Historical Approaches Category

All courses coded HIUS and HILA will count for this area

AMST 1050 – Slavery and Its Legacies

AMST 1060 – Slavery at UVA and in America

AMST 2422 – Point of View Journalism

AMST 2660 – Spirituality in America

AMST 2753 – Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

AMST 3221 – Hands-On Public History

AMST 3559 – Afro-Latinx-Caribbean Histories

AMST 3559 – Jim Crow America

AMST 3559 – Multimedia Harlem Renaissance

AMST 3559 – Moving On: Migration in/to the U.S.

AMST 3559 – The Education of Blacks in America

AMST 4500 – Politics of Reproduction in the U.S.

ARTH 2471 – Art Since 1945

ARTH 2559 – Queer Histories of American Art

ENGL 4500 – W.E.B. Du Bois

HIST 2214 – The Cold War

HIST 3281 – Genocide

HIST 3452 – The Second World War

MDST 3310 – Sound and Cinema

MDST 3375 – History of Music and Broadcasting in the U.S.

MDST 3903 – Media and Protest: The 1960s

MUSI 2070 – Popular Musics

MUSI 2120 – History of Jazz Music

PLAP 2250 – American Political Tradition

PLAP 3350 – American Congress

PLPT 4305 – American Political Thought to 1865

RELA 2850 – Afro-Creole Religions in the Americas

RELC 2215 – Mormonism and American Culture

RELC 2401 – History of American Catholicism

RELC 2770 – The Black Church

RELC 3150 – Witchcraft in the Early Atlantic World

RELG 2150 – Religion in American Life and Thought to 1865

RELG 2160 – Religion in American Thought and Life from 1865 to the Present

RELG 3960 – Religion and the Black Freedom Struggle

WGS 3110 – Queer American History

WGS 3240 – Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African-American Sportswomen

WGS 3612 – Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present

Race and Ethnicity Category

All courses coded AAS will count for this area

AMST 1050 – Slavery and Its Legacies

AMST 1060 – Slavery at UVA and in America

AMST 2559 – Introduction to Native American Studies

AMST 2559 – Latinx Fictions and Film

AMST 2559 – Ethnic American Speculative Fiction

AMST 2753 – Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

AMST 3180 – Introduction to Asian American Studies

AMST 3200 – African American Political Thought

AMST 3221 – Hands-On Public History

AMST 3300 – Introduction to Latinx Studies

AMST 3321 – Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature

AMST 3323 – Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture

AMST 3407 – Racial Borders and American Cinema

AMST 3470 – Cultures of Hip-Hop

AMST 3555 – Latinx Religions

AMST 3559 – Multimedia Harlem Renaissance

AMST 3559 – Jim Crow America

AMST 3559 – Moving On: Migration in/to the U.S.

AMST 3559 – The Education of Blacks in America

AMST 3880 – Literature of the South

AMST 4500 – Encounters of the Modern Caribbean 

AMST 4500 – Race in American Places

AMST 4500 – Land and Health in Native America

AMST 4321 – Caribbean Latinx Lit and Culture 

AMST 4559 – Racial Geographies, Environmental Crisis

AMST 4559 – Race, Criminality, and Abolition

ANTH 2250 – Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism

ANTH 2270 – Race, Gender, and Medical Science

ARTH 2559 – Making Italian America

DRAM 3070 – African American Theater

ENGL 2560 – Contemporary Latinx Poetry

ENGL 3140 – African-American Literature II

ENGL 2572 – Black Writers in America

ENGL 3572 – African American Rhetorical Traditions

ENGL 4500 – W.E.B. Du Bois

ENGL 4500 – Black Queer Culture

ENGL 4500 – Sally Hemings University

ENGL 4570 – Reading the Black College Campus

HIEU 2102 – Modern Jewish History

HIEU 3692 – The Holocaust

HIST 3281 – Genocide

HIUS 2053 – American Slavery

HIUS 2559 – African-American Women’s History

HIUS 3191 – American Jewish History

HIUS 3641 – American Indian History

HIUS 3651 – Afro-American History to 1865

HIUS 3652 – Afro-American History Since 1865

HIUS 3490 – From Motown to Hip-Hop

HIUS 3654 – Black Fire

HIUS 3671 – African American Freedom Movements

HIUS 3853 – From Redlines to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the U.S.

MDST 3105 – Latino/a Media Studies

MDST 3760 – #BlackTwitter and Black Digital Culture

MUSI 2120 – History of Jazz Music

MUSI 4065 – The “Black Voice”

PLAP 3700 – Racial Politics

RELA 2850 – Afro-Creole Religion in the Americas

RELC 2770 – The Black Church

RELG 3960 – Religion and the Black Freedom Struggle

SOC 2442 – Systems of Inequality

SOC 3410 – Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC 4750 – Racism

WGS 3240 – Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African-American Sportswomen

Transnational/Regional Category

All courses coded HILA will count for this area

AMST 1060 – Slavery at UVA and in America

AMST 2559 – Latinx Fictions and Film

AMST 2559 – Ethnic American Speculative Fiction

AMST 2559 – Introduction to Native American Studies

AMST 2753 – Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

AMST 3180 – Introduction to Asian American Studies

AMST 3221 – Hands-On Public History

AMST 3300 – Introduction to Latinx Studies

AMST 3323 – Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture

AMST 3355 – Border Media

AMST 3465 – America and the Global South in Literature and Film

AMST 3555 – Latinx Religions

AMST 3559 Afro-Latinx-Caribbean Histories

AMST 3559 – Moving On: Migration in/to the US

AMST 3880 – Literature of the South

AMST 4401 – Literature of the Americas

AMST 4321 – Caribbean Latinx Lit and Culture

AMST 4500 – Encounters of the Modern Caribbean

AMST 4500 – Race in American Places

AMST 4500 – Land and Health in Native America

AMST 4559 – Racial Geographies, Environmental Crisis

AAS 2559 – The Global Color Line 

AAS 3500 – Musical Fictions

AAS 3500 – Environmental Justice in the Mid-Atlantic

AAS 4570 – Encounters of the Modern Caribbean

ANTH 2250 – Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism

ANTH 2559 – Comparing World Racisms

ANTH 2590 – Contemporary Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

ENGL 2508 – Displacement and Migration

ENGL 2560 – Contemporary Latinx Poetry

ENGL 3560 – Kafka and His Doubles

ENGL 3560 – Musical Fictions

ENGL 3610 – Global Cultural Studies

ENGL 4500 – Sally Hemings University

ENGL 4560 – Multiethnic American Fiction

HIEU 2102 – Modern Jewish History

HIEU 3692 – The Holocaust

HIST 2014 – Fascism: A Global History

HIST 3281 – Genocide

HIST 3452 – The Second World War

HIUS 3191 – American Jewish History

HIUS 3231 – The Rise and Fall of the Slave South

HIUS 3232 – The South in the Twentieth Century

HIUS 3261 – History of the American West

HIUS 3281 – Virginia History to 1900

HIUS 3282 – History of Virginia, 1900-2018

HIUS 3456 – America in the World since 1914

MDST 3105 – Latino/a Media Studies

MDST 3110 – Hollywood Goes to Asia

MDST 3310 – Sound and Cinema

MDST 3504 – Mexican Cinema

MDST 3510 – Border Media

MDST 3584 – Global Cinema

MDST 4559 – Internet-Distributed TV in a Global Context

MESA 2110 – Intro to Middle East/South Asia Film History

MESA 3111 – Film Festivals and Global Media Cultures

MUSI 4525 – Topics in Ethnomusicology

RELA 2850 – Afro-Creole Religion in the Americas

RELC 3150 – Witchcraft in the Early Atlantic World

SOC 3480 – Sociology of Globalization

SPAN 3420 – Survey of Latin American Literature I

SPAN 3430 – Survey of Latin American Literature II

SPAN 4520 – Contemporary Peruvian Culture

SPAN 4710 – Latin American Culture and Civilization

WGS 2240 – Transnational Feminism

WGS 3200 – Women, Gender, and Sports

WGS 3340 – Transnational Feminism

WGS 3559 – Transgender Studies in the Americas

Additional American Studies Electives

Any course designated AMST, AAS, HIUS, HILA will count as an AMST elective

ANTH 2589 – The Materiality of Death and Dying

ARTH 2559 – Medieval Myths Then & Now 

ARTH 3581 – American Modernisms                                  

ENGL 2504 – Major Authors of American Literature

ENGL 2508 – American Environmental Fictions    

ENGL 2508 – My Superheroes are Black

ENGL 3150 – American Renaissance

ENGL 3430 – American Literature to 1865

ENGL 3545 – U.S. Literature and Social Justice                

ENGL 4560 – Contemporary Poetry

ENGL 4561 – Modern Love in the U.S.       

MDST 3115 – Breaking Bad: Once Upon a Time with the Pests                                        

MDST 3502 – The Horror Film

MDST 3559 – The Comedy Film

MDST 3559 – Superhero Media

MDST 3650 – Shooting the Western                    

MDST 4559 – Critical Game Studies

MUSI 2570 – Intro to Music and Sport                      

PLAN 1010 – Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning                                              

PLAP 3370 – Workshop in Contemporary American Politics                                            

PLAP 3160 – Politics of Food

PLAP 4180 – Political Advertising and American Democracy

PLAP 4360 – Campaigns and Elections

PLAP 4500 – Conservative Politics

PLAP 4500 – Contemporary Liberal and Conservative Thought

PLAP 4500 – Tea Party Women, Trump, and and White Christian America

PLPT 4070 – Liberalism and Its Critics                                           

RELC 4044 – Religion and the American Courts                           

SOC 2320 – Gender and Society

SOC 4559 – Hate Groups

SOC 4559 – The 2020 Census                                                                   

WGS 2897 – Gender Violence and Social Justice