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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Spring 2026 (ALL: 01/20/2026 - 05/08/2026)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist
2859	AMST-218-01	Modern African American Hist	1.00	LEC	Miller,Channon S	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-218-01
		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.
3003	AMST-242-01	American Rhythms	1.00	SEM	Pappas,Rebecca K.	R: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA	ARIP
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		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.
3018	AMST-272-01	Mapping Arts Economies	1.00	SEM	Goffe,Deborah A	T: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA	ARIW
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with PBPL, 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.