Graduate Courses

Graduate Core Courses

Amst 500
COLLOQUIUM IN AMERICAN CULTURE

(1cr) May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 12 hours. A colloquium in which faculty and graduate students present and discuss their current research. S,F grading.

Amst 501
READINGS IN AMERICAN STUDIES I

(3cr) Readings in key primary and secondary texts in American culture, beginnings to 1865. Major trends in American Studies and related scholarly fields.

Amst 502
READINGS IN AMERICAN STUDIES II

(3cr) Readings in key primary and secondary texts in American Culture, 1865 to present. Major trends in American Studies and related scholarly fields.

Amst 503
CONTEMPROARY THEORIES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY

(3cr) Major theoretical readings and key recent texts in United States and transnational race and ethnicity studies scholarship.

Amst 504
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORIES AND PRACTICES

(3cr) Major theoretical readings and key recent texts in United States and transnational feminist studies scholarship.

Amst 513
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN STUDIES THEORIES AND METHODS

(3cr) Survey of major theories and methods currently used in interdisciplinary analysis of American culture(s).

Amst 524
HISTORY OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

(3cr) Examination of major writings on the history and present developments in US popular culture and mass media.

Amst 525
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND AMERICAN CULTURE

(3cr) Historical and theoretical approach to the impact of social movements on US culture, and the role of cultural forms in social movements.

Amst 590
SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE

(3cr) May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 hours. Interdisciplinary topics in American culture arranged to match current student and faculty interests and expertise.

Amst 596
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

(3cr) May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 hours. Same as Engl 596. Courses built around general program areas of strength, such as global feminisms; Chicano/a studies; sexuality studies; cultural environmental studies, social movements, or the multicultural West. [Credit not granted for both Am St 496 and 596.](SS)

UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE COURSES

Amst 410
CITIES IN FICTION

(3cr) Exploration of the city as an active agent in the fictional works of North American authors.

Amst 470
CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST

(3cr) May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 6 hours. Same as Engl 470. The West in American literature, or topics in culture(s) of the American West.

Amst 471 [H]
CULTURAL POLITICS SINCE WORLD WAR TWO

(3cr) May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 6 hours. Same as Engl 471. American Popular Culture, Politics and Culture of 1960s, or topics in recent cultural politics.

Amst 472
ECOLOGICAL ISSUES AND AMERICAN NATURE WRITING

(3cr) Same as Engl 472. Representation of nature in American fiction and non-fiction; role of culture in shaping environmental problems and solutions.

Amst 473
ART IN US CULTURES

(3cr) Impact of visual arts and increasing amounts of visual imagery in contemporary US culture.

Amst 474
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND US CULTURE

(3cr) Role of progressive social movements in shaping cultural politics, from 1950s to the present, including Civil Rights, American Indian, Chicano/a, Women's, Gay/Lesbian, Environmental Justice, and Anti-Globalization.

Amst 475
DIGITAL DIVERSITY

(3cr) Cultural impact of electronic media, especially the World Wide Web; issues of race, class, gender and sexuaity in online environmemts.

OTHER GRADUATE COURSES

NOTE: More than 75 graduate courses of use to American Studies graduate students are available through our ten allied departments. Check out a list of those courses.