Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2859 |
AMST-218-01 |
Modern African American Hist |
1.00 |
LEC |
Miller,Channon S |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HIST-218-01 |
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This course journey tends to the making and meaning of Black people's lives in America upon seizing their freedom and breaking slavery's chains. It sojourns with them through Jim Crow – and its birth and re-birth through the generations. Further, the course follows the emergence and evolution of their freedom calls from Civil Rights and Black Power to Black Lives Matter. Under consideration here too, are Black people's forms of cultural expression, racial consciousness, spatial migrations, and community building. |
| 2798 |
AMST-220-01 |
Possible Earths |
1.00 |
SEM |
Wickman,Thomas M. |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 9 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HIST-220-01 |
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NOTE: Seat reservations: 2 seats for first-years, 5 for sophomores, and 2 for juniors |
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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. |
| 2503 |
AMST-301-01 |
AmStud Seminar |
1.00 |
SEM |
Heatherton,Christina |
R: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2222 |
AMST-314-01 |
Global Radicalism |
1.00 |
SEM |
Heatherton,Christina |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HRST-314-01 |
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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. |
| 2756 |
AMST-319-01 |
Understandings of Puerto Rico |
1.00 |
LEC |
Guzman,Amanda J. |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: ANTH-319-01 |
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An island uniquely characterized by a liminal political status and a dominant stateside diaspora, the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating 2017 Hurricane María and the 2019 "Verano Boricua" which saw the ousting of the governor, Ricardo Rosselló. This course interrogates Puerto Rican culture on its own terms - shifting from traditional definitions of identity formation to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity. Students will work hands-on analyzing diverse (im)material cultural productions, originating from the island and stateside diasporas. Students will engage with Puerto Rican cultural workers as they develop new, critical understandings of the island's cultural legacy and its future. |
| 2815 |
AMST-327-01 |
Racial Capitalism |
1.00 |
LEC |
Camp,Jordan T. |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course introduces students to critical theories of racial and class formation. Students will trace how modern racial and labor regimes came into being and how, in turn, they have impacted contemporary debates about capitalism, white nationalism, and populism. Through readings by key theorists in American Studies, students will interrogate new and evolving theories of racial capitalism. Course discussions will explore how critiques of racial capitalism have emerged out of Black freedom, anticolonial, labor, feminist, queer of color, and immigrant struggles. Throughout the course, we will screen films and engage primary sources that inform these debates. By the end of the course, students will be able to define and describe the relationships between racism, capitalism, accumulation, dispossession, and the state's regulation of gender and sexuality. |
| 2937 |
AMST-347-01 |
Indigeneity and Sovereignty |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain,Shaznene |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2938 |
AMST-349-01 |
Global Migration/Refugee Lab |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain,Shaznene
Alic,Erna |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL |
Cross-listing: INTS-349-01, HRST-349-01 |
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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. |
| 2817 |
AMST-354-01 |
Black American Women's History |
1.00 |
SEM |
Miller,Channon S |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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." |
| 2843 |
AMST-358-01 |
Black Disability Studies |
1.00 |
SEM |
Paulin,Diana R. |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This 300-level AMST seminar explores how past and present representations and perceptions of disability and blackness overlap. In response to racism and discriminatory practices, Black Americans often seek distance from the added stigma of disability (the disabled, like other marginalized communities, have often been deemed unfit for citizenship, and threatening to the stability and health of mainstream U.S. society); this strategy reinforces the power of ableism and erases the value of diverse bodies and lived experiences. By examining how Black-disabled intersectionality informs a variety of representational sites, such as fiction, poetry, film, and performance, we will work toward a fuller understanding of the shared humanity and overlapping histories that bind us as citizens of the nation and of the world. |
| 2708 |
AMST-369-01 |
Plants in Early Modern History |
1.00 |
SEM |
Wickman,Thomas M. |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 5 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HIST-369-01 |
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This seminar examines people's working relationships with live plants in the early modern world, c. 1500-1800, including through their gardening, farming, foraging, and forest work. Readings will be situated within larger historiographies of Indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, capitalism, slavery, antislavery, and revolution. Plants to be studied in global context may include nutmeg, pepper, sugar, maize, sunflower, rice, coffee, tea, cacao, vanilla, potato, cassava, wheat, cotton, flax, mulberry, indigo, mahogany, maple, pine, oak, tobacco, sassafras, and cinchona. The class will engage with the interdisciplinary fields of health humanities; critical study of botany and natural history; theories and histories of bioprospecting, biopiracy, seed sovereignty, and Indigenous science; intellectual histories of the African diaspora; climate studies; historical political ecology; and environmental humanities. |
| 1131 |
AMST-399-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. |
| 2797 |
AMST-406-01 |
Slavery and Trinity |
1.00 |
SEM |
Gac,Scott |
R: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: HIST-397-01 |
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How long do the reverberations of slavery last, and how far do they travel? While debates on the memory and legacy of slavery take the national stage, colleges and universities are reckoning with how their own histories of slavery and exploitation may have shaped their pasts and presents. It is Trinity's turn for an honest accounting. Recent scholarship emphasizes slavery's many facets and its far-reaching tendrils. In this course, students will discover Trinity's and Hartford's place in slavery's vast social, cultural, economic, and political networks. Combining archival research and public humanities, we will create projects and archives commemorating Trinity's past, which our community will be able to use as we plot a course for a more equitable future. This course meets the Archival method requirement. |
| 2637 |
AMST-407-01 |
Interdisc Capstone Colloquium |
1.00 |
SEM |
Camp,Jordan T. |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2818 |
AMST-425-01 |
Curating Conversations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Camp,Jordan T. |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 7 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: AMST-825-01 |
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Scholars in the public humanities are able to facilitate conversations across multiple divides: between disciplines, over different institutional spaces, and in traditional and non-traditional sites of knowledge production. This seminar trains students how to curate such conversations. Through readings and discussion, students will learn a variety of critical theories and methodological approaches to develop their own public humanities projects. Along with key texts, students will learn to engage different forms of evidence such as expressive culture, social movement periodicals, oral histories, museum exhibitions, podcasts, and digital archives By the end of the semester, students will demonstrate a critical understanding of public humanities theories and practices; develop research, writing, and curating skills; and present a project to a panel of researchers, educators, and activists. |
| 1132 |
AMST-466-01 |
Teaching Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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) |
| 1133 |
AMST-490-01 |
Research Assistantship |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2248 |
AMST-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2819 |
AMST-825-01 |
Curating Conversations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Camp,Jordan T. |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 1 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: AMST-425-01 |
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Scholars in the public humanities are able to facilitate conversations across multiple divides: between disciplines, over different institutional spaces, and in traditional and non-traditional sites of knowledge production. This seminar trains students how to curate such conversations. Through readings and discussion, students will learn a variety of critical theories and methodological approaches to develop their own public humanities projects. Along with key texts, students will learn to engage different forms of evidence such as expressive culture, social movement periodicals, oral histories, museum exhibitions, podcasts, and digital archives By the end of the semester, students will demonstrate a critical understanding of public humanities theories and practices; develop research, writing, and curating skills; and present a project to a panel of researchers, educators, and activists. |
| 1207 |
AMST-894-01 |
Museums and Communities Intern |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 1208 |
AMST-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 1112 |
AMST-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 1113 |
AMST-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) |
| 1115 |
AMST-955-01 |
Thesis Part II |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(Continuation of American Studies 954.) |
| 1199 |
AMST-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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(Completion of two course credits in one semester). |