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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3271 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: 3 seats reserved for AMST majors, 5 seats for first-year students, 2 seats for second-year students
  This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, social, and environmental history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study Indigenous sovereignty, European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, industrialization, abolitionism, U.S. wars with Native nations, and the U.S. Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts, to comprehend the expansiveness of hundreds of Native American homelands, and to center struggles for Black freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality.
3296 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  
  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.
3297 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  
  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.
3322 AMST-209-01 Early African American History 1.00 LEC Miller,Channon S TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-209-01
  Beginning in the sixteenth century and concluding in the nineteenth - this journey is one dedicated to enslaved Black people. It lends its focus to those who birthed Black America, and how they did so. From their arrival in chains, through their fight towards emancipation, and to the death of reconstruction, the course explores their struggles and triumphs. It not only focuses on the layered mechanisms of anti-Blackness that sustained their bondage, but their development of a "nation within a nation" - with its own ideals and ideologies, as well as traditions and languages. We will lean on the voices of African-Americans from these periods, and scholars who have committed themselves to holding up their lived realities.
3298 AMST-223-01 The Prison & Public Humanities 1.00 LEC Camp,Jordan T. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The United States has the world's largest prison population. This course interrogates the structures and processes that have led to this calamitous condition. It introduces students to public humanities approaches to understanding the problem of mass incarceration. It prepares students for engaged public intellectual work in oral history, journalism, and social justice advocacy, among other creative applications. Through readings, lectures, and original research, students will acquire an inventory of concepts, including: systemic racism, the carceral state, policing, and security. Throughout the course, we will ask: How have carceral resolutions of social and economic crisis been legitimated? How have public humanities scholars challenged dominant definitions of mass incarceration? Together, we will explore the dimensions of the problem and what ethical and political alternatives might be possible.
3378 AMST-271-01 Anthropology of Museums 1.00 LEC Guzman,Amanda J. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ANTH-271-01
  From children's movie backdrops to contemporary news headlines, museums continue to capture our public attention as cultural spaces of fantastical object storytelling and contested object ownership. What might the future of the (re)making of museum spaces tell us about the future of our relationships to social institutions and how we remember the past? We will shift between lenses of research and practice to consider issues of community engagement, digitization, and climate resiliency. We will materially trace and analyze the complex, often difficult historical legacies of these cultural institutions from a global case-study perspective. We will explore the diverse ways in which museums are being called on today to re-imagine the work that they do and the stories that they tell.
3277 AMST-285-01 Born in Blood 1.00 LEC Gac,Scott MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 49 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-285-01
  This course explores the formations and functions of violence in the United States from 1754 to 1900. It investigates government (federal, state, and local) and individuals-and the intersection of the government and the individual-regarding military bodies, access to weapons, and legal and extralegal violent activities. Using figures from the well-known (George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) to the lesser known (Hannah Dustan or Robert Smalls), the class questions the limits and boundaries of American violence according to race, class, and gender. In the end, students will debate whether violence belongs aside liberty, democracy, freedom, and equality in the pantheon of American political and cultural ideals.
3299 AMST-315-01 Abolition: A Global History 1.00 LEC Heatherton,Christina TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HRST-315-01
  Over the past decade, a new word has emerged in the lexicon of struggle: abolition. Alongside calls to "Abolish prisons," "Abolish ICE," and "Abolish borders," organizers have challenged the horizons of political possibility. This class considers contemporary debates while situating them in a long global history. We will study how definitions of freedom, the state, and human rights have been shaped by struggles to abolish slavery in tandem with Indigenous struggles against settler colonialism. We will learn how abolition has long been defined not simply as the negation of untenable violence but as an affirmation of alternative ways of being. By engaging American Studies and Human Rights scholarship on incarceration, disability, racism, gender and sexuality, we will deepen our understanding of this language of struggle.
3282 AMST-320-01 Place in the Native Northeast 1.00 SEM Wickman,Thomas M. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 6 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-311-01
  NOTE: AMST 320: 4 seats reserved for AMST majors, 2 seats for second-year students .
  This course introduces students to critical histories of Dawnland, or the Native Northeast, now more commonly known as New England. The seminar offers a place-based introduction to the ways that Native nations of the Northeast have adapted, recreated, and reaffirmed connections to their homelands and territories, from the fifteenth century to the present. Connecticut's Indigenous peoples will be centered, including Wangunk, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Schaghticoke, Eastern Pequot, and Golden Hill Paugussett people. Struggles for Native sovereignty and better Indigenous futures will be discussed throughout the semester. Topics include the Pequot War, Indigenous slavery, Black-Native histories, urban Indigenous histories, language revitalization, and food sovereignty. Readings will cover major themes in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), with special emphasis on sense of place.
3301 AMST-327-01 Racial Capitalism 1.00 LEC Camp,Jordan T. R: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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.
2774 AMST-357-01 Race and Urban Space 1.00 LEC Baldwin,Davarian L. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with EDUC Cross-listing: URST-357-01
  Scholars and now even the larger public have conceded that race is a social construct. However, many are just beginning to fully explore how the specific dimensions and use of space is mediated by the politics of racial difference and racial identification. Therefore, this course seeks to explore how racism and race relations shape urban spatial relations, city politics, and the built environment and how the historical development of cities has shaped racial identity as lived experience. Covering the 20th century, the course examines three critical junctures: Ghettoization (1890s-1940s); Metropolitan Formation (1940s-1990s); and Neo-Liberal Gentrification (present).
1400 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.
2816 AMST-409-01 Race, Gender, Global Security 1.00 SEM Heatherton,Christina T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 6 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HRST-409-01
  Recent events have focused attention on questions of race, gender, social justice, and the militarization of police. This course will consider how notions of race and security that evolved in the late 20th and early 21st century U.S., have shaped political discourse, and how in turn, those ideas have circulated around the world. Through analyses of American Studies texts, documentaries, and popular culture, we will consider both emerging and prevailing definitions of security. By examining case studies in major global cities, including Los Angeles, we will explore how space has been organized around the logics of racialized threats and gendered notions of safety. For a cumulative paper, students will select a global city and offer history, context, and analysis of the production of insecure spaces.
1429 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)
3208 AMST-481-01 Black Marriage in US Slavery 1.00 SEM Miller,Channon S TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-381-01
  While the institution of slavery in the United States declared Black people chattel, Black people declared themselves human - and worthy of love, community, intimacy, relationships - and marriage. Accorded to the law, marriage between white women and white men was sacred and protected. For the enslaved, these unions were outlawed. This course unearths a history of how enslaved Black people defined, practiced, and sustained marital bonds under a controlling regime.
1505 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.
2485 AMST-498-01 Senior Thesis Part 1 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the first 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.
1521 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.
1421 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.
1417 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.
1418 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.)
1420 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.)
1419 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).