Class Schedules

Spring 2018 Fall 2018 Spring 2019

Spring 2018

Number / Section	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
AMST 194-01	Gender/Race/Popular US Culture	Days: MWF	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 216	Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez	Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20
Cross-listed with WGSS 194-01 Details Popular culture is often perceived as only a means of entertainment. In this course, however, we treat popular culture as central to the production and reproduction of identity categories to examine how images, ideologies and behaviors are created and represented in American popular culture. Most importantly, the course will explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in popular culture representations of identity to broadly discuss how identity markers are produced, how they change over time, and how they interlock to form larger structural inequalities and systems of oppression. We will focus on representations of Latinx bodies in the media, blackness and criminality, feminist politics and post-feminist culture, and representations of race and gender in animated films. In addition, students will question their own taken-for-granted notions about what popular culture is and what it does to gendered and raced relations to situate popular culture as a contested space of subjugation and disempowerment as well as one of resistance and possibility. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 209-01	Civil Rights in the United States	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room: LIBR 250	Instructor: Crystal Moten	Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20
First day attendance required; cross-listed with HIST 209-01 Details The course examines the post-World War II Civil Rights Movement led by African Americans in the United States. In the class, students will analyze key people, issues, events, and debates within movement history, including, but not limited to, gender and leadership; struggles for civil rights in the south, west, and urban north; the impact of the Cold War on race relations; student activism; movement strategies; and the emergence of Black Power. Throughout the semester, students will read a wide variety of primary and secondary texts to illuminate the activities and life stories of individual participants as well as the broad historical forces that characterized this long era of insurgency. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 222-01	Imagining the American West	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: NEILL 226	Instructor: Katrina Phillips	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 222-01 Details The American West is central to the construction of America's identity and popular culture. The mythology of the American West, built on a narrow foundation of Euro-American settlement and conquest, is critical to understanding the role of the West in the national narrative of American history. Using a variety of materials, including films, art and photography, literature, and historical sources, this course will examine how writers, artists, actors, settlers, and government officials, among others, shaped the creation of the mythic West. This course will investigate what - and who - is and is not considered part of this mythology, as well as the ways in which these constructs attempted to make sense of the diverse populations converging in the West. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 226-01	American Indian History since 1871	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room: NEILL 226	Instructor: Katrina Phillips	Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 226-01 Details This course examines Native American history since 1871. We begin with an introduction to indigenous history before 1871, characterized by centuries of Euro-American attempts to colonize and Christianize, to assimilate Native bodies and allot Native lands. We will then analyze the ways in which Native Americans have continualy fought to sustain their cultures, languages, and religions, as well as their political and socio-economic structures, throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. Focusing on themes such as Native resistance to the development of U.S. federal policies and the proliferation of Native culture, we will also consider the shifting nature of Native American sovereignty and the importance of indigenous identity in regards to the experiences of Native Americans. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 237-01	Environmental Justice	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room: OLRI 270	Instructor: Christie Manning	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 18
Cross-listed with ENVI 237-01: ACTC student may register on first day of class with permission of the instructor Details Poor and minority populations have historically borne the brunt of environmental inequalities in the United States, suffering disproportionately from the effects of pollution, resource depletion, dangerous jobs, limited access to common resources, and exposure to environmental hazards. Paying particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, class, and gender have shaped the political and economic dimensions of environmental injustices, this course draws on the work of scholars and activists to examine the long history of environmental inequities in the United States, along with more recent political movements-national and local-that seek to rectify environmental injustices. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 270-01	Black Public Intellectuals	Days: W	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 400	Instructor: Duchess Harris	Avail./Max.: -1 / 35
Details This course will address the tradition of public intellectuals in numerous Black communities. We will expand the definition of "politics" to include theater, literature, and film. We will interrogate the concept of who chooses the scholarly leaders for Black communities. We will examine numerous topics such as Communism, The American Dream, Incarceration, Feminism, and Ebony Voices in the Ivory Tower. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 294-01	Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy	Days: M	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 400	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20
Details This 4 credit discussion-based course is entirely focused on Bruce Lee, the actor and leading martial arts icon of the 20th century. Using American Studies and Critical Race Studies frames to examine the construction of racialized and gendered bodies, we will discuss Bruce Lee in terms of his biography, identities, politics, philosophy, and filmography. We will take time to appreciate the entertainment value and athleticism that Bruce Lee brought to his work, but we will also learn to distinguish the commercialized, commodified Bruce Lee (from t-shirts to posters to action figures) from the serious historical figure who symbolized the spirit of cultural independence and political sovereignty around the world. Among the required books and movies: The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, and “Way of the Dragon” (1972). General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 294-02	Chicana/o History	Days: MWF	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: NEILL 215	Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez	Avail./Max.: 2 / 20
Cross-listed with LATI 294-03 and HIST 294-12 Details "Chicana/o History" is designed to introduce students to the histories of the Chicana/o people prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas to the present century. Specifically, this course will provide an overview of culture, religion, education, economics, immigration and civil rights through a Chicana feminist framework. We will begin with a general presentation of terminology and identification categories. Then move towards a general reading on the precolonial histories of the Olmecas, Aztecas, and Tolteca cultures and politics. We will follow with a study of Chicana women’s labor struggles in the U.S. along with the emergence of labor movements. In addition, the class will explore how and why the field of Chicana/o Studies emerges at the height of the Civil Rights and the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will delve into U.S. constructions of immigration, citizenship and nationhood to understand contemporary debates and scholarship on issues affecting the Chicana/o-Mexicana/o-Latina/o communities. By the end of the semester students will be able to critically engage, analyze, and contest not only contemporary constructions of Chicana/o identity and representation, but also grasp a clear understanding of Chicana feminism as an intellectual and theoretical discourse and a strategy for survival for the Chicana/o community. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Writing WA Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 308-01	Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: NEILL 214	Instructor: Alicia Munoz	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15
Cross-listed with HISP 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required; 4 spots to be held for first years Details This course provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the Latino experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban- Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. This course satisfies the Area 4 requirement for the Hispanic and Latin American Studies major. Prerequisite(s): HISP 305 or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 315-01	U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 400	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: 4 / 20
Cross-listed ASIA 315-01 and HIST 315-01; no first year students allowed Details In this discussion-based seminar, we will examine U.S. Global presence through the lenses of empire, diaspora, and transnationalism. We will look specifically at U.S. involvement in the Philippines and Viet Nam from 1898 to 1975 as moments of military occupation and cultural domination, as well as turning points for U.S. nation-building. What is "imperialism" and how is it different from "hegemony"? How did U.S. imperial adventures in Asia help to recreate a Western geographic imaginary of the "East"? How did they reshape or reconfigure "American" positions and identities? Under what circumstances were former imperial subjects allowed to generate racialized communities? To what extent are memories of U.S. conflicts in Asia cultivated, proliferated, twisted, or suppressed? What lessons can be garnered for the contemporary historical moment? Other topics for exploration include: internment, transracial adoption, commemorations of war, and anti-imperialist/anti-war movements. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 330-01	Mellon Seminar	Days: W	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Alicia Munoz	Avail./Max.: 6 / 10
Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; 2 credit course; must be one of the 10 Mellon Fellows Details The Mellon Seminar is for students who are the recipients of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. The course is interdisciplinary, in order to meet the needs of students across the Mellon-designated fields. They will develop their academic interests to the fullest, with the intent to enter Ph.D. programs, and careers in higher education. We will cover topics such as "contemporary issues in higher education," "the politics of knowledge production," and "preparing to apply to graduate school." This course is designed to train students who will pursue PhDs and subsequent careers in academia in selected core fields in the Arts and Sciences. Our objective is to prepare for the Professoriate. May be repeated for credit when the topic differs. Offered on S/N grading only. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 341-01	City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: CARN 105	Instructor: Daniel Trudeau	Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
First day attendance required; cross-listed with GEOG 341-01 Details Urban social geography is the study of social and spatial dimensions of city life. In this course, we will explore some of the ways in which urban society is organized geographically. We will also consider how the spatial patterns of urban life influence public policy issues in the American context. Topics covered in this course include causes of racial segregation, debates about gentrification, sustainable suburban development, the transition from government to governance in cities, and the delivery of urban services that affect the education, health and economic welfare of urban populations. Students will learn current research, engage debates about critical urban issues, and learn techniques useful for analyzing spatial patterns in the urban landscape. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 241 or GEOG 261 or GEOG 262 General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Writing WP Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 354-01	Blackness in the Media	Days: M	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 401	Instructor: Bradley Stiffler	Avail./Max.: 12 / 24
Cross-listed with MCST 354-01 Details This course examines mainstream and alternative systems of African American representation in the media from the 1820s to the 1960s, including race records, race movies, the Black press, Black video, and Black appeal radio. It also examines the way Blackness is constructed in the media today, including the role of new media (such as cable and the Internet); new corporate formations (such as FOX, UPN, and BET), and new forms of representation (such as representations that reject the Black-White binary). Prerequisite(s): One of the following: an introduction to African American Studies course, or MCST 110 - Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 400-01	Senior Seminar	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: NEILL 215	Instructor: Duchess Harris	Avail./Max.: 14 / 20
Details The Senior Capstone is required of all majors. Majors who meet college criteria are encouraged to conduct an honors project in conjunction with their Senior Capstone. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials

Fall 2018

Number / Section	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
AMST 101-01	Explorations of Race and Racism	Days: W	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez	Avail./Max.: 10 / 25
Details The main objectives of this introductory course are: to explore the historical construction of racial categories in the United States; to understand the systemic impact of racism on contemporary social processes; to consider popular views about race in the light of emerging scholarship in the field; and to develop an ability to connect personal experiences to larger, collective realities. We will engage several questions as a group: What are the historical and sociological foundations of racial categories? When does focusing on race make someone racist? What is white privilege, and why does it matter? All students will be asked to think and write about their own racial identity. This course, or its equivalent, is required for majors and minors. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 194-01	Introduction to American Studies	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Nathan Titman	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Details This course introduces students to the key questions that scholars within the field of American Studies apply to explorations of people and cultures affected by competing discourses about “American” citizenship. This is a discussion-based course that will cultivate comprehension of core American Studies concepts and analytical frameworks, while also gauging the role of interdisciplinary research in deepening contemporary understandings of cultures that have circulated within and across the boundaries of the United States. Students will read and critically evaluate “classic” American Studies texts that exemplify the shifting contours of the field over time, as well as works that model the discipline’s long history of research that engages with real world political, social, and economic injustice. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 200-01	Critical Methods for American Studies Research	Days: MWF	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Nathan Titman	Avail./Max.: 15 / 20
Details This course will introduce students to interdisciplinary research approaches to the study of race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference. Students will learn to conceptualize and design research projects, and will obtain hands-on experience in executing different methods. The course will also consider the critiques of systems of knowledge production and research approaches that have been informed by scholars from fields such as African American history, gender studies, and critical race studies, as well as from the disciplines. The goal is to develop an understanding of the assumptions embedded in many fields of inquiry, and to learn to apply critical approaches to important research questions. Prerequisite(s): AMST 101, AMST 103, or AMST 110. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 203-01	Politics and Inequality	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: CARN 06A	Instructor: Lesley Lavery	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25
Cross-listed with POLI 203-01 Details The readings and assignments in this course are designed to help students understand how social policies and programs contribute to Americans' lived experiences. We will examine various theoretical justifications for the policies that constitute the American welfare state, then confront and dissect major strands of the American social safety net to better understand how political institutions and policy mechanisms contribute to both diversity and inequality in individuals' social, economic and political outcomes (based in race, class, gender, dis/ability, region, political jurisdiction, etc.). General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 219-01	In Motion: African Americans in the United States	Days: MWF	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: MAIN 001	Instructor: Crystal Moten	Avail./Max.: 17 / 20
First day attendance required; cross-listed with HIST 219-01 Details In Motion is an introduction to modern African American History from slavery to contemporary times. In Motion emphasizes the idea that both African Americans and the stories of their lives in the United States are fluid, varied and continually being reinterpreted. Rather than a strict chronological survey, this course is organized thematically. Some of the important themes include movement/mobility/migration; work/labor; resistance to systems of oppression; gender/sexuality/culture/performance; politics/citizenship; and sites of (re)memory. While the course is geographically situated in the United States, we will also consider African American life, culture, thought and resistance in global perspectives. In this course, students will read important historical texts, both primary and secondary, engage in discussion, and write essays that ask them to critically engage the history of African Americans in the US. Cross-listed with History 219. 4 credits. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 225-01	American Indian History to 1871	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: OLRI 350	Instructor: Katrina Phillips	Avail./Max.: 16 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 225-01 Details The history of American Indians is wonderfully complex, but this history is simultaneously fraught with misconceptions and misinterpretations. European (and, later, Euro-Americans) alternated among fascination, fear, and frustration toward American Indians, while American Indians sought to maintain tribal sovereignty and control over their lands, cultures, religions, politics, and lifestyles amidst continuing encroachment and settlement. This course examines American Indian history to 1871 - the year that Congress stopped making treaties with Native nations - by considering the complicated and multifaceted history of the nation's indigenous people. By looking at American Indian interactions with Spanish, French, British, and American explorers, settlers, missionaries, militaries, and government officials, this courses argues that the history of American Indians is essential to understanding past as well as present issues. Furthermore, this course looks to move beyond the notion that American Indian history is one of inevitable decline by creating a more nuanced understanding of the American Indian experience from pre-contact toward the twentieth century. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Writing WA Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 229-01	Narrating Black Women's Resistance	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room: ARTCOM 202	Instructor: Crystal Moten	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16
Cross-listed with HIST 229-01 and WGSS 229-01 Details This course examines traditions of 20th century African American women's activism and the ways in which they have changed over time. Too often, the narrative of the "strong black woman" infuses stories of African American women's resistance which, coupled with a culture of dissemblance, makes the inner workings of their lives difficult to imagine. This course, at its heart, seeks to uncover the motivations, both personal and political, behind African American women's activism. It also aims to address the ways in which African American women have responded to the pressing social, economic, and political needs of their diverse communities. The course also asks students to consider narrative, voice and audience in historical writing, paying particular attention to the ways in which black women's history has been written over the course of the twentieth century. General Education Requirements: Writing WA Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 240-01	Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Education	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: ARTCOM 202	Instructor: Brian Lozenski	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25
First day attendance required; cross-listed with EDUC 240-01 Details This survey course will explore history, policy, and pedagogy as they relate to race, ethnicity, and culture as education. K-12 public education will be the primary focus with topics including desegregation, standardized testing, multi-cultural and ethnocentric pedagogy, the teacher's role and experience, and significant historical events in education. The course will culminate by analyzing current trends and future expectations in education. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Writing WP Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 263-01	African-American Theatre	Days: MWF	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: ARTCOM 202	Instructor: Harry Waters Jr.	Avail./Max.: 19 / 20
Details This course is an overview of the development of theatre by and about Black Americans. It examines the historical, social, political, and cultural context of African-American Theatre. After investigating the roots of African-American Theatre in African culture, performance modes, and social values, it focuses on a study of plays written by Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Fine arts Course Materials
AMST 275-01	African American Literature to 1900	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: MAIN 111	Instructor: Daylanne English	Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
Cross-listed with ENGL 275-01 Details In this survey course, we will trace the development of an African American literary tradition from the end of the 18th century to the turn of the 20th century, from Phillis Wheatley to Charles Chesnutt. We will explore the longstanding project of writing an African American self as both a literary and a political subject. We will read closely, critically, and appreciatively from multiple genres, including poetry, slave narratives, short stories, novels, and a graphic novel. We will supplement our exploration of those texts with critical and theoretical readings. Among the themes that will organize the course are: writing as a political act; representations of gendered and classed experiences of blackness in the United States, aesthetic innovation in relation to political and social change, genre and its subversion, and the limits of literary representation itself. Requirements include: two papers of about 10 pages each, brief response papers to each new reading, an in-class presentation, class participation, and a final exam. This course fulfills either the literature by U.S. writers of color or the pre-1900 American literature requirement for the English major. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Writing WA Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 294-01	Martin and Malcolm: Racial Terror and Black Freedom Struggle	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room: MAIN 009	Instructor: William Hart	Avail./Max.: 14 / 20
Cross-listed with RELI 252-01 Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 294-02	Martin and Malcolm: Racial Terror and the Black Freedom Struggle	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room: MAIN 009	Instructor: William Hart	Avail./Max.: 16 / 16
First Year Course only; cross-listed with RELI 252-02 Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 294-03	The Body: Racialized/Gendered/Sexualized	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Nathan Titman	Avail./Max.: 18 / 20
Details This course explores the ways in which perceptions of the human body have shaped culture, thought, and discussions of rights in the United States. The first half of the course examines historical shifts related to racial categories, sexual identities, desirability, and health. The second half focuses on how discussions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized bodies influence current political, economic, and social debates. Throughout the course, we will engage in interdisciplinary interrogations of the body as both a site of social and political surveillance, as well as a medium of cultural critique and political protest. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 294-04	Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Photography	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: ARTCOM 102	Instructor: Joanna Inglot	Avail./Max.: 9 / 20
First day attendance required; cross-listed with ART 294-03 and WGSS 294-01 Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Fine arts Course Materials
AMST 301-01	Critical Prison Studies	Days: M	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: 4 / 15
No first years allowed Details This Junior Seminar in civic engagement offers upper-level students an opportunity to study - through internships and reflection - and to actively engage with the problem of racialized mass-incarceration on a local, regional, and national scale. During any given semester, the seminar may focus on a specific aspect of the problem, such as: ex-felon disenfranchisement, families and juvenile justice, restorative justice, political prisoners, or prison art and literature. This course requires prior exposure to American Studies (preferably including a critical methods course). Note: The seminar will run concurrently with optional internships specifically created for this course, and a required reflection "lab" period. Placement in these internships is highly recommended. Students must obtain permission to enroll in these internships. Prerequisite(s): AMST 200 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 308-01	Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies	Days: MWF	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: NEILL 111	Instructor: Claudia Giannini	Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15
First day attendance required; cross-listed with SPAN 308-01 and LATI 308-01 Details This course provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the Latino experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban- Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 334-01	Cultural Studies and the Media	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room: NEILL 401	Instructor: Leola Johnson	Avail./Max.: 15 / 20
Cross-listed with MCST 334-01 Details An overview of contemporary approaches to media as culture, a determining as well as determined sphere in which people make sense of the world, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, identity, and social inequality. Students develop tools for analyzing media texts and accounts of audience responses derived from the international field of cultural studies and from the social theory on which it draws. Analysis emphasizes specificity of media texts, including advertisements, films, news reports, and television shows. Experience in cooperative discussion, research, and publication. Prerequisite(s): MCST 110 General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 354-01	Blackness in the Media	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: NEILL 400	Instructor: Leola Johnson	Avail./Max.: 23 / 24
Cross-listed with MCST 354-01 Details This course examines mainstream and alternative systems of African American representation in the media from the 1820s to the 1960s, including race records, race movies, the Black press, Black video, and Black appeal radio. It also examines the way Blackness is constructed in the media today, including the role of new media (such as cable and the Internet); new corporate formations (such as FOX, UPN, and BET), and new forms of representation (such as representations that reject the Black-White binary). Prerequisite(s): One of the following: an introduction to African American Studies course, or MCST 110 - Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: U.S. Identities and Differences Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 400-01	Senior Seminar	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room: NEILL 217	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: 12 / 20
Details The Senior Capstone is required of all majors. Majors who meet college criteria are encouraged to conduct an honors project in conjunction with their Senior Capstone. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials

Spring 2019

Number / Section	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
AMST 194-01	Gender, Race, and US Popular Culture	Days: MWF	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room:	Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 209-01	Civil Rights in the United States	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room:	Instructor: Crystal Moten	Avail./Max.: 25 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 209-01 Details The course examines the post-World War II Civil Rights Movement led by African Americans in the United States. In the class, students will analyze key people, issues, events, and debates within movement history, including, but not limited to, gender and leadership; struggles for civil rights in the south, west, and urban north; the impact of the Cold War on race relations; student activism; movement strategies; and the emergence of Black Power. Throughout the semester, students will read a wide variety of primary and secondary texts to illuminate the activities and life stories of individual participants as well as the broad historical forces that characterized this long era of insurgency. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 222-01	Imagining the American West	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room:	Instructor: Katrina Phillips	Avail./Max.: 25 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 222-01 Details The American West is central to the construction of America's identity and popular culture. The mythology of the American West, built on a narrow foundation of Euro-American settlement and conquest, is critical to understanding the role of the West in the national narrative of American history. Using a variety of materials, including films, art and photography, literature, and historical sources, this course will examine how writers, artists, actors, settlers, and government officials, among others, shaped the creation of the mythic West. This course will investigate what - and who - is and is not considered part of this mythology, as well as the ways in which these constructs attempted to make sense of the diverse populations converging in the West. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 226-01	American Indian History since 1871	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room:	Instructor: Katrina Phillips	Avail./Max.: 25 / 25
Cross-listed with HIST 226-01 Details This course examines Native American history since 1871. We begin with an introduction to indigenous history before 1871, characterized by centuries of Euro-American attempts to colonize and Christianize, to assimilate Native bodies and allot Native lands. We will then analyze the ways in which Native Americans have continualy fought to sustain their cultures, languages, and religions, as well as their political and socio-economic structures, throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. Focusing on themes such as Native resistance to the development of U.S. federal policies and the proliferation of Native culture, we will also consider the shifting nature of Native American sovereignty and the importance of indigenous identity in regards to the experiences of Native Americans. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 237-01	Environmental Justice	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room:	Instructor: Christie Manning	Avail./Max.: 18 / 18
First day attendance required; cross-listed with ENVI 237-01; ACTC students may register on the first day of class, with permission of instructor Details Poor and minority populations have historically borne the brunt of environmental inequalities in the United States, suffering disproportionately from the effects of pollution, resource depletion, dangerous jobs, limited access to common resources, and exposure to environmental hazards. Paying particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, class, and gender have shaped the political and economic dimensions of environmental injustices, this course draws on the work of scholars and activists to examine the long history of environmental inequities in the United States, along with more recent political movements-national and local-that seek to rectify environmental injustices. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 281-01	Bruce Lee	Days: M	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room:	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with MCST 281-01 Details This discussion-based course is entirely focused on Bruce Lee, the actor and leading martial arts icon of the 20th century. Using American Studies and Critical Race Studies frames to examine the construction of racialized and gendered bodies, we will discuss Bruce Lee in terms of his biography, identities, politics, philosophy, and filmography. We will take time to appreciate the entertainment value and athleticism that Bruce Lee brought to his work, but we will also learn to distinguish the commercialized, commodified Bruce Lee (from t-shirts to posters to action figures) from the serious historical figure who symbolized the spirit of cultural independence and political sovereignty around the world. Among the required books and movies: The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, and "Way of the Dragon" (1972). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 288-01	Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room:	Instructor: Arthur Mitchell	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with JAPA 288-01 and INTL 288-01 Details From notions of the "pure self" to teenage ganguro ("face-blackening"), Japanese culture is rife with instances of ideology and performance that reflect a deep complexity in its engagement with issues of identity and foreignness. This course traces the roots of this complexity back to Japan's beginnings as a modern nation and examines its cultural development into the present day. Works of fiction will be paired with readings in history and criticism to explore the meanings of identity, race, and ethnicity as they are expressed and contested in Japanese culture. The course will cover the literature of Korea and Taiwan, the experience of domestic minorities, and the contemporary cultures of cos-play ("costume-play") and hip-hop. No prior knowledge of Japanese required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 294-01	The Midwest in US Culture	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room:	Instructor: Nathan Titman	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 294-02	Racism, Queerness, and HIV/AIDS	Days: MWF	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room:	Instructor: Nathan Titman	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
AMST 308-01	Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room:	Instructor: Alicia Munoz	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
First day attendance required; cross-listed with SPAN 308-01 and LATI 308-01 Details This course provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the Latino experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban- Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 315-01	U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room:	Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Cross-listed with ASIA 315-01 and HIST 315-01 Details In this discussion-based seminar, we will examine U.S. Global presence through the lenses of empire, diaspora, and transnationalism. We will look specifically at U.S. involvement in the Philippines and Viet Nam from 1898 to 1975 as moments of military occupation and cultural domination, as well as turning points for U.S. nation-building. What is "imperialism" and how is it different from "hegemony"? How did U.S. imperial adventures in Asia help to recreate a Western geographic imaginary of the "East"? How did they reshape or reconfigure "American" positions and identities? Under what circumstances were former imperial subjects allowed to generate racialized communities? To what extent are memories of U.S. conflicts in Asia cultivated, proliferated, twisted, or suppressed? What lessons can be garnered for the contemporary historical moment? Other topics for exploration include: internment, transracial adoption, commemorations of war, and anti-imperialist/anti-war movements. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 341-01	City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room:	Instructor: Daniel Trudeau	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with GEOG 341-01 Details Urban social geography is the study of social and spatial dimensions of city life. In this course, we will explore some of the ways in which urban society is organized geographically. We will also consider how the spatial patterns of urban life influence public policy issues in the American context. Topics covered in this course include causes of racial segregation, debates about gentrification, sustainable suburban development, the transition from government to governance in cities, and the delivery of urban services that affect the education, health and economic welfare of urban populations. Students will learn current research, engage debates about critical urban issues, and learn techniques useful for analyzing spatial patterns in the urban landscape. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 241 or GEOG 261 or GEOG 262 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Social science Course Materials
AMST 380-01	Topics in African American Literature	Days: TR	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room:	Instructor: Daylanne English	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with ENGL 380-01; first day attendance required Details This course will explore African American cultural production and, depending on the instructor, may focus on a particular genre (e.g. novels, short stories, drama, poetry, detective fiction, speculative fiction), or a particular theme (e.g. The Protest Tradition, Black Feminist Writings), or on a particular period (e.g. the 1820s-1860s, the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s), or on a particular author or authors (e.g. Douglass, Du Bois, Baldwin, Wideman, Morrison, Parks). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
AMST 384-01	Langston Hughes: Global Writer	Days: MWF	Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am	Room:	Instructor: David Moore	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with INTL 384-01 and ENGL 384-01 Details The great African American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is best known as the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. But his career was vaster still. He was a Soviet screenwriter, Spanish Civil War journalist, African literary anthologist, humorist, playwright, translator, social critic, writer of over 10,000 letters, and much more. This course engages Hughes's full career, bridging race and global issues, politics and art, and makes use of little-known archival materials. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials

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