Courses

The list below includes courses offered or cross-listed by American Studies this academic year.  Please note: these are NOT the only courses that may be counted toward the American Studies major or minor.  Because American Studies is an interdisciplinary program, students may take courses from other programs and departments, as long as they are demonstrably appropriate to the major.  To confirm the appropriateness of a course not expressly listed as American Studies, talk with your advisor. You can also consult our Course Guide, which is updated every quarter.

Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 1B, Winter: Media, Culture, and Society (COMM 1B, FEMGEN 1B)

Turner, F. (PI), Mado, M. (TA), Pistaferri, I. (TA), Christin, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 4, Autumn: The Sociology of Music (CSRE 4, SOC 4)

Ashkenazi, G. (PI), Gordon, H. (PI), Stuart, F. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 8J, Spring: American Sports Literature: Critical and Personal Perspectives (ENGLISH 8J)

Evans, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 18A, Winter: Introduction to Jazz History and Appreciation (AFRICAAM 18A, MUSIC 18A)

Low, M. (PI), H. Javaheri, M. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 18B, Spring: Jazz History and Appreciation: Advanced Level (AFRICAAM 18B, MUSIC 18B)

Low, M. (PI), Fath, J. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 25, Spring: America at 250 (HISTORY 25, HISTORY 250)

Gienapp, J. (PI), Karlan, P. (PI)
Tuesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 33, Spring: Architectural Theory of the American City (CEE 134E, URBANST 33)

Zeifman, E. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 43X, Autumn: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination

Kessler, E. (PI), Smigas, B. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 51N, Autumn: Suing for Freedom (HISTORY 51N)

Twitty, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 51Q, Spring: Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (COMPLIT 51Q, CSRE 51Q)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 54N, Spring: The Inner Lives of Black Women (AFRICAAM 54N, CSRE 54N, FEMGEN 54N, HISTORY 54N)

Hobbs, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 57A, Autumn: American Constitutional History (AMSTUD 157A, HISTORY 57, HISTORY 157)

Gienapp, J. (PI), Martin, B. (TA), Huston, J. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 58, Spring: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (AMSTUD 158, HISTORY 58, HISTORY 158)

Twitty, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 68N, Autumn: Mark Twain and American Culture (ENGLISH 68N)

Fishkin, S. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 73, Spring: Mexican Migration to the United States (AMSTUD 173, CHILATST 173, HISTORY 73, HISTORY 173)

Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
Wednesday
11:30 AM
2:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 74N, Spring: Film and History of Artificial Intelligence in the United States and Latin America (HISTORY 74N)

Wolfe, M. (PI)
Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 90R, Spring: American Road Trip (ENGLISH 90R)

Carlson-Wee, K. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
12:30 PM
2:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 93Q, Spring: The American Road Trip (ENGLISH 93Q)

Carlson-Wee, K. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 99, Winter: American Studies Senior Colloquium

Bolten, R. (PI)
Wednesday
12:30 PM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 100, Autumn: Introduction to Asian American Studies (ASNAMST 100)

Dinh, T. (PI), Biswas, J. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 100A, Winter: Decolonizing Methodologies: Introduction to Native American Studies (NATIVEAM 100)

Wilcox, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 103, Winter: Indigenous Feminisms (CSRE 103S, FEMGEN 103S, NATIVEAM 103S)

Briones, V. (PI)
Thursday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 104A, Winter: Foundations of African American Studies I: From Reconstruction to the Present (AFRICAAM 104)

Martin, L. (PI)
Thursday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 104Q, Autumn: Picturing Americans (ARTHIST 104Q)

Kessler, E. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 107, Autumn: Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101, HISTORY 108A)

Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI), Kazem, H. (PI), Nunez, A. (PI), Lopez, Z. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 110A, Winter: The Development of the Southeast Asian American Communities: A comparative analysis (ASNAMST 110)

Do, H. (PI)
Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 113N, Winter: The Foundations of American Popular Music: Present Day Implications (AFRICAAM 113N, MUSIC 113N)

Desronvil, A. (GP), Morrison, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 115A, Winter: Introduction to Native American History (HISTORY 255A, NATIVEAM 115)

Red Shirt, D. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 115S, Autumn: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (INTNLREL 115, POLISCI 115, PUBLPOL 114)

Zegart, A. (PI), Rhodes, A. (TA), Ganesan, D. (TA), Desch, R. (TA), Stupperich, J. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 116J, Spring: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Listening to the Local: Music Ethnography of the Bay Area (ANTHRO 146J, CSRE 146J, MUSIC 116J, MUSIC 216J)

Costache, I. (PI), Nazari, A. (TA), Eshun, M. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 120A, Winter: News of the West

Jaroslovsky, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 121D, Spring: Discourse of the Colonized: Native American and Indigenous Voices (CSRE 121, NATIVEAM 121)

Red Shirt, D. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 123X, Spring: American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy (POLISCI 102, PUBLPOL 101, PUBLPOL 201)

Bonica, A. (PI), Brown, R. (TA), Sturdivant, M. (TA), Ramaswamy, A. (TA), Lendway, P. (TA), Jefferson, H. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 124A, Spring: The American West (ARTHIST 152, ENGLISH 124, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)

Kennedy, D. (PI), Fishkin, S. (PI), Brady, D. (PI), Nemerov, A. (PI), Freyberg, D. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 124L, Spring: The Psychology of Communication About Politics in America (COMM 164, COMM 264, POLISCI 124L, POLISCI 324L, PSYCH 170, PUBLPOL 164)

Krosnick, J. (PI)
Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 125C, Winter: The Lost Generation: American literature between the World Wars (ENGLISH 125C)

Richardson, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 126A, Spring: Introduction to English III: Introduction to Asian American Literature: Fantastic Fictions (ASNAMST 126E, ENGLISH 12F)

Bo, L. (PI), Khatua, S. (TA), Wang, E. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 126Q, Winter: California Dreaming

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 135, Winter: Deliberative Democracy and its Critics (COMM 135W, COMM 235, COMM 335, ETHICSOC 135F, POLISCI 234P, POLISCI 334P)

Fishkin, J. (PI), Kim, Y. (TA), Lozano, I. (TA)
Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 135X, Spring: Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States (AFRICAAM 135A, CSRE 120, CSRE 135, GLOBAL 137, RELIGST 135)

Ahmed, A. (PI)
Tuesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 137, Autumn: The Dialogue of Democracy (COMM 137W, COMM 237, POLISCI 232T, POLISCI 332T)

Fishkin, J. (PI), Kim, Y. (TA), Alanoca, S. (TA)
Monday
3:30 PM
6:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 139B, Autumn: American Women Writers, 1850-1920 (ENGLISH 139B)

Richardson, J. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 139C, Spring: American Literature and Social Justice (ASNAMST 139C, CHILATST 139C, CSRE 139C, ENGLISH 139C, FEMGEN 139C)

Fishkin, S. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 141X, Autumn: Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AFRICAAM 221, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126, RELIGST 141)

McLoughlin, S. (TA), Karasinski-Sroka, M. (TA), Martin, L. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 143X, Autumn: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (ARTHIST 264B, FILMEDIA 264B)

Kessler, E. (PI), Smigas, B. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 145, Spring: Silicon Valley

Kessler, E. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 147, Spring: Stanford and Its Worlds: 1885-present (EDUC 147, HISTORY 58E)

Levine, E. (PI), Stevens, M. (PI), Bates, D. (TA), Kahn, A. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 149, Autumn: Scams, Hoaxes, and Cons

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 150, Spring: Introduction to English II: American Literature and Culture to 1855 (ENGLISH 11B)

Richardson, J. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 150A, Autumn: Colonial and Revolutionary America (HISTORY 150A)

Gunaydi, M. (TA), Levine, M. (TA), Winterer, C. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 150B, Winter: Nineteenth Century America (AFRICAAM 150B, CSRE 150S, HISTORY 150B)

Olivarius, K. (PI), Cassio, M. (TA), Martin, B. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 150C, Spring: The United States in the Twentieth Century (AFRICAAM 150C, HISTORY 150C)

Regalado, P. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 150X, Spring: From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco (HISTORY 252E, URBANST 150)

Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 152, Spring: American Families (ENGLISH 152A, FILMEDIA 152B)

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 156, Spring: The Changing American City (CSRE 156, SOC 156A, SOC 256A, URBANST 156A)

Hwang, J. (PI), Gao, M. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 157A, Autumn: American Constitutional History (AMSTUD 57A, HISTORY 57, HISTORY 157)

Gienapp, J. (PI), Martin, B. (TA), Huston, J. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 158, Spring: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (AMSTUD 58, HISTORY 58, HISTORY 158)

Twitty, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 158C, Spring: Black Theater and its Relevance: The Plays of August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry (AFRICAAM 158C, TAPS 158W, TAPS 358W)

Elam, H. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 159A, Autumn: Making History in Silicon Valley (CSRE 159, FEMGEN 159A, HISTORY 159, URBANST 129)

Petersen, C. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 160, Winter: Perspectives on American Identity (ENGLISH 165)

Kessler, E. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 161, Winter: The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Modern America (CSRE 162, FEMGEN 61, FEMGEN 161, HISTORY 61, HISTORY 161)

Iker, T. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 163, Spring: Introduction to Land Use Policy and Planning (EARTHSYS 168, PUBLPOL 163, URBANST 163)

Rich, D. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 163A, Autumn: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 163, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)

Meyer, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 167, Winter: Censorship in American Art (ARTHIST 160, CSRE 160, FEMGEN 167)

Meyer, R. (PI), Salseda, R. (PI), Vuong, I. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 170C, Spring: Black, White, Jewish: The Racial Politics of Jewishness (AFRICAAM 170C, CSRE 170, JEWISHST 170)

Hammerman, S. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 173, Spring: Mexican Migration to the United States (AMSTUD 73, CHILATST 173, HISTORY 73, HISTORY 173)

Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
Wednesday
11:30 AM
2:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 177, Winter: Contemporary Novel in U.S. Perspective (ENGLISH 177)

Greif, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 177B, Spring: Contemporary American Short Stories (ENGLISH 177B)

Trahan, J. (PI), Jones, G. (PI)
Wednesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 179A, Spring: Crime and Punishment in America (AFRICAAM 179A, CSRE 179A, SOC 179A, SOC 279A)

Clair, M. (PI), Hardaway, N. (TA), Hou, T. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 184, Spring: Race and Media (COMM 184, COMM 284, CSRE 185, CSRE 286)

Li, X. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 185, Spring: American Studies Internship

Summer

AMSTUD AMSTUD 185, Summer: American Studies Internship

Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 195, Spring: Individual Work

Summer

AMSTUD AMSTUD 195, Summer: Individual Work

Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 195, Winter: Individual Work

Bukatman, S. (PI)
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 198, Spring: American Studies Pre-Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI)
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 199A, Autumn: American Studies Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI)
Tuesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 199B, Winter: American Studies Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI)
Wednesday
2:30 PM
3:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 200DE, Spring: Doing the History of Death and Disease (HISTORY 200DE)

Olivarius, K. (PI)
Monday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 210, Spring: Righteous Rage, Healing Justice: Contemporary Black Feminisms (AFRICAAM 210, FEMGEN 210, TAPS 210)

McNair, K. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 214, Spring: To Live for the People: Black Public History in the Bay Area (AFRICAAM 214, FEMGEN 214)

McNair, K. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 215, Autumn: Understanding Jews (JEWISHST 115)

Kelman, A. (PI)
Tuesday
5:30 PM
7:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 215A, Spring: Visualizing Race in California: An Art History (ARTHIST 215A, ARTHIST 415A)

Salseda, R. (PI)
Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 216, Winter: Huckleberry Finn and its Afterlives (AFRICAAM 215, ENGLISH 216)

Fishkin, S. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 228, Spring: Foundations of African-American Studies II: New Approaches to the Field (AFRICAAM 228)

Morrison, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 231X, Autumn: Learning Religion: How People Acquire Religious Commitments (EDUC 130, EDUC 231, JEWISHST 291X, RELIGST 231X)

Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 239, Spring: Henry James (ENGLISH 239)

Greif, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 240Y, Winter: The Yiddish Story (JEWISHST 241, SLAVIC 240)

Safran, G. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Summer

AMSTUD AMSTUD 250, Summer: Senior Research

Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 250, Winter: Senior Research

Kessler, E. (PI)
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 250, Spring: Senior Research

Kessler, E. (PI)
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 250E, Autumn: Exhibition/Performance: Identities on Display (FEMGEN 250E, NATIVEAM 250E, TAPS 250E)

Brody, J. (PI), Dahal, Y. (TA)
Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 252, Winter: Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation (HISTORY 252, HISTORY 352)

Gienapp, J. (PI)
Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 254F, Winter: Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History (ASNAMST 254, HISTORY 254F)

Chang, G. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 255, Autumn: The Law of American Slavery (HISTORY 255, HISTORY 355)

Twitty, A. (PI)
Monday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 255D, Spring: Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, CSRE 255D, FEMGEN 255M, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)

Hobbs, A. (PI)
Tuesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 256C, Autumn: 350 Years of America-China Relations (EASTASN 256, HISTORY 256, HISTORY 356)

Chang, G. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 258B, Spring: Black Feminist Theater and Theory (AFRICAAM 258, CSRE 258, FEMGEN 258X, TAPS 258)

Brody, J. (PI)
Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 260, Winter: Black Women, Trauma, and the Art of Resistance (FEMGEN 260, HISTORY 260, HISTORY 360)

Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 262A, Spring: Taylor Swift and Millennial America (FEMGEN 262A, HISTORY 262A)

Iker, T. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 265, Spring: American Marxism (HISTORY 265, HISTORY 365)

Chang, G. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
Winter

AMSTUD AMSTUD 268A, Winter: U.S. Political History Since 1968 (HISTORY 268A)

Regalado, P. (PI)
Tuesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 271B, Autumn: Making Latino America (CHILATST 271B, HISTORY 271B)

Regalado, P. (PI)
Monday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
Spring

AMSTUD AMSTUD 274, Spring: Copyright, IP, and AI in Popular Music (AFRICAAM 274, MUSIC 214)

Morrison, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
Autumn

AMSTUD AMSTUD 363, Autumn: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, ARTHIST 163, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)

Meyer, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
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