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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Spring 2025 (ALL: 01/21/2025 - 05/09/2025)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist
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.