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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist
3271	AMST-202-01	Early America	1.00	LEC	Wickman,Thomas M.	MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM	LIB - 181	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 10		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-201-01
		NOTE: 3 seats reserved for AMST majors, 5 seats for first-year students, 2 seats for second-year students
		This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, social, and environmental history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study Indigenous sovereignty, European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, industrialization, abolitionism, U.S. wars with Native nations, and the U.S. Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts, to comprehend the expansiveness of hundreds of Native American homelands, and to center struggles for Black freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality.
3296	AMST-203-01	Conflcts & Cultures Am Society	1.00	LEC	Nebolon,Juliet	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	MC - 102	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		NOTE: 16 seats reserved for first year students, 3 for sophomores.
		NOTE: AMST majors: if you are a rising junior or senior and have not yet taken AMST 203, please contact the professor to be enrolled in this course.
		This course introduces the key questions, frameworks, and methodologies of American Studies through the lens of a specific decade in US history. How have dynamics of race, gender, and class formed in relation to one another, and how did they intersect during this decade? How have Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples in the United States negotiated and resisted these dynamics via social movements and cultural production? Topics of study may include: slavery, colonialism, immigration, gender and sexuality, capitalism, and war. Students explore these themes through primary and cultural texts such as literature, film, popular culture, and political documents. Together, we study this decade with the understanding that these histories did not begin or end during this period; rather, they continue to structure American society today.
3297	AMST-203-02	Conflcts & Cultures Am Society	1.00	LEC	Nebolon,Juliet	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	MC - 102	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		NOTE: 16 seats reserved for first year students, 3 for sophomores.
		NOTE: AMST majors: if you are a rising junior or senior and have not yet taken AMST 203, please contact the professor to be enrolled in this course.
		This course introduces the key questions, frameworks, and methodologies of American Studies through the lens of a specific decade in US history. How have dynamics of race, gender, and class formed in relation to one another, and how did they intersect during this decade? How have Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples in the United States negotiated and resisted these dynamics via social movements and cultural production? Topics of study may include: slavery, colonialism, immigration, gender and sexuality, capitalism, and war. Students explore these themes through primary and cultural texts such as literature, film, popular culture, and political documents. Together, we study this decade with the understanding that these histories did not begin or end during this period; rather, they continue to structure American society today.
3495	AMST-204-01	Central Am. Immigration to US	1.00	LEC	Euraque,Dario A	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	MC - 305	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-204-01
		This course will survey the history of immigration patterns from the five countries of Central America to the U.S. between the early 19th century and the current decade in the context of Latin American history. The countries that will be surveyed are: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The methodological emphasis in the lectures will be comparative.
3322	AMST-209-01	Early African American History	1.00	LEC	Miller,Channon S	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	LSC - 134	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-209-01
		Beginning in the sixteenth century and concluding in the nineteenth - this journey is one dedicated to enslaved Black people. It lends its focus to those who birthed Black America, and how they did so. From their arrival in chains, through their fight towards emancipation, and to the death of reconstruction, the course explores their struggles and triumphs. It not only focuses on the layered mechanisms of anti-Blackness that sustained their bondage, but their development of a "nation within a nation" - with its own ideals and ideologies, as well as traditions and languages. We will lean on the voices of African-Americans from these periods, and scholars who have committed themselves to holding up their lived realities.
3298	AMST-223-01	The Prison & Public Humanities	1.00	LEC	Camp,Jordan T.	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	MECC - 246	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		The United States has the world's largest prison population. This course interrogates the structures and processes that have led to this calamitous condition. It introduces students to public humanities approaches to understanding the problem of mass incarceration. It prepares students for engaged public intellectual work in oral history, journalism, and social justice advocacy, among other creative applications. Through readings, lectures, and original research, students will acquire an inventory of concepts, including: systemic racism, the carceral state, policing, and security. Throughout the course, we will ask: How have carceral resolutions of social and economic crisis been legitimated? How have public humanities scholars challenged dominant definitions of mass incarceration? Together, we will explore the dimensions of the problem and what ethical and political alternatives might be possible.
3425	AMST-233-01	Whiteness in American History	1.00	LEC	Gac,Scott	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	MC - 225	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 24		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-233-01
		This introductory course delves into the origins, development, and impact of Whiteness as a racial category. Through thought-provoking readings and discussions, it explores how White identity has evolved over time, examining both its historical roots and theoretical frameworks. Beyond unpacking the concept of Whiteness itself, the course investigates its crucial role in shaping race and class dynamics in American history.
3378	AMST-271-01	Anthropology of Museums	1.00	LEC	Guzman,Amanda J.	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	LIB - B03	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: ANTH-271-01
		From children's movie backdrops to contemporary news headlines, museums continue to capture our public attention as cultural spaces of fantastical object storytelling and contested object ownership. What might the future of the (re)making of museum spaces tell us about the future of our relationships to social institutions and how we remember the past? We will shift between lenses of research and practice to consider issues of community engagement, digitization, and climate resiliency. We will materially trace and analyze the complex, often difficult historical legacies of these cultural institutions from a global case-study perspective. We will explore the diverse ways in which museums are being called on today to re-imagine the work that they do and the stories that they tell.
3277	AMST-285-01	Born in Blood	1.00	LEC	Gac,Scott	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	MC - AUD	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 49		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-285-01
		This course explores the formations and functions of violence in the United States from 1754 to 1900. It investigates government (federal, state, and local) and individuals-and the intersection of the government and the individual-regarding military bodies, access to weapons, and legal and extralegal violent activities. Using figures from the well-known (George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) to the lesser known (Hannah Dustan or Robert Smalls), the class questions the limits and boundaries of American violence according to race, class, and gender. In the end, students will debate whether violence belongs aside liberty, democracy, freedom, and equality in the pantheon of American political and cultural ideals.
3511	AMST-286-01	Literature of CT	1.00	LEC	Pokross,Benjamin	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	SH - T408	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: ENGL-286-01
		What does it mean to write about a place? Our course will investigate this question by considering the literature of the state where we all live: Connecticut. Perhaps now known primarily as the epitome of New England small town life—think Stars Hollow in Gilmore Girls—Connecticut has appeared in literature in many ways: as the homeland of many Indigenous peoples, as a center of manufacturing and innovation, as an example of suburban ennui. Ranging from the 18th century to the present, the course readings will place particular emphasis on the relationships that people of color have developed with this place. Authors may include Samson Occom, William Grimes, Mark Twain, Ann Petry, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, and Ocean Vuong.