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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Spring 2025 (ALL: 01/21/2025 - 05/09/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2757 AMST-202-01 Early America 1.00 LEC Wickman,Thomas M. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-201-01
  NOTE: 7 seats reserved for AMST majors, 3 seats for first-years
  This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, and social history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study indigenous sovereignty, encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, the founding of European colonies, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the spread of human enslavement, the War of 1812, Indian removal policy, U.S. wars with Native nations, westward expansion, the U.S.-Mexican War, abolitionism, and the Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts and to comprehend the expansiveness of Native American homelands and the shifting nature of North American borderlands.
2417 AMST-203-01 Conflcts & Cultures Am Society 1.00 LEC Nebolon,Juliet MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA 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.
2418 AMST-203-02 Conflcts & Cultures Am Society 1.00 LEC Nebolon,Juliet MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA 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.
2761 AMST-220-01 Possible Earths 1.00 SEM Wickman,Thomas M. MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 9 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-220-01
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 2 seats for first-years, 5 for sophomores, and 2 for juniors
  This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.
3036 AMST-242-01 American Rhythms 1.00 SEM Pappas,Rebecca K. T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ARIP  
  Enrollment limited to 9 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC Cross-listing: THDN-242-01
  This dance history class explores the legacy of African Diasporic dances in the United States including jazz, tap, and Hip Hop. The course combines readings, lectures, and viewings with guest artist sessions that expose students to the embodied practices that are a foundation of American dance history.
3043 AMST-268-01 Black Inner Lives 1.00 SEM Miller,Channon S MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-268-01
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for AMST majors.
  Prevailing understandings of Black life, read Black expression through a social, public lens. Their cultures, embodiments, and ideologies are often cast as responses to institutions and forms of protest. Often placed in conversation with worlds outside of themselves and their communities, they are cast as either disrupting a space, or transforming it. But what of Black life outside of public expression? This course complicates our conceptions of Black culture by tracing the inner lives of Black Americans. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and drawing from multidisciplinary works - we will trace their aspirations, longings, imaginations, as well as their fears, across race, gender, class, and time. With an emphasis on the intimate, we will redefine our sense of Black people's relationship to resistance.
2882 AMST-301-01 AmStud Seminar 1.00 SEM Heatherton,Christina R: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course, required for American Studies majors and ordinarily taken in the sophomore or junior year, examines central methods in the field. Situated on a theme, such as race or popular culture, seminar participants engage in archival, spatial, public humanities, and transnational approaches to the American experience.
2419 AMST-314-01 Global Radicalism 1.00 SEM Heatherton,Christina TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUGI  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HRST-314-01
  In the early twentieth century, struggles against racism, capitalism, and colonialism, encircled the globe. From Irish republicanism in Dublin, Bolshevism in Moscow, revolution in Mexico City, to anti-lynching crusades in Birmingham, these movements represented the largest waves of rebellion sustained by the global economy. This seminar offers an overview of these struggles and spaces. Through examination of primary and secondary sources, students will consider radical social movements from distinct yet overlapping traditions. We will discuss how radicals confronted issues of racism, gender, and nationalism in their revolutionary theories. Taking a uniquely spatial approach, we will observe how geographies of accumulation emerged alongside sites of global resistance. Throughout we will consider these debates' contemporary relevance, observing how global radicalism might be charted in our present world.
2881 AMST-329-01 Civil War Literature 1.00 SEM Hager,Christopher TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGL-329-01
  In this course, we will learn about the literary culture of the Civil War era (by reading Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, among others) and also consider broader questions about how we read, value, and remember literary works. What makes a text "Civil War literature"? Must it have been written during the U.S. Civil War, or about events of that war, or by a person who participated in the war? And do we understand literature differently when we organize it around a historical event rather than forms, genres, or authors? We will engage with the most recent scholarship on the subject and converse (in person or via Skype) with some of the nation's leading experts on Civil War literature.
2667 AMST-335-01 Mapping American Masculinities 1.00 SEM Corber,Robert J W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL Cross-listing: WMGS-335-01
  This course examines the construction of masculinity in American society starting with Theodore Roosevelt’s call at the turn of the twentieth century for men to revitalize the nation by pursuing the “strenuous life." Through close readings of literary and filmic texts, it considers why American manhood has so often been seen as in crisis. It pays particular attention to the formation of non-normative masculinities (African-American, female, and gay) in relation to entrenched racial, class, and sexual hierarchies, as well as the impact of the feminist, civil rights, and gay liberation movements on the shifting construction of male identity. In addition to critical essays, readings also include Tarzan of the Apes, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The Great Gatsby, The Sun also Rises, Native Son, Another Country, and Kiss Me Deadly (Spillane). Film screenings include Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich), Shaft, Magnum Force, Philadelphia, Brokeback Mountain, Cleopatra Jones, and Boys Don’t Cry.
2965 AMST-347-01 Indigeneity and Sovereignty 1.00 SEM Hussain,Shaznene M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for AMST majors.
  With a focus on contemporary issues, this course will examine the complex legacies of colonialism, survival, and resistance in North American indigenous movements for sovereignty. We will analyze current discourses and practices of sovereignty in relation to land, citizenship, ecology, economic development, justice, and politics of gender and race. This analysis will also consider the ways in which indigenous communities in North America engage with indigenous movements globally under contemporary structures of international and transnational politics. Utilizing specific historical events, legal cases, and social movements of significance to contemporary politics of indigeneity and sovereignty, the course will critically examine how diverse forms of oppression, resistance, and transformation shape the struggles for self-governance.
2955 AMST-349-01 Global Migration/Refugee Lab 1.00 SEM Hussain,Shaznene
Alic,Erna		 TBA TBA Y SOGI  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL Cross-listing: INTS-349-01, HRST-349-01
  Provides an experiential-based introduction to the practical challenges of refugee and immigrant resettlement and integration and to the development of effective policies and implementation strategies to address them. Students will be placed with a community-based organization working with immigrants and refugees 10-12 hours a week and attend (weekly or biweekly) seminar class meetings to integrate their onsite learning experience and responsibilities with discussions of assigned readings and relevant concepts in participatory action research and diaspora studies. Seminar meetings will be organized around enrolled students' existing class schedules.
2932 AMST-354-01 Black American Women's History 1.00 SEM Miller,Channon S MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-354-01
  In this course, through lectures, readings, and discussion - we will follow the lives of Black women in America - a people enslaved by European powers - and then held in the bellies of ships that would sojourn through and across the Atlantic Ocean. Upon arrival to North American soil, their stationing as nonhumans would be solidified. We will trace how this intersectional, racial and gendered status, has followed them through the generations. Centrally, we will tend to the ways and means by which Black women have endeavored to live free and make a way of out of no way. We will unearth the ways in which the margins are, as scholar bell hooks states, "a position and place of resistance."
1134 AMST-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment.
3041 AMST-407-01 Interdisc Capstone Colloquium 1.00 SEM Nebolon,Juliet W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 14 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-807-01
  This course guides and supports American Studies majors, as well as interested students in other interdisciplinary programs, as they complete original research and writing for their capstone project (this can be a 1 or 2 semester project). Students will workshop drafts of their writing throughout the semester. With the guidance of the instructor, they will refine their argumentation within the parameters of their interdisciplinary method. We will balance the use of secondary research, theoretical framing, presentation of evidence, and textual analysis. We will support, think with, and learn from one another as each student completes their project. Approval of the instructor and project's advisor are required. Final grade will be determined by the advisor.
2883 AMST-418-01 Change of Clothes 1.00 SEM Miller,Karen Li R: 6:30PM-9:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-818-01
  North American clothing and textile practices have long engaged in global networks. Our course will chart clothing’s centrality in the formation of American social, political, and economic identities and structures. By focusing on moments of change and crisis, we will explore the fashioning of transnational citizenship. Our topics will include: clothing as protest, transformable garments as humanitarian aid, wearable technology, fast fashion and global economies, and the (de)coding of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation in clothes. This course fulfills transnational methods
2899 AMST-432-01 Toni Morrison's BELOVED 1.00 SEM Paulin,Diana R. W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 5 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-832-01, ENGL-832-01
  NOTE: Permission required for sophomores and first-years.
  This seminar interrogates the text and contexts of Toni Morrison's powerful and challenging novel, Beloved, bringing historical, theoretical, and cultural analysis to bear on a single work of fiction. We will consider how Morrison crafted a story about the horrors of slavery, as well as the value of excavating stories deemed unspeakable or illegible. This course surveys critical responses to Morrison's work and considers how contemporary theories of racial formation and embodied blackness inform the novel. We will also address the novel's representation of themes that speak to Black racial formations not only in the wake of slavery, but also in the context of contemporary topics such as migration, trauma and healing, neurodiversity, radical self-love, and Afro-environmentalism.
1135 AMST-466-01 Teaching Assistantship 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
1136 AMST-490-01 Research Assistantship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
2491 AMST-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis.
3056 AMST-807-01 Interdisc Capstone Colloquium 1.00 SEM Nebolon,Juliet W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 5 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-407-01
  This course guides and supports American Studies majors, as well as interested students in other interdisciplinary programs, as they complete original research and writing for their capstone project (this can be a 1 or 2 semester project). Students will workshop drafts of their writing throughout the semester. With the guidance of the instructor, they will refine their argumentation within the parameters of their interdisciplinary method. We will balance the use of secondary research, theoretical framing, presentation of evidence, and textual analysis. We will support, think with, and learn from one another as each student completes their project. Approval of the instructor and project's advisor are required. Final grade will be determined by the advisor.
2884 AMST-818-01 Change of Clothes 1.00 SEM Miller,Karen Li R: 6:30PM-9:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 3 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-418-01
  North American clothing and textile practices have long engaged in global networks. Our course will chart clothing’s centrality in the formation of American social, political, and economic identities and structures. By focusing on moments of change and crisis, we will explore the fashioning of transnational citizenship. Our topics will include: clothing as protest, transformable garments as humanitarian aid, wearable technology, fast fashion and global economies, and the (de)coding of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation in clothes. This course fulfills transnational methods
2898 AMST-832-01 Toni Morrison's BELOVED 1.00 SEM Paulin,Diana R. W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 2 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-432-01, ENGL-832-01
  This seminar interrogates the text and contexts of Toni Morrison's powerful and challenging novel, Beloved, bringing historical, theoretical, and cultural analysis to bear on a single work of fiction. We will consider how Morrison crafted a story about the horrors of slavery, as well as the value of excavating stories deemed unspeakable or illegible. This course surveys critical responses to Morrison's work and considers how contemporary theories of racial formation and embodied blackness inform the novel. We will also address the novel's representation of themes that speak to Black racial formations not only in the wake of slavery, but also in the context of contemporary topics such as migration, trauma and healing, neurodiversity, radical self-love, and Afro-environmentalism.
1213 AMST-894-01 Museums and Communities Intern 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Matriculated American studies students have the opportunity to engage in an internship at an area museum or archive for credit toward the American studies degree. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information.
1214 AMST-940-01 Independent Study 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser and program director. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
1114 AMST-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Under the guidance of a faculty member, graduate students may do an independent research project on a topic in American studies. Written approval of the graduate adviser and the program director are required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
1115 AMST-954-01 Thesis Part I 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.)
1117 AMST-955-01 Thesis Part II 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  (Continuation of American Studies 954.)
1203 AMST-956-01 Thesis 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  (Completion of two course credits in one semester).