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Spring 2025

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Required AMST Courses

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AMST 3001 – Theories & Methods of American Studies (2 sections)

This seminar course will introduce majors to various theories and methods for the practice of American Studies. The three goals of the seminars are (1) to make students aware of their own interpretive practices; (2) to equip them with information and conceptual tools they will need for advanced work in American Studies; and (3) to provide them with comparative approaches to the study of various aspects of the United States.

Prerequisites: American Studies Major

AMST 3001-001: Theories & Methods of Amer Std

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM | BRN 328

Miller, Karl Hagstrom

AMST 3001-002: Theories & Methods of Amer Std

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | BRN 235

Tapia, Ruby

 

Fourth Year Seminars

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AMST 4321 - 001 - Caribbean Latinx: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the DR

W 3:30PM-6:00PM | SHN 119

Lamas, Carmen E.

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AMST 4500 - 001 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: Race, Criminality, Abolition 

AMST 4500-001: Fourth Year Seminar AMST

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | WIL 214

Cacho, Lisa Marie

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AMST 4559 - 001 - Refugee Aesthetics

W 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 187

Nguyen, Patricia

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AMST 4559 - 002 - Politics and Literature

T 4:45PM-7:15PM | GIB 241

Balfour, Katharine L.

 

AMST Electives

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AMST 1050 -  Slavery and Its Legacies

MW 2:00PM-3:15PM | WNR 110

Von Daacke, Kirt

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AMST 2500 - 001 - Major Works for Amer Studies: Commodify Race/Gender/Sexuality 

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | BRN 328

Coyoca, Wilfred David

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AMST 2660 - 100 - Spirituality in America 

MW 02:00PM-02:50PM | WIL 402

Hedstrom, Matthew Sigurd

What does "spiritual but not religious" mean, and why has it become such a pervasive self-description in contemporary America? This interdisciplinary course surveys spirituality in America, with a particular eye for the relationship between spirituality and formal religion, on the one hand, and secular modes of understanding the self, such as psychology, on the other.

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AMST 3180 - 100 - Intro to Asian American Studies 

MW 10:00AM-10:50AM | RDL G004

Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey

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AMST 3280 - Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations

MW 2:00PM-2:50PM | CAB 364

Jernigan, Kasey

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AMST 3471 - American Cinema

MW 2:00PM-3:15PM | CLK G004

Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey

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AMST 3500 - 100 - Topics in American Studies: Jim Crow America 

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | BRN 328

Grandison, Kenrick I & Ross, Marlon B

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AMST 3559 - 001 - New Course: Latinx and Indigenous Environmentalisms

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | CLK G004

Azua, Anneleise

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AMST 3559 - 002 - New Course: Placed and Displaced in America

TR 3:30PM-04:45PM | CAB 115

Goff, LIsa

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AMST 3559 - 003 - New Course: Race, Gender, Music

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | RDL 123

Ngô, Fiona

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AMST 3559 - 004 - New Course: U.S. Cultures of Disability

TR 3:30PM-04:45PM | PHS 217

Ngô, Fiona

 

Distinguished Majors Course

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AMST 4999 - 001 - DMP Thesis Seminar

R 04:00PM-06:30PM | CAB 038

Coyoca, Wilfred David

This workshop is for American Studies majors who have been admitted to the DMP program.  Students will discuss the progress of their own and each other's papers, with particular attention to the research and writing processes.  At the instructor's discretion, students will also read key works in the field of American Studies. 

Prerequisites: admission to DMP.

 

Graduate Seminars

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AMST 8001 - 001 - Approaches to American Studies

T 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 064

Tapia, Ruby C.

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AMST 5232 - 001 - Oral History: Workshop

M 3:00PM-05:30PM | CAB 207

Hale, Grace E.

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AMST 5500 - 001 - Grad Topics in AMST: Material Culture 

R 5:00PM-07:30PM | CAB 111

Goff, Lisa

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AMST 5559 - 001 - New Course: Latinx Literature and the Americas 

M 3:30PM-06:00PM | RTN 102

Lamas, Carmen E.