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2026-2027

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Discipline-Based Survey Course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: Various specialized topics are offered once or twice under this heading. Topics change from year to year and are announced before the beginning of each semester. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 009438 Course Offer Number: 1

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Formerly: AMST 201 Latinos in the US Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 255

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A study of American society and culture during the years from the Panic of 1929 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 using several kinds of evidence: the accounts of people who lived during the decade, the interpretations of historians, and the representations of artists, writers, and filmmakers. The objective of the course is to develop an idea of the main characteristics of American society and culture during the 1930s, a conception of the decade's significance, and an increased understanding of the processes of historical and cultural analysis and interpretation. Distribution Area: Humanities Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 009389 Course Offer Number: 1

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the role of race and ethnicity in U.S. politics, as well as the historical and contemporary experiences of four major minority groups (African Americans, American Indians, Latino/Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans). Topics include, but are not limited to, public opinion, political participation, implicit attitudes, representation, media effects, the role of race in political campaigns, and the effects of policies that disproportionately affect minority groups. Course Note: POLSCI 207L and AMST 207L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: POLSCI 207L 257

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course studies American culture, society, politics, and social thought in the 1990s. From a stirrings of globalization to the fall of the Communist bloc; from the protests in Seattle to the overthrowing of apartheid in South Africa; from the racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the inertia of Generation X's couch-surfing slackers; the 1990s were a decade marked by accelerating social, cultural, and political change, recorded by an increasingly omnipresent media. This course will study the decade in all its chaotic contradictions and inspiring innovation, particularly focusing on global contexts, generational shifts, emerging identities, and social upheaval. Distribution Area: Humanities Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 039005 Course Offer Number: 1

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Major Track (9 Credits) Electives (12 Credits) Capstone Course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the politics and experiences of President Reagan's "morning in America," including family life, work, and organized labor; changes in the pattern of wealth and 259

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of "The American Experience" and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern. Course Note: AMST 215L and CINE 215L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: CINE 215L Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 009403 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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260

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This multidisciplinary course examines the social, historical, and structural contexts defining the Asian American experience from 1850 to the present. Topics include immigration, labor, community settlement, ethnicity, stereotypes, and race relations. Course Note: AMST 223L and ASAMST 223L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ASAMST 223L Distribution Area: Humanities Diversity Area: United States 261

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines issues arising from the resettlement of one million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees in the US since 1975. Topics include resettlement policies, adjustment and acculturation, changing roles of women and family, and the continuing impact of international politics. Media presentations and lectures by local Southeast Asian community leaders highlight the course. Course Note: AMST 225L and ASAMST 225L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ASAMST 225L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 000184 Course Offer Number: 3

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Drawing on women's voices in literature, sociocultural research, and historical 262

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course analyzes the social forces, technological advances, and multicultural influences that have contributed to the development of US popular music, including Tin Pan Alley pop, blues, country, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, rock, soul, punk, disco, rap, and heavy metal. Popular music is treated as commercial mass culture and discussed as a social indicator. Extensive use is made of audio and video recordings. Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 009448 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 263

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Tourism is the world's largest industry. We encounter tourists on Boston's Freedom Trail, Harvard Square in Cambridge and on Cape Cod. In turn, we ourselves are tourists as we travel to Washington D.C., Disneyworld, and beyond. The tourist experience shapes our understanding of the past, our perceptions of ourselves and others, and our notions of the 'authentic' and the 'exotic.' Tourist encounters often place inequalities based upon class, race and ethnicity in sharp relief. Using history, anthropology, and cultural studies, this course explores the nature of tourism and how it affects and reflects U.S. culture. Distribution Area: Humanities Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 264

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the development and the significance of African-American folklore through study of its various genres: music, tales, legends, shorter verbal forms, material culture, folk belief, and folk humor. Emphasis is given to both African survivals and Indo-European influences in these genres. This course is cross-listed as: AFRSTY 260L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 001140 Course Offer Number: 2

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines how significant American cultural form is a vessel for understanding history and social issues. We will explore hip hop from numerous angles: its historical development, various ways of interpreting it textually, the social conversations it has hosted and the many cultural categories it has penetrated, including film and television, literature, fashion, and journalism. There will be several visitors to the class who are engaged in the Boston hip hop scene, and students will work with the hip hop archive that the Healey library has acquired as well as interacting with hip hop's Boston manifestations. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation. 265

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the history and development of how Africans and African Americans are depicted on stage, on the movie screen, and in television. Starting in the days of Shakespeare (Othello, Aaron in Titus Andronicus) the course will take a path that includes the days of minstrel shows, Race movies, Magic Negroes, Blacksploitation, The Black Arts Movement, the "post-racial" age, and on into the images of tomorrow. By the end of the course, students will not only have the knowledge of how racial identities develop through media such as television and motion pictures, but will also be able to view future depictions of blacks and other persons of color on stage with a critical eye to certain stereotypes. Course Note: AFRSTY 265L and AMST 265L are the same course therefore you cannot receive credit for both courses. This course is cross-listed as: AFRSTY 265L Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 001176 Course Offer Number: 2

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) 266

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introductory survey of Native American societies and cultures. Emphasis is given to the descriptive comparison of selected Native American societies, on their histories, and on problems in cross-cultural understanding. The course focuses on pre-twentieth century cultures and history. Course Note: AMST 270L and ANTH 270L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 270L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 001121 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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267

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2026-2027

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and Everyday Lives 71

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions- such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children's own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children's Rights Movement. Course Note: AMST 301L and ANTH 301L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 301L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 001119 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 269

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores oral history interviewing, texts, and films, within the context of efforts to create a fully representative social and cultural history of the US. Students design individual or group oral history projects, to capture the experiences and perspectives of people formerly regarded as "unhistorical"-in particular, women, working class people, immigrants, people of color, and gays and lesbians. Course Note: (Satisfies the research requirement for women's studies majors.) AMST 311L and WGS 311L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 311L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 000012 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 270

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AMST

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2026-2027

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177

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course treats popular music as a social indicator, examining the relationship between popular music and various social issues, problems, and movements. It is organized thematically, addressing such topics as racism, sexism, censorship, social change, consciousness raising, and the impact of globalization. The course draws on historical and contemporary readings at the intermediate and advanced levels. There is extensive use of audio and video recordings to explicate various themes and issues. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 000564 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course traces the social life of Afro-diasporic Puerto Rican music since the early 20th century. With an emphasis on the cultural politics of music, students trace the social and 272

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course uses feminist, queer, and critical race frameworks to interrogate the social, political, and cultural aspects of HIV/AIDS. Not merely a virus, HIV is also a set of cultural meanings tied to gender, race, nation, and the body. By focusing on political activism and cultural production (film, art, etc.) we will employ a critical humanistic approach to the epidemic that goes beyond biomedicine or epidemiology. Because a great deal of the popular and scholarly attention to the AIDS crisis has focused on white, gay, cisgender men, the course examines the politics of HIV/AIDS through an intersectional lens that takes into account how race, gender, class, nationality and so on have shaped the crisis and the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. Although we will focus on the cultural politics of HIV/AIDS in the United States from the time the crisis emerged in the early 1980s through today, we will also consider the pandemic in terms of US empire. Course Note: WGS 343L and AMST 343L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 343L 273

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AMST

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2026-2027

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 274

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AMST

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2026-2027

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in the U.S. and Beyond 95

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and "imagined" communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses. Course Note: AFRSTY 352L and AMST 352L and ENGL 352L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: AFRSTY 352L and ENGL 352L Distribution Area: Humanities Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • ENGL 102 and • ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 235 [Inactive] or AFRSTY 100 Course Catalog ID: 032282 Course Offer Number: 2

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AMST

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Edition

2026-2027

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Elective (3 Credits) Capstone Course

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AMST

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course requires students to engage with Black/African diasporic cultural products intended for a mass audience. The macro-contents of American and global consumer capitalism and the micro- categories of ethnicity, gender, and sexualities are used as a framework for the critical analysis of production, consumption, and reception of African American popular culture in the US and abroad. Course Note: AFRSTY 355L and AMST 355L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: AFRSTY 355L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 001138 277

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Migration and Empire Track

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the significant contribution that women writers have made to the creation and development of an American national literature and culture. Points of emphasis include studying representative writers from different historical periods; examining the structures, forms, themes, concerns, and cultural contexts of individual works; and examining the relation of women's writing to American culture. Course Note: AMST 372L and ENGL 372L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENGL 372L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 000691 278

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Social Movements and Identity Formation

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course offers interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on a variety of theories, themes, and issues related to the experiences of women of color in both U.S. and global contexts. It examines the genealogies, practices, and agendas of women of color "feminisms," and promotes a dialogue about the interactive impact of race, class, and gender on women's lives. AMST 376L and WGS 376L are the same course. 279

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course provides a background on the Kennedys and their times. It analyzes some of the political and cultural processes of which the Kennedys were a part, and in particular traces the rise of the Kennedy family in the context of the Boston Irish. Audio-visual material is used where appropriate to examine the role played by the media, that is, print, film, and television, then and now, in forming popular images of the Kennedy family. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 009407 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Men's Lives in the US Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores how boys and men construct and perform gender in the U.S. This course investigates the production of masculinities in various institutional contexts such as family, school, work, and sports. This course examines the diverse experiences of boys and men 280

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AMST

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Women in US Social Movements Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class explores activist engagements in several interrelated social movements in the U.S. throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Through reading and discussion of primary documents, biography, and historical research, we analyze the motivations and strategies of women activists in tension with gendered and racialized expectations and practices in historical context. Course Note: AMST 394L and WGS 394L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 394L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 Course Catalog ID: 000002 Course Offer Number: 2

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: American Visual Cultures 281

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the historical, legal, and social context of immigration and migration since the late 19th century. Bringing together a variety of primary and secondary sources, students begin by exploring the role of settler colonialism and slavery as foundational processes in US nation building that continue to inform legal and popular discourses regarding citizenship, national belonging, and immigration. Students use an interdisciplinary framework situated at the intersection of critical race, feminist, and queer studies that reveals how multiple and competing narratives of Americanness, the belief in American exceptionalism, and US imperialism remain intertwined with debates about immigration. Course materials include essays, fiction, news reports, social media, legal statutes, film, performance, and music. Diversity Area: United States 282

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This capstone course will explore the historical emergence of selected media: the Penney Press in the 1830s, film 1896-1932, radio 1928-1960, and television 1948-1977. Examining these media in the period of emergence will show how each relied on and challenged prior forms of conveying information and telling stories, reshaping boundaries between fictional and the real. Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 031033 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This American Studies course is interested in exploring the cultural legacies of 9/11. This 9/11 class will not be explicitly concerned itself with capital 'P' politics: the real burden of the course has more to do with the construction of a rhetoric of what I call '9/11 culture' in American popular arts than with the motivations, strategies, or outcomes associated with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and of Iraq in 2003. Yet the wars shadow every moment of the class. I will 283

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: What special insight into American literature can be gained by linking literary texts to musical ones? This course examines the various ways in which popular musical forms, tropes, performance styles, mythologies (and so forth) have shaped, and been shaped by, twentieth- century American literature. Musical genres considered include blues, hip hop, punk, Tex-Mex, soul, and country. Weekly responsibilities include intensive and systematic listening as well as reading assignments. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 009483 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 284

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture. Course Note: AMST 470L and ENGL 470L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENGL 470L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 000688 Course Offer Number: 1

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AMST

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course

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2026-2027

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285

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This seminar focuses on the lives of modern Native Americans, on reservations and off. Topics for reading, discussion, and original research include law, politics, economic development, public health, education, and the arts. Each student in the seminar compiles and presents a comprehensive case study on a subject relevant to one of the seminar themes. Course Note: AMST 476L and ANTH 476L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 476L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: AMST /ANTH 270L 286

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: Advanced students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty. Enrollment Requirements:

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Prerequisite

A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: Advanced students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty. 287

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: Part-time experience in an appropriate business, government, public advocacy, or non-profit institution, supervised by an on-site supervisor and an American Studies Program faculty advisor. Bi-weekly conferences with faculty advisor and written/audio-visual work are required. Course Note: For full details, see the American Studies Student Handbook. Enrollment Requirements:

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AMST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

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Prerequisite

A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture 288

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AMST

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The student defines and writes the Honors project with the help of an American studies faculty advisor and enrolls in AMST 498/499. Course Note: To be eligible for honors work in American studies a student must be doing a major in American studies and must have a cumulative average of at least a 3.3 in the program, and an overall grade-point average of at least 3.0. Enrollment Requirements:

Subject

AMST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Prerequisite

A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor