American Studies (AMS)
AMS 310 Introduction to American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An interdisciplinary introduction to the historical exploration of American culture. American Studies 310 and History 315G may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 315G
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 310C Jewish American Literature and Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine Jewish American literature in its cultural contexts with an emphasis on skills and methods. Explore texts, drawn from a variety of genres and periods, that indicate the range of Jewish American experiences and how those experiences are influenced by issues such as citizenship, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 310C, English 314V (Topic: Jewish American Lit and Cul), 314V (Topic 7), Jewish Studies 314C.
Same as: E 314V.7, J S 314C
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: One of the following: English 303C, Rhetoric and Writing 306, 306Q, 309J (or 309K), or Tutorial Course 303C.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 310D North American Borderlands 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the formation of political borders in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, their contestation, and the multiple meanings attached to them. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 310D, Geography 312K, History 312D, Mexican American Studies 316R, 319 (Topic: North American Borderlands). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GRG 312K, HIS 312D, MAS 316R
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 311C Latinx Material Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discuss utilizing material culture as a method of analysis to highlight histories of oppression, struggles towards liberation, and the politics of everyday Latinx life in the U.S.. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 311C, Latin American Studies 316C, Mexican American Studies 318J, 319 (Topic: Latinx Material Cultures). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 316C, MAS 318J
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 311S Topics in Introductory Seminar in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Writing, reading, and discussion on an American studies topic, with emphasis on the evaluation of information, analytical reading, and critical writing. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Lower Division
Topic 1: Consumer Culture in America. Examines consumer culture in the United States through historical and theoretical texts, including film, books, and scholarly works.
Topic 2: American Sports and Culture. Examines how the games Americans play reflect beliefs about success, class hierarchies, gender roles, race relations, and global ambitions.
Topic 3: United States Culture and Globalization. Introduction to the concepts and processes of globalization and how globalization has shaped and been shaped by culture in the United States at different periods in history.
Topic 4: American Places of Leisure. Explores the history of American amusement spaces, using them as a lens through which to explore larger currents of cultural change. Subjects include issues of race, gender, class, corporate history, globalization, and the rise of convergence culture, all as played out within recreational spaces. American Studies 311S (Topic: American Places of Leisure) and 311S (Topic 4) may not both be counted.
AMS 312C Blackness and Comics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the relationship between race and the sequential aesthetics of comic books and comic strips. Explore comics strips, underground comics, and superhero comics from the colonial period to the present day. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 310 (Topic: Blackness and Comics), 316E, American Studies 312C, English 319D. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 316E, E 319D
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315 Topics in American Life 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Interdisciplinary exploration of American cultural and intellectual life. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Lower Division
Topic 1: Introduction to Asian American Studies. Introduces the interdisciplinary study of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans in the United States. Explores key concepts, including immigration history, identity and community formation, cultural representation, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Introduction to Asian American Studies), 315 (Topic 1), Asian American Studies 301, Sociology 308 (Topic: Introduction to Asian American Studies). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AAS 301
Topic 2: Mixed Race Identities. Analyzes the historical and contemporary significance of issues of race" and "mixing" in a North American context. Subjects include the situation of "mixed race" people throughout United States history; historical policies that have shaped racial formation in the United States; comparative conceptions of "mixed" people transnationally; and racial, ethnic, and cultural identity. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Mixed Race and the Media), 315 (Topic 2), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Mixed Race and the Media), 310 (Topic 3). Same as: AAS 310.3
Topic 3: Race, Immigration, and Family. Introduction to family systems in the United States in a post-WWII framework with a central focus on Asian Americans. Students will investigate how gender, race, and ethnicity intersect and inform our understanding of the institution of the family. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 315 (Topic 3), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 310 (Topic 5), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 301 (Topic 24). Same as: AAS 310.5, WGS 301.24
Topic 4: Jews in America: The Yiddish Experience. Focuses on over a century of Yiddish-based contributions to American literature, music, and film, including works by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Michael Chabon, Woody Allen, and the Marx Brothers. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Jews in America: The Yiddish Experience), 315 (Topic 4), Jewish Studies 311 (Topic: Jews in America: The Yiddish Experience), 311 (Topic 6), Religious Studies 313 (Topic: Jews in America: The Yiddish Experience), 313 (Topic 1).
Topic 5: History of Religion in the United States. Explores instances of religious dominance and religious diversity in United States history. Moving from the pre-colonial period to the present, it examines the changing circumstances of several religious communities, including American Indians and Puritans, Protestant evangelicals, Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic 5), History 317L (Topic 16), Religious Studies 316C, 316U (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: HIS 317L.16, R S 316C Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 6: American Jews: The Yiddish Experience. Focuses on over a century of Yiddish-based contributions to American literature, music, and film, including works by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Michael Chabon, Woody Allen, and the Marx Brothers. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic 4), 315 (Topic 6); German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 310 (Topic 1); Jewish Studies 311 (Topic 6), 311 (Topic 9); Religious Studies 313 (Topic 1), 316K (Topic 2), 316E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: GSD 310.1, J S 311.9, R S 316E
Topic 7: Asian American Film History. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Asian American Film History), American Studies 315 (Topic 7), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Asian American Film History), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic 6), Radio-Television-Film 301N (Topic: Asian American Film History). Same as: AAS 310.6
Topic 8: Germany and Globalization. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Germany and Globalization), 315 (Topic 8), European Studies 308 (Germany and Globalization), 308 (Topic 1), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 310 (Topic: Germany and Globalization), 311F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: EUS 308.1, GSD 311F
AMS 315.1 Introduction to Asian American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduces the interdisciplinary study of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans in the United States. Explores key concepts, including immigration history, identity and community formation, cultural representation, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Introduction to Asian American Studies), 315 (Topic 1), Asian American Studies 301, Sociology 308 (Topic: Introduction to Asian American Studies). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 301
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.2 Mixed Race Identities 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyzes the historical and contemporary significance of issues of race" and "mixing" in a North American context. Subjects include the situation of "mixed race" people throughout United States history; historical policies that have shaped racial formation in the United States; comparative conceptions of "mixed" people transnationally; and racial, ethnic, and cultural identity. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Mixed Race and the Media), 315 (Topic 2), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Mixed Race and the Media), 310 (Topic 3).
Same as: AAS 310.3
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.3 Race, Immigration, and Family 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to family systems in the United States in a post-WWII framework with a central focus on Asian Americans. Students will investigate how gender, race, and ethnicity intersect and inform our understanding of the institution of the family. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 315 (Topic 3), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 310 (Topic 5), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: Alternative Family Systems), 301 (Topic 24).
Same as: AAS 310.5, WGS 301.24
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.5 History of Religion in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores instances of religious dominance and religious diversity in United States history. Moving from the pre-colonial period to the present, it examines the changing circumstances of several religious communities, including American Indians and Puritans, Protestant evangelicals, Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic 5), History 317L (Topic 16), Religious Studies 316C, 316U (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 317L.16, R S 316C
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.6 American Jews: The Yiddish Experience 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focuses on over a century of Yiddish-based contributions to American literature, music, and film, including works by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Michael Chabon, Woody Allen, and the Marx Brothers. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic 4), 315 (Topic 6); German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 310 (Topic 1); Jewish Studies 311 (Topic 6), 311 (Topic 9); Religious Studies 313 (Topic 1), 316K (Topic 2), 316E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GSD 310.1, J S 311.9, R S 316E
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.7 Asian American Film History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Asian American Film History), American Studies 315 (Topic 7), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic: Asian American Film History), Asian American Studies 310 (Topic 6), Radio-Television-Film 301N (Topic: Asian American Film History).
Same as: AAS 310.6
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315.8 Germany and Globalization 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Germany and Globalization), 315 (Topic 8), European Studies 308 (Germany and Globalization), 308 (Topic 1), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 310 (Topic: Germany and Globalization), 311F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 308.1, GSD 311F
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315C Movies Go To War 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A comparison of films from various nations about major twentieth century wars to the historical facts of the conflicts as practicums in critical comparative analysis of histories as representations. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Movies Go to War, World War I to Vietnam), 315C, Comparative Literature 305 (Topic: Movies Go to War, World War I to Vietnam), 305 (Topic 3), European Studies 307 (Topic: Movies Go to War, World War I to Vietnam), 307 (Topic 4), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 311C, Germanic Civilization 311 (Topic 2: Movies Go to War, World War I to Vietnam).
Same as: C L 305.3, EUS 307.4, GSD 311C
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315D Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the social importance of race and ethnicity both in America and around the world. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 315L, 317D (Topic 2), American Studies 315D, Anthropology 310L (Topic 2). Three lecture hours or two lecture hours and one discussion hour a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 315L, ANT 310L.2
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315F Native American Literature and Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Studies Native American literature from different regions and cultures and considers this literary tradition in tribal national and United States national contexts. American Studies 315F and English 314V (Topic 5) may not both be counted.
Same as: E 314V.5
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: One of the following: English 303C, Rhetoric and Writing 306, 306Q, 309J (or 309K), or Tutorial Course 303C.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315J Rights in Modern America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 316C, 317D (Topic: Rights in Modern America), American Studies 315 (Topic: Rights in Modern America), 315J, History 317L (Topic: Rights in Modern America), 317L (Topic 10), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: Rights in Modern America), 301 (Topic 32). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 316C, HIS 317L.10, WGS 301.32
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315K The Revolution Will Be Dramatized 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 315E, 317F (Topic: The Revolution Will Be Dramatized), American Studies 315 (Topic: The Revolution Will Be Dramatized), 315K, Theatre and Dance 305S (Topic 2), 311T (Topic: The Revolution Will Be Dramatized), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: The Revolution Will Be Dramatized), 301 (Topic 25). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 315E, T D 305S.2, WGS 301.25
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315L Toni Morrison and August Wilson 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 315F, 317F (Topic: Toni Morrison and August Wilson), American Studies 315 (Topic: Toni Morrison and August Wilson), 315L, Theatre and Dance 305S (Topic 3), 311T (Topic: Toni Morrison and August Wilson), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: Toni Morrison and August Wilson), 301 (Topic 26). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 315F, T D 305S.3, WGS 301.26
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315N Latina and Latino Media and Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore Latina/o media and popular culture from 1950 to the present. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Latina/o Med/Pop Cul 1950-Pres), 315N, Mexican American Studies 318C, 319 (Topic: Latina/o Med/Pop Cul 1950-Pres), Women's and Gender Studies 301 (Topic: Latina/o Med/Pop Cul 1950-Pres), 301 (Topic 30). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 318C, WGS 301.30
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315O Introduction to Native American Histories 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the history of Native American societies in North America from the earliest records to the present. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Intro to Native Am Histories), 315 (Topic: Intro to Amer Indian History), 315O, History 317L (Topic 8). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 317L.8
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315P Building America: Engineering, Society, and Culture, 1868-1980 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines building in American society from the late 1860s to 1980. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315 (Topic: Building America), 315P, History 317L (Topic 14). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 317L.14
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 315Q American Jewish History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the history of Jews in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Explore the formation of a distinct American Judaism and the involvement of Jews in American cultural and political affairs. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 315Q, History 317L (Topic: American Jewish History), 317L (Topic 21), Jewish Studies 311 (Topic: American Jewish History), 317. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 317L.21, J S 317
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 319 Latinx Digital Worlds 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how Latinx communities (traditionally figured as on the wrong side of the "digital divide") have embraced, mobilized, and sometimes usurped emerging digital tools and spaces to forge community and create new forms of culture, memory, and activism. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 319, English 319L, Latin American Studies 310I, Mexican American Studies 318E, 319 (Topic: Latinx Digital Worlds). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: E 319L, LAS 310I, MAS 318E
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
AMS 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S Topics in American Studies 1-9 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of American Studies. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
AMS 320C Jews of the United States, Canada, and Latin America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the cultural history of Jews in the United States, Latin America, and Canada through a representative sample of short literary texts, film clips, and musical recordings. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 320C, Jewish Studies 363 (Topic 33), Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 12), Spanish Civilization 320C (Topic 6). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: J S 363.33, LAS 328.12, SPC 320C.6
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321 Topics in American Societies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A study of America through its geography, language, government, or cultures. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Native American Cultures of the Greater Southwest.
Topic 2: Language and Speech in American Society. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing, and Anthropology 302, 305, 307, or Linguistics 306.
Topic 3: Native American Cultures North of Mexico. Same as: ANT 336L
Topic 4: America and the Holocaust. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic 4), 370 (Topic: America and the Holocaust), History 350L (Topic: America and the Holocaust), 356R, 365G (Topic: America and the Holocaust), Jewish Studies 361 (Topic: America and the Holocaust), 365 (Topic 1), Liberal Arts Honors 350 (Topic: America and the Holocaust). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: HIS 356R, J S 365.1 Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 5: Asian American Jurisprudence. Introduction to the study of Asian Americans and the law. Examines the historical development of United States law and its relationship to Asian Americans, and of Asian American jurisprudence as an independent field of legal scholarship. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 6: Race, Gender, and Surveillance. Overview of theories in the sociology of social control, with a focus on risk, power, ethics, and surveillance. Examines historical transformations in social control and the distributions of power in the United States and global contexts, with attention to race, gender, and class. Subjects include: the transatlantic slave trade; prisons and punishment; the gaze, voyeurism, and reality television watching; the Internet; travel and state borders; privacy; and biometrics and the body. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360D, 372C (Topic 12), American Studies 321 (Topic 6), Sociology 322V, Women's and Gender Studies 322 (Topic 8), 322J. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 360D, SOC 322V, WGS 322J Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 7: Social Movements. Characteristics of crowds, publics, and social movements; their role in social organization and social change. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Social Movements), American Studies 321 (Topic 7), Sociology 352. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SOC 352 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 8: Urban Unrest. Analysis of the roots of urban unrest, exploring a range of origins: joblessness, state violence, white flight, backlash against civil rights gains, new immigration, and interracial strife. Beyond race and class, subjects include exploring unrest as a mode of pushing the normative boundaries of gender and sexuality in public space. Course material will draw from film, literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360F, 372F (Topic 13), American Studies 321 (Topic 8), Anthropology 324L (Topic 46), Asian American Studies 330 (Topic 6), 330G, Urban Studies 327U, 354 (Topic 14). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AAS 330G, AFR 360F, ANT 324L.46, URB 327U Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 9: The United States in the Civil Rights Era. Examines United States history in the post-World War II era, including how civil rights and other racial issues helped shape the politics, popular culture, and social life of this period. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351L, 374D (Topic 17), American Studies 321 (Topic 9), History 356P, Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic 36). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 351L, HIS 356P Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 10: Women and Social Movements in the Twentieth-Century United States. Examines women's participation in well-known and lesser-known social movements during the twentieth century. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351C, 372C (Topic: Women and Socl Mvmnts in US), 372C (Topic 7), American Studies 321 (Topic 10), History 365G (Topic 8), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 53). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 351C, HIS 365G.8, WGS 340.53 Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 11: The Vietnam Wars. Introduction to the complex and controversial history of the wars fought in Vietnam from 1941 to the 1980s. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Vietnam Wars), 321 (Topic 11), Asian Studies 372 (Topic: Vietnam Wars), History 365G (Topic: Vietnam Wars), 365G (Topic 4). Same as: HIS 365G.4 Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 12: Race, Internet, and Social Media. Explores the critical, theoretical and practical analysis of race and new media. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media), American Studies 321 (Topic 12), Asian American Studies 320 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media), Asian American Studies 320 (Topic 7), 320G, Radio-Television-Film 359 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AAS 320G Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
AMS 321.10 Women and Social Movements in the Twentieth-Century United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines women's participation in well-known and lesser-known social movements during the twentieth century. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351C, 372C (Topic: Women and Socl Mvmnts in US), 372C (Topic 7), American Studies 321 (Topic 10), History 365G (Topic 8), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 53). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351C, HIS 365G.8, WGS 340.53
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.11 The Vietnam Wars 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the complex and controversial history of the wars fought in Vietnam from 1941 to the 1980s. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Vietnam Wars), 321 (Topic 11), Asian Studies 372 (Topic: Vietnam Wars), History 365G (Topic: Vietnam Wars), 365G (Topic 4).
Same as: HIS 365G.4
Core Curriculum: 060
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.12 Race, Internet, and Social Media 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the critical, theoretical and practical analysis of race and new media. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media), American Studies 321 (Topic 12), Asian American Studies 320 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media), Asian American Studies 320 (Topic 7), 320G, Radio-Television-Film 359 (Topic: Race, Internet & Social Media). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 320G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.3 Native American Cultures North of Mexico 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Same as: ANT 336L
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.4 America and the Holocaust 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic 4), 370 (Topic: America and the Holocaust), History 350L (Topic: America and the Holocaust), 356R, 365G (Topic: America and the Holocaust), Jewish Studies 361 (Topic: America and the Holocaust), 365 (Topic 1), Liberal Arts Honors 350 (Topic: America and the Holocaust). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 356R, J S 365.1
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.6 Race, Gender, and Surveillance 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Overview of theories in the sociology of social control, with a focus on risk, power, ethics, and surveillance. Examines historical transformations in social control and the distributions of power in the United States and global contexts, with attention to race, gender, and class. Subjects include: the transatlantic slave trade; prisons and punishment; the gaze, voyeurism, and reality television watching; the Internet; travel and state borders; privacy; and biometrics and the body. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360D, 372C (Topic 12), American Studies 321 (Topic 6), Sociology 322V, Women's and Gender Studies 322 (Topic 8), 322J. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360D, SOC 322V, WGS 322J
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.7 Social Movements 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Characteristics of crowds, publics, and social movements; their role in social organization and social change. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Social Movements), American Studies 321 (Topic 7), Sociology 352. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: SOC 352
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.8 Urban Unrest 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analysis of the roots of urban unrest, exploring a range of origins: joblessness, state violence, white flight, backlash against civil rights gains, new immigration, and interracial strife. Beyond race and class, subjects include exploring unrest as a mode of pushing the normative boundaries of gender and sexuality in public space. Course material will draw from film, literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360F, 372F (Topic 13), American Studies 321 (Topic 8), Anthropology 324L (Topic 46), Asian American Studies 330 (Topic 6), 330G, Urban Studies 327U, 354 (Topic 14). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 330G, AFR 360F, ANT 324L.46, URB 327U
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321.9 The United States in the Civil Rights Era 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines United States history in the post-World War II era, including how civil rights and other racial issues helped shape the politics, popular culture, and social life of this period. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351L, 374D (Topic 17), American Studies 321 (Topic 9), History 356P, Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic 36). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351L, HIS 356P
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321E African American History to 1860 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Review of West African origins; New World settlement patterns, social life, and culture; discussion of the Atlantic slave trade, the development of capitalism and plantation slavery, and the origins of racism. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 357C, American Studies 321 (Topic: African American History to 1860), 321E, History 357C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 357C, HIS 357C
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321F African American History since 1860 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of the history of African Americans in the United States from 1860 to the present: Emancipation, Reconstruction politics, migration and urbanization, and the evolution of African American culture; kinds of sources and methods valuable for analyzing African American life and culture. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 357D, American Studies 321 (Topic: African American History since 1860), 321F, History 357D, Urban Studies 327D, 353 (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 357D, HIS 357D, URB 327D
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321G Native Americans in Texas 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Studies the history of Native Americans in Texas using concepts and evidence from anthropology, history, archaeology, historical geography, and Native American studies. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Native Americans in Texas), 321G, Anthropology 324L (Topic: Native American in Texas). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 326C
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321I Central Europe Goes to Hollywood 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey research tools and methods used to study the history of Hollywood film industries and the roles that films and film professionals play; based on films and industry careers connected to Central Europe. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Central Eur Goes to Hollywood), 321I, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 330 (Topic: Central Eur Goes to Hollywood), 331F, 360 (Topic: Central Eur Goes to Hollywood), Radio-Television-Film 377H (Topic: Central Eur Goes to Hollywood). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GSD 331F
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321J African American Social and Political Thought 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the speeches and writings by major theorists and critics of the prophetic tradition of black political thought. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351M, 374D (Topic 21), American Studies 321J, Core Texts and Ideas 326 (Topic 3), 326J, Government 335G, 335M (Topic 10). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351M, CTI 326J, GOV 335G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of lower-division coursework in government.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321K European Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: European Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century), 321K, European Studies 346 (Topic: European Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century), 346 (Topic 33), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: European Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century), 361S. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 346.33, GSD 361S
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321L German Scholars: US Exile 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the migration of established European intellectuals into the US, due to the Second World War. Explore how they worked against their persecutors for their own cultural heritage and to influence US intellectual life. Investigate the ethical dilemmas faced in transplanting their lives and projects into new contexts. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: German Scholars: US Exile), 321L, Comparative Literature 323 (Topic: German Scholars: US Exile), 323 (Topic 56), European Studies 346 (Topic: German Scholars: US Exile), 346 (Topic 34), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: German Scholars: US Exile), 361Q, Philosophy 334Q, 354 (Topic: German Scholars: US Exile). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 346.34, GSD 361Q, PHL 334Q
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321M Radical Chic: Revolutions from Europe 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore innovative European ideas that reshaped United States history and society: Freud and settlement houses, models for education (from Switzerland to Dewey at the University of Chicago), and the labor movement (Marx to Eugene V. Debs and Mother Jones) Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321M, European Studies 347 (Topic 56), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 362G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 347.56, GSD 362G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321O Debt and Colonialism in the Caribbean 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the role that debt has played in the formation of colonial and neocolonial practices in the Caribbean region. Take a broad approach to the concept of debt in order to explore the financial and monetary dynamics of debt, but also the political and cultural implications of debt. Focus in particular on debt as justification in the furtherance of colonialism throughout the Caribbean. Engage in a historical examination of the United States' colonial projects and military interventions in the region throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 345O, 374E (Topic: Debt/Colonialism Caribbean), American Studies 321 (Topic: Debt/Colonialism Caribbean), 321O, History 345O, 363K (Topic: Debt/Colonialism Caribbean), Latin American Studies 366 (Topic: Debt/Colonialism Caribbean), 366 (Topic 43). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 345O, HIS 345O, LAS 366.43
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321P Race And Place 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350L, 372C (Topic: Race And Place), American Studies 321 (Topic: Race And Place), 321P, Geography 356T (Topic: Race And Place). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350L
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321Q Writing for Black Performance 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330F, American Studies 321Q, Creative Writing 325T, Theatre and Dance 357T (Topic: Writing for Black Performance), 357T (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 330F, CRW 325T, T D 357T.5
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321R Politics of Memory: Germany and the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the role that narratives of the past play in politics and policies in both Germany and the United States, by engaging with key theoretical and empirical debates. Focus on the role of memory in German and US immigration politics. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Politics Of Memory: GER/US), 321R, European Studies 348 (Topic: Politics Of Memory: GER/US), 348 (Topic 9), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: Politics Of Memory: GER/US), 361U, Government 365N (Topic: Politics Of Memory: GER/US), 368U. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 348.9, GOV 368U, GSD 361U
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321S Cultural Heritage on Display 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the public construction and display of traditional American folk culture by studying popular folklife-oriented tourist sites. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Cultural Heritage on Display), 321S, Anthropology 325F, 325L (Topic 11). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 325F
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321T Asian American Jurisprudence 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the historical development of United States law and its relationship to Asian Americans, and of Asian American jurisprudence as an independent field of legal scholarship. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic 5), 321T, Asian American Studies 325 (Topic 5), 325N, Government 357M (Topic 9), 357V. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 325N, GOV 357V
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321U Native American Cultures of the Southwest 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the diverse Native cultures of the Southwest, focusing on the philosophical underpinnings and the frameworks of meaning and moral responsibility of indigenous peoples of the American Southwest. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Native American Cultures of the Southwest), 321 (Topic 1), 321U, Anthropology 322M (Topic 3), 322M (Topic 4), 322I. Three lecture hours a week for one semester
Same as: ANT 322I
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321V Religion and Film 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of representations of religious beliefs, practices, persons, and institutions in popular film. Examination of film as a vehicle to reflect how a shared religious imagination shaped the way Americans understand themselves. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Religion and Film), 321V, Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Religion and Film), 346E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346E
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 321W Memories of War 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Consider the ways the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first century are being remembered in Germany and the United States - from poems, novels and films to monuments and the controversial debates about military conflicts that the two countries have been involved in. Utilize theories of social memory, and concepts of individual and social mourning, to analyze how war affects individual lives, how societies mourn, and how remembering war impacts national identity and politics. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Memories of War), 321W, European Studies 346 (Topic: Memories of War), 346 (Topic 42), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: Memories of War), 362D, Government 362S. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 346.42, GOV 362S, GSD 362D
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 322C Amending the United States Constitution 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the evolution of the United States Constitution from the founding to the present, with a focus on the major forces and fault lines that have made the Constitution today one of the world's most difficult to amend. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 322C, Civics 357L, Government 357N, 355M (Topic: Amending the US Constitution). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: CIV 357L, GOV 357N
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 322D Mexican American Studies at UT 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Trace the origins and development of Mexican American Studies at the national, regional, and local levels. Collaborate to help preserve and recognize the significance of Mexican American Studies at the University in historical and contemporary contexts. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: 50 Yrs Mex Am Studies at UT), 322D, History 365G (Topic: 50 Yrs Mex Am Studies at UT), 365G (Topic 17), Mexican American Studies 320I, 374 (Topic: 50 Yrs Mex Am Studies at UT). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 365G.17, MAS 320I
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 322N American Cultural History of Alcohol and Drugs 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study of the American use and perception of drugs, including alcohol, and how they have changed over time. Examines significant shifts in American attitudes toward individualism and social control. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 322N, 370 (Topic 1), History 350R (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.5
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 323C American Dante 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the influence of the Italian poet Dante on American culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 323C, English 352D, Italian Civilization 330 (Topic: American Dante), 347. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: E 352D, ITC 347
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 323O American Popular Culture, 1682-Present 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the evolution of American popular culture and its relationship to national consolidation, and at times, disunion, over the last 330 years. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 323O, 370 (Topic 35), History 350R (Topic 19), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 26), 346G.
Same as: HIS 350R.19, WGS 346G
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324C Black Middle Class 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350C, 372C (Topic: Black Middle Class), American Studies 321 (Topic: Black Middle Class), 324C, Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Black Middle Class), 340 (Topic 83). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350C, WGS 340.83
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324D Black Freedom Movement 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360I, 372C (Topic: Black Freedom Movement), American Studies 321 (Topic: Black Freedom Movement), 324D, Latin American Studies 322 (Topic: Black Freedom Movement), 322G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360I, LAS 322G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324E The Global City 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351, 374D (Topic: The Global City), American Studies 321 (Topic: The Global City), 324E, Anthropology 324L (Topic: The Global City), 324S, Urban Studies 330G, 353 (Topic: The Global City). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351, ANT 324S, URB 330G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324F Asian Americans in the South 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Asian Americans in the South), 324F, Asian American Studies 330 (Topic: Asian Americans in the South), 330K. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 330K
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324G Policing Latinidad 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Policing Latinidad), 324G, Mexican American Studies 364E, 374 (Topic: Policing Latinidad), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Policing Latinidad), 340 (Topic 95). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 364E, WGS 340.95
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324I Chicana Feminisms 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Chicana Feminisms), 324I, Mexican American Studies 337C, 374 (Topic: Chicana Feminisms), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Chicana Feminisms), 340 (Topic 87). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 337C, WGS 340.87
Pre/Corequisites: Upper division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324J Austin Jews in the Civil Rights Era 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: UT Jews in Civil Rights Era), 324J, Anthropology 325L (Topic: UT Jews in Civil Rights Era), 325U, Jewish Studies 364 (Topic: UT Jews in Civil Rights Era), 364 (Topic 14). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 325U, J S 364.14
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324L Mapping Indigenous Austin 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the histories and presence of indigenous Austin. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 324L, Anthropology 324L (Topic: Mapping Indigenous Austin), 324W. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 324W
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 324P Twentieth-Century United States Lesbian and Gay History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines classic texts and recent and varied writings on LGBT history, focused on experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped modern LGBT identities. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 324P, 370 (Topic 49), History 365G (Topic 10), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 18). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 365G.10, WGS 335.18
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325C Popular Music in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Traces the history of popular music in the United States and its influence on American politics, economics, and culture from the 1880s to present day. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Popular Music in the US), 325C, History 365G (Topic: Popular Music in the US), 365G (Topic 2). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 365G.2
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325E Music and Religious Identities in the US 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine religious music in Christianity and Judaism in relation to communities in religious context of Europe and the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325 (Topic: Music and Religious Identities in the US), 325E, Music 346R, 376G (Topic: US Music/Religious Identity), Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Music and Religious Identities in the US), 346M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MUS 346R, R S 346M
Core Curriculum: 050
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325F Painting in America to 1860 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Painting in British colonial North America and the United States prior to the Civil War. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325 (Topic 2), 325F, Art History 339N, 374 (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARH 339N
Core Curriculum: 050
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325G Painting in the United States, 1860-1913 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Painting in the United States from the Civil War to the Armory Show. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325 (Topic 3), 325G, Art History 339P, 374 (Topic 2). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARH 339P
Core Curriculum: 050
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325I The Arts of Hip Hop 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330G, 330I, 374D (Topic: Art, Theft, and Hip-Hop), American Studies 325 (Topic: Art, Theft, and Hip-Hop), 325D, 325I, Comparative Literature 323 (Topic: Art, Theft, and Hip-Hop), 323 (Topic 53), 323 (Topic 69). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 330I, C L 323.69
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325M Russia Through American Eyes 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine a wide array of American attitudes towards Russia and Russians. Using a variety of political, social, and cultural events and encounters, analyze the ways in which nationalism, imperialism, and geopolitics informed American narratives about Russia and Russians, assessments that range from enthusiasm and curiosity to condemnation and outright hostility. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325M, Comparative Literature 323 (Topic 71), History 326D, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 325 (Topic: Russia Thru American Eyes), 325 (Topic 45). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: C L 323.71, HIS 326D, REE 325.45
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 325P Thomas Paine, Liberalism, and the Enlightenment 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze the purpose and philosophy of Thomas Paine's writings in their relation to the political thought and politics of his time. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325P, Core Texts and Ideas 325P, Government 334C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: CTI 325P, GOV 334C
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 326C Crime and Capitalism in African American Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the intersection of crime and capitalism in black literature, motion pictures and music of late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360R, 370 (Topic: Crime/Capitlsm Afr Am Cultr), American Studies 326C, English 344Q. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360R, E 344Q
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327C Native American Religions 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examination of religious developments in Native American communities from the precolonial period through the present day. Focus on the changing forms of ritual practice and the relationship between religion and community life. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic: Native American Religion), 327C, Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Native American Religion), 346D. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346D
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327D United States Catholic History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how Catholicism and national identity work for Catholics in the United States, with an emphasis on Catholic women and Latino/as. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic 4), 327D, History 365G (Topic 1), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic 37), Religious Studies 346 (Topic 5), 346F.
Same as: HIS 365G.1, MAS 374.37, R S 346F
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327E Evangelical Christianity 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An introduction to the intellectual and social sources of evangelical Protestant traditions in the United States, their varieties of belief and practice, and their role in the wider Christian community and American society. American Studies 327E and Religious Studies 346J may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346J
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327F Religion in the American South 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the social construction and cultural meaning of southern religion using fictional characterizations, philosophical reflections, historical accounts, and theoretical comparisons. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic 6), 327F, Religious Studies 375S (Topic: Religion in the American South), 375S (Topic 6). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 375S.6
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and at least six semester hours of coursework in religious studies.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327G Religion in the American West 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic: Religion in the American West), 327 (Topic 8), 327G, Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Religion in the American West), 346G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327I Religion and Social Justice in United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic: Religion/Social Justice US), 327I, Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Religion/Social Justice US), 346R. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346R
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327J Debating the Bible in the Twenty-First Century 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the ways in which individuals, primarily in the United States, have regarded the Bible as relevant or irrelevant to contemporary life. Discuss contemporary controversial issues in which the Bible has played a role and how these relate to earlier controversies, such as the position of the Bible on slavery. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 327 (Topic: Debating the Bible in 21st Century), 327J, Core Texts and Ideas 355T, 375 (Topic: Debating the Bible in 21st Century), Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Debating the Bible in 21st Century), 346 (Topic 11), 346S. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: CTI 355T, R S 346S
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; introductory courses in the Hebrew Bible and/or New Testament recommended.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 327K Science, Magic, and Religion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Historical and cross-cultural overview of the constructed concepts of magic, science, and religion through comparative examinations of cultural contexts from the Islamic world, western Europe, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Mozambique. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 372G (Topic: Science/Magic/Religion), 351S, American Studies 327 (Topic: Science, Magic, Religion), 327K, Anthropology 324L (Topic: Science, Magic, & Religion), 324C, Religious Studies 373 (Topic: Science, Magic, & Religion), 373 (Topic 6), 373L. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351S, ANT 324C, R S 373L
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 328C Latinx Austin 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the city of Austin, the city's importance for Latino communities, and the importance of Latinos for the city. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 328C, Mexican American Studies 354, Sociology 354L, Urban Studies 320F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 354, SOC 354L, URB 320F
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 328E Land in America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how the history of land helps explain the society we live in today and ideas about the human-nature relationship. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 328E, Geography 328J, History 356C, Mexican American Studies 364S, 374 (Topic: Land in America). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GRG 328J, HIS 356C, MAS 364S
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 329 Environmental History of North America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The history of humanity's influence on the plants, animals, microlife, soils, water, and air of North America, and vice versa, from the arrival of the proto-Indians to the contemporary environmental crisis. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 329, History 350R (Topic 7), Urban Studies 328E, 353 (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.7, URB 328E
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S Topics in American Studies 1-9 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of American Studies. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
AMS 330 Modernism in American Design and Architecture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A historical survey of artifacts, buildings, and urban environments, focusing on responses to machine-age civilization. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 330, Art History 339Q, Urban Studies 352 (Topic 5), 320M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARH 339Q, URB 320M
Core Curriculum: 050
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 330C Race, Law, and United States Society 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the intersection of racial ideology and legal culture in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360, American Studies 330C, 370 (Topic 5), History 365G (Topic 13). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360, HIS 365G.13
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 331C Jewish Stereotypes in American Literature and Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine stereotypes that have come to define Jewishness in American culture by focusing both on the antisemitic tropes perpetuated by non-Jewish representations of 'the Jew' in literary classics and on the archetypes employed as coping mechanisms in cultural representations created by Jews themselves. Analyze how stereotypes become enmeshed in cultural consciousness and investigate ways in which representations of ethnic, religious, and racial minorities are governed by these kinds of one-dimensional archetypes. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 331C, English 323D (Topic: Jewish Stereotypes Lit/Cul), 323J, Jewish Studies 363 (Topic 31). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: E 323J, J S 363.31
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 331D Native American Women's History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigate the histories of Native American women to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, women, Chican@/xs, Greater Mexico, and the United States. Contemplate how many understandings that center colonization, settler colonialism, genocide, race, and environmentalism are essential to examining Native American women's history. Explore the stories, struggles, and ideas of community-building, sovereignty, and liberation as integral to their genders and sexualities as Native American, Indian, First Nations, indigenous, and red and brown women. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 331D, 370 (Topic 75), History 365G (Topic: Native Amer Women's History), 365G (Topic 20), Mexican American Studies 320G, 374 (Topic: Native Amer Women's History), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 98), 340N. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 365G.20, MAS 320G, WGS 340N
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 331E Black Cops in African American Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the history of black policing in America and representations of black police officers in popular literature and film of late Twentieth Century America. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 331E, 370 (Topic: Black Cops Afr Am Pop Cultr), American Studies 331E, English 342C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 331E, E 342C
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 333 Blackness in the Contemporary Art Museum 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore issues related to the acquisition, stewardship, and repatriation of the art of the African Diaspora in the face of an increasingly virtual and market-driven art world. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335Q, 370 (Topic: Blackness in Cont Art Museum), American Studies 333, Art History 374 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 335Q, ARH 374.4
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 334 Drugs in African American Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the legal, political, and philosophical intersection of blackness, whiteness, and drugs in the late twentieth century through film, music, and literature. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 331D, 370 (Topic: Drugs in Afr Am Lit/Culture), American Studies 334, English 345D. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 331D, E 345D
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 334C Hegel and His Heirs: Philosophy That Remade the West 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how Hegel's philosophy contributed to the founding of the modern social sciences and led to innovations in the study of religion, psychology, education, social organizations, and social reform. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 334C, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 341U, Government 351T, Philosophy 334G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GOV 351T, GSD 341U, PHL 334G
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 335 Queering Black Religions 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the ways Africana religion practitioners disrupt and reframe dominant western discourses of gender and sexuality. Examine concepts of temporality, spirit manifestation, subjectivity, corporeality, and Africana religious epistemologies. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352O, American Studies 335, Religious Studies 335D, Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 25). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352O, R S 335D, WGS 335.25
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 336C Coastal Communities in Early America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336C, 370 (Topic 62), History 350R (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.1
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 336D Women in Postwar America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336D, 370 (Topic 30), History 350R (Topic 8), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 37), 345W. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.8, WGS 345W
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 336E The History of Islam in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A brief introduction to Islam. Defines the role of Islam and views of Muslims in the early history of the United States, and introduces students to major issues concerning contemporary American Muslims. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336E, 370 (Topic 61), History 350R (Topic 22), Islamic Studies 372 (Topic 21), Religious Studies 346U. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.22, R S 346U
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 336F Arts and Artifacts in the Americas 3 Hours
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Surveys the changing material culture of the western hemisphere from pre-Columbian times to the beginning of the industrial revolution. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336F, 370 (Topic 59), History 350R (Topic 27). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 350R.27
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 336G The Civil Rights Movement from a Comparative Perspective 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focuses on African American and Mexican American struggles for civil rights. Asian American and Native American movements will also be addressed. Using a comparative approach the student will consider the distinctiveness of each of these struggles while also viewing them in relation to each other. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350U, American Studies 336G, 370 (Topic 60), History 350R (Topic 35), Mexican American Studies 364C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350U, HIS 350R.35, MAS 364C
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 337J Latinx Sexualities 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine Latinx sexualities from a historical perspective to comprehend the social, cultural, political, and economic factors, which have shaped these experiences. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 325C, American Studies 337J, Mexican American Studies 337J, Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 27), 335J. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 325C, MAS 337J, WGS 335J
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 339M American Art, 1958-1985 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of major movements from 1958 to 1985, from pop art to graffiti art and new expressionism. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 325 (Topic: American Art 1958-1985), 339M, Art History 339M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARH 339M
Core Curriculum: 050
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 341C Americans in Paris 3 Hours
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Examine major social and political trends, events, and debates that have informed the works of artists living and working both at the margins of Parisian society as well as in its most celebrated salons. Interpret texts as artifacts that reflect the historical, social, and cultural circumstances of the environment that inspired their creation and reflect upon their role in the cultural symbiosis between America and France. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 341C, European Studies 347 (Topic: Americans in Paris), 347 (Topic 54), French Civilization 341 (Topic: Americans in Paris), 341P. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 347.54, F C 341P
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 344F Black Slavery in the Atlantic 3 Hours
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Examine the history of slavery in the Atlantic from 1450 to 1865. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351V, American Studies 344F, French Civilization 341 (Topic: Black Slavery in Atlantic), 344, History 364S. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351V, F C 344, HIS 364S
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 345C Eastern Europe on American TV 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focus on ways Eastern Europe is depicted on American television screen. Use anthropological framework to study multiple types of television shows, including reality tv, network dramas, and miniseries. Analyze ethnic, racial, national, and gender representation and what these constructions tell us about the ways that Eastern Europe is imagined. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 345C, Anthropology 345E, European Studies 348 (Topic 22), Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic 14). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 345E, EUS 348.22, REE 345.14
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 345F Latinx Legend Tripping 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore narrative folklore from diverse traditions across the United States based Latinx diaspora. Focus on supernatural legends and the creation of the female "monster". Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic:Latinx Legend Tripping), 345F, English 323D (Topic: Latinx Legend Tripping), 342L, 370W (Topic: Latinx Legend Tripping), Mexican American Studies 345F, 374 (Topic: Latinx Legend Tripping), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Latinx Legend Tripping), 340 (Topic 96). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: E 342L, MAS 345F, WGS 340.96
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 346O Religion and Food 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the material relationships between religion and food, by comparing the ritual functions of food in religious traditions and the collective constructions of religious identities in traditional foodways. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic: Religion and Food), 346O, Religious Studies 346O, 373 (Topic: Religion and Food). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 346O
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 347R Race and Migration: The Mediterranean 3 Hours
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Examine the history of migration within and from the Mediterranean area. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360P, American Studies 347R, History 374C, Italian Civilization 347R. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360P, HIS 374C, ITC 347R
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 352R Rhetoric of Ethnic Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study the histories of ethnic (and gender) studies in both higher education and K-12 institutions, and the rhetoric of attacks on, and defenses of, ethnic and gender studies through an examination of primary and secondary source materials. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352R, American Studies 352R, Mexican American Studies 364V, 374 (Topic Rhetoric of Ethnic Studies), Women's and Gender Studies 352R. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352R, MAS 364V, WGS 352R
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 355 Main Currents of American Culture to 1865 3 Hours
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Traces the development of American culture and society from the colonial era until the end of the Civil War. Major themes include racial conflict, religion, slavery, the development of democracy, and cultural reform. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 355N
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 356 Main Currents of American Culture since 1865 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Traces the development of American culture and society from the end of the Civil War to the present. Major themes include racial conflict, pluralism, religion, urban development and reform, modernism, government centralization, cultural radicalism, and the rebirth of conservatism. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 356K
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 358 The United States, 1920-1941 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A history of political, economic, diplomatic, military, social, and cultural developments in the United States between the two world wars. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 355M
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 360D German-American Immigration and Ethnicity 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore German immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. Examine the motivations for migration; settlement patterns; construction of identity through traditions and festivals; German American's economic, social, and cultural contributions to the United States; and challenges to assimilation. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 360D, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: German-Amer Immigratn/Ethn), 362E, History 357Q. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GSD 362E, HIS 357Q
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 362N Memory and Place After the Holocaust 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the literature of Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors and their artistic successors. Engage novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, and even song lyrics with questions of memory and of place. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 362N, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 362N, Jewish Studies 363 (Topic 35), Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 325 (Topic 39). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GSD 362N, J S 363.35, REE 325.39
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 362P Transatlantic Memory Cultures 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore and compare German and American memory cultures, analyzing the Holocaust, slavery, and colonialism. Analyze the diversity and complexity of (inter)national, local, and indigenous memory cultures while also discussing how Germany and the United States might "learn from each other. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 362P, European Studies 346 (Topic 52), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 360 (Topic: Transatlantic Memory Culs), 362P, History 337E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 346.52, GSD 362P, HIS 337E
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 365G Black Women and Mass Incarceration 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the history of Black women and mass incarceration in America. Explore how race, class, and gender have historically influenced the production of crime and unfair criminal justice policies. Investigate why mass incarceration matters, what its historical legacy is, and how it impacts Black women today. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360Q, American Studies 365G, History 365G (Topic: Black Womn/Mass Incarceration), 365G (Topic 25), Women's and Gender Studies 340S (Topic 2). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360Q, HIS 365G.25, WGS 340S.2
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 366G Slavery and Its Legacies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how slavery has evolved in the United States since the end of the Civil War. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351Q, American Studies 366G, History 365G (Topic: Slavery and Its Legacies), 365G (Topic 26), Women's and Gender Studies 340S (Topic 3). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351Q, HIS 365G.26, WGS 340S.3
Core Curriculum: 060
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370 Topics in Seminar in American Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Interdisciplinary seminar on themes in American life. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; additional prerequisites may vary with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: American Cultural History of Alcohol and Drugs. Study of the American use and perception of drugs, including alcohol, and how they have changed over time. Examines significant shifts in American attitudes toward individualism and social control. American Studies 370 (Topic 1) and History 350R (Topic 5) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 2: The Artist in American Society. Partially fulfills legislative requirement for American history. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 3: Autobiography: You and Others. American Studies 370 (Topic 3) and English 379C (Topic 1: Autobiography: You and Others) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including English 316K or the equivalent, and consent of instructor.
Topic 4: Feminism and Modernism. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 5: Race, Law, and United States Society. Examines the intersection of racial ideology and legal culture in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360, American Studies 330C, 370 (Topic 5), History 365G (Topic 13). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 6: Gender-Based Discrimination. Studies the substance of laws that relate to gender-based roles, and the participation of women in the legal process. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing, six semester hours of lower-division coursework in government, a University grade point average of at least 3.50, and consent of department received prior to registering.
Topic 7: How to Write about American Culture. Additional prerequisite: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including English 316K or the equivalent.
Topic 8: Identity in America. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 9: Journalist as Novelist. American Studies 370 (Topic 9) and English 379M (Topic 1: Journalist as Novelist) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing, Rhetoric and Writing 306 and English 316K or their equivalents, and three additional semester hours of lower-division coursework in either English or rhetoric and writing.
Topic 10: Leadership in America. Introduction to the concepts of leadership and the application of those concepts in public and political leadership. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing, six semester hours of lower-division coursework in government, a University grade point average of at least 3.50, and consent of department received prior to registering.
Topic 11: Painting as History.
Topic 12: American Landscape Art. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 13: The Culture of Cities. Examines the social, geographical, and cultural evolution of the United States from a rural and small-town society to an urban and suburban nation. Subjects may include the segregation of public and private space; the formation of urban subcultures organized by gender, work, race, religion, and sexuality; social and spatial divisions between rich and poor and native-born and immigrant; and the increasing importance of cultural capital" in reshaping urban politics and in conflicts over revitalization and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 13), Geography 356T (Topic 1), Urban Studies 320T, 354 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: GRG 356T.1, URB 320T Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 14: The Geography of Tourism.
Topic 15: Constructing the American Landscape.
Topic 16: America, France, and the Problem of Race. How France and the United States address the contradictions between freedom and slavery, as well as each country's contributions to the development of ideologies of race. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 17: Postmodern America. Postmodernity considered as a means of understanding major cultural transformations since 1945 in areas such as architecture, art, criticism, film, journalism, literature, music, philosophy, photography, and political thought. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 18: The Beats and American Culture, 1945 to 1990. Examines writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs during the immediate post-World War II era. Considers their historical origins, their representations of society and culture, and their influence from the 1960s through the 1980s on writers and artists in a variety of fields. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 19: The Cold War and American Childhood. Uses childhood as a focus for studying the cultural and political climate of the post-World War II era. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 20: Children's Literature and American Culture. Examines changes in American childhood using children's literature that covers several different time periods. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 21: Society, Culture, and Politics in the 1960s. Various social and cultural movements of the 1960s, including civil rights, the New Left, black power and other ethnic nationalisms, the peace movement, the black arts movement, guerrilla theater, psychedelic arts and the counterculture, women's liberation, gay liberation, the environmental movement, and the conservative movement. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 22: Deviance in America: An Alternative History. Examines movements and individuals outside the conventional mainstream and how they reflect American ideals and dilemmas. American Studies 370 (Topic 22) and History 350R (Topic 6) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 23: Memory and Place. Explores how cultural memory is produced in its various forms, from memorials, public art, and commodities to popular culture, rituals, and museums, and how public remembering is inevitably anchored in specific geographic places. Same as: GRG 356T.2 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 24: Comparative Cultures of Beauty. Examines fashion and beauty as discourses and cultural practices affecting identity, body politics, race, gender, sexuality, and class. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 25: Immigrants, Amusements, and Consumer Culture. Studies the growth of consumer capitalism as it coincides with the migration and integration of immigrants into American society. Examines the emergence of consumer culture as a force that defines modern American society and traces its developments and current manifestations throughout the world.
Topic 26: American Food. Studies diverse American food cultures from a humanities perspective, exploring connections between global, national, and local communities. Uses scholarship in the field of food studies as well as cookbooks, novels, poetry, photographs, songs, documentaries, and oral histories to investigate the past and present of American food communities. Same as: WGS 345.41 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 27: Nature and Gender in America. Study of the connections between nature and gender in American national narratives. Explores how Americans of differing classes, races, genders, sexual orientations, and ages have shaped and experienced changing ideas of America, wilderness, domestication, and society over time and in different regions of the country. Same as: WGS 345.42 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 28: Animals and American Culture. Explores the role of animals in American history, culture, and society. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 28), History 350R (Topic 9), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 43), 346C. Same as: WGS 346C Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 29: Women Radicals and Reformers. Traces traditions of women's radical activism and reform beginning with the Enlightenment and the American Revolution and continuing to the present, with concentration on the twentieth century. Same as: WGS 345.44 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 30: Women in Postwar America. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336D, 370 (Topic 30), History 350R (Topic 8), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 37), 345W. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 31: Black Americans and the South. Traces the post-Reconstruction conversation among black Americans over how to live in the South and make sense of its history of widespread racial violence, lynching, de jure segregation, civil rights struggles, and their legacies. Sources include authors such as Jean Toomer, Tayari Jones, and Natasha Trethewey, and fiction, speeches, newspaper accounts, photographs, paintings, poetry, and popular music, including jazz, blues, rock, rhythm and blues, and hip hop and rap. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351F, 374D (Topic 6), American Studies 370 (Topic 31). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 32: Slavery across Genres. Uses nonfictional and fictional narrative accounts of slavery in the United States to examine the political, social, cultural, economic, and psychological aspects of the institution of slavery at different historical moments. Sources may include authors such as Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edward P. Jones; graphic novels; conceptual art; court records; and bills of sale. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351O, 372E (Topic 2), American Studies 370 (Topic 32). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 351O Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Topic 33: Atlantic Slavery: History and Memory. Charts a history of Atlantic slavery by focusing on primary sources detailing crucial events and contexts such as the Zong Massacre, the Haitian Revolution, and Dred Scott vs. Sandford, among others. Considers how historians, memoirists, fiction writers, visual and performance artists and filmmakers have come to terms with that history and its implications. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351P, 374E (Topic 3), American Studies 370 (Topic 33). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 351P Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 34: American Disasters. Examines natural and human-made disasters as key turning points in American history. Engages with the politics of disasters, analyzing environmental contexts, grassroots activism, legislative policies, and approaches toward commemoration. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 35: American Popular Culture, 1682-Present. Explores the evolution of American popular culture and its relationship to national consolidation, and at times, disunion, over the last 330 years. Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 36: Exiles, Expatriates, and Political Pilgrims. Explores the ways in which foreign experiences formed and re-formed individuals' perspectives on the United States, the nature of their social critiques of the U.S., and Americans' experiences of other nations. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 37: The Politics of Creativity. Interdisciplinary investigation of artists in American society and of the intersection of art and politics. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 38: Property in American Culture. Explores American conceptions of property over a wide range of economic transformations from the mercantile to the digital age, with special attention to the ambiguous and tension-filled meanings of property for women, African Americans, and Native Americans. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350W, 372C (Topic 3), American Studies 370 (Topic 38). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Topic 39: Radical Latinos. Examines the social positioning and history of Latinas/os in the United States. Analyzes the histories of Latinas/os who have gone against mainstream expectations, or who have challenged or critiqued the status quo in provocative and unexpected ways. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic Radical Latinos), 370 (Topic 39), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Radical Latinos), 374 (Topic 32). Same as: MAS 374.32 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 40: Southern Cultures. Investigation of multiple, fluid, and diverse southern cultures through topics such as NASCAR, biscuits and cornbread, mega-churches, beauty pageants, jazz, country music, southern hip hop, migrant farm cultures, matzo ball soup with collards, the Trail of Tears, Gullah, Tara, Graceland, and more. Includes discussion of stereotypes and the individual truths about women, men, and southern in the context of this discussion. Same as: WGS 345.27 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 41: Vienna: Memory and the City. Examines the ways in which cultural memory has shaped, and continues to shape, urban life in Vienna, Austria. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 41), European Studies 346 (Topic 5), 346C, History 362C, Urban Studies 322C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: EUS 346C, HIS 362C, URB 322C Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 42: Black Political Thought. Exploration of black social and political thinkers, writers, and reformers, and how their works influence the legacies of slavery, empire, and patriarchy within the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351N, 372C (Topic 14), American Studies 370 (Topic 42). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 351N Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 43: Literature of Black Politics. Examines the novels, plays, and critical essays of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison as works of democratic political theorizing and political engagement. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330R, 374F (Topic 21), American Studies 370 (Topic 43). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 330R Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 44: The Tragicomedy of American Democracy. Examines the foundational ideas and practices essential to the unfolding of American democracy by focusing on founding documents, public speeches, major political conflicts, and canonical texts of political philosophy. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351D, 372F (Topic 15), American Studies 370 (Topic 44), Core Texts and Ideas 326 (Topic 2), 326T. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 45: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History. Provides an in-depth understanding of the social, economic, and spatial transformations of the United States/Mexico borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 370 (Topic 45), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 374 (Topic 38), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 340 (Topic 45). Same as: MAS 374.38, WGS 340.45 Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 46: Latina/o Pop. Examines how Latinas/os have been a major force in the production of popular culture. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Latina/o Pop), 370 (Topic 46), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Latina/o Pop), 374 (Topic 39).
Topic 47: Language, Culture, and the Texas German Experience. The evolution of the culture and language of German immigrants to Texas from the 1840s through the present and how they have influenced other ethnic groups in Texas. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 47), Anthropology 324L (Topic 55), 351G, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 351C, Linguistics 351D. Three lectures a week for one semester. Same as: ANT 351G, GSD 351C, LIN 351D Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 48: Race and Citizenship in United States History. Uses primary and secondary sources to analyze how race and citizenship have functioned for populations of color in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Race and Citizenship in United States History), 370 (Topic 48), History 350R (Topic: Race and Citizenship in United States History), 350R (Topic 25), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Race and Citizenship in United States History), 374 (Topic 35). Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 49: Twentieth-Century United States Lesbian and Gay History. Examines classic texts and recent and varied writings on LGBT history, focused on experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped modern LGBT identities. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: United States Lesbian and Gay History, Twentieth Century), 370 (Topic 49), History 365G (Topic: United States Lesbian and Gay History, Twentieth Century), 365G (Topic 10), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 18), 340 (Topic: United States Lesbian and Gay History, Twentieth Century). Core Curriculum: 060
Topic 50: Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century United States. Examines the ways that Americans have created and maintained hierarchies of power by casting certain people and sexual behaviors as unnatural and immoral since the turn of the twentieth century. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century US), 370 (Topic 50), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century US), 335 (Topic 4). Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 51: Queer Study in Low Culture. Examines representations of sexual and gender non-conformity in popular culture since the mid-twentieth century in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Queer Study in Low Culture), 370 (Topic 51), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Queer Study in Low Culture), 335 (Topic 7). Same as: WGS 335.7 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 52: Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice. Charts the historical development of various struggles for sexual and reproductive justice in the United States since the nineteenth century. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice), 370 (Topic 52), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice), 335 (Topic 9). Same as: WGS 335.9 Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 53: Key Works in American Popular Music. Examines individual songs as a means to understand larger trends in U.S. cultural history (including various Civil Rights movements, de-industrialization and economic dislocation, cultural polarization, anti-war movements and the backlash, etc.) with an emphasis on rock, pop, punk, rap, disco, and country music in the U.S. since 1945. Explores popular song through the lens of cultural studies, sociology, and history. American Studies 370 (Topic: Key Works in American Popular Music) and 370 (Topic 53) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 54: Rethinking the 1950s: Rebels and Rejects. Examines how the context of the Cold War influenced American culture and politics, particularly with regard to race, gender, and sexuality. Focuses on the first two decades after the end of World War II. American Studies 370 (Topic: Rethinking 1950s: Rebels & Rejects) and 370 (Topic 54) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 55: Urban Slavery in the Americas. Examines urban slavery in the Americas. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350P, 374E (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), American Studies 370 (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), 370 (Topic 55), History 347N, 350L (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), Latin American Studies 366 (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), 366 (Topic 36). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 350P, HIS 347N, LAS 366.36 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 56: Puerto Rico In Crisis. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350K, 374E (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), American Studies 370 (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), 370 (Topic 56), History 347J, 363K (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), Mexican American Studies 364P, 374 (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 350K, HIS 347J, MAS 364P Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 57: Politics of Black Life. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350D, 372F (Topic: Politics of Black Life), American Studies 370 (Topic: Politics of Black Life), 370 (Topic 57). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 350D Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 58: History of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351E, 374D (Topic 2), American Studies 370 (Topic: Hist of Black Entrepren in US), 370 (Topic 58), History 350R (Topic 12). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 59: Arts and Artifacts in the Americas. Surveys the changing material culture of the western hemisphere from pre-Columbian times to the beginning of the industrial revolution. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336F, 370 (Topic 59), History 350R (Topic 27). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 60: The Civil Rights Movement from a Comparative Perspective. Focuses on African American and Mexican American struggles for civil rights. Asian American and Native American movements will also be addressed. Using a comparative approach the student will consider the distinctiveness of each of these struggles while also viewing them in relation to each other. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350U, American Studies 336G, 370 (Topic 60), History 350R (Topic 35), Mexican American Studies 364C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 61: The History of Islam in the United States. A brief introduction to Islam. Defines the role of Islam and views of Muslims in the early history of the United States, and introduces students to major issues concerning contemporary American Muslims. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336E, 370 (Topic 61), History 350R (Topic 22), Islamic Studies 372 (Topic 21), Religious Studies 346U. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 62: Coastal Communities in Early America. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 336C, 370 (Topic 62), History 350R (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in history.
Topic 63: Wealth and Poverty in the United States. Analyze the categories of "wealth" and "poverty." Investigate both how wealth has historically been created, and also how wealth and poverty have been depicted in American history. American Studies 370 (Topic: Wealth and Poverty in US) and 370 (Topic 63) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 64: Global Cities in the United States. Engage with the history of the global city at various levels, using text from disciplines including history, geography, anthropology, and sociology, as well as primary sources, images, readings, and films. Define the global city in the past and present and explore questions of race, class, gender, the politics of space, the culture of empire, and the changing shape of U.S. capitalism. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Global Cities in the U.S.), 370 (Topic 64), Urban Studies 324G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: URB 324G Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 65: Energy and United States Capitalism. Explore the intersecting histories of capitalism and energy in the U.S. in the twentieth century. Examine scholarly secondary literature as well as primary documents, literature, film, and photographs. American Studies 370 (Topic: Energy and US Capitalism) and 370 (Topic 65) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 66: Art and Data in the Digital Age. Investigate what shapes data and bodies take in digital environments. Ask how computing cultures and networks have been shaped by data and bodies. American Studies 370 (Topic: Art/Data in the Digital Age) and 370 (Topic 66) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 67: Tejana Cultural Studies. Investigate the history of Tejanas to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native Americans, women, Chican@/Chicanxs, Greater Mexico, and the United States. Explore how transborderism and transregionalism complicate this history. Contemplate how Tejanas' stories are fundamental to illuminating the struggles, resistance, and liberation of Chicanas, mestizas, and afromexicanas from precontact to decolonization. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), 370 (Topic 67), Mexican American Studies 337I, 374 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), 340 (Topic 97). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: MAS 337I, WGS 340.97 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 68: United States Masculinities. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: US Masculinities), 370 (Topic 68), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: US Masculinities), 335 (Topic 24). Same as: WGS 335.24 Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 69: Preserving Austin's Queer History. Explore Austin's queer history since World War II and write on the practice of oral history and LGBTQ oral history in particular. Build the foundation for an ongoing Austin LGBTQ Oral History Project to be housed at the Briscoe Center for American History. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Preserving ATX Queer Hist), 370 (Topic 69), History 350R (Topic 43), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 21), 335P. Same as: WGS 335P Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 70: Theorizing the Human. Trace the continuities and transformations in constructions of populations as more or less human, from settler-colonial conquest to the post-Trump era. Examine what logics mark racialized populations as disposable during the colonization of the Americas, and which systematically condition racialized subjects to a state of enduring siege. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: On the Human), 370 (Topic 70), Asian American Studies 320K, Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 77). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AAS 320K, WGS 340.77 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 71: Latinidades: Art and Performance. Contextualize and analyze diverse forms of Latina/o/x artistic expression, including visual art, music, dance, theatre, and film, or Latinidades". Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Latinidades: Art/Perfrmance), 370 (Topic 71), Mexican American Studies 323E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: MAS 323E Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 72: Technologies of United States Empire. Investigate the various technologies that the United States has used to maintain imperial geographies at "home" and abroad. Focus on imperial entanglements of global capital, liberalism, and technological systems. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352N, American Studies 370 (Topic: Technologies of US Empire), 370 (Topic 72), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 85). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 352N, WGS 340.85 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 73: Religion and Animals. Explore how religious practitioners have imagined and interacted with animals, as well as how contemporary sustainability projects draw on and depart from these historic practices. Focused on North America, explore animals as featured in written and oral sacred stories, as well as engagement with animals in food production, land occupation, and ritual. American Studies 370 (Topic 73) and Religious Studies 375S (Topic 10) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: At least six semester hours of coursework in religious studies.
Topic 74: Latina and Latino Spirituality. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), 370 (Topic 74), Mexican American Studies 340S, 374 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: MAS 340S Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 75: Native American Women's History. Investigate the histories of Native American women to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, women, Chican@/xs, Greater Mexico, and the United States. Contemplate how many understandings that center colonization, settler colonialism, genocide, race, and environmentalism are essential to examining Native American women's history. Explore the stories, struggles, and ideas of community-building, sovereignty, and liberation as integral to their genders and sexualities as Native American, Indian, First Nations, indigenous, and red and brown women. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 331D, 370 (Topic 75), History 365G (Topic: Native Amer Women's History), 365G (Topic 20), Mexican American Studies 320G, 374 (Topic: Native Amer Women's History), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 98), 340N. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Core Curriculum: 060 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 76: Black Horror and Psychoanalysis. Explore the intersection of race, horror aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 331F, 370 (Topic: Black Horror/Psychoanalysis), American Studies 370 (Topic 76), English 342P. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 331F, E 342P Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 77: Photographs and Blackness in the United States. Examine issues raised at the intersection of Blackness and photography in contemporary art of the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335T, 370 (Photographs/Blackness in US), (Topic 1), American Studies 370 (Topic 77), Art History 344M, 374 (Photographs/Blackness in US), (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 335T, ARH 344M Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 78: The Black Figure in American Art and Popular Culture. Examine how popular culture and artistic practices facilitate or challenge social constructions of "Blackness" in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335L, 370 (Topic 2), (Topic: Black Figure in Pop Culture), American Studies 370 (Topic 78), Women's and Gender Studies 335L. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 335L, WGS 335L Core Curriculum: 010
Topic 79: Urban Imaginaries. Use science fiction literature, film, and other cultural artifacts as a platform to launch an examination into the central concept of urban imaginaries. Discuss the politics (and potential) of urban representation as well as understand how urban imaginaries influence everyday urban life and the ongoing production of urban space and place. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Urban Imaginaries), 370 (Topic 79), Geography 320U, Urban Studies 321M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: GRG 320U, URB 321M Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Topic 80: Displacement and Resistance. Explore technologies of displacement, as well as tactics, digital media work, mapping projects, and activism that communities engage with to resist dispossession. Examine, locally and globally, the displacement and resistance effects of various events including infrastructure projects and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360N, American Studies 370 (Topic: Tech Of Displcmnt/Resistnce), 370 (Topic 80), Anthropology 326T, Women's and Gender Studies 345Q. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 360N, ANT 326T, WGS 345Q Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
AMS 370.13 The Culture of Cities 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the social, geographical, and cultural evolution of the United States from a rural and small-town society to an urban and suburban nation. Subjects may include the segregation of public and private space; the formation of urban subcultures organized by gender, work, race, religion, and sexuality; social and spatial divisions between rich and poor and native-born and immigrant; and the increasing importance of cultural capital" in reshaping urban politics and in conflicts over revitalization and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 13), Geography 356T (Topic 1), Urban Studies 320T, 354 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GRG 356T.1, URB 320T
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.17 Postmodern America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Postmodernity considered as a means of understanding major cultural transformations since 1945 in areas such as architecture, art, criticism, film, journalism, literature, music, philosophy, photography, and political thought.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.18 The Beats and American Culture, 1945 to 1990 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs during the immediate post-World War II era. Considers their historical origins, their representations of society and culture, and their influence from the 1960s through the 1980s on writers and artists in a variety of fields.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.19 The Cold War and American Childhood 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Uses childhood as a focus for studying the cultural and political climate of the post-World War II era.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.20 Children's Literature and American Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines changes in American childhood using children's literature that covers several different time periods.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.21 Society, Culture, and Politics in the 1960s 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Various social and cultural movements of the 1960s, including civil rights, the New Left, black power and other ethnic nationalisms, the peace movement, the black arts movement, guerrilla theater, psychedelic arts and the counterculture, women's liberation, gay liberation, the environmental movement, and the conservative movement.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.23 Memory and Place 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores how cultural memory is produced in its various forms, from memorials, public art, and commodities to popular culture, rituals, and museums, and how public remembering is inevitably anchored in specific geographic places.
Same as: GRG 356T.2
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.26 American Food 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Studies diverse American food cultures from a humanities perspective, exploring connections between global, national, and local communities. Uses scholarship in the field of food studies as well as cookbooks, novels, poetry, photographs, songs, documentaries, and oral histories to investigate the past and present of American food communities.
Same as: WGS 345.41
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.27 Nature and Gender in America 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study of the connections between nature and gender in American national narratives. Explores how Americans of differing classes, races, genders, sexual orientations, and ages have shaped and experienced changing ideas of America, wilderness, domestication, and society over time and in different regions of the country.
Same as: WGS 345.42
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.28 Animals and American Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the role of animals in American history, culture, and society. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 28), History 350R (Topic 9), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 43), 346C.
Same as: WGS 346C
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.29 Women Radicals and Reformers 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Traces traditions of women's radical activism and reform beginning with the Enlightenment and the American Revolution and continuing to the present, with concentration on the twentieth century.
Same as: WGS 345.44
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.32 Slavery across Genres 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Uses nonfictional and fictional narrative accounts of slavery in the United States to examine the political, social, cultural, economic, and psychological aspects of the institution of slavery at different historical moments. Sources may include authors such as Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edward P. Jones; graphic novels; conceptual art; court records; and bills of sale. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351O, 372E (Topic 2), American Studies 370 (Topic 32). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351O
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.33 Atlantic Slavery: History and Memory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Charts a history of Atlantic slavery by focusing on primary sources detailing crucial events and contexts such as the Zong Massacre, the Haitian Revolution, and Dred Scott vs. Sandford, among others. Considers how historians, memoirists, fiction writers, visual and performance artists and filmmakers have come to terms with that history and its implications. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351P, 374E (Topic 3), American Studies 370 (Topic 33). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351P
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.34 American Disasters 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines natural and human-made disasters as key turning points in American history. Engages with the politics of disasters, analyzing environmental contexts, grassroots activism, legislative policies, and approaches toward commemoration.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.36 Exiles, Expatriates, and Political Pilgrims 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the ways in which foreign experiences formed and re-formed individuals' perspectives on the United States, the nature of their social critiques of the U.S., and Americans' experiences of other nations.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.37 The Politics of Creativity 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Interdisciplinary investigation of artists in American society and of the intersection of art and politics.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.39 Radical Latinos 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the social positioning and history of Latinas/os in the United States. Analyzes the histories of Latinas/os who have gone against mainstream expectations, or who have challenged or critiqued the status quo in provocative and unexpected ways. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic Radical Latinos), 370 (Topic 39), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Radical Latinos), 374 (Topic 32).
Same as: MAS 374.32
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.40 Southern Cultures 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigation of multiple, fluid, and diverse southern cultures through topics such as NASCAR, biscuits and cornbread, mega-churches, beauty pageants, jazz, country music, southern hip hop, migrant farm cultures, matzo ball soup with collards, the Trail of Tears, Gullah, Tara, Graceland, and more. Includes discussion of stereotypes and the individual truths about women, men, and southern in the context of this discussion.
Same as: WGS 345.27
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.41 Vienna: Memory and the City 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the ways in which cultural memory has shaped, and continues to shape, urban life in Vienna, Austria. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 41), European Studies 346 (Topic 5), 346C, History 362C, Urban Studies 322C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: EUS 346C, HIS 362C, URB 322C
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.42 Black Political Thought 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of black social and political thinkers, writers, and reformers, and how their works influence the legacies of slavery, empire, and patriarchy within the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351N, 372C (Topic 14), American Studies 370 (Topic 42). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351N
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.43 Literature of Black Politics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the novels, plays, and critical essays of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison as works of democratic political theorizing and political engagement. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330R, 374F (Topic 21), American Studies 370 (Topic 43). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 330R
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.45 Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Provides an in-depth understanding of the social, economic, and spatial transformations of the United States/Mexico borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 370 (Topic 45), Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 374 (Topic 38), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History), 340 (Topic 45).
Same as: MAS 374.38, WGS 340.45
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.47 Language, Culture, and the Texas German Experience 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The evolution of the culture and language of German immigrants to Texas from the 1840s through the present and how they have influenced other ethnic groups in Texas. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 47), Anthropology 324L (Topic 55), 351G, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 351C, Linguistics 351D. Three lectures a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 351G, GSD 351C, LIN 351D
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.50 Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the ways that Americans have created and maintained hierarchies of power by casting certain people and sexual behaviors as unnatural and immoral since the turn of the twentieth century. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century US), 370 (Topic 50), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century US), 335 (Topic 4).
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.51 Queer Study in Low Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines representations of sexual and gender non-conformity in popular culture since the mid-twentieth century in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Queer Study in Low Culture), 370 (Topic 51), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Queer Study in Low Culture), 335 (Topic 7).
Same as: WGS 335.7
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.52 Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Charts the historical development of various struggles for sexual and reproductive justice in the United States since the nineteenth century. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice), 370 (Topic 52), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice), 335 (Topic 9).
Same as: WGS 335.9
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.53 Key Works in American Popular Music 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines individual songs as a means to understand larger trends in U.S. cultural history (including various Civil Rights movements, de-industrialization and economic dislocation, cultural polarization, anti-war movements and the backlash, etc.) with an emphasis on rock, pop, punk, rap, disco, and country music in the U.S. since 1945. Explores popular song through the lens of cultural studies, sociology, and history. American Studies 370 (Topic: Key Works in American Popular Music) and 370 (Topic 53) may not both be counted.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.54 Rethinking the 1950s: Rebels and Rejects 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines how the context of the Cold War influenced American culture and politics, particularly with regard to race, gender, and sexuality. Focuses on the first two decades after the end of World War II. American Studies 370 (Topic: Rethinking 1950s: Rebels & Rejects) and 370 (Topic 54) may not both be counted.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.55 Urban Slavery in the Americas 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines urban slavery in the Americas. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350P, 374E (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), American Studies 370 (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), 370 (Topic 55), History 347N, 350L (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), Latin American Studies 366 (Topic: Urban Slavery in the Americas), 366 (Topic 36). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350P, HIS 347N, LAS 366.36
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.56 Puerto Rico In Crisis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350K, 374E (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), American Studies 370 (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), 370 (Topic 56), History 347J, 363K (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis), Mexican American Studies 364P, 374 (Topic: Puerto Rico In Crisis). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350K, HIS 347J, MAS 364P
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.57 Politics of Black Life 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 350D, 372F (Topic: Politics of Black Life), American Studies 370 (Topic: Politics of Black Life), 370 (Topic 57). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 350D
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.63 Wealth and Poverty in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze the categories of "wealth" and "poverty." Investigate both how wealth has historically been created, and also how wealth and poverty have been depicted in American history. American Studies 370 (Topic: Wealth and Poverty in US) and 370 (Topic 63) may not both be counted.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.64 Global Cities in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Engage with the history of the global city at various levels, using text from disciplines including history, geography, anthropology, and sociology, as well as primary sources, images, readings, and films. Define the global city in the past and present and explore questions of race, class, gender, the politics of space, the culture of empire, and the changing shape of U.S. capitalism. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Global Cities in the U.S.), 370 (Topic 64), Urban Studies 324G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 324G
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.65 Energy and United States Capitalism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the intersecting histories of capitalism and energy in the U.S. in the twentieth century. Examine scholarly secondary literature as well as primary documents, literature, film, and photographs. American Studies 370 (Topic: Energy and US Capitalism) and 370 (Topic 65) may not both be counted.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.66 Art and Data in the Digital Age 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigate what shapes data and bodies take in digital environments. Ask how computing cultures and networks have been shaped by data and bodies. American Studies 370 (Topic: Art/Data in the Digital Age) and 370 (Topic 66) may not both be counted.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.67 Tejana Cultural Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigate the history of Tejanas to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native Americans, women, Chican@/Chicanxs, Greater Mexico, and the United States. Explore how transborderism and transregionalism complicate this history. Contemplate how Tejanas' stories are fundamental to illuminating the struggles, resistance, and liberation of Chicanas, mestizas, and afromexicanas from precontact to decolonization. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), 370 (Topic 67), Mexican American Studies 337I, 374 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Tejana Cultural Studies), 340 (Topic 97). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 337I, WGS 340.97
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.68 United States Masculinities 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: US Masculinities), 370 (Topic 68), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: US Masculinities), 335 (Topic 24).
Same as: WGS 335.24
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.69 Preserving Austin's Queer History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore Austin's queer history since World War II and write on the practice of oral history and LGBTQ oral history in particular. Build the foundation for an ongoing Austin LGBTQ Oral History Project to be housed at the Briscoe Center for American History. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Preserving ATX Queer Hist), 370 (Topic 69), History 350R (Topic 43), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 21), 335P.
Same as: WGS 335P
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.70 Theorizing the Human 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Trace the continuities and transformations in constructions of populations as more or less human, from settler-colonial conquest to the post-Trump era. Examine what logics mark racialized populations as disposable during the colonization of the Americas, and which systematically condition racialized subjects to a state of enduring siege. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: On the Human), 370 (Topic 70), Asian American Studies 320K, Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 77). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 320K, WGS 340.77
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.71 Latinidades: Art and Performance 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Contextualize and analyze diverse forms of Latina/o/x artistic expression, including visual art, music, dance, theatre, and film, or Latinidades". Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Latinidades: Art/Perfrmance), 370 (Topic 71), Mexican American Studies 323E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 323E
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.72 Technologies of United States Empire 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigate the various technologies that the United States has used to maintain imperial geographies at "home" and abroad. Focus on imperial entanglements of global capital, liberalism, and technological systems. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352N, American Studies 370 (Topic: Technologies of US Empire), 370 (Topic 72), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 85). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352N, WGS 340.85
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.74 Latina and Latino Spirituality 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), 370 (Topic 74), Mexican American Studies 340S, 374 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), Religious Studies 346 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic: Latina/o Spirituality). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: MAS 340S
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.76 Black Horror and Psychoanalysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the intersection of race, horror aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 331F, 370 (Topic: Black Horror/Psychoanalysis), American Studies 370 (Topic 76), English 342P. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 331F, E 342P
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.77 Photographs and Blackness in the United States 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine issues raised at the intersection of Blackness and photography in contemporary art of the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335T, 370 (Photographs/Blackness in US), (Topic 1), American Studies 370 (Topic 77), Art History 344M, 374 (Photographs/Blackness in US), (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 335T, ARH 344M
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.78 The Black Figure in American Art and Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how popular culture and artistic practices facilitate or challenge social constructions of "Blackness" in the United States. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 335L, 370 (Topic 2), (Topic: Black Figure in Pop Culture), American Studies 370 (Topic 78), Women's and Gender Studies 335L. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 335L, WGS 335L
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.79 Urban Imaginaries 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Use science fiction literature, film, and other cultural artifacts as a platform to launch an examination into the central concept of urban imaginaries. Discuss the politics (and potential) of urban representation as well as understand how urban imaginaries influence everyday urban life and the ongoing production of urban space and place. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Urban Imaginaries), 370 (Topic 79), Geography 320U, Urban Studies 321M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GRG 320U, URB 321M
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 370.80 Displacement and Resistance 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore technologies of displacement, as well as tactics, digital media work, mapping projects, and activism that communities engage with to resist dispossession. Examine, locally and globally, the displacement and resistance effects of various events including infrastructure projects and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 360N, American Studies 370 (Topic: Tech Of Displcmnt/Resistnce), 370 (Topic 80), Anthropology 326T, Women's and Gender Studies 345Q. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 360N, ANT 326T, WGS 345Q
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 371C Food in the Racialized City 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore a variety of issues related to producing, accessing, and consuming food in city spaces in the context of racial inequities. Investigate and question constructs such as "food" and "city" as means of exploring different points of view and approaches to studying not only food and cities but also various approaches to food justice. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352P, 370 (Topic: Food in the Racialized City), American Studies 371C, Geography 321F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352P, GRG 321F
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 371D Black Geographies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the relationship between Blackness and the production of space and place. Examine the tensions and possibilities that emerge when Black people are rendered un-geographic as a fundamental component of racial capitalism while they are simultaneously creating spaces of freedom under constant threats to Black life. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352Q, 370 (Topic: Black Geographies), American Studies 371D, Anthropology 323O, Geography 328F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352Q, ANT 323O, GRG 328F
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 372 Conference Course 3 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Supervised individual study of selected subjects in American studies. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and consent of instructor.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 373I Race, Gender, Sex, and Religion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Use an intersectional feminist framework to examine the construction and maintenance of normative categories of race, gender, sex, and sexuality within United States religious discourse. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352M, American Studies 373I, Religious Studies 361 (Topic: Race, Gender, Sex, Religion), 373I, Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 28). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352M, R S 373I, WGS 335.28
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 374C Contemporary Latinx Visual and Performance Art 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore contemporary visual and performance art by Latinx artists working since the 1970's to the present. Examine artists who began to engage with and in civil rights discourse to intervene through their art-making practices; and to align with contemporary trends in the art world that began to expand in the 1970's, such as performance art, installation art, video art, and, later, digital art. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 374C, Art History 341D, 361 (Topic: Latinx Visual/Performance Art), Mexican American Studies 323D, 374 (Topic: Latinx Visual/Performance Art), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARH 341D, MAS 323D, WGS 340.1
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 679H Honors Tutorial Course 6 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Individual readings and conferences in connection with an original research paper. Conference course for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 679HA, upper-division standing and admission to the American Studies Honors Program; for 679HB, American Studies 679HA.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
AMS 385 Cultural History of the United States to 1865 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An interdisciplinary cultural history survey of the United States. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 386 Cultural History of the United States since 1865 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An interdisciplinary cultural history survey of the United States. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 390 Topics in Research Seminar in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Research on selected topics in American studies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Feminism and Social Science.
Topic 2: Feminism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
AMS 391 Topics in Reading or Research Seminar in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Reading or research seminar on topics relevant to American studies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Internal and External Third-World Communication Issues.
AMS 392 Conference Course in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Individual directed readings and conferences on selected problems or topics in American studies. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 393 Introductory Readings in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Seminar designed to acquaint the graduate student with the nature and extent of materials for interdisciplinary research on American culture. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 394 Sources and Methods in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Seminar designed to acquaint the graduate student with key sources and methodologies for interdisciplinary research on American culture. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 196, 396 Internship in American Studies 1,3 Hours
1,3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Practical working involvement with participating nonprofit and research agencies. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester; hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
Restrictions: Restricted to American studies majors.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 698 Thesis 6 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 698A, graduate standing in American studies and consent of the graduate adviser; for 698B, American Studies 698A.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
AMS 398R Master's Report 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in American studies and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
AMS 398T Supervised Teaching in American Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Seminar in the methods of interdisciplinary teaching and professional work in American studies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in American studies and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
AMS 399W, 699W, 999W Dissertation 3,6,9 Hours
3,6,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral