Non-CAS Program courses that count for the major and Courtesy Faculty

COURTESY APPOINTMENT COURSES

FYSP 143. Bodies in Play: Athletics, Identity, and Culture in America 4 hours
4SS, CD, WRi
In this class, athletics becomes a lens for better understanding historical and contemporary debates about the meanings of race, class, gender and sexuality. While exploring the ways that physical bodies are interpreted socially and culturally, students will be challenged to engage different questions and arguments about identity, sports, and bodies, and to read and write critically about a wide range of written and visual texts related to athletics, identity formation, and culture. Enrollment Limit: 14.
Mr.. Estes

HIST 257. Westward Bound: The West in American History 3 hours
3SS, CD
This class provides an introduction to the history of the American West, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will study key historical developments and events, such as the Mexican-American War, the California gold rush, trans-Pacific migration, suburban sprawl, and the rise of Silicon Valley. At the same time, we seek to understand how images of the West-from the "frontier" to the "promised land"--have reflected and shaped broader national interests and identities. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Ms. Lee

HIST 265. American Sexualities 3 hours
3SS, CD, WR
This course will examine the creation, maintenance, and reproduction of sexual differences and identities over a broad time span in North American history, beginning with Native American sexual practices and social formations, and stretching through the "modernization" of sex. Major topics will include marriage, changing gender roles, the intersection of sexuality with race and ethnicity, commercialized sex, reproduction, same sex sexual practices, contraception, sexual violence, heterosexism, danger, desire, and pleasure. Enrollment Limit: 40.
Mr. Mitchell

HIST 307. Democratic Engagement in the United States 3 hours
3SS
A consideration of the theory and practice of democracy in the American context. Students will pursue substantial research projects. Topics include the changing nature of citizenship, the decline of political participation, and the nature of political activism. Enrollment Limit: 14.
Mr. Hirsch


HIST 327. Borderlands 3 hours
3SS, CD, WRi
The American Southwest, roughly the US-Mexico border area from Texas to California, is a political, economic, and cultural crossroads. We will investigate interactions between Native Americans and Spanish colonists beginning in the 16th century, emerging U.S. economic and political control during the 19th century, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, land dispossession, the Mexican Revolution, immigration, civil rights, and twentieth century demography. We also discuss borderlands as a literary and symbolic concept. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Mr. Mitchell

POLT 203. The First Amendment 3 hours
3SS
This course will consider some of the historical, theoretical, and doctrinal issues surrounding the First Amendment to the American constitution (freedom of expression and freedom of, and from, religion). Topics include obscenity and sexual speech, libel, hate speech, school prayer and other forms of religious expression. A previous course in constitutional law is helpful but is not required. Class participation is essential and is a component of each student's grade.
Mr. Hirsch


POLT 206. The Politics of Sexual Minority Communities 3 hours
3SS, CD
This course examines the history and politics of LGBT communities in the United States during the twentieth century. No background in the subject is required, though a general knowledge of American history and politics during this period is helpful. Topics include the relative freedom of urban LGBT communities before and during World War II, the repression of the 1950's, the Stonewall Rebellion and its aftermath, the politics of AIDS, and the place of LGBT issues in the African-American community. Class participation is essential and is a component of each student's grade. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Hirsch

POLT 233. American Political Thought 4hours
4SS
A critical analysis of the main currents of American political theory from the Puritans to the present, with particular emphasis on the Founding period. Traditional American political concepts are examined and re-evaluated in the light of late twentieth century conditions. Some attention is given to the development of an American science of politics and to problems of national and group identity. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Mr. Hirsch

POLT 271. Gender, Sexuality and the Law 3 hours
3SS
This course will consider some of the historical, theoretical, and doctrinal issues surrounding sexuality and gender in American law. A previous course in constitutional law is helpful but not required. Topics include sexual privacy, military exclusions, and the construction of manhood, gender, and sexuality in the workplace and in education, sexual consent, and various topics in family law. Class participation is essential and is a component of each student's grade. Enrollment Limit: 25.

Mr. Hirsch

Comparative American Studies Courses in Various Disciplines:
CROSS-REFERENCED COURSES

Students majoring or minoring in Comparative American Studies may count certain courses in other departments and programs toward their program requirements.  The following list of cross-referenced courses are either current as of October 2009 or are previously cross-referenced courses but still count toward program requirements.  The list will be updated as relevant courses appear in the curriculum.  Students may apply to the Program Director to count courses not currently on the list.

FYSP 110 Black Women and Liberation
FYSP 115 The Literature of Atlantic Slavery
FYSP 118 Through the Looking Glass: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Social Class in Contemporary America
FYSP 125 American Mixed Blood
FYSP 127 Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
FYSP 134 Crossing Borders: Mysteries of Identity
FYSP 136 Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing
FYSP 138 Class
FYSP 143 Athletics, Identity, and Culture in America
FYSP 144 Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
FYSP 145 Water in American History
FYSP 146 HIV/AIDS in America
FYSP 163 She Works Hard for the Money: Women, Work, and the Persistence of Inequality
FYSP 166 America's Concentration Campus
FYSP 185 The Blues Detective: Riffing on a Literary Formula
FYSP 191 Social Justice in the United States
FYSP 193 Destination: L.A.

AAST 072 Blues Aesthetic (also ARTS 072)
AAST 101 Intro to the Black Experience
AAST 118 Ritual and Performance I: The World According to the Yoruba and Their Descendants in the New World
AAST 181 Education in the Black Community
AAST 196 African American Dance History
AAST 201 African American History to 1865
AAST 202 African American History Since 1865
AAST 208 Slavery and Freedom in the Western Hemisphere
AAST 219 Freedom Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
AAST 220 Doin' Time: A History of Black Incarceration
AAST 226 Slave Revolts in Atlantic World
AAST 228 Katrina and the Black Freedom Struggle in Louisiana
AAST 245 The Harlem Renaissance
AAST 247 Black Popular Literature
AAST 248 Resistance and Voice: Black Women Writers
AAST 261 "Framing Blackness": African Americans and Film in the United States
AAST 264 African American Drama
AAST 268 Black Arts Workshop
AAST 285 African American Women's History
AAST 321 Black Feminist Thought
AAST 343 Langston Hughes and the Black Aesthetic
AAST 346 Contemporary African American Literature: 1960-Present
AAST 361 Framing Blackness: African Americans and Cinema in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
AAST 368 Black Arts Workshop II: African Diasporan Culture in Performance from Blues to Hip Hop

ANTH 232 Native Americans: Contemporary Issues
ANTH 278 Human Rights, Universalism and Cultural Relativism
ANTH 286 Culture, Symbol, and Meaning
ANTH 288 Immigrant America: Then and Now
ANTH 413 From Comanches to Aztecs: Cultural Transformations in Native North America

CRWR 227 Asian Pacific American Writing

EAST 362 The Korean War

ECON 219 Labor-Management Relations
ECON 223 Education and Welfare
ECON 242 Panics, Crashes & Wars: Financial Evolution in US Economic History
ECON 320 Labor Economics
ECON 321 Poverty and Affluence

ENGL 142 Highlights in the Black Novel
ENGL 225 Literary History of Sexuality
ENGL 238 Contemporary American Fiction
ENGL 257 American Literature at the Turn into the 20th Century
ENGL 260 Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments
ENGL 261 Constructing the Subject: African American Women and the Auto-text
ENGL 262 Boundaries of Yellow: Navigating Terrains in Contemporary Asian American Literature
ENGL 264 Coming to America
ENGL 267 The Literature of "Supplement": Representation & Identity in Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 272 American Cinema ENGL 330 Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology
ENGL 353 American Literature 1825-65: "To Write Like An American"
ENGL 355 The Word and the World: American Women Writers, 1830-1930 and Contemporary Feminist Cultural Criticism
ENGL 356 New Orleans, New England, & the Consolidation of Postbellum U.S. Regionalism
ENGL 357 Transatlantic Currents: 19th Century American and British Literature
ENGL 359 "Race-ing" Studies in Classic American Literature
ENGL 360 Unstable Subjects: The Idea of Ethnic American Experimental Literature
ENGL 363 Gaines, Morrison, Wideman: Textualizing Orality and Literacy
ENGL 364 Memory, History, Race: Representing Violent Sites/Sights of Contemporary Ethnic America ENGL 365 American Drama
ENGL 366 Nature and Transcendentalism
ENGL 373 American Literature, Movies, and Culture in the 1930s: Art and Social Value
ENGL 379 Gender Formation in Asian American Literature
ENGL 380 (Dis)Locations of Race

ENVS 201 Nature,Culture, and Interpretation
ENVS 302 American Agricultures
ENVS 304 Seminar in Environmental Justice Literature
ENVS 311 Seminar in Environmental Justice 

GSFS 205 Queer Beginnings:  1990
GSFS 241/EAS 241 Living with the Bomb
GSFS 330 Global Feminisms
GSFS 408 The Politics of Sentiment: Family, Class, and Gender

HISP 312 Latino and Latin American Folklore
HISP 438 Don Quijote in Contemporary Hollywood
HIST 103 American History to 1877
HIST 104 American History, 1877 to the Present: Major Problems of Interpretation
HIST 226 World War II and the Making of the 20th Century
HIST 243 Race Gender, and American Social Movements
HIST 244 The United States in the Second World War
HIST 246 American Orientalism
HIST 251 U.S. Foreign Policy
HIST 252 American Environmental History
HIST 253 The Shaping of Contemporary America
HIST 257 Westward Bound: The West in American History
HIST 258 Industrial Revolution in America
HIST 259 Revolutionary America and the Early Republic
HIST 260 Asian American History
HIST 261 Race and Radicalism in the 1960s
HIST 263 American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 265 American Sexualities
HIST 266 Women and Social Movements in the United States
HIST 267 Nineteenth Century American Women: Cultures, Politics and Identities
HIST 268 Oberlin History as American History
HIST 270 Latina/Latino Survey
HIST 272 Becoming "American": Natives, Slaves, and Colonists in British North America
HIST 282 The Invention of Asia
HIST 291 Latin America in the US Imagination
HIST 294 The United States and Latin America
HIST 322 Women and Power in 19th Century America
HIST 323 Liberty and Power, Democracy and Slavery in Jacksonian America
HIST 324 Slavery, Antislavery and Emancipation in American History
HIST 325 Native American History, ca. 1450-1900
HIST 327 Borderlands HIST 328 American Mixed Blood
HIST 329 Perfecting the World: Abolition and Radical Movements in the United States before the Civil War
HIST 330 Unbearable Whiteness: The Social Construction of a Racial Category
HIST 331 Asian American Cultural History
HIST 331 Race and Sexuality in United States History
HIST 332 The Radical Challenge
HIST 332 Historical Memory in the United States
HIST 333 The Cold War HIST 337 American Democracy
HIST 338 U.S. Urban Environmental History
HIST 339 Motion Picture Censorship
HIST 342 Race, Gender, and American Social Movements
HIST 343 Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970's

JWST 309 Seminar: Modern Jewish Identity

POLT 202 American Constitutional Law
POLT 203 The First Amendment
POLT 206 The Politics of Sexual Minority Communities
POLT 209 Public Policy in America
POLT 213 The Political Economy of Gender in Advanced Capitalism
POLT 215 The Political Economy of Labor
POLT 216 The Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism
POLT 219 Work, Workers and Trade Unions in Advanced Capitalist Societies
POLT 227 War, Weapons, and Arms Control
POLT 228 US Foreign Policy Making
POLT 233 American Political Thought
POLT 271 Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
POLT 302 American Democracy: Law and Policy
POLT 305 Seminar: The Presidency
POLT 307 Democratic Engagement in the United States
POLT 308 Constitutional Interpretation and Individual Rights
POLT 309 Public Education, Policy and Law
POLT 317 The Transformation of the Welfare State
POLT 325 America's Alliances in East Asia
POLT 329 Globalization
POLT 334 Seminar: Theories of Justice and Democracy in Contemporary America
POLT 335 Gender and Political Theory

RELG 228 Contemporary Political Theologies
RELG 243 The Ethics of Ordinary Life in the Americas
RELG 245 Modern Moral Issues in Religious Perspective
RELG 249 Issues in Medical Ethics
RELG 262 Religious Identity in Multicultural Perspective
RELG 263 Roots of Religious Feminism in North America
RELG 282 Survey of American Christianity
RELG 284 The History of the African-American Religious Experience
RELG 286 Religions in the New World: Pre-Columbian to Slave Emancipation
RELG 289 Festivals of the Americas
RELG 290 The Meanings of the Memorial Arch
RELG 366 Seminar: Feminist Interpretations of Evil
RELG 384 The Black Theology Movement
RELG 385 Seminar: Selected Topics in American Religious History
RELG 387 Seminar: Religion and U.S. Social Welfare Policy and Social Work: A Historical Perspective

RHET 104 Writing About a Topic: Queering the Reel

SOCI 215 Contemporary Asian American Experience
SOCI 233 Gender, Social Change, Social Movements
SOCI 235 Gender Stratification
SOCI 236 Sexualities and Society
SOCI 241 Urban Sociology
SOCI 241 Urban Sociology: From Hogtown to Smogtown
SOCI 250 Sociology of Popular Culture
SOCI 354 Social Movements and Revolutionary Change
SOCI 254 Political Sociology
SOCI 264 American Families: Comfort, Conflict, and Criticism
SOCI 277 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCI 314 Unequal Educations
SOCI 326 The American Family: Comfort, Conflict, and Criticism
SOCI 335 Globalization
SOCI 348 Constructing Immigrant Communities
SOCI 377 Advanced Topics in Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCI 378 Sociology of the African-American Community
SOCI 403 Seminar in Social Psychology: African-American Personality
SOCI 407 Racial and Ethnic Identities in the 21st Century
SOCI 436 Seminar in Sexualities and Collective Action
SOCI 443 Generation X: Relationship, Work, Culture & Communication
SOCI 446 The City and Social and Environmental Policy
SOCI 450 Beyond Us Vs. Them: How We Manage Contradictory Categories
SOCI 456 Seminar in AIDS: Community, Resistance and Innovation

THEA 229/CANC 230 Autobiography and Performance
DANC 250 Dance in the 20th century
THEA 270/DANC 271 Queer Acts
THEA 275 African American Performance Theater
THEA 350 Dance History: Contemporary Global Dance
THEA 368 Black Arts Workshop II