Courses in American Studies
Fall Courses
- AMST 105(F) Participatory Media Production (Same as Arts 105)
- AMST 138(F) A Love for Literature (Same as English 138)
- AMST 144(F) Whodunit? The Ethnic Detective Novel and its Permutations (Same as English 144) (W)
- AMST 201(F) Introduction to American Studies
- AMST 220(F) Introduction to African American Writing (Same as Africana Studies 220 and English 220)*
- AMST 221(F) Introduction to Urban Studies: Shaping and Living the City (same as Latino/a Studies 220)*
- AMST 302(F) The United States and the Pacific (Junior Seminar)
- AMST 311(F) US-China Foreign Cultural Relations, 1900-1950 (Same as Asian Studies 311, English 334 and Comparative Literature 311)
- AMST 329(F) U.S. Wars in Asia and their Legacies (Same as English 329)
- AMST 331(F) Sound and Movement in the Diaspora: Afro-Latin Identities (Same as Africana Studies 331, Latina/o Studies 331, Theatre 331, and Women and Gender Studies 331)*
- AMST 397(F) Independent Study
- AMST 465(F) Two American Public Intellectuals: Noam Chomsky and Edward Said (Same as English 367T) (W) (AMST Sr. Seminar)
- AMST 491(F) Senior Honors Project
Spring Courses
- AMST 138(S) A Love for Literature (Same as English 138)
- AMST 201(S) Introduction to American Studies
- AMST 210(S) American Modernism (Same as English 210)
- AMST 225(S) Religions of North America (Same as Religion 225)
- AMST 227(S) Utopias and Americas (Same as Latina/o Studies 227 and Religion 227)
- AMST 236(S) South Asians in America
- AMST 238(S) American Literature since 1945: Racial Formations and Transformations (Same as English 238)
- AMST 330(S) Aesthetics of Resistance: Contemporary Latin American Theatre and Performance (Same as Comparative Literature 330, Latina/o Studies 330 and Theatre 330)*
- AMST 332(S) Latinos and Education: The Politics of Schooling, Language, and Latino Studies (Same as Latina/o Studies 332) (Junior Seminar) (W)*
- AMST 338(S) Literature of the American Renaissance (Same as English 338)
- AMST 358(S) Eroding Witness: Aesthetics, Knowledge, and Racial Perception (Same as Africana Studies 358 and English 358)
- AMST 398(S) Independent Study
- AMST 403(S) ) New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o Writing (Same as Africana Studies 403, Comparative Literature 375, English 375, and Latina/o Studies 403) (D) (AMST Sr. Seminar)
- AMST 405(S) Home and Belonging: Comparative Explorations of Displacements, Relocations and Place-making (Same as Latina/o Studies 405) (Senior Seminar) (W)*
- AMST 492(S) Senior Honors Project
Courses Not Currently Offered
- AMST 101Artists Respond to Contemporary Events (Same as ARTS 101)
- AMST 209American Literature: Origins to 1865 (Same as English 209)
- AMST 221Introduction to Urban Studies: Shaping and Living the City (same as Latino/a Studies 220)*
- AMST 225Religions of North America (Same as Religion 225)
- AMST 226New Religions in North America (Same as Religion 226)
- AMST 228TNorth American Apocalyptic Thought (Same as Religion 228T)
- AMST 235Latino/a Theatre and Performance, 1950-2000 (Same as Comparative Literature 268, Latina/o Studies 235, Theatre 235 and Women's and Gender Studies 235)*
- AMST 251Dialects of American English (Same as Linguistics 251)
- AMST 264American Art and Architecture, 1600 to Present (Same as ARTH 264)
- AMST 283Topics in Asian American Literature (Same as English 287)*
- AMST 302Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts (Same as English 388) (Junior Seminar)*
- AMST 305Cities of the Anglophone Chinese Imagination (Same as Asian Studies 305, Comparative Literature 303 and English 374)*
- AMST 310Latino Cityscapes: Mapping Place, Community and Latinidad in U.S. Urban Centers (Same as Latina/o Studies 310) (Junior Seminar)*
- AMST 339Theorizing Popular Culture: Latinas/os and the Dynamics of the Everyday (Same as Comparative Literature 338 and Latina/o Studies 338) (W)*
- AMST 346Latinas/os and the Media: From Production to Consumption (Same as Latina/o Studies 346 and Comparative Literature 359)*
- AMST 364Imagining Urban America, Three Case Studies: Boston, Chicago and L.A. (Same as History 466)
- AMST 368Cultural Encounters in the American West (Same as History 368)*
- AMST 379American Pragmatism (Same as Philosophy 379)
- AMST 403American Music
- AMST 403Notions of Race and Ethnicity in American Culture (Senior Seminar)*
- AMST 406Twentieth-Centure American Poetic Movements (Same as English 407)
- AMST 407Studying American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline (Senior Studies)
- AMST 409Tracing the Roots of Routes: Comparative Transnationalisms (Same as Latina/o Studies 409) (W)*
- AMST 462Art of California: "Sunshine or Noir" (Same as ARTH 462 and Latina/o Studies 462)