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 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AADS 2800 / HIST 2800 | From Slave Patrol to the War on Crime: Policing Blacks across American History | Summers |
| AADS1110 | Introduction to African Diaspora Studies | McGuffey |
| AADS1114 / THEO2114 | When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions | McElwaine |
| AADS1155 | Introduction to African-American Society | McGuffey |
| AADS2182 / COMM2182 | Black Popular Culture | Kizito |
| AADS2204 | Music and Social Justice | Jacob Dorman |
| AADS2265 | Women in Blues | Jacob Dorman |
| AADS2332 / MUSA2330 | History of Jazz | Mangin |
| AADS3310 | Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | Concepcion |
| AADS4485 / HIST4485 | History of Medicine and Public Health/Afr Am Diaspora | Summers |
| AADS6301 / ENGL6301 | Seminar: Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture | Curseen |
| AADS6302 / ENGL6302 | Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s | Jones |
| COMM2125 / ENGL2125 / HIST2502 / SOCY2225 | Introduction to Feminisms | Barko |
| COMM2184 / JOUR2184 | Sports, Media, Culture | Serazio |
| COMM2265 | Theory, History and Practice of Talk Media | Citorik |
| COMM2285 | Cultural Diversity in Media | Wells |
| COMM4443 | Seeing God and Hearing Ghosts: Spirituality in US Media | Peterson |
| ENGL1724 | Nature and Power: Reading the American Place | Matson |
| ENGL1735 | The Meaning of Boston: Literature and Culture | Rotella |
| ENGL2141 | American Literary History I | DeRosa |
| ENGL2278 | American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice | Harrison-Kahan |
| ENGL3340 | Asian American Literature: Immigration, Exclusion and Engagement | Puente |
| ENGL3357 | American Bestsellers and Undersellers | Franzino |
| ENGL3358 | The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change | Gray |
| ENGL3361 | Race in American Horror | Haley |
| ENGL3362 | Crafting Activism: Democracy, Composition, and D.I.Y. Rhetorics | Ingram |
| FILM3332 | Maverick Hollywood Directors | Long |
| FILM3389 | American Directors Series | Chopra |
| HIST1630 | The Meaning of Boston: History and Memory | Quigley |
| HIST1841 | Core Topics: When Worlds Collide: From Contact to the Constitution | Lyerly |
| HIST2401 | U.S. History I | Murphy |
| HIST2412 | The Pacific Northwest | Murphy |
| HIST2455 | American Fascisms | Gallagher |
| HIST2463 | We Gon' Be Alright: A Pop History of America | Bonilla |
| HIST2475 | America's War in Vietnam | Jacobs |
| HIST2499 | Partisan Politics: American Political Parties from 1754-2020 | Richardson |
| HIST2817 | The U.S. Presidency | Murphy |
| HIST3438 | Study and Writing of History: Black American Lives in the 19th Century: Narratives, Letters, & Testimonies | Conner |
| HIST4011 | The U.S. Occupation of Japan and Germany | Seraphim |
| HIST4402 | Natives and Newcomers in Early America | Stanwood |
| HIST 4440 | Housing America | Glass |
| HIST4495 | U.S. Foreign Policy I | Jacobs |
| HIST4551 | American Hate | Lyerly |
| HIST4875 | New England from Winthrop to Walden | Stanwood |
| MUSA1300 | History of Popular Music | Daly Berman, McCool |
| MUSA2412 | Hamilton and the American Musical | McCool |
| POLI1061 | Introduction to American Politics | Hartney |
| POLI1204 | The Politics of the Seventies Film | Kirshner |
| POLI2301 | Policy and Politics in the U.S. | Melnick |
| POLI2309 | The U.S. Congress | Hopkins |
| POLI2317 | The American Presidency | Landy |
| POLI2367 | Media and Politics | Krupenkin |
| POLI2360 | Seminar: Rights in Conflict | Melnick |
| POLI2549 | United States Foreign Policy 1945 to Present | O'Rourke |
| POLI3340 | Sem: Democracy and Our Schools | Hartney |
| SOCY1043 | Introduction to African-American Society | McGuffey |
| SOCY1072 | Inequality in America | Spangler |
| SOCY1092 | Peace or War | Derber |
| SOCY2000 | Oh my God! A Sociological Intro to Religion in the U.S. | Morello |
| SOCY3000 | Crime and Punishment | Goldman |
| SOCY3303 | Social Construction of Whiteness | Piatelli |
| SOCY3310 | Studies in Crime and Social Justice | Hedges |
| SOCY3359 | Sports in American Society | Kim |
| THEO2952 | U.S. Catholics: The Old Faith In A New Land | Massa |