Courses
Following is a comprehensive list of courses that may fulfill American Studies Program requirements. Please check the Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes for a listing of the courses offered this semester.
REQUIRED COURSES 20100: American Studies I An introduction to the field of American Studies through a variety of primary texts (literature, painting, music, films and photographs, orations, legal documents) and through interdisciplinary readings that focus on methodological, critical, and historical issues. 3 HR./WK., 3 CR.
20200: American Studies II The second of the two required core courses in American Studies builds upon the skills developed in American Studies I through its consideration of urban theory, urban social investigation, urban history, and urban literature. It gives special emphasis to the cultural and social history of New York City (in the context of other urban cultures) from the 18th century to the present. 3 HR./WK., 3 CR.
ELECTIVE COURSES Architecture 21200: The Built Environment of New York City Art 28000: Postwar Art in the U.S. and Europe 28900: New York as an Art Center 29200: Women and Art in New York City Anthropology 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 22800: Anthropology of Urban Areas 24800: Field Work Methods in Cultural Anthropology 24800: Field Work Methods in Cultural Anthropology 25400: American Cultural Patterns 27300: Black English: Structure and Use English 36000: Representative Writers of the United States: Early
American Literature 36100: Representative Writers of the United States: The
Nineteenth Century 36200: Representative Writers of the United States: The
Twentieth Century 36201: Twentieth Century American Poetry 36202: American Literature Since World War II 37001: African-American Literature in America:
A Historical Survey 37004: African-American Fiction History 33100: Early America: From Settlement to Great Awakening 33200: The Era of the American Revolution 33000: The New Nation: Slave and Free, 1783–1877 33400: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction: 1840–1877 33500: The Response to Industrialization to 1917 33600: The United States in the Twentieth Century 36200: Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life 36400: The History of American Labor 26500: African-American History from Emancipation
to the Present 36600: The American Women’s Movement 36700: American Urban History 36800: A Social History of American Architecture 37000: The American Legal Tradition 37100: History of American Foreign Relations 37200: Progressivism and Radicalism in 20th Century America 37500: The Mass Media in Recent American History 38000: The Writing of American History 38600: The American Health Care system Latin-American and Latino Studies 12100: Puerto-Rican Heritage: Pre- Columbian to 1898 12200: Puerto-Rican Heritage: 1898 to Present 12600: Hispanics in the United States: Migration and
Adjustment Music 24500: Jazz History I: From the Beginning to WW II 27104: Latin Popular Music 34500: Jazz History II: From WW II to the Present Political Science 20800: American Political Thought I: 1620–1865 20900: American Political Thought II: 1865–Present 21000: Urban Politics 21100: New York Politics 21200: Constitutional Law I: The Federal System 21300: Constitutional Law II: Individual Liberties 21600: Political Parties and Interest Groups 21700: Mass Media and Politics 22000: The Judiciary 22100: The Congress
22200: The Presidency 22300: United States Foreign Policy Sociology 25100: Urban Sociology 25200: Ethnic Minority Groups 22700: Ethnic Families in the United States 29000: Immigration ADVANCED COURSES In addition to the electives described above, students will take a senior
seminar (40000 level) in American Studies, offered by the English
Department or the History department. In an Independent Study (31000) with an American Studies faculty member, the student will write a substantial research paper on a topic related to the individual plan of study.
