American Studies Courses

Courses Fulfilling American Studies Clusters
Spring 2010

Please see the list below for courses currently being offered by American Studies and other departments and the appropriate cluster(s) that the course can satisfy. Please note that courses taken to fulfill a cluster cannot be used to satisfy other American Studies requirements. Limited access courses are marked with an asterisk.

Please see the individual department website for details regarding course descriptions, time blocks, etc.

Community Based Studies

ANTH 149 Economic Anthropology in Action	Roberta Rubin
*CH180 Community Health Internship	Linda Sprague-Martinez
*CH181 Community Health Internship Seminar	Linda Sprague-Martinez
CH182 Community Health Education: Theory and Practice	Linda Sprague-Martinez
ELS101 Entrepreneurship and Business Planning: American Entrepreneurship	John Hodgman
SOC102 Qualitative Methods in Action (available only to double majors with Sociology)	Susan Ostrander
SOC130 Wealth, Poverty and Inequality	Susan Ostrander

Comparative Race and Ethnicity

AMER 16 (Un)making American Identities	Jean Wu/Christina Sharpe
AMER184 Viewing African American Dance	Alice Trexler/Francie Chew
ANTH15 Native Peoples and Indigenous Rights in South America	David Guss
ANTH17/AMER 194 Latino Music, Migration and Identity	Deborah Pacini
FAH71 Arts of the Afro Atlantic Diaspora	Peter Probst
CD164 Cultural Diversity in Child & Family Services	Martha Sellers
EC144 Income, Equality, Poverty, Justice	Linda Loury
ED161 Sociology of the School	Sabina Vaught
ED167/AMER186 Critical Race Theory Seminar: Issues in Urban Education	Sabina Vaught
ENG63 American Fiction 1900-1950	Ronna Johnson
ENG154 American Indian Writers	Elizabeth Ammons
ENG160 Environmental Justice and US Literature	Elizabeth Ammons
HIST35 African American History since 1865	Colleen Worrell
MUS72 Gospel Choir	David Coleman
PSY136 Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination	Keith Maddox

Health, Environment and Society

ANTH148 Medical Anthropology	Sarah Pinto
CHEM8 Environmental Chemistry	Jonathan Kenny
BIO10 Plants and Humanity	George Ellmore
CD193 Pediatric Psychology	Margaret Powers
CH2 Health Care in America	Kevin Irwin
CEE158 Occupational and Environmental Health	David Gute
CH185 Community Health and Drugs	Kevin Irwin
EC30 Environmental Economics and Policy	Ekaterina Gnedenko
ED1 School and Society	Steven Cohen
ENG160 Environmental Justice and US Literature	Elizabeth Ammons
ENV/UEP94 Environmental Policy, Planning and Ethics	Robert Russell
GEO2 Environmental Geology	John Ridge
PHIL124 Bioethics	Mitchell Silver
PS11 Introduction to American Politics	Natalie Masuoka
PSY55 Human Sexual Behavior	Joseph DeBold
PSY56 Drugs and Behavior	Carolyn Cohen
PSY136 Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination	Keith Maddox
SOC130 Wealth, Poverty and Inequality	Susan Ostrander
SOC141 Medical Sociology	TBA
UEP181 Homelessness in America	Roberta Rubin
WS72 Introduction to Women’s Studies	Ronna Johnson

Institutions and Power in the US

AMER16 (Un)making Identities	Jean Wu/Christina Sharpe
CD167 Children and the Mass Media	Julie Dobrow
CH2 Health Care in America	Kevin Irwin
CEE158* Occupational and Environmental Health (only if substantial US content or research project focuses on US)	David Gute
CH99 Introduction to Global Health	TBA
CH104 Women and Health	Alissa Spielberg
CH185 Community Health and Drugs	Kevin Irwin
EC5 Principles of Economics	TBA
EC30 Environmental Economics and Policy	Ekaterina Gnedenko
EC62 Economics of International Migration	Anna Hardman
ED161 Sociology of the School	Sabina Vaught
ED162 Class, Race and Gender in the History of US Education	Colleen Worrell
REL40 History of Religion in America	TBA
REL106* Contemporary Religious Thought (only if substantial US content or research project focuses on US)	Elizabeth Lemons
REL143/SOC143 Sociology of Religion	Paula Aymer
PS11 Introduction to American Politics	Natalie Masuoka
PS101 Presidency and the Executive Branch	Jeffrey Berry
PS112 Media, Politics, and Law	Micahel Goldman
PS116 Judicial Politics	Kent Portney
PS119/AMER194 The Politics of US Immigration	Natalie Masouka
PS195 Seminar: Politics of Sustainable Identities	Kent Portney
SOC40 Media and Society	Sarah Sobieraj
SOC121 Sociology of Law	TBA
SOC130 Wealth, Poverty and Inequality	TBA
UEP94 Environmental Policy, Planning and Politics	Robert Russell

Issues in US Education

CD7 The Child and the Educational Process	Lisa Kuh
CD155 Development of Language	Calvin Gidney
ED1 School and Society	Steven Cohen
ED161 Sociology of the School	Sabina Vaught
ED162 Class, Race and Gender in the History of US Education	Colleen Worrell
ED167/AMER186 Critical Race Theory Seminar: Issues in Urban Education	Sabina Vaught
PS11 Introduction to American Politics	Natalie Masuoka
PS112 Media, Politics, and Law	Michael Goldman
PSY136 Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination	Keith Maddox
SOC130 Wealth, Poverty and Inequality	Susan Ostrander
UEP181 Homelessness in America	Roberta Rubin
WS72 Introduction to Women’s Studies	Ronna Johnson

Representation and Performance in the Arts and Humanities

AMER184 Viewing African American Dance	Alice Trexler/Francie Chew
ANTH17/AMER194 Latino Music, Migration and Identity	Deborah Pacini Hernandez
CD167 Children and the Mass Media	Julie Dobrow
DNC92 Intermediate Salsa (half-credit) prereq: salsa dance experience	Mila Thigpen
ENG63 American Fiction 1900 - 1950	Ronna Johnson
ENG154 American Indian Writers	Elizabeth Ammons
ENG92 American Modernism	Ichiro Takayoshi
MUS44 History of Rock and Roll	Julie Strand
MUS42 History of Jazz	Michael Ullman
MUS72 Gospel Choir	David Coleman
MUS185 Studies in Women and Music: Black Divas	Stephan Pennington
SOC40 Media and Society	Sarah Sobieraj