American Studies Courses
Courses Fulfilling American Studies Clusters
Fall 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
| AMER 131 Active Citizenship in an Urban Community | Jean Wu |
AMER 141 Innovative Social Enterprises |
Nancy Wilson |
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
BIO 51 Experiments in Ecology |
Colin Orians |
*CH 180-Community Health Internship |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
*CH 181-Community Health Internship Seminar |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
CH 182-Community Health Education: Theory and Practice |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
ELS 101-Entrepreneurship and Business Planning: American Entrepreneurship |
John Hodgman |
SOC 102-Qualitative Methods in Action (available only to double majors with Sociology) |
Susan Ostrander |
Comparative Race and Ethnicity
AMER 12 Race in America |
Jean Wu |
AMER 131 Active Citizenship |
Nancy Wilson |
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
AMER 185 Native American Issues |
Joan Lester |
| AMER 186 Issues in Urban Education | Sabina Vaught |
AMER 188 Slavery's Optic Glass |
Radiclani Clytus |
ANTH 17 Latino Music, Migration and Identity |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
ED 161 Sociology of the School |
Sabina Vaught |
CD 164 Cultural Diversity in Child & Family Services |
Martha Sellers |
CH 55 Race, Ethnicity and Health |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
ED 161 Sociology of the School |
Sabina Vaught |
MUS 41 History of Blues |
Michael Ullman |
MUS 72 Gospel Choir |
David Coleman |
PS 188 Topics in International Relations: Ethnicity & US Policy |
Pearl Robinson |
PSY 136 Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination |
Keith Maddox |
| REL 41/AMER 0194-01 Contemporary Religion in America | Elizabeth Lemmons |
SOC 10 American Society |
James Ennis |
SOC 110 Race and Ethnic Minorities |
Paula Aymer |
Health, Environment and Society
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
AMER 185 Native American Issues |
Joan Lester |
| BIO 7 Environmental Biology |
Michael Reed |
CD 182 Social Policies for Families and Children |
Francine Jacobs |
CD 193 Pediatric Psychology |
Donald Wertlieb |
CE 137 Introduction to Public Health |
David Gute |
CH 1 Introduction to Community Health |
Edith Balbach |
CH 106 Health, Ethics and Policy |
Alis Spielberg |
| CH 189 Seminar in Health Politics | Edith Balbach |
EC 30 Environmental Economics and Policy |
Ekaterina Gnedenko |
EC 48 Health Economics |
Andreea Cohen |
ENV 91 Environmental Preservation and Improvement |
George Ellmore |
ES 25 Environment and Technology |
Anne Desmarais |
GEO 1 The Dynamic Earth |
Anne Gardulski |
PHIL 48 Feminist Philosophy |
Nancy Bauer |
PS 11 Introduction to American Politics |
James Glaser |
PSY 136 Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination |
Keith Maddox |
SOC 10 American Society |
James Ennis |
UEP 207 Environmental Law |
Robert Russell |
Institutions and Power in the US
AMER 12 Race in America |
Jean Wu |
AMER 131 Active Citizenship |
Jean Wu |
AMER 141 Innovative Social Enterprises |
Nancy Wilson |
| AMER 183 Urban Borderlands | Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
AMER 185 Native American Issues |
Joan Lester |
CD 182 Social Policies for Families and Children |
Francine Jacobs |
CH 1 Introduction to Community Health |
Edith Balbach |
CH 106 Health, Ethics and Policy |
Alis Spielberg |
EC 5 Principles of Economics |
George Norman |
EC 30 Environmental Economics and Policy |
Ekaterina Gnedenko |
EC 48 Health Economics |
Cohen/Simeonova |
ENG 191-02 Seminar: Boston Radicals |
Elizabeth Ammons |
| ED 161 Sociology of the School | Sabina Vaught |
ED 162 Class, Race and Gender in the History of US Education |
Colleen Worrell |
| ED 165 Educating Women and Girls | Kathleen Weiler |
| HIST 83 Special Topics: Civil Rights Movement | Peniel Joseph |
| HIST 93 The New Woman in American Society | Virginia Drachman |
PS 11 Introduction to American Politics |
James Glaser |
PS 43 Justice, Equality, Liberty |
David Denby |
PS 112 Media, Politics and Law |
Michael Goldman |
PS 144 Meaning of America |
Dennis Rasmussen |
REL 41 Contemporary Religion in America |
Elizabeth Lemons |
| REL 143 Sociology of Religion | Paula Aymer |
| SOC 30 Sex & Gender in Society | Susan Ostrander |
SOC 40 Media and Society |
Sarah Sobieraj |
| SOC 110 Racial & Ethnic Minorities | Paula Aymer |
SOC 113 Urban Sociology |
Ryan Centner |
SOC 184/UEP 273 Nonprofits, States and Markets |
Susan Ostrander |
Issues in US Education
AMER 131 Active Citizenship |
Jean Wu |
| AMER 183 Urban Borderlands | Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
| AMER 185 Native American Issues: Politics of Representation | Joan Lester |
| AMER 186 Issues in Urban Education | Sabina Vaught |
CD 155 Development of Language |
Calvin Gidney |
CD 182 Social Policies for Families and Children |
Francine Jacobs |
ED 11 Observing Theory in Action |
Steven Cohen |
ED 161 Sociology of the School |
Sabina Vaught |
ED 162 Class, Race and Gender in the History of US Education |
Colleen Worrell |
ED 164 Education for Peace and Justice |
Donahue-Keegan |
| ED 165 Educating Women and Girls | Kathleen Weiler |
| PS 11 Introduction to American Politics | James Glaser |
PS 112 Media, Politics and Law |
Michael Goldman |
PSY 136-Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination |
Keith Maddox |
SOC 10 American Society |
James Ennis |
| SOC 30 Sex & Gender in Society | Susan Ostrander |
WS 73 Introduction to Queer Studies |
STAFF |
Representation and Performance in the Arts and Humanities
AMER 83 On the Road In America |
Ronna Johnson |
ANTH 17 Latino Music, Migration and Identity |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
AMER 194-01 Writing in the Beat Generation |
Ronna Johnson |
| MUS 39 History of African American Music | Stephan |
MUS 41 History of Blues |
Michael Ullman |
MUS 192-01 Studies in Jazz |
Stephan Pennington |
MUS 72 Gospel Choir |
David Coleman |
SOC 40 Media and Society |
Sarah Sobieraj |