Department of American Studies
Minor in American Studies
Students on Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022 requirements AMSTMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- AMST-A 100 What Is America?
AMST-A 100 What Is America?
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores ideas about citizenship, national identity, and the social contract in the broader Americas. What makes us "Americans?" How do we define "America?" How does national identity compete with and relate to other forms of identity, such as social status or class, religious association, gender and sexuality, and racial or ethnic description?
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Intermediate Course. One (1) course:
- AMST-A 150 Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
- AMST-A 200 Comparative American Identities
- AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
- AMST-A 202 U.S. Arts and Media
- AMST-A 203 American Cultures, Global Connectivities
- AMST-A 204 Race in American Art
- AMST-A 205 American Radicalism and Dissent
- AMST-A 275 Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas
- AMST-A 298 Special Topics in Arts and Humanities for American Studies
- AMST-A 299 Special Topics in Social and Historical Studies for American Studies
AMST-A 150 Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to Native American and Indigenous cultures, literature, history, arts, values, lifeways, spirituality, and social and political institutions. Focuses on global and hemispheric elements including North America.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 200 Comparative American Identities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the formation of legal, social, cultural, and economic identities within the United States and within U.S.-controlled territories. Who counts as "American?" To what ends have citizens and non-citizens assumed, claimed, or refused "American" identity? This course employs a comparative frame in considering elite and subordinated classes (and/or genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities); institutional and countercultural forms of self-definition; official history and alternative acts of collective memory.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of a social movement, an institutional structure, or an otherwise clearly delimited arena of social regulation and public activity. Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of social study. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 202 U.S. Arts and Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary approaches to a cultural genre (e.g., science fiction, pop art, jazz), discourse (e.g., individualism, family values, globalization) or medium (e.g., comics, television, the Internet). Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of cultural study. Recent topics have included Images of the Body, Jazz and Cultural Hierarchy, and Youth Cultures.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AMST-A 203 American Cultures, Global Connectivities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Hamburgers, Hollywood, Hip-hop. Explores what gets defined as typically "American" and why. Considers how contending cultural perspectives on "America" serve to distinguish it from or connect it to other nations. Each topic analyzes specific cultural practices and products to locate U.S. and non-U.S. places in global contexts.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for up to 6 credit hours.
AMST-A 204 Race in American Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines representations of racial identity in American visual culture from the colonial period through the present with a particular focus on evolving conceptions of Native American, African American, European American, Latino, and Asian American identities.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AMST-A 205 American Radicalism and Dissent
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the political, cultural and intellectual history of radical social movements in the U.S., including abolitionism, feminism, anarchism, socialism, communism, civil rights, black liberation, gay rights, antiwar protest, and the 1960s New Left, and examines the contributions these movements made to the diversity of American life and thought.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 275 Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of some basic aspects of indigenous lifeways in the Americas, this course introduces comparative cultural analysis, providing a foundational course for those interested in thinking about how others think and how we think about otherness. Students will examine mythology, ritual, health, art, and philosophy within the context of colonialism and globalization.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 298 Special Topics in Arts and Humanities for American Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within arts and humanities. Topics vary from semester to semester. Focuses on the refinement of students' skills in writing, interdisciplinary interpretation, analytical reasoning, discussion, and research related to the study of fine arts, literature, film, and popular culture.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AMST-A 299 Special Topics in Social and Historical Studies for American Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of a single, closely focused American studies topic within social and historical studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Focuses on the refinement of students' skills in writing, interdisciplinary interpretation, analytical reasoning, discussion, and research related to the study of public policy, political, economic, and social realities.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Advanced Courses.
- Advanced Courses in American Studies. At least two (2) courses and six (6) credit hours:
- Any AMST-A 300–399
- Any AMST-A 400–499
- Any AMST-E 300–399
- Any AMST-E 400–499
- Any AMST-X 300–399
- Any AMST-X 400–499
- Advanced Electives. At least one (1) course and three (3) credit hours:
- Additional courses from the Advanced Courses in American Studies list.
- AAAD-A 330 African American Cinematic Experience
- AAAD-A 331 Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
- AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- AAAD-A 352 African American Art II: African American Artists
- AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- AAAD-A 359 Ethnic/Racial Stereotypes in American Film
- AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- AAAD-A 388 Motown
- AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- AAAD-A 430 The Cinema of Africana Women
- AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- AAAD-A 479 Contemporary Black Poetry
- AAAD-A 480 The Black Novel
- AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- AAAD-A 496 Black Religious Music
- ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
- ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
- ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
- ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
- ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
- ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
- CJUS-P 301 Police in Contemporary Society
- CJUS-P 302 Courts and Criminal Justice
- CJUS-P 375 American Juvenile Justice System
- CJUS-P 381 History of Social Control in the United States
- ENG-L 358 American Literature, 1914-1960
- ENG-L 359
- ENG-L 364 Native American Literature
- ENG-L 374
- FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
- FOLK-E 394 Survey of African American Music
- FOLK-E 496 African American Religious Music
- FOLK-F 351 North American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- FOLK-F 353 Native American Film and Video
- FOLK-F 354 African American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- FOLK-F 356 Chicano Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
- GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
- GEOG-G 323 Geography of Latin America
- GNDR-G 340 Gender, Geography, Sex, and Space
- GNDR-G 410 International Feminist Debates
- GNDR-G 485 Gender and Discourse
- HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
- HIST-A 300
- HIST-A 301 Colonial America
- HIST-A 302 Revolutionary America
- HIST-A 307 American Cultural History
- HIST-A 309 The South before the Civil War
- HIST-A 347 American Urban History
- HIST-A 352 History of Latinos in the United States
- HIST-A 355 African American History I
- HIST-A 356 African American History II
- HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History
- HIST-A 380 The Vietnam War
- HIST-A 382 The Sixties
- HIST-A 383 Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution: Popular Music in the Making of Modern America, 1940 to the Present
- HIST-A 384 Antebellum America
- HIST-A 386 History of the American Home
- LATS-L 396 Social and Historical Topics in Latino Studies
- POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society
- POLS-Y 303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
- POLS-Y 304 Constitutional Law
- POLS-Y 305 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
- POLS-Y 308 Urban Politics
- POLS-Y 311 Democracy and National Security
- POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- POLS-Y 325 African American Politics
- POLS-Y 326 American Social Welfare Policy
- POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
- POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
- POLS-Y 367 International Law
- POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
- REL-C 330 Evangelical America
- SOC-S 308 Global Society
- SOC-S 312
- SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- MUS-Z 373 THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
- MUS-Z 393 HISTORY OF JAZZ
- MUS-Z 395 CONTEMPORARY JAZZ AND SOUL MUSIC
- MUS-Z 401 THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES
- MUS-Z 402 MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA
- MUS-Z 403 THE MUSIC OF JIMI HENDRIX
- MUS-Z 404 THE MUSIC OF BOB DYLAN
- MUS-Z 405 THE MUSIC OF THE BEACH BOYS
- POLS-Y 329 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
AAAD-A 330 African American Cinematic Experience
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the historical and contemporary portrayals of African Americans in Hollywood and in independent narrative film focusing on the social and political functions of film, its legitimization of race, and its oppositional formations, interventions, and practices. Considers how film mediates and interrogates race and social relations in American society.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 331 Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers visual artistic production (painting, sculpture, photography, and film) during the Harlem or "New Negro" Renaissance, a period in which African American artists sought radical reconceptualizations of self and community through visual and literary expression.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers visual artistic production (painting, sculpture, photography, and film) during the American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 352 African American Art II: African American Artists
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of the artistic traditions of the African in the New World, from the period of slavery in North and South America through contemporary African American and expatriate black American artists.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Comparative colloquium that explores the recent literature on racial connections between "the local" and "the global" in contemporary American experience. Through immersion in the new "transnational" critiques of the United States, students analyze texts that describe African, Asian, European, indigenous, and Latino sensibilities about culture, homelands, belonging, and exclusion.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 355
- Description
- 1900 to the present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 359 Ethnic/Racial Stereotypes in American Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A study in cross-cultural stereotyping as evidenced in the film medium. Analysis of Native American, Asian, black, Hispanic, and Jewish groups. Features, shorts, and animations screened to illustrate the "classic" stereotypes of each group and to demonstrate their impact on American society.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines several aspects of the classical, indigenous, and modern political/social bondage.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African American writing before World War II, with emphasis on critical reactions and analyses. Includes slave narratives, autobiographies, rhetoric, fiction, and poetry.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 379
- Description
- The black experience in America as it has been reflected since World War II in the works of outstanding African American writers: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Legal evolution of civil rights and analysis of specific relevant legal decisions that stimulated social change (the role of slavery, racial segregation, inequality of educational opportunity, and voting laws).
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the history, development, and manifestation of feminist consciousness among African American women. The course is particularly concerned with how black women's lived experience defines that consciousness, and the differing impact it has among various groups of black women, and in their larger social, political, and cultural communities.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 388 Motown
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course surveys the development of Motown Record Corporation, Detroit Era (1959-1972). Through lecture, discussion, guided listening, and visual experiences, the course studies the musical works, creative processes, business practices, historical events, media, technology, and sociocultural factors that contributed to Motown's identity as a unique artistic and cultural phenomenon.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 388, AAAD-A 389, or FOLK-E 388.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the fight for civil rights by protest organizations such as Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality; the emergence of black leaders such as King, Farmer, and Malcolm X; the challenge posed by Black Power advocates in the Black Panthers and Black Muslims; and the changes in American society made by the black revolution.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical roles, structures, the impact of black protest strategies, and the origins of black movements to assess their impact on communities in Africa and in the diaspora.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the influence of race, gender, and class from a perspective of power and culture. Use of interdisciplinary sources, including essays, fiction, art, and social science research to examine how different social groups vie for representation, self-definition, and power in different social and cultural settings.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 430 The Cinema of Africana Women
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical and critical overview of films produced by African American women from the 1940s to the present. The course emphasizes how black women filmmakers combine their creative abilities with a desire to capture dominant issues that affect black women's lives in America.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on crime reporting in America, addressing the question of whether or not the media distort the picture of crime. In particular, this course explores the mass media treatment of African Americans in the coverage of crime.
AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Education of black Americans and its relationship to the African American experience. Trends and patterns in the education of black Americans as they relate to the notions of education "for whom and for what."
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 479 Contemporary Black Poetry
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of black poetry from Dunbar to the present, emphasizing the emergence, growth, and development of black consciousness as a positive ethnic identification.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 480 The Black Novel
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 379 or AAAD-A 380
- Description
- Analysis of the African American novel from the Harlem Renaissance to the present: genesis, development, and current trends. Emphasis on traditions arising out of the black experience and on critical perspectives developed by black critics and scholars.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Contemporary racial problems in American society with regard to law and constitutional principles of basic freedoms and associated conflicts. Effects of societal norms and impact of racism.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 496 Black Religious Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An in-depth investigation of Negro spirituals and gospel music, with some treatment of the traditions of lining-out and shape note singing. Examination of genres will address and integrate both the musical and the sociocultural perspectives.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 496 or FOLK-E 496.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of culture areas from the Arctic to Panama plus cross-cultural analysis of interrelations of culture, geographical environment, and language families.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines archaeology in North America beginning with the long and complex history of Native American/European interactions. Considers North American social systems, interaction with and exploitation of the environment, technologies, and material culture. Theories and methods used by historical archaeologists will also be emphasized.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- American architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and graphics from the seventeenth century to the Armory Show of 1913.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 345 or FINA-A 345.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of American architecture from the colonial period to the late twentieth century, including public, commercial, and domestic design, with emphasis on historical context and the role of architecture as signifier of social, cultural, and political ideologies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 348 or FINA-A 348.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how a specifically American paradigm shaped art and criticism in an era that saw the post-war rise of New York City as the center of Western art giving way to contemporary globalization. Course is thematically organized, utilizing case studies and emphasizing primary sources in art and critical literature.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 353 or FINA-A 353.
ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of art in the United States from the colonial period through the Civil War.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 445 or FINA-A 445.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of art in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 446 or FINA-A 446.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of American painting, sculpture, photography, design, and commercial art in the early Modern period. Topics include the urban realism of the "Ash Can School"; the early avant-garde; New York Dada; the cult of the machine; regionalist painting and the American heartland; the expressionist landscape; and surrealism American style.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 447 or FINA-A 447.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
CJUS-P 301 Police in Contemporary Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the rules and responsibilities of the police, history of police organizations, relations between police and society, and determinants of police action.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 302 Courts and Criminal Justice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Structure, organization, composition, functions, and procedures of courts in the United States. Role of lawyers and judges in the criminal justice process.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 375 American Juvenile Justice System
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Structure and operation of the juvenile justice system in the United States, past and present. Analysis of the duties and responsibilities of the juvenile police officer, the juvenile court judge, and the juvenile probation officer.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 381 History of Social Control in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical survey of ways in which Americans have tried to introduce social stability and curtail disorder within a democratic context. Includes changing definitions of deviance; development of institutions, such as prisons, mental hospitals, schools, and juvenile courts; moral reform movements; and the emergence of the corporate state.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-L 358 American Literature, 1914-1960
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys literary expressions centered mainly in the first half of the twentieth century. Attention may be given to such literary movements as modernism and the Beats, as well as literature written by women and various ethnic populations.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-L 364 Native American Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys traditional and modern literature by American Indians, especially of the high plains and southwest culture areas, with particular attention to the image of the Indian in both native and white literature.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior or senior standing
- Description
- Examines rap music as artistic and sociological phenomena with emphasis on its historical and political contexts.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 345, AAAD-A 489, FOLK-E 345, or FOLK-F 389.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
FOLK-E 394 Survey of African American Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A chronological survey of sacred and secular African American musical traditions in North America from the African past to the present. Emphasis placed on context for evolution, musical processes and aesthetics, interrelationships among genres and musical change, issues of gender, and music as resistance.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 394, FOLK-E 394, or MUS-M 394.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-E 496 African American Religious Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An in-depth investigation of Negro spirituals and gospel music, with some treatment of the traditions of lining-out and shape note singing. Examination of genres will address and integrate both the musical and the socio-cultural perspectives.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 496 or FOLK-E 496.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 351 North American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Folk and popular traditions of the United States and Canada. Topics include the social base of American folklore, prominent genres of American folklore, folklife, and folk music, national or regional character, and American folk style.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once when topics vary.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 353 Native American Film and Video
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the study of Native American images and representations. Focuses on ethnographic, documentary, animated, and feature films from 1920 to the present. Surveying the themes of assimilation, contemporary politics, and religiosity, students will watch films, read articles, and respond to both mediums critically.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 354 African American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African American culture in the United States viewed in terms of history and social change. Folklore, folk music, and oral history as means of illuminating black culture and history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once when topics vary.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 356 Chicano Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The folk traditions of Mexican Americans as a reflection of the historical experience and cultural identity of this people within the United States. Mexican heritage, Anglo and black influences, and the blending of these elements into a unique cultural entity.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once when topics vary.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and interpretation of urban spatial structures, policies, and problems with an emphasis on geographic perspectives. Topics include urban housing markets, racial segregation, homelessness, and urban crime.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 323 Geography of Latin America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates the historical and economic processes through which environments and societies in Latin America are produced through their own characteristics and simultaneously through their interactions with other places.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GNDR-G 340 Gender, Geography, Sex, and Space
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the crucially important role that space and place play in the construction and maintenance of gender norms and sexual practices. Subjects may include the gendered history of the domestic domain, feminist critiques of architecture and urban planning, the modernist art of flaneurie, or the gendered and racial politics of imprisonment in the United States.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GNDR-G 410 International Feminist Debates
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigation of debates among feminists as to whether aspirations towards global feminism are possible and desirable. The course compares concerns about the global situation of women, as articulated by international bodies such as the United Nations, with concerns articulated by feminists in different parts of the world.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
GNDR-G 485 Gender and Discourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced-level analysis of cultural constitutions of gender in different cultures. Emphasis on understanding how different discourses operate with respect to gender, and how they can have a range of effects, including endorsement, unsettling, and resisting prevailing gender relations.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- HISP-S 328
- Description
- Study of Latino literatures in the U.S. across various genres. Focus on social, cultural, and political factors that shape Latino experience. Taught in Spanish.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
HIST-A 301 Colonial America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social, cultural, economic, political, and religious developments in colonial America from first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans through the early eighteenth century. Special topics include colonization, migration, slavery, Atlantic trade, and representative government.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 302 Revolutionary America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Political, social and cultural history of the Revolution. What did it take to make a revolution? What did it take to make a nation? How has the revolution lived on in popular memory? Includes strong focus on experience of women and enslaved blacks.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 307 American Cultural History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major themes in American cultural life since the Civil War. Focus on the cultural expressions of immigrants, racial minorities, religious groups, social classes, women, artists, and professional groups in response to changing conditions.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 309 The South before the Civil War
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social, intellectual, and cultural features of the American South, from English settlement to secession. Emphasis on the development of a distinctive southern regional culture and how it helped shape the buildup to the Civil War.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 347 American Urban History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Evolution of cities and urban life in United States from colonial times to present. Rise of cities (New York, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, and others). Creation of modern urban districts (ghettos, suburbia), city planning, political and economic power structures, ethnic and race relations, law and order (crime, police, prisons).
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 352 History of Latinos in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Latino experience in the United States from 1848. Economic and social factors of the Latino role in a non-Latin nation.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-A 352 or LATS-L 210.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States 1900 to present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of selected historical issues in United States history from 1870 to the present. Topics will vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 380 The Vietnam War
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The story of America\'s longest war--the battles, the protests, the movies, and the controversies. The Vietnam War was an epic event, the climax of the Cold War and the high-water mark of American power. Students will learn about the experiences of combatants on both sides, the reasoning behind American strategy, and the history of Vietnam\'s struggle for independence. The course will also deal with the war\'s legacies, its place in popular culture, and the war\'s economic and political aftershocks.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-A 380 and HIST-H 228.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 382 The Sixties
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An intensive examination of the decade that tore apart post-World War II American society, beginning with the confident liberalism that believed the nation could \"pay any price\" and \"bear any burden\" in order to stop communism abroad and to promote reform at home. Focuses on the internal contradictions and external challenges that destroyed this liberal agenda: civil rights and black power, the New Left, the counterculture, second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, and the globalization of the economy; and finishing with the more conservative order that emerged in the early 1970s to deal with the conflicting realities of limited national power and wealth on the one hand, and rising demands for rights and opportunities on the other.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 383 Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution: Popular Music in the Making of Modern America, 1940 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Role of popular music in the social, cultural, political, economic, and technological history of the modern United States. Examines a broad range of musical cultures including rhythm and blues, country, rock and roll, modern jazz, pop, folk, soul, funk, and hip hop. Focus on role of popular music in shaping democracy and power, including class, gender, race, and generation relations.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 384 Antebellum America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines major issues in the United States between 1815 and 1860. Topics include the market revolution, the expansion of slavery, the "second party system," "Jacksonian democracy," evangelical Christianity, reform movements, and the coming of the Civil War. This course stresses the interconnections between economic, social, cultural, and political developments.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 386 History of the American Home
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the changing ways in which various Americans have defined "home." Topics include colonial households, nineteenth-century middle-class homes, "modern" early twentieth-century homes, and post-World War II suburbia. Devotes considerable attention to residences excluded from dominant definitions, including slave cabins, tenements, utopian communities, boardinghouses, apartments, institutions, internment camps, dormitories, and communes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
LATS-L 396 Social and Historical Topics in Latino Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of historical and current issues affecting Latino communities and Latino integration into U.S. mainstream society. Topics may vary.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories of American party activity; behavior of political parties, interest groups, and social movements; membership in groups; organization and structure; evaluation and relationship to the process of representation.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines public bureaucracy, with special emphasis upon the United States, as a political phenomenon engaging in policy-making and in the definition of the terms of policy issues. Considers the role of bureaucratic instruments in promoting social change, and in responding to it.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Processes and institutions involved in the formation of public policy in American society.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 304 Constitutional Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- American political powers and structures; selected Supreme Court decisions interpreting American constitutional system.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 305 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Extent and limits of constitutional rights; selected Supreme Court decisions interpreting American constitutional system.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 308 Urban Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Political behavior in modern American communities; emphasizes the impact of municipal organization, city officials and bureaucracies, social and economic notables, political parties, interest groups, the general public, and protest organizations on urban policy outcomes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 311 Democracy and National Security
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of fundamental tensions between democratic values and the requirements of national security. Topics include homeland security and civil liberties in an age of terror, civil-military relations, oversight of intelligence operations, effects of interventions and wars on democracy abroad and at home, and debates over the morality of United States security policies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the processes of social decision reconciling human demands on the natural world with the ability of nature to sustain life and living standards. Analyzes the implications for public policies in complex sequential interactions among technical, economic, social, and political systems and considers the consequences of alternative courses of action.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of women in contemporary political systems, domestic or foreign, with emphasis on political roles, participation, and public policy. Normative or empirical examination of how political systems affect women and the impact women have on them. Topics vary semester to semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 325 African American Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the African American political condition, with special emphasis on political thought and behavior. The course analyzes not only how the political system affects African Americans, but also the impact African Americans have on it. Themes for this course may vary.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 326 American Social Welfare Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Values and social welfare policy. Development, current status, politics and proposals for reform of social security and private pensions, income maintenance policy, health care, and housing. The future of the welfare state.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of institutions and processes involved in the formation and implementation of American foreign policy. Emphasis is on post-World War II policies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 363 Comparative Foreign Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Compares factors that influence foreign policy and the foreign policy process. Focuses on domestic or internal sources of foreign policy behavior, including impact of individual leaders, group decision-making processes, bureaucratic politics, ideology and political culture, historical experience, and type of political system. Classroom simulations are central to the course.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 367 International Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sources and consequences of international law; relationship to international organizations and world order; issues of national sovereignty, human rights, conflict resolution, international property rights, world trade, environmental change, and other topics.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories about the interaction between the international economic and political systems are the subject of this course. Works from each of the main traditions -- liberal, Marxist, and statist -- will be assigned. Specific topics covered will include (among others): the politics of trade, aid, foreign investment, and international monetary affairs; theories of dependency and imperialism; the politics of international competition in specific industries; the stability/ instability of international economic regimes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A comparative study of the role religious narratives and beliefs have played in the shaping of racial and ethnic boundaries.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
REL-C 330 Evangelical America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Assesses the causes, nature, and implications of evangelical influence from the Great Awakening to the present.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-C 330 or REL-R 337.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
SOC-S 308 Global Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Multinational corporations, new information technologies, and international trade have made the world increasingly interdependent. This course considers how business, technology, disease, war, and other phenomena must be seen in a global context as affecting national sovereignty, economic development, and inequality in resources and power between countries.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspective on work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers; and how work has changed over time.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Relations between racial and ethnic minority and majority groups; psychological, cultural, and structural theories of prejudice and discrimination; comparative analysis of diverse systems of intergroup relations.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
MUS-Z 373 THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 393 HISTORY OF JAZZ
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 395 CONTEMPORARY JAZZ AND SOUL MUSIC
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 401 THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 402 MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 403 THE MUSIC OF JIMI HENDRIX
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 404 THE MUSIC OF BOB DYLAN
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
MUS-Z 405 THE MUSIC OF THE BEACH BOYS
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
POLS-Y 329 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of minority group politics in the United States. The course examines the socioeconomic position and political history of various demographic groups and highlights key public policy debates central to the future of ethnic politics and race relations in the United States. Compares theories of racial formation in the context of a political system predicated on majority rule.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Advanced Courses in American Studies. At least two (2) courses and six (6) credit hours:
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Minor Area Courses
-
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
AMST
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in American Studies (AMSTBA)
- Minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISMIN)
- Minor in the American Experience (AMEXPMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.