Core American Studies Courses
This is not a comprehensive list. New courses may be offered each semester. Students should check with the director for an updated list.
- AAS 138 - - Introduction to African American Literature
- AAS 140 - - African American Theater
- AAS 145 - - African American Writers
- AAS 150 - - Africans in the New World
- Arch 107 - - History of American Art
- Art 150 - - Africans in the New World
- Engl 123 - - American Literature I
- Engl 124 - - American Literature II
- Engl 163 - - Topics in Film Studies
- Engl 316 - - Native American Literature
- Engl 376 - - Early American Literature
- Engl 377 - - American Romanticism
- Engl 378 - - American Realism
- Engl 379 - - Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Engl 380 - - Contemporary American Literature
- Engl 387 - - Film History, Theory and Criticism
- Hist 41 - - United States to 1865
- Hist 42 - - United States, 1865-1941
- Hist 43 - - United Stated Since 1939
- Hist 64 - - Plantation to Ghetto
- Hist 124 - - Women in America
- Hist 129 - - Black Political Thought
- Hist 315 - - American Environmental History
- Hist 323 - - American Cultural History Since 1900
- Hist 325 - - History of Sexuality and the Family in the U.S.
- Hist 328 - - American Intellectual History Since 1900
- Hist 331 - - United States and Africa
- Hist 332 - - Slavery and the American South
- Hist 360 - - American Legal History
- Phil 239 - - Figures/Themes in Contemporary Philosophy
- PolS 227 - - Socialization and the Political System
- PolS 229 - - Propaganda, Media, and American Politics
- PolS 230 - - Movements and Legacies of the 1960s
- PolS 251 - - Constitutional Law
- PolS 252 - - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- PolS 267 - - American Political Thought
- PolS 271 - - US Politics and the Environment
- Rel 152 - - American Judaism
- Rel 180 - - Religion and the American Experience
- SSP 103 - - Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Communities
- SSP 310 - - Gender, Race, and Sexuality: The Social Construction of Differences
- SSP 379 - - Race and Class in American
- SSP 394 - - historical Sociology: Identity and the Social Problems of Generations
Seminars & Courses
Students are required to take Introduction to American Studies: Theory and Method, a graduate seminar surveying the history of American Studies scholarship along with a focus on a particular subject area. Students also choose such other seminars and courses as:
- The Documentary Effect in American Film & Literature
- Native American Literature Twentieth-Century
- U.S. Intellectual History
- Readings in the History of Industrial America
- United States & Africa
- Modern American Literature
- Race and Class in America
- Readings in Colonial American History
- American Constitutional Development
- American Environmental Policy
Completed Master's Theses
2003:
Anger, Sentimentality, and the Female Slave Experience: Harriet Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, Hannah Crafts, and Mary Prince / by Elizabeth R. Schroeder
A Child of Three Fathers: Physical Culture and the Birth of the Modern Fitness Magazine / by Warren Greene
Familicide as a result of instabilities in eighteenth and twentieth century social structure: an examination of the changes in patriarchy, in Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland, and masculinity, in Stephen King's "The Shining", and how these changes led to family violence / by Sarah R. Lucot
2002:
Coming to Conciousness: Eugene Debs, American Socialism and the "Negro Question"/ by Josh Honn
2001:
The Mother of Us All: Elanor Flexner and the writing of "Century of Struggle" (1959) / by Sarah Van Beurden
2000:
Horatio Bisbee's Politial Career: a Republican in Florida, 1867-1884 / by Jason Galbraith