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Required AMST Courses
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
AMST 4321 - 001 - Caribbean Latinx: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the DR
W 3:30PM-6:00PM | SHN 119
Lamas, Carmen E.
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
AMST 4559 - 001 - Refugee Aesthetics
W 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 187
Nguyen, Patricia
AMST 4559 - 002 - Politics and Literature
T 4:45PM-7:15PM | GIB 241
Balfour, Katharine L.
AMST Electives
AMST 1050 - Slavery and Its Legacies
MW 2:00PM-3:15PM | WNR 110
Von Daacke, Kirt
AMST 2500 - 001 - Major Works for Amer Studies: Commodify Race/Gender/Sexuality
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | BRN 328
Coyoca, Wilfred David
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.
AMST 3180 - 100 - Intro to Asian American Studies
MW 10:00AM-10:50AM | RDL G004
Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey
AMST 3280 - Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations
MW 2:00PM-2:50PM | CAB 364
Jernigan, Kasey
AMST 3471 - American Cinema
MW 2:00PM-3:15PM | CLK G004
Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey
AMST 3500 - 100 - Topics in American Studies: Jim Crow America
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | BRN 328
Grandison, Kenrick I & Ross, Marlon B
AMST 3559 - 001 - New Course: Latinx and Indigenous Environmentalisms
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | CLK G004
Azua, Anneleise
AMST 3559 - 002 - New Course: Placed and Displaced in America
TR 3:30PM-04:45PM | CAB 115
Goff, LIsa
AMST 3559 - 003 - New Course: Race, Gender, Music
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | RDL 123
Ngô, Fiona
AMST 3559 - 004 - New Course: U.S. Cultures of Disability
TR 3:30PM-04:45PM | PHS 217
Ngô, Fiona
Distinguished Majors Course
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
AMST 8001 - 001 - Approaches to American Studies
T 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 064
Tapia, Ruby C.
AMST 5232 - 001 - Oral History: Workshop
M 3:00PM-05:30PM | CAB 207
Hale, Grace E.
AMST 5500 - 001 - Grad Topics in AMST: Material Culture
R 5:00PM-07:30PM | CAB 111
Goff, Lisa
AMST 5559 - 001 - New Course: Latinx Literature and the Americas
M 3:30PM-06:00PM | RTN 102
Lamas, Carmen E.