Course Descriptions
American Studies
AMST 101 - Explorations of Race and Racism
Frequency: Every year.
AMST 102 - Reading Plays
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: THDA 112
AMST 112 - Introduction to African American Literature
Frequency: Alternate years.
Cross-Listed as: ENGL 112
AMST 114 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
Frequency: Fall semester only.
Cross-Listed as: ASIA 114
AMST 120 - Hunger Games: Map and Mirror for the 21st Century
Frequency: Fall semester only.
AMST 130 - What's after white empire-and is it already here?
Frequency: Fall semester only.
AMST 160 - Culture Power Difference
Frequency: Every year
Cross-Listed as: MCST 160
AMST 194 - Topics Course
AMST 200 - Critical Methods for American Studies Research
Frequency: Spring semester only
Prerequisite(s): AMST 101 or another AMST course.
AMST 203 - Politics and Inequality: The American Welfare State
Frequency: Alternate spring semesters.
Cross-Listed as: POLI 203
AMST 205 - Trans Theories and Politics
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: WGSS 205
AMST 209 - Civil Rights in the United States
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 209
AMST 219 - In Motion: African Americans in the United States
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 219
AMST 222 - Imagining the American West
Frequency: Offered alternate years.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 222
AMST 224 - Enslavement, Resistance, and Emancipation in Comp N Amer and Caribbean Perspectives
Frequency: Alternate years.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 224
AMST 225 - Native History to 1871
Frequency: Offered occasionally.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 225
AMST 226 - American Indian History since 1871
Frequency: Offered spring semester.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 226
AMST 229 - Narrating Black Women's Resistance
Frequency: Every year.
AMST 231 - Sovereignty Matters: Critical Indigeneity, Gender and Governance
Frequency: Fall semester only.
AMST 232 - Immigration and Ethnicity in US History
Frequency: Occasionally.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 232
AMST 235 - Captives, Cannibals, and Capitalists in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Frequency: Offered occasionally.
AMST 237 - Environmental Justice
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: ENVI 237
AMST 240 - Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Education
Frequency: Spring semester.
Cross-Listed as: EDUC 240
AMST 241 - Reclaiming Zen, Yoga and Church: Asian American Religions
Frequency: Spring semester only.
AMST 244 - Urban Latinx Power in the U.S.
Frequency: Alternate years.
AMST 250 - Race, Place and Space
Frequency: Offered occasionally.
Prerequisite(s): Prior exposure to American Studies, human geography, sociology or race/ethnicity or urban studies.
Cross-Listed as: GEOG 250
AMST 251 - Race and the Law
Frequency: Spring semester only.
AMST 253 - James Baldwin and the Black Religious Imagination
Frequency: Fall semester.
Cross-Listed as: RELI 253
AMST 256 - Transatlantic Slave Trade
Frequency: Alternate years.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 256
AMST 260 - Race, Cultural Politics and Social Movements
AMST 263 - African American Theater
Cross-Listed as: THDA 263
AMST 268 - American Culture in the Atomic Age
Frequency: Spring semester only.
Cross-Listed as: ENVI 268
AMST 270 - Black Public Intellectuals
AMST 271 - Uses and Abuses: Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Frequency: Fall semester.
Cross-Listed as: HIST 271
AMST 275 - African American Literature to 1900
Frequency: Alternate years.
Cross-Listed as: ENGL 275
AMST 281 - Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy
Frequency: Every year.
AMST 284 - Radical Reelism: Indigeneity, Politics, and Visual Culture
Frequency: Fall semester only.
Cross-Listed as: MCST 284
AMST 288 - Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan
Frequency: Alternate years.
AMST 289 - Not Your Model Minority: Japanese Americans from Incarceration to Redress and Beyond
Frequency: Spring semester only.
Cross-Listed as: ASIA 289
AMST 294 - Topics Course
AMST 300 - Critical Legal Studies
Prerequisite(s): American Studies Major or permission of instructor.
AMST 308 - Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies
Frequency: Every semester.
AMST 315 - U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam
Frequency: Spring semester.
AMST 325 - Labor and Class and the Theater
Frequency: Alternate spring semesters.
Cross-Listed as: THDA 325.
AMST 336 - Blacks in Paris/Noires á Paris
Frequency: Offered occasionally.
Prerequisite(s): FREN 204 or higher
Cross-Listed as: FREN 336
AMST 341 - City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification
Frequency: Offered every year.
Cross-Listed as: GEOG 341
AMST 355 - Abolition Feminism: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Critical Prison Studies
Frequency: Every year.
Cross-Listed as: WGSS 355
AMST 370 - Understanding Race and Racism
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100, PSYC 201 (or STAT 155), and at least one intermediate course in Psychology.
Cross-Listed as: PSYC 370
AMST 380 - Topics in African American Literature
Frequency: Alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): One prior English course numbered in the 100s.
Cross-Listed as: ENGL 380
AMST 384 - Langston Hughes: Global Writer
AMST 387 - Latinx in the Midwest
Frequency: Alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 308
AMST 392 - Topics Course
AMST 394 - Topics Course
AMST 400 - Senior Seminar
AMST 445 - Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border
Frequency: Generally taught alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 308 or consent of the instructor.
AMST 494 - Topics Course
AMST 601 - Tutorial
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 602 - Tutorial
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 603 - Tutorial
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 604 - Tutorial
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 611 - Independent Project
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory American Studies course and permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 612 - Independent Project
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory American Studies course and permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 613 - Independent Project
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory American Studies course and permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 614 - Independent Project
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory American Studies course and permission of instructor and department chair.
AMST 621 - Internship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office.
AMST 622 - Internship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office.
AMST 623 - Internship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office.
AMST 624 - Internship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office.
AMST 631 - Preceptorship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs.
AMST 632 - Preceptorship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs.
AMST 633 - Preceptorship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs.
AMST 634 - Preceptorship
Frequency: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs.