Courses
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 Lauren Crockett-Girard.
Fall 2022
Please visit the EagleApps Course Information and Schedule site for up-to-date course descriptions, faculty, meeting times, and room assignments.
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| AADS1108 | Intro to African Diaspora Literatures | Frederick |
| AADS1110 | Introduction to African Diaspora Studies | McGuffy |
| AADS1114 | When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions | Mcelwaine |
| AADS1804 | African American History I | Miller |
| AADS2182 / COMM2182 | Black Popular Culture | Kizito |
| AADS2204 | Music and Social Justice | Jacob Dorman |
| AADS2241 | Black Feminisms 101: From Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé | Adkins |
| AADS2334 | Hip Hop in American Culture | Mangin |
| AADS2485 / HIST2485 | Foodways and Folkways in African American History | Miller |
| AADS2800 / HIST2800 | From Slave Patrol to the War on Crime: Policing Blacks Across American History | Summers |
| AADS3250 / ENGL3250 | Black Movements | Curseen |
| AADS3310 | Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS4483 / HIST4483 | African American Life Stories | Miller |
| AADS6036 / ENGL6036 / JOUR4036 | Seminar: Black Memoir Matters | Ards |
| COMM2125 / ENGL2125 / HIST2502 / SOCY2225 | Introduction to Feminisms | Whitcavitch-Devoy |
| COMM2125 / ENGL2125 / HIST2502 / SOCY2225 | Introduction to Feminisms | Erol |
| COMM2242 | Television and Radio: Then and Now | Keith |
| COMM2265 | Theory, History and Practice of Talk Media | Citorik |
| COMM4431 | Religious Expression in the Digital Age | Peterson |
| COMM4452 | News Media/Democracy | Serazio |
| COMM4453 | News Media/Democracy | Serazio |
| COMM4470 | Communication, Capitalism, Consumerism | Erol |
| ECON2000 / ENVS2501 | The State of Affordable Housing in the States | Van Meter |
| ECON2242 | Public Policy in an Aging Society | Rutledge |
| ENGL1724 | Nature and Power: Reading the American Place | Matson |
| ENGL2246 | Introduction to Asian American Literature | Song |
| ENGL2278 | American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL3001 | Walking Infinite Jest | Boucher |
| ENGL3119 | The Graphic Novel and Marginality | Puente |
| ENGL6037 | Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance | Curseen |
| ENGL6040 | Seminar: The City in American Literature and Culture | Rotella |
| ENVS3347 / SOCY3346 | Environmental Justice | Largesse |
| FILM3315 | Film Noir | Long |
| HIST2824 | Metropolitan America: Cities and Suburbs in the Twentieth Century | Glass |
| HIST2475 | America's War in Vietnam | Jacobs |
| HIST2451 | Russian Meddling: Soviet Spying in America, 1917 to 2017 | Gallagher |
| HIST1804 | African American History I | Miller |
| HIST4440 | Housing America | Glass |
| HIST4458 | Nannies, Maids, and Mail Order Brides: Gender and Migration in U.S. History | Oh |
| HIST4495 | U.S. Foreign Policy I | Jacobs |
| HIST4497 | Terrorism in America | Gallagher |
| MUSA1300 | History of Popular Music | James |
| MUSA1300 | History of Popular Music | McCool |
| MUSA2330 | History of Jazz | Mangin |
| MUSA2334 | Hip Hop in American Culture | Mangin |
| MUSA2412 | Hamilton and the American Musical | McCool |
| POLI1061 | Introduction to American Politics | Dept |
| POLI2301 | Policy and Politics in the U.S. | Melnick |
| POLI2309 | The U.S. Congress | Hopkins |
| POLI2327 | U.S. Constitutional Development | Kersch |
| POLI2367 | Media and Politics | Krupenkin |
| POLI2385 | Conservatism in Modern America | Kersch |
| POLI3316 | Technology and Politics | Krupenkin |
| POLI3340 | Sem: Democracy and Our Schools | Dept |
| POLI4390 | Immigration: Processes, Politics, and Policies | Skerry |
| SOCY1072 | Inequality in America | Spangler |
| SOCY1092 | Peace or War | Derber |
| SOCY3316 | The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois | Magubane |
| SOCY3359 | Sports in American Society | Kim |
| SOCY3375 | American Economic Crisis and Social Change | Derber |
| SOCY3391 | Social Movements | Kadivar |
| THEO2800 | Race, Freedom, and the Bible in America | Gillihan |
| THTR1703 | Performing the Immigrant Experience | Stahl |
Spring 2022
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| AADS1110 | Introduction to African Diaspora Studies | Mcelwaine |
| AADS1114 | When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions | Mcelwaine |
| AADS1805 | African American History II | Miller |
| AADS2204 | Music and Social Justice | Dorman |
| AADS2290 | Gospel Workshop | Dorman |
| AADS2484 | Focus on Civil Rights: The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Miller |
| AADS3310 | Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS4016/ENGL4016 | Reporting Civil Rights | Ards |
| AADS4482 | Ghana and the U.S.: Historical and Cultural Connections | Miller |
| AADS5513 | Capstone: Growing Up Ethnic in America | Sarr |
| ARTH2267 | Saltbox to Skyscraper: American Architecture | Orwig |
| COMM2225/ENGL2125/HIST2502 | Introduction to Feminisms | Peterson |
| COMM2225/ENGL2125/HIST2503 | Introduction to Feminisms | Whitcavitch-Devoy |
| COMM2265 | Theory, History and Practice of Talk Media | Citorik |
| COMM2267 | Governing the Internet: Comparative Perspectives | MacClure Brintrup |
| COMM2283 | Asian Americans in Sport and Society | Kim |
| COMM4443 | Seeing God and Hearing Ghosts: Spirituality in US Media | Peterson |
| ECON2242 | Public Policy in an Aging Society | Quinn |
| ENGL 5513 | American Studies Senior Seminar: Transnational American Studies: The US and Asia | Klein |
| ENGL2143 | American Literary History III | Tanner |
| ENGL2278 | American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL3309 | Writing Deindustrialization: Rhetorics of Class and Labor | Pauszek |
| ENGL3325 | The History and the Future of the Book | Pottroff |
| ENGL3338 | Americanization & the Rhetorics of Citizenship | Portillo |
| ENGL3340 | Asian American Literature: Immigration, Exclusion and Engagement | Puente |
| ENGL4011 | Faulkner to Beyoncé: New South Aesthetics | Ards |
| ENGL4410 | American Fiction to 1860 | Lewis |
| ENGL5903 | Seminar: Human Rights and American Women’s Writing | Harrison-Kahan |
| FILM2282 | Political Fiction Film | Michalczyk |
| FILM3331 | Independent American Film | Chopra |
| FORS2201 | Wounded Warriors in Transition | Burgess, Ann W Petreca, Victor G |
| HIST1068 | America and the World II | Jacobs |
| HIST1803 | The American Pacific (II) | Oh |
| HIST1805 | African American History (II) | Miller |
| HIST1843 | Disease, Inequity, and Power: Epidemics in Modern History | Summers |
| HIST2441 | U.S. Political History since 1968 | Glass |
| HIST2450 | Spies, Spying, and the Presidency | Gallagher |
| HIST2484 | The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Miller |
| HIST3484 | Happy Days: Cold War American Family | Oh |
| HIST4448 | Domestic Revolutions: Gender, Family, and Childhood in U.S. History | Johnson |
| HIST4477/INTL4477 | Drugs and Money | Kent |
| HIST4482 | Ghana/US: History and Cultural Connections | Miller |
| HIST4488 | American Madness: History of Mental Illness in the United States | Summers |
| HIST4496 | US Foreign Policy II | Jacobs |
| HIST4501 | The 'Spanish' Flu Pandemic | Beiner |
| HIST5467 | Freedom in US History | Glass |
| JOUR2257 | Telling Difficult Stories | Caswell McCarron |
| JOUR2259 | Breaking The News | Sennott |
| MUSA1300 | History of Popular Music | McCool |
| MUSA2320 | Music and America | James |
| PHIL2216 | Boston: An Urban Analysis | Manzo |
| PHIL6225 | Frederick Douglass in Philosophical Dialogue | Fried |
| POLI1061 | Introduction to American Politics | Skerry |
| POLI1204 | The Politics of the Seventies Film | Kirshner |
| POLI2307 | Racial and Ethnic Politics | Krupenkin |
| POLI2335 | Conflict and Polarization in American Politics | Hopkins |
| POLI2338 | Environmental Politics and Policy | Hartney |
| POLI2339 | State and Local Government | Hartney |
| POLI2341 | American Political Thought I | Hale |
| POLI2342 | American Political Thought II | Kersch |
| POLI2367 | Media and Politics | Krupenkin |
| POLI2386 | Civil Liberties | Kersch |
| POLI4394 | Muslims in American Society and Politics | Skerry |
| PSYC4449 | Psychology of Inequality | Ahl |
| SOCY2000 | Oh my God! A Sociological Intro to Religion in the U.S. | Morello |
| SOCY3303 | Social Construction of Whiteness | Piatelli |
| SOCY3316 | The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois | Magubane |
| THEO2800 | Race, Freedom, and the Bible in America | Gillihan |
| THEO3253 | Religion and American Public Life | Massa |