American Studies Courses

American Studies

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

• AMST103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures
• AMST125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media
• AMST127 SC - Women and War
• AMST130 SC - Multiracial People in U.S. History
• AMST180 SC - American Studies Seminar
• AMST190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar
• AMST191 PO - Senior Thesis
• AMST199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings
• AMST199IRPO - American Studies: Independent Research
• AMST199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship

Art History

• ARHI133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization
• ARHI135 PO - Picturing a Nation: Art and Nationalism in 19th-Century North America
• ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
• ARHI139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American Art History
• ARHI144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love
• ARHI178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation
• ARHI184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art
• ARHI186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law
• ARHI186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation

Asian American Studies

• ASAM082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching
• ASAM102 PZ - Fieldwork: Asian Americans
• ASAM160 AA - Asian American Women’s Experiences

Chicano Studies

Dance

• DANC152 PO - Hip-Hop Dance
• DANC152 PPO - Hip-Hop Dance

Economics

• ECON116 PO - Race in the U.S. Economy

English

• ENGL056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature
• ENGL102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature
• ENGL102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature
• ENGL106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers
• ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
• ENGL125D AF - Literature and Film of African Diaspora
• ENGL130 AF - Topics 20th Century African Diaspora Literature
• ENGL140 PO - Literature of Incarceration
• ENGL162 SC - Race and Ethnicity in 19th-Century American Literature
• ENGL165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels
• ENGL170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature
• ENGL189B SC - American Film: Welles, Sturges, Lang
• ENGL406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory

Environmental Analysis/Studies

• EA086 PZ - Environmental Justice
• EA170 PO - U.S. Environmental History
• EA 171 PO - Water in the West

Gender & Feminist Studies

• GFS155 CH - Chicana Feminist Epistemology

Gender & Women’s Studies

• GWS180 PO - Queer and Feminist Theories

German Literature Translation

• GRMT170 PO - Culture of Nature: Green Movements

Government

• GOVT020 CM - Introduction American Politics
• GOVT090 CM - Intro Constitutional Law: Nat Pwr
• GOVT091 CM - Intro Constitutional Law: Civ Lib
• GOVT101 CM - The United States Congress
• GOVT102 CM - The American Presidency
• GOVT105 CM - Organization Health Care/Public Policy
• GOVT109 CM - Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy
• GOVT110 CM - American Culture Wars
• GOVT113 CM - Inequality, Politics and Public Policy
• GOVT115 CM - Politics of Journalism
• GOVT117 CM - California Politics
• GOVT149 CM - Foreign Relations of the U.S.
• GOVT151 CM - The U.S., Israel and the Arabs
• GOVT175 CM - Politics and Law in American Sport
• GOVT176 CM - American Constitutional History
• GOVT181 CM - Crime and Public Policy (Seminar)
• GOVT182 CM - Liberty of Conscience
• GOVT185 CM - Supreme Court/Criminal Procedure
• GOVT191 CM - Public Policy since the New Deal

History

• HIST017 CH - Chicano/Latino History
• HIST020 PO - The United States from the Colonial Era to the Gilded Age
• HIST021 PO - Dynamics of Power in the US
• HIST025 CH - All Power to the People
• HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in U.S. to 1877
• HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in U.S. since 1877
• HIST070A SC - United States History to 1865
• HIST070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History
• HIST072 SC - History of Women in the U.S.
• HIST080 CM - Early America: Invasion to the Civil War
• HIST081 CM - Modern America: 1865 to the present
• HIST100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories
• HIST100K PO - History/Biography/Autobiography
• HIST100N CH - Mexico-United States Border
• HIST100U AF - Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions
• HIST100W PO - The American Political Tradition
• HIST110H PO - Research Topics in American History, 1500-1900
• HIST110L PO - US Labor and Working-Class History
• HIST121 CM - U.S. History Since 1945
• HIST121 PO - Early America
• HIST123 CM - History of the American West
• HIST126 PO - Revolutionary America, 1750-1800
• HIST127 CH - American Inequality
• HIST127 HM - 20th-Century U.S. History
• HIST128 HM - Immigration/Ethnicity in the US
• HIST128 PO - U.S. and the World: 1890-Present
• HIST131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America
• HIST133 HM - Food and American Culture
• HIST138 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties
• HIST143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World
• HIST143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions: 1760-1830s
• HIST149 CM - America in Depression and War
• HIST153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST153 CM - American Religious History
• HIST166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
• HIST167 PZ - Women and Work in the U.S.
• HIST171 AF - History of African American Women in the United States
• HIST173 AF - Black Intellectuals and Politics of Race
• HIST174 SC - The American 1960’s
• HIST175 CM - Women and Politics in America
• HIST175 SC - War, Empire and Society in the U.S. 1898-Present
• HIST176 AF - Civil Rights Movement Modern Era
• HIST177 SC - Fords, Flappers and Fundamentalists
• HIST188B SC - Race and American Capitalism

Literature

• LIT081 CM - Melville
• LIT085 CM - Contemporary American Fiction
• LIT126 CM - 20th-Century Black Poetics
• LIT179A HM - Special Topic: Hyphenated Americans

Music

• MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz
• MUS061 PO - Musical Theatre in America
• MUS062 PO - Survey of American Music
• MUS068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music
• MUS121 SC - Music of the Spirits
• MUS130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

Politics

• POLI003 PO - Introduction to American Politics
• POLI007 PO - United States Foreign Policy
• POLI030 PO - The United States Congress
• POLI033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties
• POLI035 PO - City of Angels, City of Quartz
• POLI036 PO - Urban Politics and Public Policy
• POLI039 PO - Politics of Environmental Justice
• POLI042 PO - Gender and Politics
• POLI043 PO - Blacks in the American Political Process
• POLI044 PO - Race, Class and Power
• POLI046 PO - The Politics of Immigration and Citizenship
• POLI091 PO - American Democracy in Theory and Practice
• POLI114 PO - The Idea of America
• POLI120 SC - Intro to American Politics
• POLI124 SC - Race in American Politics
• POLI130 PO - Campaigns and Elections
• POLI135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation
• POLI143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights
• POLI147 PO - Education Politics and Policy
• POLI187A SC - Urban Politics: Political Power in American Cities
• POLI187L SC - Los Angeles: Politics, History and Culture

Political Studies

• POST107 CH - Latino Politics
• POST108 PZ - California Politics

Psychology

• PSYC012 AF - Introduction to African-American Psychology
• PSYC084 CH - Psychology of the Chicano/a
• PSYC109 SC - Psychology of Work and Family
• PSYC150 AF - Psychology of the Black Experience
• PSYC153 AA - Asian American Psychology
• PSYC157 SC - Psychology of the Black Woman in America
• PSYC180L AA - Seminar: Asian American Psychology
• PSYC180M CH - Chicano/Latino Cultural Psychology

Religious Studies

• RLST115 CM - Asian American Religions
• RLST138 CM - American Religious History
• RLST142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
• RLST155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice: An Intergenerational Partnership on Vocations for Social Change (CP)
• RLST174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency

Sociology

• SOC 051 PO - Introduction to Sociology
• SOC088 PZ - Hip Hop and Incarceration
• SOC093 PZ - From the 60’s to the Obama Era
• SOC 109 PZ - African American Social Theory
• SOC114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism
• SOC126 AA - Immigration and the Second Generation
• SOC141 CH - Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.
• SOC142 PO - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC150 CH - Chicanos/Latinos and Education (CP)
• SOC157 PZ - Men and Women in American Society

Science, Technology and Society

• STS179C HM - Where Food Comes From /Spec Topics: Sci, Tech, Society