Current American Studies Course Offerings

Summer & Fall 2025 Course Offerings in American Studies

For more information, please contact American Studies Coordinator Caroline Woidat.

Summer 2025 Courses

ANTH 326 - Race, Racism and Antiracism in the Americas (Online 5/19–6/13)
HIST 163 - African American History to 1877 (Online 5/19–6/27)
PLSC 110 - American Politics (Online 5/19–6/27)

Fall 2025 American Studies Electives

Courses that may be taken as American Studies electives:

English 

  • ENGL 111 - Literature, Medicine, and Racism
  • ENGL 114 - Literature & Sustainability: Native Lands
  • ENGL 329 - Contemporary American Literature
  • ENGL 439 - Women, Spirits, and Ghosts
  • ENGL 458 - Louisa May Alcott

Geography

  • GEOG 201 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning

History

Note: HIST 302 is restricted to History majors, minors & concentrators, sophomore standing or higher OR permission of History Department.

  • HIST 120 - Military History of the USA

  • HIST 161 - American Populism

  • HIST 204 - United States Since 1945

  • HIST 263 - Civil War and Reconstruction Era from 1830-1890

  • HIST 266 - Civil Rights Movement in America

  • HIST 301 - Interpretations in History: Civil Rights Movement

  • HIST 302 - Research in History: US Women’s History

  • HIST 304 - Teaching in History: US History

  • HIST 415 - Environmental History of Modern America

Interdepartmental

  • INTD 203 Social Foundations of Education in the United States

Management 

  • MGMT 263 - Business Law I 

Music

  • MUSC 100 Woody Guthrie & Folk Revival

Political Science

  • PLSC 110 - American Politics

  • PLSC 414 - American Public Policy

  • PLSC 418 - Constitutional Law

Sociology

  • SOCL 220 - Inequality, Class, and Poverty

  • SOCL 230 - Race and Ethnicity

  • SOCL 310 - Sociology of Law

Fall 2025 AMST Cultural Intersections

Courses that fulfill the AMST Cultural Intersections requirement:

English

  • ENGL 111 - Literature, Medicine, and Racism

  • ENGL 114 - Literature & Sustainability: Native Lands

  • ENGL 439 - Women, Spirits, and Ghosts

  • ENGL 458 - Louisa May Alcott

 

Sociology

  • SOCL 220 - Inequality, Class, and Poverty

  • SOCL 230 - Race and Ethnicity

History

  • HIST 263 - Civil War and Reconstruction Era from 1830-1890

  • HIST 266 - Civil Rights Movement in America

  • HIST 301 - Interpretations in History: Civil Rights Movement

  • HIST 302 - Research in History: US Women’s History

 

Fall 2025 AMST Transnational

Courses that fulfill the AMST transnational requirement: 

Anthropology 

  • ANTH 226 - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

  • ANTH 318/WGST 318 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Communication

  • COMN 317 - Culture and Communication

Finance 

  • FNCE 316 - International Finance

History 

  • HIST 270  - History of Latin America to 1825

Political Science

  • PHIL 202 - World Religions & Contemporary Issues

  • PLSC 120 - Comparative Politics

  • PLSC 140 - International Politics

Sociology 

  • SOCL 105 - Introduction to Global Social Change
  • SOCL 325 - Global Social Change

Women & Gender Studies

  • WGST 318 - Gender and Sexuailty in Latin America (cross-listed with ANTH 318)
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