502 / HIST 250202 | Introduction to Feminisms | TBD |
| ENGL 214101 | American Literary History I | Lewis |
| ENGL 214301 | American Literary History III | Anderson |
| ENGL 235001 / AADS 235001 | Blackness and the Problem | Howard |
| ENGL 331601 | Incendiary Poetics: Whitman and Ginsberg | Roberts |
| ENGL 401601 / AADS 401601 / JOUR 201601 | Reporting on Civil Rights | Ards |
| ENGL 450101 / HIST 447101 | Boston: History, Literature & Culture I | Lewis & Stanwood |
| ENGL 480201 | Race and Gender in Visual Culture | Lydenberg |
| ENGL 500601 | School's Not Everything: Education & African American Lit | Curseen |
| FILM 333201 | Maverick Hollywood Directors | Long |
| HIST 240101 | U.S. History I | Richardson |
| HIST 245501 | American Fascisms | Gallagher |
| HIST 247501 | American's War in Vietnam | Jacobs |
| HIST 248101 / AADS 110401 | African American History I | Miller |
| HIST 445801 | Nannies, Maids & Mail Order Brides | Oh |
| HIST 446601 | Adoption and Kinship in America | Oh |
| HIST 447101 / ENGL 450101 | Boston: History, Literature & Culture I | Lewis & Stanwood |
| HIST 447501 | History of the American West | Johnson |
| HIST 448301 / AADS 448301 | African American Life Stories | Miller |
| HIST 449501 | U.S. Foreign Policy I | Jacobs |
| HIST 455101 | American Hate | Lyerly |
| HIST 455201 | Race, Rights and the Law | Rogers |
| HIST 548001 (*restricted to majors) | Contested Cities: Race, Class and Sexuality | Johnson |
| MUSA 130001 | History of Popular Music | James |
| MUSA 130002 | History of Popular Music | James |
| MUSA 233001 / AADS 233001 | History of Jazz | Mangin |
| POLI 106101 | Introduction to American Politics | Hartney |
| POLI 230301 | Dilemmas of Unity & Diversity in American Politics & Society | Melnick |
| POLI 230601 | Parties and Elections in America | Hopkins |
| POLI 231701 | The American Presidency | Landy |
| POLI 232701 | U.S. Constitutional Development | Kersch |
| POLI 233001 | Immigation: Process, Politics, and Policies | Skerry |
| POLI 23601 (*Sophomores only) | Rights in Conflict | Melnick |
| POLI 23602 (*Sophomores only) | Rights in Conflict | Melnick |
| POLI 23603 (*Sophomores only) | Rights in Conflict | Melnick |
| POLI 23604 (*Sophomores only) | Rights in Conflict | Melnick |
| POLI 251801 | Ideas, Values, and American Foreign Policy | Deese |
| POLI 330301 (*Juniors/Seniors only) | Federal Judiciary: Its Role in American Government | O'Toole |
| POLI 334001 (*Juniors/Seniors only) | Democracy and Our Schools | Hartney |
| SOCY 103001 | Deviance and Social Control | Pfohl |
| SOCY 103801 | Race, Class and Gender | Simmons |
| SOCY 109201 | Peace or War: United States/Third World | Derber |
| SOCY 330401 | Race, Ethnicity & Popular Culture | Magubane |
| SOCY 330701 | Race in the Criminal Justice System | Comley |
| SOCY 331601 | The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois | Magubane |
| SOCY 332501 | Immigration and Identity | Haider |
| SOCY 337301 | Sexuality and Society | Carroll |
| SOCY 337501 | American Economic Crisis and Social Change | Derber |
| THTR 338501 | African American Theater and Drama | Houchin |
| THEO 280001 | Race, Freedom, and the Bible in America | Gillihan |
| THEO 320301 | Immigration and Ethics | Heyer |
Spring 2019
| Course Number | Course Title | Professor |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 227701 | Introduction to American Studies | Rotella |
| AADS 110501 | African American History II | Miller |
| AADS 218201 / COMM 218201 | Black Popular Culture | Vats |
| AADS 233401 / MUSA 233401 | Hip Hop in American Culture | Mangin |
| AADS 248201 | Introduction to African American Literature | Curseen |
| AADS 300001 / THEO 300001 | Black Church Black Protest | Adkins |
| AADS 300201 | Black Nature: Race and Ecology | Howard |
| AADS 301501 | Just Playin': Artifice & Performance in Black America | Curseen |
| AADS 331001 | Studies of Race, Law and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS 551301 | Capstone: Growing Up Ethnic in America | Sarr |
| AADS 559701 / SOCY 559701 | Contemporary Race Theory | Magubane |
| COMM 218201 / AADS 218201 | Black Popular Culture | Vats |
| COMM 442501 | Broadcast Century Issues | Keith |
| ENGL 212301 / LING 237901 / SOCY 227501 | Language and Ethnicity | Thomas |
| ENGL 212501 / HIST 250201 | Introduction to Feminisms | Murphy |
| ENGL 212502 / HIST 250202 | Introduction to Feminisms | Pfeffer |
| ENGL 214201 | American Literary History II | Puente |
| ENGL 248201 | Introduction to African American Literature | Curseen |
| ENGL 300601 | The Golden Age of the American Musical | Wallace |
| ENGL 340201 | Discontinuous Histories in American Literature | Moskowitz |
| ENGL 400201 / JOUR 220201 | Narrative Journalism in Peace and War | Wilson |
| ENGL 447801 | Poe and the Gothic | Lewis |
| ENGL 450201 / HIST 447201 | Boston: History, Literature & Culture II | Rotella |
| ENGL 500701 | Toni Morrison | Frederick |
| ENGL 551001 | Contemporary American Women Writers | Tanner |
| ENGL 600901 | Literature and Early American Media | Lewis |
| FILM 333101 | Independent American Film | Irving |
| HIST 240201 | U.S. History II | TBD |
| HIST 246001 | Celluloid Salvation: Redemptionin American History & Film | Lyerly |
| HIST 247101 | Asian American History | Oh |
| HIST 248201 / AADS 110501 | African American History II | Miller |
| HIST 248501 | Foodways & Folkways in African American History | Miller |
| HIST 250201 / ENGL 212501 | Introduction to Feminisms | Murphy |
| HIST 250202 / ENGL 212502 | Introduction to Feminisms | Pfeffer |
| HIST 282601 | American Identities | Jewett |
| HIST 282901 | American Political Thought: Constitution to Trump | Jewett |
| HIST 284501 | Women in U.S. Medicine | Tonn |
| HIST 440701 | The Old South | Lyerly |
| HIST 442201 | Race, Riots & Rodeos: U.S. 1865-1900 | Richardson |
| HIST 442501 | The Frontier in the American Mind | Richardson |
| HIST 444801 | Gender, Family & Childhood in U.S. History | Johnson |
| HIST 445001 | The U.S. Since 1960 | Maney |
| HIST 446201 | U.S. Constitutional History II | Rogers |
| HIST 447201 / ENGL 450201 | Boston: History, Literature & Culture II | Rotella |
| HIST 448101 | History of Black Nationalism | Miller |
| HIST 449601 | U.S. Foreign Policy 1945-Present | Jacobs |
| HIST 546401 (*restricted to majors) | Race, Crime and the Law in the U.S. | Rogers |
| INTL 253101 / POLI 253101 | Politics of Energy & Climate in US & Intl Perspective | Deese |
| JOUR 220201 / ENGL 400201 | Narrative Journalism in Peace and War | Wilson |
| LING 237901 / ENLG 212301 / SOCY 227501 | Language and Ethnicity | Thomas |
| MUSA 130001 | History of Popular Music | James |
| MUSA 130002 | History of Popular Music | Mangin |
| MUSA 233401 / AADS 233401 | Hip Hop in American Culture | Mangin |
| POLI 106101 | Introduction to American Politics | Skerry |
| POLI 120401 | The Politics of Seventies Film | Kirshner |
| POLI 230101 | Policy and Politics in the U.S. | Hartney |
| POLI 233801 | Environmental Politics and Policy | Hartney |
| POLI 234201 | American Political Thought | Kersch |
| POLI 238601 | Civil Liberties | Kersch |
| POLI 253101 / INTL 253101 | Politics of Energy & Climate in US & Intl Perspective | Deese |
| POLI 254901 | U.S. Foreign Policy 1945-Present | O'Rourke |
| SOCY 103001 | Deviance and Social Control | Carr |
| SOCY 103801 | Race, Class and Gender | Simmons |
| SOCY 107201 | Inequality in America | Spangler |
| SOCY 109201 | Peace or War: United States/Third World | Derber |
| SOCY 222501 | Introduction to Feminisms | TBD |
| SOCY 222502 | Introduction to Feminisms | TBD |
| SOCY 227501 / LING 237901 / ENGL 212301 | Language and Ethnicity | Thomas |
| SOCY 330301 | Social Construction of Whiteness | Piatelli |
| SOCY 330701 | Race in the Criminal Justice System | Comley |
| SOCY 331601 | The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois | Magubane |
| SOCY 332501 | Immigration and Identity | Haider |
| SOCY 334601 | Environmental Justice | Coatarpeter |
| SOCY 335901 (*restricted to majors) | Sports in American Society | Malec |
| SOCY 337301 | Sexuality and Society | Carroll |
| SOCY 337501 | American Economic Crisis and Social Change | Derber |
| SOCY 339101 | Social Movements | Attwood-Charles |
| SOCY 559701 / AADS 559701 | Contemporary Race Theory | Magubane |
| THTR 337601 | American Musical Theatre | Hecht |
| THEO 222901 | Religious Freedom in the United States | Owens |
| THEO 300001 | Black Church Black Protest | Adkins |
Previous Semesters
SPRING 2018 (AADS COMING SOON)
| ENGL 2277 | Introduction to American Studies | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL 4626 | American Studies Senior Seminar | Rotella |
| AADS 2199/ENGL 2199 | Introduction to Caribbean Writers | Frederick |
| ARTH 3356 | Art Since 1945 | Bookbinder |
| COMM 4425 | Broadcast Century Issues | Keith |
| ENGL 1080 | Narratives of Slavery | Frederick |
| ENGL 2143 | American Literary History III | Tanner |
| ENGL 3346 | The Asian American Experience | Song |
| ENGL 4011 | New South Aestetics | Ards |
| ENGL 4016/JOUR 2016 | Reporting Civil Rights | Ards |
| ENGL 4628 | Capstone: Five Heroic Americans | Farrell |
| FILM 3331 | Independent American Film | Meek |
| HIST 2402 | U.S. History II | Maney |
| HIST 2406 | "This Land is Your Land": US Environmental History | Valencius |
| HIST 2411 | Civil War and Reconstruction | Valencius |
| HIST 2450 | Spies, Spying, and the Presidency | Gallagher |
| HIST 2476 | America's Cold War in the Third World | Jacobs |
| HIST 2482 | African American History II | Miller |
| HIST 2487 | Race and Identity in African American History | Miller |
| HIST 2829 | American Political Thought from the Constitution to Trump | Jewett |
| HIST 4412 | The Age of the American Revolution | Stanwood |
| HIST 4422 | Race, Riots, and Rodeos | Richardson |
| HIST 4423 | Plains Indians | Richardson |
| HIST 4450 | U.S. Since 1960 | Maney |
| HIST 4453 | Gender in American History | Lyerly |
| HIST 4461 | U.S. Consitutional History I | Rogers |
| HIST 4471 | Boston: History, Literature, and Culture | Stanwood |
| HIST 4476 | Social Action in Urban America | Johnson |
| HIST 4492 | American Immigration II | Oh |
| HIST 4496 | U.S. Foreign Policy II | Jacobs |
| HIST 4497 | Terrorism in America | Gallagher |
| HIST 4551 | American Hate |
Lyerly |
| HIST 4891 | Science and Religion in American History | Jewett |
| MUSA 1300 | History of Popular Music | Mangin |
| MUSA 2320 | Music and America | James |
| POLI 2301 | Policy and Politics in the U.S. | Melnick |
| POLI 2338 | Environmental Politics and Policy | Hartney |
| POLI 2341 | American Political Thought I | Hale |
| POLI 2360 | Right in Conflict | Schlozman |
| POLI 2549 | US Foreign Policy | O'Rourke |
| POLI 4390 | Immigration Process and Politics | Skerry |
| SOCY 1030 | Deviance and Social Control | Pfohl |
| SOCY 1072 | Inequality in America | Spangler |
| SOCY 1902 | Peace or War | Derber |
| SOCY 3303 | Social Construction of Whiteness | Piatelli |
| SOCY 3375 | American Economic Crisis and Social Change | Derber |
| SOCY 5597 | Contemporary Race Theory | Magubane |
| THTR 3387 | Comtemporary Theater & Drama | Cummings |
JOUR-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.
| JOUR 2000 | Intro to Journalism | Marcus |
| JOUR 2016 | Reporting Civil Rights | Ards |
| JOUR 2225 | Journalism & New Media | Johnston |
| JOUR 2226 | Writing/Popular Music | Johnston |
| JOUR 2227 | Broadcast Writing | Caswell |
| JOUR 2229 | Magazine Journalism | Nanos |
| JOUR 2231 | Feature Writing | Marcus |
| JOUR 2231 | Feature Writing | Aucoin |
| JOUR 2235 | Sports Writing | Golen |
| JOUR 2237 | The Art of Editing | Lester |
| JOUR 2238 | Food Writing | O'Connor |
| JOUR 2239 | Travel Writing | O'Connor |
| JOUR 2242 | Political Journalism | Berkshire |
FALL 2017
| ENGL 2277 | Introduction to American Studies | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL 5513 | American Studies Senior Seminar | Lewis |
| AADS 1104/HIST 2481 | African American History I | Miller |
| AADS 1110 | Intro to African Diaspora Studies | Frederick |
| AADS 2194/COMM 2194 | Reading Race at the Millennium | Vats |
| AADS 2253 | The Modern Black Freedom Movement | Peters |
| AADS 2470/ENGL 2470 | Black and Popular: Spec Fictions by Black Writers | Frederick |
| AADS 3310 | Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS 3340/HIST 4484 | Gender & Sexuality in African American History | Summers |
| AADS 4472 | Race, Law, and Media | Vats |
| ARTH 2267 | From Saltbox to Skyscraper: Architecture in America | Howe |
| COMM 4425 | Broadcast Century Issues | Keith |
| ENGL 2141 | American Literary History I | Lewis |
| ENGL 2142 | American Literary History II | Wilson |
| ENGL 2143 | American Literary History III | Tanner |
| ENGL 2225 | War Stories | Hunt |
| ENGL 3383 | Asian American Film | Klein |
| ENGL 4001 | Transatlantic Passages in Eighteenth-Century Literature | Mitsein |
| ENGL 4002 | Narrative Journalism in Peace and War | Wilson |
| ENGL 4010 | Scribbling Women and Suffragettes: Human Rights and American Women’s Writing, 1850-1920 | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL 4020/JOUR 2243 | Fake News | Ards |
| ENGL 4404 | Literary Boston 1790-1860 | Lewis |
| HIST 2401 | US History I | Richardson |
| HIST 2431 | US Medical History | Valencius |
| HIST 2455 | American Fascism | Gallagher |
| HIST 2475 | America's Vietnam War | Jacobs |
| HIST 2481 | African American History I | Miller |
| HIST 4419 | Ending American Slavery: Abolition in the U.S. | Lyerly |
| HIST 4449 | US, 1929-1960 | Maney |
| HIST 4451 | Church and State (with O'Toole) | Rogers |
| HIST 4458 | Nannies, Maids, & Mail-Order Brides | Oh |
| HIST 4482 | US/Ghana Historical and Cultural Connections | Miller |
| HIST 4484 | Gender and Sexuality in African American History | Summers |
| HIST 4495 | U.S. Foreign Policy I | Jacobs |
| HIST 4498 | The American Pacific | Oh |
| HIST 4552 | Rights, Race and the Law | Rogers |
| HIST 5403 | US Energy History (Senior Colloquium) | Valencius |
| MUSA 1300 | History of Popular Music | Mangin |
| MUSA 2330 | History of Jazz | Mangin |
| POLI 2302 | Dilemmas of US Diversity | Melnick |
| POLI 2303 | Dilemmas of US Diversity | Skerry |
| POLI 2305 | American Federalism | Landy |
| POLI 2314 | Gender and Politics | Schlozman |
| POLI 2317 | American Presidency | Landy |
| POLI 3340 | Seminar: Democracy and Our Schools | Hartney |
| POLI 4394 | Muslims in American Society and Politics | Skerry |
| SOCY 1030 | Deviance and Social Control | Pfohl |
| SOCY 1902 | Peace or War | Derber |
| SOCY 3310 | Studies in Crime and Social Justice | Hedges |
| SOCY 3375 | American Economic Crisis & Social Change | Derber |
JOUR-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.
| JOUR 2000 | Intro to Journalism | Marcus |
| JOUR 2223 | Sports/News Broadcasting | Meterparel |
| JOUR 2225 | Journalism & New Media | Johnston |
| JOUR 2226 | Writing/Popular Music | Johnston |
| JOUR 2227 | Broadcast Writing | Caswell |
| JOUR 2229 | Magazine Journalism | Nanos |
| JOUR 2230 | News Writing | Golen |
| JOUR 2231 | Feature Writing | Marcus |
| JOUR 2231 | Feature Writing | Aucoin |
| JOUR 2232 | Investigative Journalism | Bergantino |
| JOUR 2234 | News Ethics | Bergantino |
| JOUR 2237 | The Art of Editing | Lester |
| JOUR 2238 | Food Writing | O'Connor |
| JOUR 2239 | Travel Writing | O'Connor |
| JOUR 2244 | Writing Outsider Lives | Parker |