Courses in American Studies

Course Descriptions

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.

• AMST 103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures
• AMST 110 SC - Migrant Memoir
• AMST 120 HM - Hyphenated Americans
• AMST 128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference
• AMST 130 SC - Cold War Taiwanese/America
• 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 186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation
• ASAM 105 PZ - Zines, Creativity, Community
• ASAM 125 AA - Introduction to Asian American History: 1850-Present
• ASAM 126 HM - Pacific Islander History
• ASAM 130 PZ - Science, Technology, Asian America
• ASAM 135 PZ - Race, Empire, Fillipinx America
• CHLT 072 CH - Central Americans in the U.S.
• 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 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
• ENGL 143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum United States
• ENGL 155 SC - Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• ENGL 160S SC - Postwar American Poetry
• FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action
• GEOG 105 HM - Place, Power, and Difference
• 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 - The United States from the Colonial Era to Gilded Age
• HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877
• HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877
• HIST 065 PZ - Disease and Disasters in North American History
• HIST 090 CM - Early American Capitalism
• HIST 110L PO - U.S. Labor and Working Class History
• HIST 113 CM - U.S. Environmental History
• HIST 114 CM - Race and Racism in the Colonial Americas
• HIST 116 CM - Slavery: A World History
• HIST 119 CM - Women and Politics in America
• HIST 120 CM - Native American History
• HIST 125 CM - Civil War America
• HIST 128 CM - LGBTQ History of the U.S.
• HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing
• HIST 144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980s
• HIST 150 PZ - History of New Orleans
• HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST 158 HM - Zora Neale Hurston: Theories of Race, Gender, and Art
• HIST 166 SC - Self and Society: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
• HIST 173 AF - Black International Politics in the United States: Race, Nation, and Empire
• HIST 174 SC - The U.S. in the 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 - Human Health and Disease in American History
• HIST 190 CM - Race and American Cities
• LIT 091 CM - American Poetry: Tradition and Experiment
• LIT 158 HM - Zora Heale Hurston: Theories of Race, Gender, and Art
• MUS 068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music
• MUS 118 SC - Music in the United States
• MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Hawaiian, Balinese and Tewa Pueblo Indian
• 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 JT - Race, Nation, and Baseball
• RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture (3)
• RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
• RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse