2019-20 Pomona College Catalog

Dec 04, 2024

2019-20 Pomona College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Use the dropdown above to select the current 2024-25 catalog.

American Studies Courses

The following courses are a sample of the range of courses offered in American studies at Pomona and the other Claremont Colleges. This is not an exhaustive list; students should consult their advisors or the American studies coordinator for current course offerings.

American Studies Courses

AFRI144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change
AMST103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures
AMST110 SC - Migrant Memoir
AMST120 HM - Hyphenated Americans
AMST128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference
AMST180 SC - American Studies Seminar
AMST190 PO - Senior Thesis Seminar
AMST191 PO - Senior Thesis
AMST199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings
AMST199IRPO - American Studies: Independent Research
AMST199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship
ANTH080 PZ - Anthropology of the United States
ANTH127 SC - Settler Colonialism
ANTH185P SC - Topics in Anthropology
ARHI130 PO - Modern Latin American and Chicanx/Latinx Art
ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
ARHI138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research
ARHI186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation
ASAM077B PZ - Tattoos: Aesthetics, Culture, Pasts
ASAM105 PZ - Zines, Creativity, Community
ASAM120 PZ - Sex Work in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and U.S.: Race, Gender, Nation
ASAM130 PZ - Science, Technology, Asian America
ASAM135 PZ - Race, Empire, Filipinx America
CHST015 CH - Introduction to Chicanx Latinx Studies
CHST077 CH - Chicana - Latina Gender and Popular Culture
EA098 PZ - Urban Ecology
ENGL056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature
ENGL115 PO - On Form: Sonnets and Epigrams
ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
ENGL143S SC - Antebellum Literature and Pop Culture
GEOG179B HM - Place, Power, and Difference
GEOG179C HM - Geographies Disease and Health Justice
GEOG179D HM - Critical Geographies of Community
GOVT110 CM - American Culture Wars
GWS140 PO - Queer of Color Critique: Literature and Theory
GWS170 PO - Disability Studies: Foundations, Intersections, & Future
GWS172 PO - Race, Gender, & The Environment
HIST020 PO - The United States from the Colonial Era to the Gilded Age
HIST021 PO - Dynamics of Power in the US
HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in U.S. to 1877
HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in U.S. since 1877
HIST130 CH - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees (CP)
HIST101L PO - US Labor and Working-Class History
HIST113 CM - United States Environmental History
HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World History
HIST119 CM - Women and Politcs in America
HIST120 CM - Native American History
HIST128 CM - U.S. Gay and Lesbian History
HIST129 PO - Hollywood, War, & Empire: The Historical Film
HIST141 SC - Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing
HIST144 CM - Reagan’s America: the 1980’s
HIST166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
HIST173 AF - Black Intellectuals and Politics of Race
HIST174 SC - The American 1960’s
HIST176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era
HIST177 SC - Fords, Flappers and Fundamentalists
HIST182 CM - Human Health/Disease in United States History
HIST190 CM - Race and American Cities
LIT091 CM - American Poetry
LIT179X HM - Zora Neale Hurston
MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz
MUS068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music
MUS118 SC - Music in the United States
MUS121 SC - Music of the Spirits
MUS123 SC - Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender
MUS130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic
ONT101 PZ - Critical Community Studies
ONT105 PZ - Research Methods for Community Change
POLI124 SC - Race in American Politics
POLI126 SC - Black Americans & Political Systems
POLI142 SC - Marxism and Post-Marxism
POLI187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball
PSYC125 AF - Culture & Human Development: The African Diaspora
RLST105 HM - Religion American Culture
RLST113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
RLST114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
RLST138 CM - American Religious History
SOC075 PZ - American Settler Colonialism