CONCENTRATION IN AMERICAN STUDIES

MAJOR AREA: Select SIX (6) upper-division courses from three different subject areas from one of the two tracks

MINOR AREA: Select FOUR (4) upper-division courses from two different subject areas from one of the two tracks

TRACK ONE: AMERICAN CULTURAL LIFE

Lower-Division Pre-requisites:

AHS 8 or AHS 21
ENGL20B
HIST 17A or 17B
MUS 8
SOC 1
Additionally, you are required to complete any course-specific pre-requisites.

AHS 177 Modern Architecture
AHS 186 Film, Video, and Art

ENGL130 American Literature, 1620-1830
ENGL131 American Literature, 1830 to the Civil War
ENGL132 American Literature from the Civil War to 1914
ENGL133 American Literature 1914-1945
ENGL134 American Literature 1945 to the present
ENGL136T Studies in Latina and Latino Literature
ENGL137T Studies in Comparative Minority Discourses
ENGL138A African American Literature
ENGL138B African American Literature
ENGL139 Asian American Literature
ENGL139T Asian American Literature

ETST124 The Chicana
ETST141A Survey of Black Literature: Folk Period
ETST141B Survey of Black Literature: 1930-present
ETST150 Asian American Family and Culture
ETST153 Contemporary Latin American and Chicano Novels
ETST154 Chicanos and Popular Music in the 20 th Century; From Pachuco Boogie to Latin Jazz
ETST158 Roots of American Indian Tradition
ETST173 Black Art in America
ETST183 Native American Oral Literature

FVC 139 Mass Media and Popular Culture
FVC 143 Gender, Sexuality and Visual Culture
FVC 144 Race, Ethnicity, and Visual Culture

HISA122A/RLST 137A Religious Cultures in Early America
HISA122B/RLST137B Religious Cultures in Modern America
HISA136 Jazz: A Social and Cultural History

PHIL108 Philosophical Issues of Race and Gender
PHIL175 Social Philosophy
PHIL178 Philosophy of Feminism

POSC113 American Political Thought

RLST137A Religious Cultures in Early America
RLST137B Religious Cultures in Early America

TRACK TWO: AMERICAN SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL LIFE

Lower-division pre-requisites:

ETST002 or ETST004
ENGL020B
POSC010
SOC 001
SOC003 or SOC 020
Additionally, you are required to complete any course-specific pre-requisites.

ECON123 American Economic History

ETST155 Chicano/Chicana California : A Social and Cultural History
ETST161 U.S. Latinos: Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures
ETST163 Social Forces and the Education Conditions of the Chicana
ETST165 Sociolinguistics and the Chicano Community
ETST177 U.S. Prison Industrial Complex: Race, Gender, Citizenship
ETST178 U.S. Prison Intellectuals: Social Movements and Imprisoned Activists from the 1960s to the present

HISA113 Slavery and the Old South
HISA115 Reconstruction
HISA132/WMST132 U.S. Women, Gender, Sexuality in U.S. History: 1620-1850
HIST/133WMST133 Women, Gender, Sexuality in U.S. History, 1850-present
HISA134 The African American Woman
HISA137 Frontier History of the United States
HIST 122A/RLST137A Religious Cultures in Early America
| HISA122B/RLST137B Religious Culture in Modern America

POSC 113 American Political Thought

SOC 133 Inequality and Social Class
SOC 142 Sociology of the Family
SOC 156 Community

WMST101 Women, Work, and Capitalism
WMST155 Women’s Labor and the Economy