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AMERICAN STUDIES

Spring 2023 COURSE OFFERINGS

This list is subject to change.  Check ALBERT for updates.  CAS max points allowed for non-CAS courses is 16. 

INTRODUCTORY 1 FOR ALL 7 MAJORS, ONLY INTRO FOR SCA MINOR. MAJORS MUST TAKE BY JUNIOR YEAR. (intros can be taken in any order and do not need to be taken before electives.)

SCA-UA 101.001 Social & Cultural Analysis 101, Singh; Tu-Th 9:30-10:45 Recitation required.

RESEARCH (Req'd for 7 SCA majors, contact dept. for access code, prerequisites)

SCA-UA 90.001 Advanced Research Seminar: Urban Ethnography, Zaloom; M 9:30-12:15 Access Code required.(All majors/minors)

SCA-UA 90.002 Advanced Research Seminar: Reparations, Transitional Justice, & the Archive, Taher; Tu 9:30-12:15 Access Code required.

SCA-UA 93.001 Seniors Honor Thesis (Faculty varies as do meeting days/times, Prerequisites: SCA-UA 93, 3.65 GPA overall & in major.) Access Code required.

ELECTIVES TAUGHT BY SCA FACULTY (Majors must take 4 of 6 electives from these, minors must take 2 of 4 from these. American Studies and SCA minors must take all 4 electives with SCA faculty.)

SCA-UA 19.001 Justice Lab, Husain; Tu 6:20-9:00, (2 points) Class meets first 7 weeks only. (Counts as HALF a Faculty elective)

SCA-UA 180.001 Topics in Africana Studies: Back to Black: Visual Voids, Darkness + Chaos, Cooper; MW 12:30-1:45

SCA-UA 180.002 Topics in Africana Studies: Race + Trans(gender) Visual Culture, Cooper; W 4:55- 7:35

SCA-UA 236.001 Race & the American Right, Beltran; Tu-Th 2:00-3:15 

SCA-UA 269.001 America in the 60's, Sugrue; MW 3:30-4:45 SAME AS HIST-UA 644.001

SCA-UA 280.001 Topics: Alternative Futures, Cornum; Th 4:55- 7:35 

SCA-UA 280.002 Topics: Reading the Land, Cornum; Tu-Th  2:00-3:15 

SCA-UA 280.003 Topics: Strangers in a Strange Land, Taher;  Tu-Th 3:30- 4:45

SCA-UA 306.001 Asian American Literature, Sandhu;  MW 9:30-10:45 SAME AS ENGL-UA 716.001/ COLIT-UA 301.001 

SCA-UA 380.001  Topics in A/P/A Studies: Unpopular Culture, Sandhu; MW 12:30-1:45, SAME AS ENGL-UA 800.001 

SCA-UA 450.001 Queer Cultures, Gopinath; W 6:20- 9:00 

SCA-UA 533.001: Latinx Art and Visual Culture, Dávila; MW 2:00-3:15 SAME AS ANTH-UA 533.001 

SCA-UA 541.001 Topics in Latino Studies: Indigenous and Latinx Speculative Film & Fiction, Saldaña-Portillo; MW 11:00-12:15 

SCA-UA 565.001 Afro-Latino Culture & History, Alba; M 6:20-9:00 

SCA-UA 631.001 Urban Environmentalism, Charles-Guzman; M 4:55-7:35, SAME AS ENVST-UA 431.001 

SCA-UA 680.001 Topics in Metropolitan Studies: City Critters: Staging Nature in Urban Environs, Bentley; MW 3:30-4:45 

SCA-UA 680.002 Topics in Metropolitan Studies: Memorializing Marginalized Histories in NYC, Yeats; F 11- 1:45

SCA-UA 799.001 African American Vernacular English, Blake; W 2:00-4:30 SAME AS LING-UA 23 

SCA-UA 812.001 Religion, Sexuality, and American Public Life, Pellegrini; MW 9:30-10:45 SAME AS RELST-UA 646

CROSS-LISTED ELECTIVES Majors/minors can take 2 cross-listed courses max except American Studies minors who CANNOT take any of these cross-listed courses.

SCA-UA 712.001 Sex, Gender, and Language, TBD; MW 4:55-6:10, SAME AS LING-UA 21.001 Recitation Required. (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 744.001  Key Works, Urayoán; W 2:00-4:30  SAME AS SPAN-UA 220.001 (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 744.002 Topics: Classical Latina Heroines: Greek Tragedy on the Latinx Stage, Hernandez; MW 3:30-4:45 SAME AS SPAN-UA 406.001/THEAT-UT 732.004 (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 755.001 Topics American Dilemma: Race, Inequality, Unfulfilled Promises of Public Education, TBD; MW 9:30-10:45, SAME AS TCHL-UE 41.001 Recitation required. (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 757. 001 Writing New York, Waterman; MW 2:00-03:15 SAME AS ENGL-UA 180.001 & HIST-UA 180-001

SCA-UA 758.001:  The Irish & New York,  Marion; MW 2:00-3:15 SAME AS IRISH-UA 180  

SCA-UA 762.001 Topics: Shaping the Urban Environment, Ritter; M-W 11:00-12:15  SAME AS ARTH-UA 661.001 (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 769.001 City Planning: 19th & 20th Centuries, Ritter; M-W 2:00-3:15, SAME AS ARTH-UA 663.001. (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 782.001 The Social Challenges of Climate Change Klinenberg; M-W 9:30-10:45 SAME AS SOC-UA 454.001,  Recitation required.

SCA-UA 784.001 20th Century African-American Literature, Posmentier; Tu-Th 11:00-12:15 SAME AS ENGL-UA 251.001

 

SCA-UA 796.001 African American History Since 1865, Michele; MW 11:00-12:15 SAME AS HIST-UA 648.001 (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)

SCA-UA 851.001  Criminology, Miner-Romanoff; Tu-Th 11:00-12:15 SAME AS SOC-UA 503.001, Recitation Required  (American Major BUT NOT MINOR)


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