Courses in American Studies

Courses in American Studies

The following courses are a sample of the range offered in American Studies at Scripps and the other Claremont Colleges. This is not an exhaustive list; a student should consult the Scripps Catalog and the Portal for current semester course offerings. In selecting courses in the major, students are strongly urged to take courses emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach.

• AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminisms and Social Change
• AMST 103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures
• AMST 110 SC - Migrant Memoir
• AMST 128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference
• AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar
• AMST 190 SC - Senior Thesis Seminar
• AMST 191 SC - Senior Thesis
• AMST 199 SC - Independent Study in American Studies: Reading and Research
• ANTH 080 PZ - Anthropology of the United States
• ANTH 127 SC - Settler Colonialism
• ANTH 185P SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa: Palestine in Ethnography and Film
• ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
• ARHI 138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research
• ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art
• ARHI 186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation
• ASAM 077B PZ - Tattoos: Aesthetics, Cultures, and Pasts in the United States
• ASAM 105 PZ - Zines, Creativity, Community
• ASAM 120 PZ - Sex Work in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and U.S.: Race, Gender, Nation
• ASAM 130 PZ - Science, Technology, Asian America
• ASAM 135 PZ - Race, Empire, Fillipina/o America
• CHST 015 CH - Introduction to Chicanx-Latinx Studies
• CHST 077 CH - Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture
• EA 098 PZ - Urban Environments
• ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature
• ENGL 115 PO - Eating and Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies
• ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
• ENGL 143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum United States
• FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action
• GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars
• GWS 140 PO - Queer of Color Critique: Literature and Theory
• GWS 170 PO - Disability Studies: Foundations, Intersections, and Future
• GWS 172 PO - Race, Gender, and the Environment
• HIST 017 CH - Introduction to Chicanx-Latinx History
• HIST 020 PO - US Colonial Era to Gilded Age
• HIST 021 PO - Power in the U.S.
• HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877
• HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877
• HIST 100N CH - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees
• HIST 110L PO - U.S. Labor and Working Class History
• HIST 113 CM - U.S. Environmental History
• HIST 116 CM - Slavery: A World History
• HIST 119 CM - Women and Politics in America
• HIST 120 CM - Native American History
• HIST 128 CM - U.S. Gay and Lesbian History
• HIST 129 PO - Hollywood, War, and Empire
• HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing
• HIST 144 CM - Reagan’s America: The 1980s
• HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S
• HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race
• HIST 174 SC - The “American” 1960s
• HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era
• HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists
• HIST 182 CM - Health and Disease in Human History
• HIST 190 CM - Race and American Cities
• LIT 091 CM - American Poetry
• MUS 068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music
• MUS 118 SC - Music in the United States
• MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Tewa Pueblo Indian, Hawaiian, and African American
• MUS 123 SC - Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
• MUS 130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic
• ONT 101 PZ - Critical Community Studies
• ONT 105 PZ - Research Methods for Community Change
• POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics
• POLI 126 SC - Black Americans and the Political System
• POLI 142 SC - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought
• POLI 187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball
• PSYC 125 AF - Culture and Human Development: African Diaspora
• RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture (3)
• RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science (3)
• RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
• RLST 138 CM - American Religious History
• SOC 075 PZ - American Settler Colonialism