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.

AMSTUD 4
Autumn

The Sociology of Music (CSRE 4, SOC 4)

Aviles Trujillo, L. (PI), Htut, S. (TA), Efrat, D. (TA), Stuart, F. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 12A
Spring

Introduction to English III: Introduction to African American Literature (AFRICAAM 43)

AMSTUD 18A
Winter

Jazz History: Ragtime to Bebop, 1900-1940 (MUSIC 18A)

Low, M. (PI), Frisch, S. (TA)
Wednesday Friday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 18B
Spring

Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present (AFRICAAM 18B, MUSIC 18B)

Low, M. (PI), Nazari, A. (TA)
Wednesday Friday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 41N
Autumn

Family Drama: American Plays about Families (ENGLISH 41N, TAPS 40N)

Phelan, P. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 43X
Autumn

Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination

Kessler, E. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 46N
Spring

American Moderns: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, & Fitzgerald (ENGLISH 46N)

AMSTUD 51N
Autumn

Suing for Freedom (HISTORY 51N)

Twitty, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
AMSTUD 51Q
Spring

Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (COMPLIT 51Q, CSRE 51Q)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 54
Spring

The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900) (HISTORY 54)

AMSTUD 54B
Autumn

American Intellectual History, 1900-Present (AMSTUD 154B, HISTORY 54B, HISTORY 154B)

Booska, K. (TA), Burns, J. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 54N
Spring

African American Women's Lives (HISTORY 54N)

Hobbs, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 55F
Autumn

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877 (AFRICAAM 55F, AMSTUD 155F, HISTORY 55F, HISTORY 155F)

Olivarius, K. (PI), Virtue, J. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 61N
Winter

The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson (HISTORY 61N)

AMSTUD 68N
Autumn

Mark Twain and American Culture (ENGLISH 68N)

Fishkin, S. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
AMSTUD 73
Autumn

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

Minian Andjel, A. (PI), Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 91A
Spring

Asian American Autobiography/W (ASNAMST 91A, CSRE 91D, ENGLISH 91A)

AMSTUD 99
Winter

American Studies Senior Colloquium

Bolten, R. (PI)
AMSTUD 100
Winter

Introduction to Asian American Studies (ASNAMST 100)

Dinh, T. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 100A
Autumn

Decolonizing Methodologies: Introduction to Native American Studies (NATIVEAM 100)

Wilcox, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 100B
Winter

History of World Cinema II: Film as Industrial Art (FILMEDIA 100B, FILMEDIA 300B)

AMSTUD 101A
Winter

Indigeneity and Colonialism (CSRE 101A, FEMGEN 101A)

Stone, P. (PI), Morrison, K. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 103
Spring

Indigenous Feminisms (CSRE 103S, FEMGEN 103S, NATIVEAM 103S)

AMSTUD 103
Autumn

Indigenous Feminisms (CSRE 103S, FEMGEN 103S, NATIVEAM 103S)

Anderson, J. (PI)
Wednesday
11:30 AM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 104A
Autumn

Foundations of African American Studies I: Black Religion, Culture, and Experience to the Civil War (AFRICAAM 104)

Wells-Oghoghomeh, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 104Q
Autumn

Picturing Americans

Kessler, E. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 105B
Autumn

Vietnamese American Cultural Studies (ASNAMST 105)

Dinh, T. (PI)
Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 106
Autumn

Holy Hipsters: Spiritual Rebellion and Hip Consumerism in Postwar America

Greer, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 107
Autumn

Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101, TAPS 108)

Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI), Kazem, H. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
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
AMSTUD 110D
Spring

War and Peace in American Foreign Policy (INTNLREL 110D, POLISCI 110D)

Schultz, K. (PI)
Monday Wednesday Friday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM
AMSTUD 111
Spring

Notes from the Underground: Alternative Media from Fanzines to Memes

Greer, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 115A
Winter

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

AMSTUD 115S
Autumn

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

Zegart, A. (PI), Hoshino-Macdonald, K. (TA), Leonard, D. (TA), Johnston, E. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 116A
Spring

The American Civil War: A Visual and Literary History (ARTHIST 116)

Horan, S. (PI), Nemerov, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 120B
Spring

Superhero Theory (ARTHIST 120, ARTHIST 320, FILMEDIA 120, FILMEDIA 320)

Hobbs, C. (PI), Bukatman, S. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 123X
Spring

Introduction to American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy (POLISCI 102, PUBLPOL 101, PUBLPOL 201)

Bonica, A. (PI), Jefferson, H. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 124A
Spring

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

Kennedy, D. (PI), Fishkin, S. (PI), Cain, B. (PI), Freyberg, D. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 125C
Spring

The Lost Generation: American literature between the World Wars

AMSTUD 126A
Autumn

Introduction to Asian American Literature: Fantastic Fictions (ASNAMST 126E, ENGLISH 126)

Bo, L. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 126Q
Winter

California Dreaming

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 128
Winter

The American Look: Fashion and American Culture

Kessler, E. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 135
Winter

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

Fishkin, J. (PI)
Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
AMSTUD 137
Autumn

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

Fishkin, J. (PI), Bernheim, M. (TA), Tahir, D. (TA)
Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
AMSTUD 139C
Winter

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

Fishkin, S. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 139Q
Autumn

Walking, Writing, and Freedom, the American Way

Mesa, C. (PI)
Wednesday Friday
8:30 AM
9:50 AM
AMSTUD 141
Winter

Psychedelic America

Greer, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 141X
Spring

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)

AMSTUD 142
Winter

The Literature of the Americas (COMPLIT 142, CSRE 142)

AMSTUD 143A
Winter

American Architecture (ARTHIST 143A, ARTHIST 343A, CEE 32R)

AMSTUD 143X
Autumn

Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (ARTHIST 264B, FILMEDIA 264B)

Kessler, E. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 145
Winter

Silicon Valley

Kessler, E. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 146
Autumn

Working

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 146A
Spring

Steinbeck

AMSTUD 149
Spring

Scams, Hoaxes, and Cons

Bolten, R. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
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
AMSTUD 150A
Autumn

Colonial and Revolutionary America (HISTORY 150A)

Gienapp, J. (PI), von Kumberg, A. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 150B
Winter

Nineteenth Century America (CSRE 150S, HISTORY 150B)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 150C
Spring

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

Regalado, P. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 150X
Spring

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

AMSTUD 154
Spring

The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900) (HISTORY 154)

AMSTUD 154B
Autumn

American Intellectual History, 1900-Present (AMSTUD 54B, HISTORY 54B, HISTORY 154B)

Booska, K. (TA), Burns, J. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 154D
Spring

American Disaster (ENGLISH 154D, SOC 154A)

AMSTUD 155
Winter

American Constitutional History from the Civil War to the War on Poverty (HISTORY 155)

AMSTUD 155F
Autumn

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877 (AFRICAAM 55F, AMSTUD 55F, HISTORY 55F, HISTORY 155F)

Olivarius, K. (PI), Virtue, J. (TA)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 155R
Autumn

What Makes a "Cult?" Studying Religion on the Margins (RELIGST 155)

Sanchez, J. (PI), Wells-Oghoghomeh, A. (PI)
Tuesday
9:00 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 156H
Spring

Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors (FEMGEN 156H)

AMSTUD 160
Spring

Perspectives on American Identity (ENGLISH 165)

Richardson, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM
AMSTUD 161
Winter

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

AMSTUD 162B
Autumn

Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections (COMM 162, COMM 262, POLISCI 120B)

Sturdivant, M. (TA), Wu, B. (TA), Townsend, K. (TA), Iyengar, S. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 163
Spring

Land Use: Planning for Sustainable Cities (EARTHSYS 168, PUBLPOL 163, URBANST 163)

Rich, D. (PI), von Borck, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 165
Winter

History of Higher Education in the U.S. (EDUC 165, EDUC 265, HISTORY 158C)

Levine, E. (PI)
Wednesday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM
AMSTUD 169B
Winter

Race and Ethnicity in Urban California: Research Seminar (CSRE 260B, SOC 169B, URBANST 169B)

AMSTUD 173
Autumn

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

Minian Andjel, A. (PI), Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 177B
Spring

Contemporary American Short Stories (ENGLISH 177B)

Trahan, J. (PI), Jones, G. (PI)
Thursday
5:30 PM
8:20 PM
AMSTUD 179A
Winter

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

Clair, M. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 186D
Autumn

Asian American Art (ARTHIST 186B, ARTHIST 386B, ASNAMST 186B)

Kwon, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 195
Winter

Individual Work

Bukatman, S. (PI)
AMSTUD 198
Spring

American Studies Pre-Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI), Richardson, J. (PI)
Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM
AMSTUD 199A
Autumn

American Studies Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI)
AMSTUD 199B
Winter

American Studies Honors Seminar

Kessler, E. (PI)
AMSTUD 200UR
Winter

Doing (Sub)Urban History (HISTORY 200UR, URBANST 100UR)

Jenkins, D. (PI), Regalado, P. (PI)
Tuesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 201
Spring

History of Education in the United States (EDUC 201, HISTORY 258B)

Hines, M. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 205K
Autumn

The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti (AFRICAAM 205K, HISTORY 205K, HISTORY 305K)

Olivarius, K. (PI)
Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 208
Winter

Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 208, RELIGST 308)

AMSTUD 215
Winter

Understanding Jews (JEWISHST 115)

AMSTUD 231X
Winter

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

AMSTUD 246
Winter

Constructing Race and Religion in America (CSRE 246, HISTORY 256G, RELIGST 246)

Lum, K. (PI), Mueller, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 250
Winter

Senior Research

Kessler, E. (PI)
AMSTUD 250
Spring

Senior Research

Kessler, E. (PI)
AMSTUD 250J
Spring

Baldwin and Hansberry: The Myriad Meanings of Love (AFRICAAM 250J, CSRE 250J, FEMGEN 250J, TAPS 250J)

AMSTUD 252
Autumn

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

Gienapp, J. (PI)
Wednesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM
AMSTUD 253F
Winter

Thinking the American Revolution (HISTORY 253F, HISTORY 353F)

AMSTUD 255D
Spring

Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)

Hobbs, A. (PI)
Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
AMSTUD 256
Spring

Black Contemporary Filmmakers (AFRICAAM 256, FILMEDIA 257)

AMSTUD 256C
Autumn

350 Years of America-China Relations (EASTASN 256, HISTORY 256, HISTORY 356)

Chang, G. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 261A
Autumn

Black Aliveness (AFRICAAM 261, ARTHIST 261)

Nemerov, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM
AMSTUD 261W
Spring

Introduction to Asian American History (ASNAMST 261, HISTORY 261E)

Wang, Y. (PI)
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 263
Winter

The Religions and Cultures of Enslaved People in America (RELIGST 263, RELIGST 363)

AMSTUD 271B
Autumn

US Latinx History (CHILATST 271B, HISTORY 271B)

Regalado, P. (PI)
Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
AMSTUD 274C
Spring

Mexican American History (CHILATST 274, HISTORY 274C, HISTORY 374C)

AMSTUD 281
Winter

Asian Religions in America; Asian American Religions (ASNAMST 281, RELIGST 281, RELIGST 381)

AMSTUD 285
Spring

American Photographs: A Magical History (ARTHIST 285)

Nemerov, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
AMSTUD 290
Spring

Movies and Methods: Adaptation (FILMEDIA 290, FILMEDIA 490)

Tobin, A. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM
AMSTUD 305
Autumn

How to Think About Antisemitism (EDUC 305, JEWISHST 205, RELIGST 205X)

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