Courses Approved for AMST Major and Minor

Courses Approved for the AMST Major

The following courses can fulfill the requirements for the AMST major only. Please see the section below for courses that count toward the major or minor.

DiversityPre-1900Course # TitleCrosslists 
 1/21101Introduction to American Studies  
X 1104Race and Ethnicity in the USSOC 1104, LSP 1105 
X 1321Music of Mexico & the Mexican Diaspora MUS/LSP/SPAN 1321 
X 1500 An Introduction to Africana Studies ASRC 1500; GOVT 1503  
 1/21540American Capitalism HIST 1540, ILRLR 1845 
 1/21576War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on TerrorHIST 1576 
 X1581 America at War to 1898 HIST 1581 
 1/21585Sports and Politics in American History HIST 1585 
X 1595African American History Since Reconstruction HIST/ASRC 1595  
XX1600Indigenous North America (Intro to American Indian Studies l)AllS 1100 
X 1601Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives (Intro to American Indian Studies ll)AllS 1110 
 1/21770U.S. History through LiteratureHIST 1770 
X1/21800Immigration in US History HIST/LSP 1800 
X1/21802Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History HIST/LSP/LATA/SHUM 1802 
 1/21820U.S. Borders, North and South HIST/LSP 1820 
XX1985From Subjects to Citizens: The Making and Unmasking of Early AmericaHIST 1985 
XX1986Disasters!: A History of Colonial Failures in the Atlantic World, 1450-1750HIST 1986 

Courses approved for the AMST Major OR Minor

The following courses can fulfill the requirements for either the AMST major or minor.

DiversityPre-1900Course # TitleCrosslists 
 1/22000Introduction to Visual Studies VISST/COMM/ARTH 2000 
X 2023Fighting for Our Lives: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Activism in Historical PerspectiveASRC/FGSS/HIST/SHUM/STS 2023; GOVT 2022 
 X2030Intro to American Literature: Beginning to Civil War ENGL 2030 
X 2042Jim Crow and Exclusion-Era America AAS/HIST 2042 
 X2051The US as a Developing Nation HIST 2051 
X 2070Social Problems in the U.S. PAM 2250; SOC 2070 
 X2090The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 HIST/ FGSS 2090 
XX2092A History of Human Trafficking in the Atlantic World, ca. 1400-1800HIST 2091 
X 2106Intro to Latinx Studies LSP 2100 
X 2108Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks AIIS 2100; ARTH 2101  
X1/22111Black History Topics through Film HIST 2111 
XX2112Black Spirituality, Religion & Protest ASRC/HIST/RELST 2112 
X 2152(Im)migration and (Im)migrants: Then & Now GOVT/LSP 2152 
X 2225Controversies about Inequality SOC 2220; PHIL 1950; GOVT 2225 
X1/2 2251 US Immigration Narratives LSP/MUSIC 2320; SPAN 2330 
X 2253Diasporas from the Spanish CaribbeanHIST 2253 
2296History Lab: Digital History of Black Resistance HIST 2296 
XX2297Public History Lab: The History of People Setting Themselves Free From Slavery in the USHIST/ASRC 2297 
X 2310 Race and the Zombie Apocalypse ASRC 2310; ENGL 2931 
X 2320Latino Music in the US LSP/MUSIC 2320; SPAN 2330 
 1/2 2331Agriculture, History & Society; From Squanto to Biotechnology STS 2331 
X 2335Making Public Queer History FGSS/HIST 2335 
XX2350Archaeology of North American Indians AIIS 2350, ANTHR 2235  
X 2352Paul Robeson and the Revolutionary Imagination HIST 2352  
X 2353Civil Rights vs. Human Rights in the Black Freedom Struggle HIST/ASRC 2353  
X 2354African American Visions of AfricaHIST/ASRC 2354 
 1/22375US Climate Catastrophes: Rethinking US History through the ClimateHIST 2371 
 X2381Corruption, Collusion, and Commerce in Early America and the CaribbeanHIST/LATA 2381 
XX2390Seminar in Iroquois History HIST/AIIS  2390 
 X2391 From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation States HIST 2391 
XX2392Where Fire Meets Ice: Histories of the U.S.-Canada Border Across Four CenturiesHIST 2392 
X 2401 Intro to Latino/a Literature ENGL/LSP/COML 2400 
 1/2 2411Enslaved! Then & Now HIST/ASRC 2411 
 1/2 2422History of the US Prison HIST 2422 
X 2460Contemporary Narratives by Latina WritersLSP/FGSS/SPAN 2460; COML 2032 
X 2470 Digital Latinxs LSP/STS 2470 
X 2504Obama and the Meaning of Race ASRC 2504; GOVT 2604; SOC 2520  
XX2511Black Women of 1900 HIST/ASRC/FGSS 2511 
X 2512Black Women in the 20th Century HIST/ASRC/FGSS 2511 
 1/22555Introduction to Latin American ArtARTH/SHUM/VIST 2550; LATA 2050 
X 2562Black Queer Writing and MediaENGL/ASRC/FGSS/LGBT 2560 
X 2577American Jewish Women and the Body of Tradition ANTHR/FGSS/JWST/NES/RELST 2577 
 1/22581Environmental History HIST/BSOC 2581 
X 2585Millennial Jewish Stars: Race, Gender & SexualityENGL/FGSS/JWST 2585; PMA 2985 
X 2600Intro to Native American Indian Literature ENGL/AIIS 2600 
X 2620Asian American Literature ENGL/AAS 2620 
X 2622Intro to Asian American PerformanceAAS 2623; PMA 2621   
X 2630Brazil to Brooklyn: Jewish Culture of the AmericansCOML/ENGL/JWST 2630; RELST 2620 
XX2635A Haunted House Divided: The American Gothic in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureENGL 2635 
X1/22640Intro to Asian American History HIST 2640, AAS 2130  
X 2645Race & Modern US History HIST/AAS/ASRC 2641 
X1/22650 Intro African American Literature ENGL 2650  
X 2655Latinos in the United States SOC/DSOC 2650; LSP 2010 
XX2660Everything you Know about Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History HIST/AIIS 2660  
 X2664What's Colonial About Early America? HIST/ 2664 
 X2665 The American Revolutionary Era HIST 2665 
XX2669American Political ThoughtGOVT 2665 
X 2680Culture & Politics of the 1960sENGL 2680 
X 2682The United States in the 60s and 70s HIST 2680 
X 2686The U.S. and the Middle EastNES/JWST/HIST 2686 
X1/22722History of Mental Health & Mental Illness in the US HIST 2721 
X1/22723LGBTQ History in the United StatesHIST/LGBT/FGSS 2722 
X 2725Introduction to Latino/o/x Performance LSP/ PMA 2720  
 X2726Culture & Identity in Modern America: 19th Century  HIST 2726 
XX2729From the Swampy Land: Indigenous People of the Ithaca AreaAIIS/ANTHR/ARKEO 2720 
X 2751Environmental Justice in Upstate New YorkSHUM/ASRC 2750; ENGL 2950 
XX2755Race and Slavery in the Early Atlantic WorldHIST/ASRC 2755 
X 2770Representing Racial Encounters/ Encountering Racial Representations ENGL/LSP/ASRC 2770  
X 2790Jewish Films and Filmmakers: Hollywood and BeyondJWST/NES/VISST 2790: PMA 2490 
X 2810Migration: Histories, Controversies, and PerspectivesILRLR/LSP/PAM/SOC 2810 
X 2910It's all Chinese to Me AAS/ENGL 2910 
 1/22955Socialism in American ASRC/HIST 2955 
 1/23001Constitutional Law & US Politics GOVT 3001 
 1/23002Civil Rights and Civil Liberties GOVT 3002 
X 3010Photography and the American Dream ARTH/VISST 3010 
XX3015Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern WorldASRC/ROMS/SHUM 3010; LATA 3015 
X 3020Representing Brooklyn: Race, Place & Popular Culture HIST/ASRC 3031 
 1/23021Social Movements in American Politics GOVT 3021 
X 3025Asian Americans & Popular Culture AAS 3020; PMA 3420  
XX3032 Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1700 to 1900 HIST/ASRC 3031 
 X3035Seminar in American Lit: Beginnings to Civil War ENGL 3030 
X 3039Community-Engaged ArchaeologyANTHR/ARKEO 3030 
X 3065 Immigrant America: Race and Citizenship in Modern Working-Class History ILRLR/LAT/LSP 3065  
 1/23072The U.S. Constitution: Crisis, Change and Legitimacy  GOVT 3072; LAW 3920  
X 3121Crime and Punishment GOVT 3121  
 1/23131Nature Functions & Limits of Law LAW 4131; GOVT 3131  
X 3141Prisons GOVT 3141 
 3142Incarceration, Policy Response & Self- Reflection GOVT 3142  
X 3155Prisons, Politics & Policy GOVT 3152 
 X3200Historical Archaeology ANTHR 3201/6210; AMST 6210 
X 3205 Black Expatriate Writing HIST 3211; ASRC 3210  
X 3214Dance in America: Cultures, Identities, and FabricationPMA 3214 
 X3230 American Economic History l ECON 3230 
X 3231Race and Politics in the 20th Century America HIST 3231 
XX3248Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast ANTHR 3248 
X 3261Health, Equity, Politics and PolicyGOVT 3251 
 1/23262The US Regime in Comparative and Historical PerspectiveGOVT 3261 
 1/23281Constitutional Politics: The US Supreme Court GOVT/ LAW 3281  
X 3302Rhythm and Blues to Funk: Black Popular Music Before Hip HopMUSIC 3302 
X 3317Music in the Making and Unmasking of RaceMUSIC 3317/ANTHR 3017 
X 3330Ways of Knowing: Indigenous & Local Ecological NTRES/AllS 3330 
 1/23334Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and DebatesASRC/FGSS/SHUM 3334 
X 3380Urban Inequality SOC 3380 
X 3401The Whites are Here to Stay: US-Africa Policy from Nixon to DateASRC 3401; GOVT 3211 
X 3402 Being and Becoming Black ASRC/LSP/ANTHR 3400 
 X3404A Maritime History of Early America, ca. 1450-1850HIST/ASRC/LATA 3405 
X 3405Multicultural Issues and Education ANTHR/EDUC/LSP 3405 
X 3409Labor and Migration in Asian AmericaAAS/SOC 3400 
X 3420Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice FGSS; GOVT 3401; LSP 3402 
 1/23425American ImpeachmentHIST 3435; GOVT 3431 
 X3430History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction HIST 3430  
 X3434Underground Railroad SeminarASRC/SHUM 3434 
 1/23436History of the Cops: Racialized Policing in the USHIST 3436 
XX3442Merchants, Whalers, Pirates, Sailors: American Maritime Literature from the 19th Century and BeyondENGL/ASRC 3440 
 X3450Cultural and Intellectual Life of 19th Century Americans HIST 3450 
X 3451Cultural and Identity in Modern America: the 20th Century HIST 3451 
X1/23452Americanish: Identity and Selfhood in US History (Formerly: The Myth of America)HIST 3452 
X 3461Intro to African American Cinema PMA/VISST 3461 
X 3470Asian American Women's History AAS/FGSS/HIST 3470  
X 3475Nueva York: Caribbean Urbanisms ASRC/LATA/LSP/SPAN 3470 
 X3506Slavery & Visual Culture ARTH/ASRC/VISST 3506  
X 3512Black Panther Party Autobiography- Writing the Activist Self ASRC 3512; ENGL 3912 
X 3515Blaxploitation Film & Photography ARTH/FGSS/VISST/ASRC/ FILM 3305 
X 3520The Asian American Middle Class AAS/ HIST 3515 
X1/23530 Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Race, Class & Populism in the Age of Trump ASRC 3520; HIST 3502 
X 3560Modeling Race; Fashioning Beauty ASRC 3550; FGSS 3540 
X 3562Thinking from a Different Place; Indigenous Philosophies AIIS/ENGL 3560  
X 3565Black EcoliteratureENGL 3565 
X 358020th Century Women Writers of Color in the Americas  AAS/ENGL 3580; FGSS 3581 
X 3581 Imagining Migration in Film & Literature GERST/VISST 3581; PMA 3481; COML 3580 
X 3590The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S.HIST/ASRC 3590  
 X3612Capitalism and Colonialism in Early American Literature ENGL 3612 
X1/23621Dissent and Protest in U.S. HistoryASRC 3626; SHUM 3620 
XX3625Frederick Douglass and Frances E.W. HarperENGL/ASRC 3625 
 X3650Envisioning America: Nineteenth-Century US Poetry and Prose ENGL 3650 
 X3661Reading the 19th Century American Novel ENGL 3660 
 1/23665American Political Theory: Madison to Malcolm X GOVT 3665; HIST 3160 
X 3672 Visualizing el Barrio: Interpreting & Documenting East Harlem's Mural Tradition ENGL 3672; ARTH/LSP/VISST 3670 
 1/23675The Environmental Imagination in American Literature ENGL 3675 
 1/2 3678Democracy and its Discontents GOVT/ CLASS 3675 
X 3680The Art of Telling: Chicanx, Latinx, and AfroLatinx TestimoniosENGL/LSP 3680; LATA/FGSS 3681 
X 3685 Growing Up Latina/o ENGL/ FGSS/ LSP 3685 
X 3690The Race and Gender Poverty in Literature and Film ENGL 3690 
X 3703 Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective ANTHR 3703; AAS 3030 
X 3707Hidden Identities OnscreenENGL/COML/FGSS/JWST 3707; PMA 3507 
 1/23715Colonialism and AnticolonialismGOVT 3715 
X 3717Sitcom Jews: Ethnic Representation on Television and on Stage JWST/ PMA 3711 
X 3719The Jewish Life of DNA JWST/STS/RELST 3719 
X 3720 Food, Gender & Culture ENGL 3721; FGSS 3720  
X 3732Africans and African Americans in Literature ENGL/ ASRC 3742 
X 3734Whiteness in Literature and Popular CultureENGL/ASRC 3734 
 X3740Painting Nineteenth-Century America ARTH/ VISST 3740  
X 3742Contemporary African American Poetry ENGL/ ASRC 3740  
 1/23744***American Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era HIST 3740  
X 3754Spoken Word, Hip Hop Theater & the Politics of Performance PMA/LSP/FGSS 3754; ENGL 3954 
X 3762Law, Latinxs, Illegality ANTH/LSP 3762 
 1/23764Law and LiteratureENGL 3762 
X 3773Harlem Renaissance & Black Arts Movement ASRC/ ENGL 3773 
XX3775Latinos and the United States, 1492 - 1880HIST/LSP 3770 
 1/2 3777The United States ANTH/ LSP 3777 
X1/2 3830Latino America HIST/LSP 3800 
 1/2 3845The Progressive Era: Work, Law, & Politics ILRLR/ HIST 3845 
X 3860African American Social History, from 1910 to the Present: Race, Work, and City ILRLR 3860; HIST 3760 
 1/2 3870History of Consumption: From Wedgwood to Wal-Mart  ILRLR 3870 
X 3981Latina/o Popular Culture ENGL/LSP 3980 
X 4002Diasporic and Indigenous HealthASRC 4002; SOC 4010 
X 4022U.S. Cultures of War and EmpireAAS 4020; ASIAN 4458 
X1/24023Black and Indigenous HistoriesASRC/FGSS 4023 
X 4032Immigration & Politics Research Seminar GOVT/ LSP 4032  
X 4033Race & Social Entrepreneurship: Food Justice ASRC 4033 
XX4039Reconstruction & the New South HIST 4390 
X 4052Critical Filipino/ Filipino American Studies AAS 4050; ASIAN 4452 
X 4104Critical Race Theory: What Is It? What Does It Do? Why Should it Matter? ASRC 4304  
X 4105 The Negro in American: Baldwin & Douglass ASRC 4110; ENGL 4510  
XX4109The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US HistoryHIST 4109 
X1/24111The Historical Geography of Black AmericaHIST 4112 
X 4113August Wilson: the Cycle of Black LifeASRC/ENGL 4113 
X 4123Archipelagoes: Cartographies of Race, Sound, and Sexuality AAS/ FGSS 4123; ENGL 4923  
 X4155Slavery and Gender in the Atlantic WorldHIST/FGSS 4155 
XX4157Readings in Race and Nineteenth-Century American HistoryHIST 4157 
 1/2 4175 The First Age of Globalization HIST 4175  
X 4202Politics of Inequality: History of the US Welfare State HIST 4202  
 1/24203Contesting Votes HIST 4203 
X 4212Black Women's Autobiography in the 21st Century ASRC/FGSS 4212; ENGL 4912 
 1/24218History of the US Senate HIST 4030  
 X4220Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances AIIS 4200 
 1/24252Migration and the Peopling of America (offered in CIW)HIST 4252  
X1/24262Environmental Justice: Past, Present, FutureHIST 4262 
XX4272Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement ANTHR 4272 
X 4283Latino Politics and Racial Politics GOVT/LSP 4283 
 1/24295US Borders North & South HIST/LSP 4295  
XVaries4301The Rabinor Seminar HIST/LGBT/FGSS 4336 
X 4313The Beautiful Struggle ENGL 4313 
X 4321A Dilemma Revisited: African Americans, Inequality and K-16 EducationASRC 4301 
X 4336Food, Identity, and Politics in the United StatesHIST/FGSS/LGBT 4336 
X 4337The 1980's: Politics, Culture and Memory in the United StatesHIST 4337 
XX4393The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War HIST/ASRC 4393  
X 4402Women in Hip Hop ASRC 4402/6402; AMST 6402  
X 4404The Black 70s: From Black Politics to Black Popular Culture ASRC 4404  
X 4412Playing out Difference: History & Identity in Sports Film PMA/VISST/FGSS 4412  
X 4502Queer ProximitiesENGL/FGSS/LGBT/LSP 4505; ASRC 4555 
X 4516Sociology of Race & Education ASRC 4516; SOC 4520  
X 4519Toni Morrison's Novels ASRC/ENGL/FGSS 4509; ASRC/ENGL/FGSS 6513 
X 452520th Century Women Writers & Artists ENGL 4525 
X1/24533The Lower East Side- Jews & the Immigrant City ANTHR 4733; JWST 4533 
X 4550Race and the University AAS 4550; ENGL 4961; HIST 4551 
X 4556Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Art of/as Resistance in the Americas ENGL/LSP 4556 
X1/24560The Politics and Joy in Black Women's WritingENGL/ASRC/FGSS 4560 
 1/24585American Political ThoughtGOVT 4585 
X 4587Critical Race Theory GOVT 4578; ASRC 4587 
 X4600Melville ENGL 4600 
 1/24601The American Short Story ENGL 4610 
X1/24603Black Speculative FictionENGL 4605; ASRC 4655 
X 4627Contemporary Native American Literature ENGL/AIIS 4625 
X 4632Rethinking Asian American Literature: Indigeneity, Diaspora, Settler ColonialismENGL/AAS 4630 
X 4633Art! Poetry! Power! ASRC/ENGL/LSP 4635 
X 4635Feminist Theory/Law & Society GOVT 4635 
 X4645****Walden & Beyond ( fka "Reading Walden")ENGL 4655 
X 4646Indigeneity and Energy in Native America ANTHR 4145; SHUM 4645 
 X4647The Energy Transition in the Nineteenth Century  HIST/SHUM/STS 4647 
X 4658Fabricating Race: Art, Clothing, ResistanceASRC /FGSS/SHUM/VISST 4658 
XX4661Contested Continents: The Great War for Empire in North America and Beyond HIST 4661 
X 4664Dark Laboratory: Black and Native Media EcologiesSHUM/ASRC 4662; PMA 4562 
 X4667Forms of the New: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson ENGL 4667 
XX4669From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: A History of Policing in Black CommunitiesSHUM/HIST/ASRC 4669 
X 4670Native American Poetry of Resistance AIIS/ ENGL 4670 
 X4671How the Civil War Haunts America ENGL 4671 
XX4674Dispossession, Truth, and ReconciliationSHUM/HIST 4674 
 1/24682Disturbing Settlement - SeminarSHUM 4682; ANTHR 4182 
X 4701Africa in the African American Mind HIST 4701; ASRC 4701 
X 4702Cultural Politics of the 1970s  HIST 4701; ASRC 4701  
X 4705Nightlife FGSS/LGBT/LSP/PMA 4701 
X 4706The Black Transatlantic GOVT 4706 
XX4716Law and Empire in Early AmericaHIST 4716 
X 4720New Latinx Writing ENGL/LSP 4720 
X 4733The Future of Whiteness ASRC/ENGL 4733; AMST/ENGL 6733 
X 4740Colonial Intersections: Jews and Native Americans ANTHR/NES/JWST 4745; ANTHR/JWST/NES 7745 
X 4757Be a Man! Masculinity, Race, and NationENGL/FGSS 4757 
X 4771Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies ARTH/ANTHR/COML 4771; AMST/ANTHR/ARTH/COML 6771 
X 4800Race and Racism/Law and Society GOVT 4805 
X 4851Refugees HIST 4851 
 X4900New World Encounters 1500-1800AIIS/HIST 4900 
X 4970Jim Crow and Exclusion-Era America HIST/AAS 4970 
X 4990U.S. Pop Music and Racial Common SensePMA 4964; MUSIC 4333; SHUM 4993 
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