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 course catalogue and Scripps Portal for current course offerings. In selecting courses in the major, students are strongly urged to take courses emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach.

A list of current semester course offerings can be found on the Scripps Portal.

• AMST 103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures
• AMST 125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media
• AMST 126 SC - Race in US Urban/Suburban History
• AMST 130 SC - Multiracial People and Relations in US History
• AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar
• AMST 190 SC - Senior Thesis Seminar
• AMST 191 SC - Senior Thesis
• ANTH 074 PZ - The City
• ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art
• ARHI 181 PZ - Modern into Contemporary: Art from 1945-1989
• ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History
• ASAM 160 AA - Asian American Women’s Experience
• ENGL 115 PO - Eating and Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies
• ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels
• ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction
• ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality
• ENGL 189A SC - American Film: John Ford, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock
• ENGL 189B SC - American Film: Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Fritz Lang
• HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877
• HIST 072 SC - History of Women in the United States
• HIST 122 CM - American Schools
• HIST 152 PZ - Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941
• HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory
• HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S
• HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race
• HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present
• HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era
• HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists
• 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
• POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics
• POLI 127 SC - Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the U.S
• POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights
• POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law
• POLI 187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball