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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist
3371	AMST-200-01	Environmental Movements	1.00	LEC	Hussain,Fathima S.	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: POLS-200-01
		NOTE: 2 seats reserved for first-year students.
		This course critically examines the histories, development, and contemporary work of environmental movements in the United States. Utilizing a combination of primary and secondary texts in connection with multiple movements, ranging from conservation and sustainability movements to environmental justice movements, the course will explore the variety of issues, goals, and methods movements have pursued as well as the connections, interactions, and relations of power between different environmental movements.
3354	AMST-204-01	Central Am. Immigration to US	1.00	LEC	Euraque,Dario A.	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA	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.
3155	AMST-209-01	African-American History	1.00	LEC	Miller,Channon S.	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-209-01
		Moving chronologically, we will begin with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the coast of West Africa that wrought the beginnings of African America and follow the stories of their descendants on these lands. As much we uncover from what roots and waters Black people emerge, we will also learn of how they have survived in a nation-state where their lifelessness is imminent. Over a span of four hundred years, they have made themselves. We will follow their courageous and deliberate formation of a rich cultural heritage, as well as their construction of a complex body of social and political ideas about the contradictory nature of American democracy and the position of Black people within it.
3314	AMST-219-02	Planet Earth	1.00	LEC	Wickman,Thomas M.	MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM	TBA	GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 12		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with ENVS				Cross-listing: HIST-219-02
		NOTE: 6 seats reserved for first-years, 8 seats for sophomores, 6 seats for juniors across HIST and AMST.
		This course explores the effect of the natural world on human history and of humans on the natural world. Our focus is on the earth as a global system. We begin with a consideration of human and natural histories in deep time, well before the written record, and offer an argument for why those histories matter. We then examine how the historical past can be understood in the context of these planetary themes, reframing familiar events in ancient and modern history by highlighting major natural changes that accompanied them, such as the redistribution of plants and animals, the fluctuation of climate, and the development of planet-altering technologies. The course culminates in a consideration of the future planetary conditions that past and present actions may cause.
3346	AMST-238-01	Race and Speculative Fiction	1.00	LEC	Wyss,Hilary E.	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: ENGL-238-01
		Science fiction and fantasy are powerful ways of imagining the world, both as it should or could be and as a cautionary example of what it might become. From Afrofuturism to Indigenous Futurism, contemporary writers of color are using the fantastic to challenge oppressive structures and imagine different ways of being in the world. In this course we will examine the work of African American writers such as Octavia Butler, Asian American writers such as Ted Chiang, and Indigenous writers such as Cherie Dimaline, Louise Erdrich, and Stephen Graham Jones, who use this genre both to explore alternative histories and also to offer a redemptive vision of a future in which alternative ways of being in the world have the potential to save us all.
3355	AMST-272-01	Mapping Arts Economies	1.00	SEM	Goffe,Deborah A.	W: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA	ARTW
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with WELL				Cross-listing: THDN-271-01
		How does one sustain a life in the arts? How do artistic, curatorial, philanthropic, academic, and community practices relate to one another and to the organizational structures that support them? How is success defined? Where are the points of entry, and who are the gatekeepers? What is the role of place? Designed for practicing and aspiring artists, arts administrators, curators, cultural critics, and advocates, we employ ecological frameworks to consider the evolution of existing arts infrastructures and our place in their futures. Through readings, group discussions, off-campus engagement with industry practitioners, place-based research, and culminating project proposals, we imagine holistic and innovative approaches to sustained arts engagement that respond to social, cultural, and economic realities.