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 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 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.