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 125SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media
• AMST 126SC - 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 St: Directed Readings
• AMST 199IRPO - American St: Independent Research
• AMST 199RAPO - American St: Research Assistantship

Anthropology

• ANTH 055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture
• ANTH 129 PO - Native California

Art History

• ARHI 133 PO - Conquest, Colonialism, and the Visual Arts of Latin America
• ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
• ARHI 139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American
• 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 186F PO - Seminar: Topics in North American Art: Art and Nationalism in 19th Century
• ARHI 186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law
• ARHI 186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation
• ARHI 135 PO - Art and Nationalism in 19th-Century North America

Africana Studies

• AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change

Asian American Studies

• ASAM 160 AA - Asian American Women’s Experiences

Chicano Studies

• CHST 067 CH - Contemp 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
• ECON 119 PO - U.S. Economic History

English

• ENGL 051 PO - Modern American Fiction
• ENGL 053 PO - 20th-Century American Women Writers
• ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature
• ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II
• ENGL 100 PO - Literature and Cultures of U.S. Imperialism
• ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature
• ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers
• ENGL 110 PO - Women and the Rise of the Novel
• ENGL 111 PO - American Masculinities: Novel 19-20C
• ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture 1865-1917
• ENGL 115 PO - Eating the Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies
• ENGL 125D AF - Lit and Film of African Diaspora
• ENGL 130 AF - Topics 20th C Afr Diaspora Lit
• 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

Environmental Analysis/Studies

• 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 - Transnational Feminist Theory

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 & Law in American Sport
• GOVT 176 CM - American Constitutional History
• GOVT 181 CM - Crime & 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 - US Since the Civil War
• HIST 025 CH - All Power to the People
• HIST 070A SC - United States History to 1865
• HIST 070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History
• 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 110R PO - History of the U.S. Right
• 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 HM - 20th-Century U.S. History
• HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America
• HIST 128 PO - U.S. & the World: 1890-Present
• HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World
• HIST 143D CM - American Revolutions: 1760-1830s
• HIST 149 CM - America in Depression and War
• HIST 153 CM - American Religious History
• HIST 167 PZ - Women and Work in the U.S.
• HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals & Politics of Race
• HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement Modern Era
• HIST 177 SC - Fords, Flappers and Fundamentalists
• HIST 179A HM - Technology and American Society
• HIST 179B HM - Spec Topic:Darwin, Marx & Freud
• 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 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 131 PO - American Presidency
• POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation
• POLI 136 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 084 CH - Psychology of the Chicano/a
• PSYC 109 SC - Psychology of Work and Family
• 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 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
• RLST 174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency

Sociology

• SOC 051 PO - Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 093 PZ - From the 60’s to the Obama Era
• SOC 114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism
• SOC 116 PO - American Families
• SOC 126 AA - Immigration and the Second Generation
• SOC 142 PO - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 150 CH - Chicanos/Latinos and Education

Theatre

• THEA 001C PO - Basic Acting: Chicano Theatre and Performance
• THEA 113 PO - Contemporary Western Theatre: From the Absurd to the Present