What Is America?

AMST-A 100 — A&H

Explores ideas about citizenship, national identity, and the social contract in the broader Americas.

Comparative American Identities: Disasters

AMST-A 200 — A&H DUS

This course will examine, in an interdisciplinary manner, how earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and infections/the spread of diseases assert and challenge the configuration of identities in the U.S.

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U.S. Movements and Institutions: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll

AMST-A 201 — S&H DUS

From Kinsey, sexploitation film, free love and music icons (including Jim Morrison, Dusty Springfield, and Roy Orbison), to the spread of marijuana and rise of LSD, this course evaluates claims that youth cultures of the sixties charted new cultural frontiers of sex, altered states, and aesthetics.

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U.S. Arts and Media: Race in American Art

AMST-A 202 — A&H

This course examines representations of racial identity in American art and visual culture from the colonial period through the present day with a particular focus on evolving conceptions of Native American, African American, European American, Latino, and Asian American identities.

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U.S. Arts and Media: Popular Music and Critical Theory

AMST-A 202 — A&H

The intersection between popular pleasures and genres, on the one hand, and critical and historical reflection, on the other hand, is the subject of this American Studies course. The course focuses on theories of mass culture, the centrality of capitalism to pleasures and genres in art and entertainment in the last century.

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Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas

AMST-A 275 — S&H DUS

This is an interdisciplinary course that examines the ways in which indigenous people throughout the Americas relate to the world: how they see it, how they understand it, how they articulate it and how they live in it.

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Topics in Interdisciplinary American Studies “Crimmigration: The Criminalization of Immigration”

AMST-A 350 — IW

You will explore the interrelationship between immigration policy and the criminal justice system, including mass incarceration, prison privatization, and the demonization of immigrants. The course will draw from media and popular culture, focusing on recent and longer histories of legal traditions and attitudes towards both crime and immigration.

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Advanced Research Seminar: Understanding, Feeling, and Living through Capitalism

AMST-A 450 — IW

Early course readings and discussions explore the design of interdisciplinary work by analyzing how history, film, music, and ethnography have captured the workings of capitalism in the U.S. and the Caribbean in the late twentieth century.

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American Experience Through the Lens

AMST-E 100 — A&H

Through a cultural and historical examination of a variety of objects, such as physical sites, monuments, art, food, film, music, and social institutions, this course asks the question: What and where is America?

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