American Studies Courses

American Studies

American Studies (AMST) courses satisfy Area 3 of the Breadth of Study Requirements.

• AMST 103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures
• AMST 125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media
• AMST 126 SC - Race in U.S. Urban History
• AMST 130SC - Multiracial People in U.S. History
• AMST 190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar
• AMST 191 PO - Senior Thesis
• AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar
• AMST 199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings
• AMST 199IRPO - American Studies: Independent Research
• AMST 199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship

Art History

• ARHI 133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization
• ARHI 135 PO - Picturing a Nation: Art and Nationalism in 19th-Century North America
• ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
• ARHI 139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American Art History
• ARHI 144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love
• ARHI 178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation
• ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art
• ARHI 186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law
• ARHI 186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation

Asian American Studies

• ASAM 082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching
• ASAM 102 PZ - Fieldwork: Asian Americans
• ASAM 160 AA - Asian American Women’s Experiences

Chicano Studies

• CHST 067 CH - Contemporary Chicano Art/Antecedents

Dance

• DANC 152 PO - Hip-Hop Dance
• DANC 152 PPO - Hip-Hop Dance

Economics

• ECON 116 PO - Race in the U.S. Economy

English

• ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature
• ENGL 094 PO - Pre-Contact to Civil War U.S. Literature
• ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature
• ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature
• ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers
• ENGL 125D AF - Literature and Film of African Diaspora
• ENGL 130 AF - Topics 20th Century African Diaspora Literature
• ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration
• ENGL 162 SC - Race and Ethnicity in 19th-Century American Literature
• ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels
• ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature
• ENGL 189B SC - American Film: Welles, Sturges, Lang
• ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
• ENGL 406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory

Environmental Analysis/Studies

• EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice
• EA 170 PO - U.S. Environmental History
• EA 171 PO - Water in the West

Gender & Feminist Studies

• GFS 155 CH - Chicana Feminist Epistemology

Gender & Women’s Studies

• GWS 180 PO - Queer and Feminist Theories

German Literature Translation

• GRMT 170 PO - Culture of Nature: Green Movements

Government

• GOVT 020 CM - Introduction American Politics
• GOVT 090 CM - Intro Constitutional Law: Nat Pwr
• GOVT 091 CM - Intro Constitutional Law: Civ Lib
• GOVT 101 CM - The United States Congress
• GOVT 102 CM - The American Presidency
• GOVT 105 CM - Organization Health Care/Public Policy
• GOVT 109 CM - Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy
• GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars
• GOVT 113 CM - Inequality, Politics and Public Policy
• GOVT 115 CM - Politics of Journalism
• GOVT 117 CM - California Politics
• GOVT 149 CM - Foreign Relations of the U.S.
• GOVT 151 CM - The U.S., Israel and the Arabs
• GOVT 175 CM - Politics and Law in American Sport
• GOVT 176 CM - American Constitutional History
• GOVT 181 CM - Crime and Public Policy (Seminar)
• GOVT 182 CM - Liberty of Conscience
• GOVT 185 CM - Supreme Court/Criminal Procedure
• GOVT 191 CM - Public Policy since the New Deal

History

• HIST 017 CH - Chicano/Latino History
• HIST 020 PO - The United States from the Colonial Era to the Gilded Age
• HIST 021 PO - Dynamics of Power in the US
• HIST 025 CH - All Power to the People
• HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in U.S. to 1877
• HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in U.S. since 1877
• HIST 070A SC - United States History to 1865
• HIST 070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History
• HIST 072 SC - History of Women in the U.S.
• HIST 080 CM - Early America: Invasion to the Civil War
• HIST 081 CM - Modern America: 1865 to the present
• HIST 100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories
• HIST 100K PO - History/Biography/Autobiography
• HIST 100N CH - Mexico-United States Border
• HIST 100NBCH - U.S. and Latin American Relations
• HIST 100U AF - Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions
• HIST 100W PO - The American Political Tradition
• HIST 110H PO - Research Topics in American History, 1500-1900
• HIST 110L PO - US Labor and Working-Class History
• HIST 121 PO - Early America
• HIST 121 CM - U.S. History Since 1945
• HIST 123 CM - History of the American West
• HIST 126 PO - Revolutionary America, 1750-1800
• HIST 127 CH - American Inequality
• HIST 127 HM - 20th-Century U.S. History
• HIST 128 HM - Immigration/Ethnicity in the US
• HIST 128 PO - U.S. and the World: 1890-Present
• HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America
• HIST 133 HM - Food and American Culture
• HIST 138 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties
• HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World
• HIST 143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions: 1760-1830s
• HIST 149 CM - America in Depression and War
• HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST 153 CM - American Religious History
• HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
• HIST 167 PZ - Women and Work in the U.S.
• HIST 171 AF - History of African American Women in the United States
• HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and Politics of Race
• HIST 174 SC - The American 1960’s
• HIST 175 CM - Women and Politics in America
• HIST 175 SC - War,Empire and Society in the U.S. 1898-Present
• HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement Modern Era
• HIST 177 SC - Fords, Flappers and Fundamentalists
• HIST 188B SC - Race and American Capitalism

Literature

• LIT 081 CM - Melville
• LIT 085 CM - Contemporary American Fiction
• LIT 126 CM - 20th-Century Black Poetics
• LIT 179A HM - Special Topic: Hyphenated Americans

Music

• MUS 056 PO - Words and Music: History of Black Song
• MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz
• MUS 061 PO - Musical Theatre in America
• MUS 062 PO - Survey of American Music
• MUS 068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music
• MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits
• MUS 130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

Politics

• POLI 003 PO - Introduction to American Politics
• POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy
• POLI 030 PO - The United States Congress
• POLI 033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties
• POLI 035 PO - City of Angels, City of Quartz
• POLI 036 PO - Urban Politics and Public Policy
• POLI 042 PO - Gender and Politics
• POLI 043 PO - Blacks in the American Political Process
• POLI 044 PO - Race, Class and Power
• POLI 046 PO - The Politics of Immigration and Citizenship
• POLI 091 PO - American Democracy in Theory and Practice
• POLI 114 PO - The Idea of America
• POLI 120 SC - Intro to American Politics
• POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics
• POLI 130 PO - Campaigns and Elections
• POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation
• POLI 039 PO - Politics of Environmental Justice
• POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights
• POLI 147 PO - Education Politics and Policy
• POLI 187A SC - Urban Politics: Political Power in American Cities
• POLI 187L SC - Los Angeles: Politics, History and Culture

Political Studies

• POST 107 CH - Latino Politics
• POST 108 PZ - California Politics

Psychology

• PSYC 012 AF - Introduction to African-American Psychology
• PSYC 084 CH - Psychology of the Chicano/a
• PSYC 109 SC - Psychology of Work and Family
• PSYC 150 AF - Psychology of the Black Experience
• PSYC 151 CH - The Psychology of Multicultural Education
• PSYC 153 AA - Asian American Psychology
• PSYC 157 SC - Psychology of the Black Woman in America
• PSYC 180L AA - Seminar: Asian American Psychology
• PSYC 180M CH - Chicano/Latino Cultural Psychology

Religious Studies

• RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions
• RLST 138 CM - American Religious History
• RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
• RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice: An Intergenerational Partnership on Vocations for Social Change (CP)
• RLST 174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency

Sociology

• SOC 051 PO - Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 088 PZ - Hip Hop and Incarceration
• SOC 093 PZ - From the 60’s to the Obama Era
• SOC 109 PZ - African American Social Theory
• SOC 114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism
• SOC 126 AA - Immigration and the Second Generation
• SOC 141 CH - Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.
• SOC 142 PO - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 150 CH - Chicanos/Latinos and Education (CP)
• SOC 157 PZ - Men and Women in American Society