American Studies Courses
Courses Fulfilling American Studies Clusters
Fall 2011
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. In addition, please confirm course offerings by visiting the registrar's website as courses may be added or canceled throughout the registration process.
Community Based Studies
AMER 141 Innovative Social Enterprises |
Staff |
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
BIO 51 Experiments in Ecology |
Jan Pechenik |
*CH 181-Community Health Internship Seminar |
Kevin Irwin |
CH 182-Community Health Education: Theory and Practice |
Kevin Irwin |
ELS 101-Entrepreneurship and Business Planning: American Entrepreneurship |
Goldberg, Shapiro, Oliver |
| *SOC 102-Qualitative Methods in Action (available only to double majors with Sociology) | Helen Marrow |
SOC 111-Social Change and Community Organizing |
Susan Ostrander |
Comparative Race and Ethnicity
AMER 12 Race in America |
Jean Wu |
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
AMER 188 Slavery's Optic Glass |
Radiclani Clytus |
ANTH 17/AMER194-04 Latino Music, Migration and Identity |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
CH 55 Race, Ethnicity and Health |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
ED 161 Sociology of the School |
Sabina Vaught |
ENG 154 American Indian Writers |
Elizabeth Ammons |
ENG 155/AMER194-02 American Women Writers |
Christina Sharpe |
HIST 34 African American History since 1865 |
Peniel Joseph |
MUS 39 African American Music |
Stephan Pennington |
MUS 41 History of Blues |
Michael Ullman |
MUS 72 Gospel Choir (will not count towards cluster for class of 2014 and beyond) |
David Coleman |
PS 188 Topics in International Relations: Ethnicity & US Policy |
Pearl Robinson |
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 |
ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology |
Sarah Pinto |
CD 193 Pediatric Psychology |
Kerri Modry-Mandell |
CH 1 Introduction to Community Health |
Edith Balbach |
CH 55 Race, Ethnicity and Health |
Linda Sprague-Martinez |
CH 106 Health, Ethics and Policy |
Staff |
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 |
PS 11 Introduction to American Politics |
Natalie Masuoka |
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 141 Innovative Social Enterprises |
Staff |
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
CH 1 Introduction to Community Health |
Edith Balbach |
CH 55 Race, Ethnicity and Health |
Linda Sprague Martinez |
CH 106 Health, Ethics and Policy |
Staff |
EC 5 Principles of Economics |
Murphy/Norman |
EC 30 Environmental Economics and Policy |
Ekaterina Gnedenko |
EC 48 Health Economics |
Andreea Cohen |
ED 161 Sociology of the School |
Sabina Vaught |
ED 162 Class, Race and Gender in the History of US Education |
Staff |
ED 165 Educating Women and Girls |
Kathleen Weiler |
HIST 34 African Americans in US History since 1865 |
Peniel Joseph |
PS 11 Introduction to American Politics |
Natalie Masuoka |
PS 101 Presidency and the Executive Branch |
Jeffrey Berry |
PS 111 Political Psychology |
Deborah Schildkraut |
REL 41 Contemporary Religion in America |
Elizabeth Lemons |
SOC/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 135 Social Movements |
Matthew Williams |
*SOC 184/UEP 273 Nonprofits, States and Markets |
Susan Ostrander |
Issues in US Education
AMER 183 Urban Borderlands |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
CD 155 Development of Language |
Calvin Gidney |
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 |
Staff |
ED 164 Education for Peace and Justice |
Deborah Donahue-Keegan |
ED 165 Educating Women and Girls |
Kathleen Weiler |
HIST 34 African American History since 1865 |
Peniel Joseph |
PS 11 Introduction to American Politics |
Natalie Masuoka |
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/AMER194-04 Latino Music, Migration and Identity |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez |
ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology |
Lee Edelman |
ENG 154 American Indian Writers |
Elizabeth Ammons |
ENG 155 American Women Writers |
Christina Sharpe |
FAH 280 Latin American Art in Exhibition (permission required,-advanced majors only) |
Adriana Zavala |
MUS 39 History of African American Music |
Stephan Pennington |
MUS 41 History of Blues |
Michael Ullman |
MUS 197-02 American Music Survey |
Stephan Pennington |
MUS 72 Gospel Choir (will not count towards cluster for class of 2014 and beyond) |
David Coleman |
SOC 40 Media and Society
|
Sarah Sobieraj |