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

AMST103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures
AMST103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures
AMST110 SC - Migrant Memoir
AMST117 PO - American Soundscapes
AMST118 PO - Digital American Studies
AMST120 HM - Hyphenated Americans
AMST128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference
AMST130 SC - Cold War Taiwanese/America
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
ANTH087 SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam
ANTH127 SC - Settler Colonialism
ANTH185 SC - Palestine through Ethnography and Film
ANTH185P SC - Topics in Anthropology
ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
ARHI186W PO - Interrogating Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation
ASAM070 PO - Surveillance: An Introduction
ASAM105 PZ - Zines, Creativity, Community
ASAM123 HM - Pacific Islander History and Culture through Life Writing
ASAM124 HM - New Directions in Pacific Islander Studies
ASAM125 AA - Introduction to Asian American History, 1850 – Present
ASAM126 HM - Introduction to Pacific Islander History
ASAM130 PZ - Science, Technology, Asian America
ASAM135 PZ - Race, Empire, Filipinx America
ASAM143 PO - Race & Policing
ASAM144 PO - Anti-Muslim Racism
ASAM142 PO - South Asian American Studies
CHLT072 CH - Central Americans in the U.S.
CHST015 CH - Introduction to Chicanx Latinx Studies
CHST077 CH - Chicana - Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture
EA098 PZ - Urban Ecology
ENGL017 PO - Introduction to Chicanx/a/o Literature
ENGL019 PO - Introduction to Asian American Literature
ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
ENGL143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum United States
ENGL155 SC - Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
ENGL160S SC - Postwar American Poetry
ENGL168S SC - Craft and Process in Contemporary American Prose
ENGL169 PO - Queer/Trans of Color Critique and Latinx Literature
ENGL170X PO - Asian American Literary and Cultural Critique
FGSS192 SC - Antiracist Feminist Queer Praxis
GEOG179A HM - Imagining Citizenship Otherwise
GWS140 PO - Queer of Color Critique: Literature and Theory
GWS162 PO - Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality in Asian/America
GWS170 PO - Disability Studies: Foundations, Intersections, & Future
GWS172 PO - Race, Gender, & The Environment
HIST020 PO - US History: Origins to Civil War
HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in U.S. to 1877
HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in U.S. since 1877
HIST090 CM - Early American Capitalism
HIST101T CH - California in the Sixties
HIST113 CM - United States Environmental History
HIST114 CM - Race/Racism in Colonial Americas
HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World History
HIST119 CM - Women and Politics in America
HIST120 CM - Native American History
HIST125 CM - Asian American Hist: 1850-Present
HIST128 CM - LGBTQ History of the U.S.
HIST141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing
HIST144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980’s
HIST153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
HIST173 AF - Black Intellectuals and Politics of Race
HIST174 SC - The U.S. in the 1960’s
HIST176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era
HIST182 CM - Human Health and Disease in United States History
HIST190 CM - Race and American Cities
LIT091 CM - American Poetry: Tradition and Experiment
MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz
MUS068 PO - American Roots Music: Listening Studying Performing
MUS118 SC - Music in the United States
MUS121 SC - Music of the Spirits
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 - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought
POLI187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball
RLST105 HM - Religions in American Culture
RLST113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
RLST114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse