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| African-American and African Studies | |
| AAS 1010 | Introduction to African-American and African Studies I (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century. |
| AAS 1020 | Introduction to African-American and African Studies II (4) |
| This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 1010. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| AAS 1559 | New Course in African and African American Studies (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of African American Studies. | |
| AAS 2224 | Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media (3) |
| This course, taught as a lower-level seminar, will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of 'Blackness' in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. Course was offered Summer 2025, January 2025, Summer 2024, January 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, January 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2013 | |
| AAS 2559 | New Course in African and African American Studies (3) |
| New course in the subject of African and African American Studies Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, January 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, January 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, January 2014, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011 | |
| AAS 3200 | Martin, Malcolm and America (3) |
| An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| AAS 3231 | Rise and Fall of the Slave South (3) |
| A history of the American South from the arrival of the first English settlers through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Cross-listed with HIUS 3231. | |
| AAS 3500 | Intermediate Seminar in African-American & African Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AAS 3559 | New Course in African and African American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New course in the subject of African and African American Studies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 |
| AAS 3652 | African American History since 1865 (3) |
| This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with various primary and secondary texts, and multimedia, students examine African Americans' endeavors to build strong families and communities, create socially meaningful art, and establish a political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| AAS 4109 | Civil Rights Movement and the Media (3) |
| Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement. | |
| AAS 4500 | Advanced Seminar in African-American and African Studies (3) |
| Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminatiing in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others. Course was offered Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| AAS 4501 | Advanced Research Seminar in History & AAS (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year AAS and History students--double majors and others. Crosslisted with the History major seminar. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 |
| AAS 4559 | New Course in African and African American Studies (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of African and African American Studies. | |
| AAS 4570 | Advanced Research Seminar in African-American & African Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| American Studies | |
| AMST 1001T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Artistic, Interpretive, and Philosophical Inquiry. | |
| AMST 1002T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Cultures and Societies of the World. | |
| AMST 1003T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Historical Perspectives. | |
| AMST 1004T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Social and Economic Systems. | |
| AMST 1005T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Chemical, Mathematical, and Physical Inquiry | |
| AMST 1006T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Living Systems. | |
| AMST 1007T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Science and Society | |
| AMST 1050 | Slavery and Its Legacies (3) |
| This course examines the history of slavery and its legacy at UVA and in the central Virginia region. The course aims to recover the experiences of enslaved individuals and their roles in building and maintaining the university, and to contextualize those experiences within Southern history. | |
| AMST 1060 | The Aftermath of Slavery at UVA and in Virginia (3) |
| This course examines the post-1865 history at UVA and in the region, recovering the experiences of African Americans in building community in the face of racism, and also contextualizing those experiences within U.S. history. The course situates that local history in political and cultural context, tracing the advent of emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, desegregation, civil rights change, and even twenty-first century racism and inequality. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| AMST 1559 | New Course in American Studies (1 - 4) |
| New Course in the subject of American Studies | |
| AMST 2001 | Introduction to American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course introduces students to American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of US culture. Students will be exposed to the three main categories of American Studies methods, historical analysis, close analysis, and fieldwork and to a broad variety of cultural forms, including films, photographs, music, sermons, journalism, fiction, speeches, court decisions, government documents, and web-based materials including social media sites. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AMST 2130 | Narratives of Girlhood (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course treats a range of contemporary English language literatures about girlhood. Our comparative analyses of texts will pay particular attention to their play with genre and their use of literary devices -- e.g., structure, voice, point of view, dialogue, temporality, language ¿ to render narratives about girlhood in contexts of (im)migration, loss, displacement, violence, revolution, war, and trauma. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| AMST 2321 | Latinx Fiction and Film (3) |
| This course explores the diverse and also converging experiences of Latinos in the US. We will read contemporary novels and poetry by Latinx authors from different Latinx groups (Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American and South American). We will discuss reasons for migration, concepts of the "border" and the impact of bilingualism on group identity. We will view films that depict the Latinx experience in the US. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2018 | |
| AMST 2420 | Cultural Landscapes of the United States (3) |
| This course introduces the study of everyday landscapes as cultural spaces that illuminate the history of social and political developments in the U.S. It encourages a broad understanding of landscape across genres-painting, photography, fiction, journalism. Particular focus will be paid to the political economy of landscapes to explore the connections between landscape and public policy from multiple vantage points. | |
| AMST 2500 | Major Works for American Studies (3) |
| Topics vary according to instructor. The goal of the course is to introduce students to interdisciplinary work in American Studies by juxtaposing works across disciplinary boundaries and from different methodological perspectives. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, January 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, January 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| AMST 2559 | New Course in American Studies (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New Course in subject of American Studies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 |
| AMST 2660 | Spiritual But Not Religious: Spirituality in America (3) |
| What does "spiritual but not religious" mean, and why has it become such a pervasive self-description in contemporary America? This interdisciplinary course surveys spirituality in America, with a particular eye for the relationship between spirituality and formal religion, on the one hand, and secular modes of understanding the self, such as psychology, on the other. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| AMST 2753 | Arts and Cultures of the Slave South (4) |
| This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts- architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture- it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| AMST 3001 | Theories and Methods of American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar course will introduce majors to various theories and methods for the practice of American Studies. The three goals of the seminars are (1) to make students aware of their own interpretive practices; (2) to equip them with information and conceptual tools they will need for advanced work in American Studies; and (3) to provide them with comparative approaches to the study of various aspects of the United States. Prerequisites: American Studies Major Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AMST 3180 | Introduction to Asian American Studies (3) |
| An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| AMST 3200 | African American Political Thought (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the critical and the constructive dimensions of African American political thought from slavery to the present. We will assess the claims that black Americans have made upon the polity, how they have defined themselves, and how they have sought to redefine key terms of political life such as citizenship, equality, freedom, and power. |
| AMST 3221 | Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction (3) |
| "Public history" is delivered to a non-academic audience, often at historic sites, museums, archives, and on digital platforms. Some films, podcasts, fiction, and poetry might also be considered public history. This course uses all of those formats to investigate how the history of slavery and Reconstruction are presented to the public. Collaboration with local community groups and field trips to historic sites are key components of this class. Course was offered Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| AMST 3222 | Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction, Part II (3) |
| Hands-On Public History is designed as a year-long course. This course continues the curriculum of AMST 3221. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| AMST 3250 | Black Protest Narrative (3) |
| This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, black gay/lesbian liberation movements, and black postmodernism. We begin our study with the most famous protest novel, Richard Wright's Native Son. Then we examine other narratives including works by Angelo Herndon, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| AMST 3280 | Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations (3) |
| An intro to the broad field of Native Studies, this class focuses on themes of representation and erasure. We read Indigenous scholars and draw from current events, pop culture, and historical narrative to explore complex relationships between historical and contemporary issues that Indigenous peoples face in the US. We examine the foundations of Native representations and their connections to critical issues in Native communities. | |
| AMST 3300 | Introduction to Latinx Studies (3) |
| AMST 3300 offers students close study of significant texts and other cultural forms representing the perspective and contributions of the main Latinx populations in the United States--including those of Puerto Rican, Chicano, Dominican, Central American and Cuban American origin--in historical context and within a theoretical, analytical framework. | |
| AMST 3321 | Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature (3) |
| This course examines the construction of race and ethnicity in Latinx literature by examining key texts by individuals from varying Latinx groups in the US. We will examine how US-American identity shapes Latinx notions of race and how the authors' connections with Latin America and the Caribbean do the same. We will explore from a hemispheric perspective how race and ethnicity are depicted in Latinx literature and culture. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2018 | |
| AMST 3323 | Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture (3) |
| This course offers a survey of Latinx literature and film from a hemispheric perspective. Engaging texts from colonial times to the present day, we explore how the histories of the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia come together to produce novels, poems, essays and films that are now referred to as distinctly Latinx. | |
| AMST 3326 | Latinx and Indigenous Environmentalisms (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the relationship between Latinx and Indigenous communities and the environment from a sociocultural, anthropological and historical perspective.Texts encompass the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, and often require thinking and analysis that questions understandings of land, development, race, science, health, and wellness on a state, local, and international level. |
| AMST 3407 | Racial Borders and American Cinema (3) |
| This class explores how re-occurring images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are represented in film and shows visual images of racial interactions and boundaries of human relations that tackle topics such as immigration, inter-racial relationships and racial passing. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2019 | |
| AMST 3422 | Point of View Journalism (3) |
| This course analyzes 'point-of-view' journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Benjamin Franklin to the modern blog. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| AMST 3427 | Gender, Things, and Difference (3) |
| This class explores how material culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life, is used to help to construct and express gendered and other forms of difference. We will look at how bodies and clothes shape our understanding of our own and others' identities, how we imbue objects with gender, how the food we cook and eat carries cultural meanings, and how the design of buildings and spaces structures gender. | |
| AMST 3471 | American Cinema (3) |
| This course provides an introduction to film studies through an examination of American film throughout the 20th & 21st centuries. We will learn basic film techniques for visual analysis, and consider the social, economic, and historical forces that have shaped the production, distribution & reception of film in the US Examples will be drawn from various genres: melodrama, horror, sci-fi, musical, Westerns, war films, documentary, animation, etc. | |
| AMST 3472 | Hollywood Exile: German Filmmakers Flee Fascism (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In the 1930s, many people employed in the German film industry whose lives were threatened by Nazism took refuge in Hollywood. This course examines the contributions exiled directors, writers, actors, and others made in genres ranging from comedy and melodrama to film noir. In addition to indicting fascism and reflecting on the trauma of forced migration these films often turned a critical eye on the U.S.. |
| AMST 3491 | Rural Poverty in Our Time (3) |
| This course will use an interdisciplinary format and document based approach to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the US South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect during the Great Depression, the War on Poverty, and the present. | |
| AMST 3500 | Topics in American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Topics vary according to instructor. |
| AMST 3559 | New Course in American Studies (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New Course in the subject of American Studies Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 |
| AMST 3610 | Asian Americans & Popular Culture (3) |
| Asian Americans and Popular Culture surveys a history of Asian American racialization, experiences, and subject formation in the United States through film, comics, TV, theatre, music, public protest, sports, and social media. Students will learn how to analyze and develop creative work to respond to and re/frame debates on the politics of representation, exoticization, cultural appropriation, transnationalism, hybridity, and US immigration laws. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| AMST 3630 | Vietnam War in Literature and Film (3) |
| In the US, Vietnam signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong. | |
| AMST 3710 | Mapping Black Landscapes (3) |
| Students will learn to use digital mapping and narratives as tools of reparative history. The class will partner with community organizations documenting Black history in Virginia. Students will do research in historical archives and public records; interview community members; and participate in field work. Readings will address ethical aspects of doing community history and explore approaches to the history of slavery and Reconstruction. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| AMST 3740 | Cultures of Hip-Hop (3) |
| This course explores the origins and impacts of American hip-hop as a cultural form in the last forty years, and maps the ways that a local subculture born of an urban underclass has risen to become arguably the dominant form of 21st-century global popular culture. While primarily focused on music, we will also explore how forms such as dance, visual art, film, and literature have influenced and been influenced by hip-hop style and culture. | |
| AMST 3790 | Moving On: Migration in/to the US (3) |
| This class examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S., tracing the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. We'll dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we'll analyze it for this class. | |
| AMST 3880 | Literature of the South (3) |
| Analyzes selected works of literature by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| AMST 4060 | Politics and Literature (3) |
| This advanced, interdisciplinary seminar considers how works of fiction enhance our understanding of the terms of democratic life. The theme of the seminar is the life and afterlife of slavery in American political experience. Our core texts will be Moby Dick, Invisible Man, and Beloved. Additionally, we will read related work by writers from the antebellum, Jim Crow, and post-civil rights eras. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| AMST 4210 | Refugee Aesthetics (3) |
| Refugee Aesthetics is a survey course that examines histories of racialization, war, forced migration, nation-state formation, humanitarian aid, and resettlement alongside questions of the politics of aesthetics, ethics of representation, and social justice. Students will explore how refugee aesthetics is broadly defined, performed, and contested through maps, graphic novels, films, and various mixed media. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| AMST 4321 | Caribbean Latinx: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the DR (3) |
| In this course we will read texts by Latinx writers from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. We will explore how their works speak to issues of race, colonialism and imperialism based on their individual and shared histories. We will discuss their different political histories and migration experiences and how these in turn impact their literary and artistic productions in the US. | |
| AMST 4351 | Aural Histories: Edison to Auto-Tune (3) |
| This is a course about the role of technology and technological innovation in the production and consumption of 20th and 21st century music. We will begin with the invention of the phonograph and the birth of the recording industry and continue up through the present day. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| AMST 4401 | Literature of the Americas (3) |
| This course explores a wide range of (broadly defined) fictions from and about the Americas, from writings by Columbus and the conquistadors through modern and contemporary novels, novellas, and short stories. Students consider the intersection of fiction and history through topics that include New world "discovery" and conquest; borderlands and contact zones; slavery and revolution; and the haunting of the global present by the colonial past. | |
| AMST 4462 | Harlem Stories (3) |
| Harlem has been many things to many people - capital of a global African diaspora, an early instance of Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, home to an important "el barrio," a representative site of contemporary gentrification and, above all, a place for racial and ethnic minoritization. This course will explore many of those lived and symbolic Harlems from the early twentieth century to the present. Course was offered Fall 2022 | |
| AMST 4500 | Fourth-Year Seminar in American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar is intended to focus study, research, and discussion on a single period, topic, or issue, such as the Great Awakening, the Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, or the 1960s. Topics vary. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AMST 4559 | New Course in American Studies (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New Course in the subject of American Studies. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 |
| AMST 4601 | Gender, Race, and the Prison (3) |
| In this course, we will study the intersection of social scientific and humanistic scholarship, showing how the prison deploys and produces gender and its imbrications with race, class, and sexuality as a tool of control, punishment, and dehumanization. Our materials will highlight the experiences of women as we consider the carceral state that is fundamentally organized by gendered assumptions that shape the experiences of all social groups. Course was offered Summer 2025 | |
| AMST 4893 | Independent Study in Asian Pacific American Studies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | An elective course for students in the Asian Pacific American Studies minor. Students will work with an APAS core faculty member to support the student's own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the APAS Director. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AMST 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | An elective course for American Studies majors who have completed AMST 3001-3002. Students will work with an American Studies faculty member to support the student's own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the Program Director. Prerequisite: AMST 3001, 3002, Instructor Consent. Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| AMST 4998 | Distinguished Majors Program Thesis Research (3) |
| Students spend the fall semester of their 4th years working closely with a faculty advisor to conduct research and begin writing their Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) thesis. | |
| AMST 4999 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Seminar (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This workshop is for American Studies majors who have been admitted to the DMP program. Students will discuss the progress of their own and each other's papers, with particular attention to the research and writing processes. At the instructor's discretion, students will also read key works in the field of American Studies. Prerequisites: admission to DMP. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| AMST 5232 | Oral History Workshop: A Hands-On Approach to Researching the Past (3) |
| The course is run as a workshop, a space for students to learn oral history methodologies in a hands-on manner. In partnership with local/regional organizations, students will learn to conduct interviews and related research, which may include completing historical surveys, doing genealogical work, & completing archival or database research. Students will learn new skills while helping expand historical archives and knowledge of regional history. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023 | |
| AMST 5500 | Graduate Topics in American Studies (3) |
| Various topics offered in American Studies at the graduate level Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 | |
| AMST 5559 | New Course in American Studies (1 - 4) |
| New Course in the subject of American Studies. | |
| AMST 5710 | Mapping Black Landscapes (3) |
| Students will hone their digital mapping and digital narrative skills and learn how to use them as tools of reparative history. The class will partner with community organizations documenting Black history. Students will do research in archives and public records; interview community members; and participate in fieldwork. In addition, students will do a focused set of readings by members of the Black Geographers movement. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| AMST 7559 | New Courses in American Studies (3) |
| First and one-time graduate course offerings in American Studies. | |
| AMST 8001 | Approaches to American Studies (3) |
| This course introduces graduate students to the field of American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of US culture. Students will be exposed to a variety of influential theoretical and methodological interventions that have occurred over the field's history, and will also be introduced to some of the principal intellectual, political, and professional issues they will face while pursuing a career in the field. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 | |
| AMST 8570 | Studies in American Culture (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| AMST 8993 | Independent Study in American Studies (1 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for students doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of the AMST program. |
| Anthropology | |
| ANTH 2250 | Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism (3) |
| Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 | |
| ANTH 2500 | Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations (3) |
| Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations. Course was offered Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, January 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, January 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 2560 | Hierarchy and Equality (3) |
| Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 2589 | Topics in Archaeology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 2590 | Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, January 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, January 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, January 2011 | |
| ANTH 3450 | Native American Languages (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 5885 | Archaeology of Colonial Expansions (3) |
| Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, ANTH 4591 senior seminar or instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2011 | |
| Architectural History | |
| ARH 3701 | Early American Architecture (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | American architecture from the first European contact to the death of Jefferson. Lectures and field trips. |
| ARH 4500 | Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architectural history. | |
| History of Art | |
| ARTH 2471 | Art Since 1945 (3 - 4) |
| Surveys art production and theory in the U.S. and Europe since World War II. Relationships between artistic practice and critical theory are stressed in an examination of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to neo-geo. Course was offered Summer 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARTH 2753 | Arts & Cultures of the Slave South (4) |
| This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts 'architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture' it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| Drama | |
| DRAM 3070 | African-American Theatre (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| DRAM 4559 | New Course in Drama (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of drama. Course was offered Spring 2014, Fall 2013 | |
| English-Literature | |
| ENGL 2504 | Major Authors of American Literature (3) |
| Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2570 | Modern American Authors (3) |
| Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 2572 | Black Writers in America (3) |
| Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2900 | Women and Media in the Global South (3) |
| This course examines women and media in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa through the lenses of new media, journalism, feminism, and gender studies, with cross-cultural comparisons to the U.S. | |
| ENGL 3430 | American Literature to 1865 (3) |
| Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3434 | The American Renaissance (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3436 | Sex and Sentiment (3) |
| Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3440 | African-American Literature I (3) |
| Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3545 | Studies in American Literature before 1900 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3570 | Studies in American Literature (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 3572 | Studies in African-American Literature and Culture (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3645 | Musical Fictions (3) |
| Over the course of the semester, we will explore the genre of the contemporary musical novel in order to better understand why writers and readers are so intrigued by the figure of the musician as a literary trope. Pairing close listening and music theory with close readings of seminal blues, jazz, reggae, mambo, calypso and rock novels set in the US, UK, Jamaica, Trinidad, France and Germany. | |
| ENGL 3671 | Modern Drama I (3) |
| A two-semester survey of European and American modern drama, with some attention to works from other regions. The first half covers the late nineteenth century to World War II; the second focuses on drama from the post-war period to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3672 | Modern Drama II (3) |
| A two-semester survey of European and American modern drama, with some attention to works from other regions. The first half covers the late nineteenth century to World War II; the second focuses on drama from the post-war period to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3701 | American Literature Since 1865 (3) |
| Surveys American literature, both prose and poetry, from the Civil War to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3710 | Literature of the South (3) |
| Analyzes selected works of poetry and prose by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3722 | African-American Literature II (3) |
| Continuation of ENAM 3130, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3730 | American Literature of the Twentieth Century (3) |
| Studies the major poetry and fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 3740 | Introduction to Asian American Studies (3) |
| An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3760 | American Poetry (3) |
| Studies theme and technique in major American poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3762 | Major African-American Poets (3) |
| Examines poems representative of the African American literary traditions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3780 | Faulkner (3) |
| An intensive study of the works of William Faulkner in the contexts of American literature, southern literature, and international modernism. | |
| ENGL 3783 | American Short Novel (3) |
| Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ENGL 3924 | Vietnam War in Literature and Film (3) |
| In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong. | |
| ENGL 4500 | Seminar in English Literature (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 |
| ENGL 4560 | Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 4570 | Seminar in American Literature since 1900 (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 4710 | Fictions of Black Identity (3) |
| This class will examine novels, essays, critical works that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. We will explore the notion that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Among the questions to consider: how does one make and measure Black identity? What is the value of racial masquerade? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, AAS or English major or minor. | |
| ENGL 4720 | Black Speculative Fiction (3) |
| This course seeks to explore the world of African American 'speculative' fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor. | |
| ENGL 5700 | Contemporary African-American Literature (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course for advanced undergraduates and master's-level graduate students surveys African-American literature today. Assignments include works by Evreett, Edward Jones, Tayari Jones, Evans, Ward, Rabateau, and Morrison |
| History-African History | |
| HIAF 4501 | Seminar in African History (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| History-European History | |
| HIEU 2102 | Modern Jewish History (3) |
| Survey of Jewish history from the seventeenth century to the present, primarily in Europe, but with further treatment of Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel. Major topics include Jewish historical consciousness; patterns of emancipation; religious adjustment; the role of women; anti-Semitism; Zionism; the American Jewish experience; the Holocaust; the establishment of Israel; and Jewish life in Europe after the Holocaust. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| History-Latin American History | |
| HILA 2001 | Colonial Latin America, 1500-1824 (3) |
| Introduces major developments and issues in the study of Latin American history from Native American societies on the eve of the Spanish Conquest to the wars of national independence in the early 19th century. | |
| HILA 2002 | Modern Latin America, 1824 to Present (3) |
| Introduces the history of Latin America from national independence in the early 19th century to the present. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| HILA 3051 | Modern Central America (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Studies the history of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador from 19th century fragmentation, oligarchic, foreign, and military rule, to the emergence of popular nationalisms. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| HILA 4501 | Seminar in Latin American History (4) |
| The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HILA 4511 | Colloquium in Latin American History (4) |
| The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| History-United States History | |
| HIUS 1001T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Artistic, Interpretive, and HIUSosophical Inquiry. | |
| HIUS 1002T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Cultures and HIUSieties of the World. | |
| HIUS 1003T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to HIUSorical Perspectives. | |
| HIUS 1004T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to HIUSial and Economic Systems. | |
| HIUS 1005T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Chemical, HIUSematical, and HIUSical Inquiry | |
| HIUS 1006T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Living Systems. | |
| HIUS 1007T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalentto current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Science and HIUSiety | |
| HIUS 1501 | Introductory Seminar in U.S. History (3) |
| Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 1559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Fall 2017 | |
| HIUS 2001 | American History to 1865 (3) |
| Studies the development of the colonies and their institutions, the Revolution, the formation and organization of the Republic, and the coming of the Civil War. Course was offered Summer 2025, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 2002 | American History Since 1865 (3) |
| Studies the evolution of political, social, and cultural history of the United States from 1865 to the present. Course was offered Spring 2025, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| HIUS 2051 | War and the Making of America to 1900 (3) |
| This course examines warfare and military developments in America from the colonial period to 1900. Major topics include debates over the role of the military in society; the motivations and experiences of soldiers; interaction between the military and civilian spheres; the development of a professional army and navy; and the social and cultural context, impact, and legacies of warfare. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 2052 | America and War Since 1900 (3) |
| This is a course on war and the American experience during the last century-plus. It is a sequel to HIUS 2051, which covers U.S. military history from 1600 to 1900. This part of the course includes the how and why of traditional military history but goes further, tackling issues in intelligence or technology or economics -- from the rise of intelligence agencies to the growth of a military-industrial complex. | |
| HIUS 2053 | American Slavery (3) |
| This course will introduce students to the history of slavery in the United Sates. Course was offered Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 | |
| HIUS 2061 | American Economic History (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Studies American economic history from its colonial origins to the present. Cross-listed as ECON 2060. |
| HIUS 2101 | Technologies of American Life (3) |
| From Thomas Edison to Elon Musk, we've all heard stories of heroic inventors. In this course you'll explore a different history of technology: how it's shaped the ordinary lives of Americans, and how ordinary Americans shaped our common technologies. By viewing technology from the bottom-up, you'll learn how to question and challenge the powerful stories about technology that surround us today. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022 | |
| HIUS 2201 | US Immigration Law and Policy in Historical Perspective (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will trace the origins of today's immigration policy debates by providing students with a comprehensive overview of American immigration law and policy from the eighteenth century to the present. The course will also explore how state and federal policies impacted a wide array of immigrants, including the Irish, Chinese, and Mexican arrivals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 |
| HIUS 2559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012 | |
| HIUS 3011 | Colonial British America (3) |
| This course tells the story of British America from an Atlantic perspective. The thirteen colonies that formed the United States were once part of a larger empire that spanned eastern North America and the Caribbean. From 1500 to 1800, cross-cultural encounters among Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans created a dynamic new world. Key topics trade, religion, agriculture, slavery, warfare, and the origins of the American Revolution. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3031 | The Era of the American Revolution (3) |
| Studies the growth of ideas and institutions that led to American independence, the creation of a union, and a distinct culture. | |
| HIUS 3051 | The Age of Jefferson (3) |
| This course uses Thomas Jefferson as a lens to explore the post revolutionary era in the United States (ca. 1776-1830), with a focus on race and slavery, trans-nationalism, imperialism, and legal/constitutional developments. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| HIUS 3071 | The Coming of the Civil War (3) |
| Examines the period from roughly 1815 to 1861 focusing on the interaction between the developing sectional conflict and the evolving political system, with the view of explaining what caused the Civil War. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3072 | The Civil War and Reconstruction (3) |
| Examines the course of the Civil War and Reconstruction in detail and attempts to assess their impact on 19th century American society, both in the North and in the South. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| HIUS 3081 | History of the American Deaf Community (3) |
| This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community of Deaf people who share a distinct sign language and culture. We will read both primary texts from specific periods and secondary sources. We will also view a few historical films.
Prerequisite: none (though a previous class in History or ASL is recommended) | |
| HIUS 3131 | From Lincoln to Roosevelt: America in the Gilded Age (3) |
| Analyzes the distinct characteristics of American modernity as they emerge in the period from the end of reconstruction to the Great Depression. Explores the creation of big business and large-scale bureaucratic organizations. Includes the first military-industrial complex of World War I, the invention of R & D, the growth of research universities, and the modern organization of knowledge. Describes the landscape of new large urban hinterlands; analyzes the difficult encounters of class, ethnicity, race, and gender both at home and at work; and studies the changing leisure patterns of a consumer culture. | |
| HIUS 3161 | Viewing America, 1940 to 1980 (3) |
| Built around the history of mainstream and independent American film, this course explores how Americans have viewed and interpreted various historical moments and processes through the movies. | |
| HIUS 3162 | Digitizing America (3) |
| This class will explore the history of the United States from 1980 to the present through the lens of the information revolution that occurred during this period. We will examine the origins of the technological changes like the mainframe computer, merged media, the emergence of the internet, and the impact that they had on the economy, politics and social interaction. | |
| HIUS 3171 | US Since 1945: People, Politics, Power (3) |
| Surveys post World War II U.S. politics uncovering the links between long range social and economic phenomenon (suburbanization, decline of agricultural employment, the rise and fall of the labor movement, black urbanization and proletarianization, economic society and insecurity within the middle class, the changing structure of multinational business) and the more obvious political movements, election results, and state policies of the last half century. Course was offered Spring 2025, Summer 2022, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3172 | America in Vietnam (3) |
| This course will cover the history of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945 through 1975. It will offer a detailed study of U.S. political, economic, cultural, and military policy through a wide range of scholarship on the U.S. engagement with Vietnam, focusing on the war's impact in Southeast Asia and in the United States. | |
| HIUS 3173 | The Vietnam War in American Film (3) |
| This course will examine landmark films on the Vietnam War from the 1960s through the present. Lectures and discussion focusing on between 8 and 10 films, which students will watch as part of class, will explore the history and themes depicted in these films, highlighting directorial viewpoints, the contexts in which the films were produced and received, their historical accuracy, and their impact on the legacy of the war in American culture. | |
| HIUS 3232 | The South in the Twentieth Century (3) |
| Studies the history of the South from 1900 to the present focusing on class structure, race relations, cultural traditions, and the question of southern identity. | |
| HIUS 3261 | History of the American West (3) |
| The course examines the relationships of environment and culture and of native and settler peoples in transforming North America west of the Mississippi River, 1750 to present. We will explore the expansion of the United States; its environmental consequences; and the emergence of a mythic culture casting violence as heroic. | |
| HIUS 3282 | History of Virginia, 1900 to 2018 (3) |
| History is the study of continuity and changes over time. This course will examine social, political, and economic continuities and changes in Virginia from 1900 to 2018. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3301 | The History of UVa in the Twentieth Century (3) |
| Studies the local, regional, and national trends effecting higher education, relating these trends specifically to the University of Virginia. Students are active participants in recovering the institution's history through oral interviews with alumni, faculty, and administrators and through serious archival work. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| HIUS 3411 | American Business (3) |
| Surveys the rise of the modern corporate form of American business and an analysis of the underlying factors which shaped that development. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| HIUS 3451 | History of Urban America (3) |
| Studies the evolution of the American city from colonial times to the end of the nineteenth century. Emphasizes both the physical growth of the system of cities and the development of an urban culture, including comparisons with European and Asian cities. | |
| HIUS 3455 | History of U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914 (3) |
| Studies American foreign relations from colonial times to 1914. | |
| HIUS 3456 | America in the World since 1914 (3) |
| Studies American foreign relations from 1914 to the present. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3471 | History of American Labor (3) |
| Surveys American labor in terms of the changing nature of work and its effect on working men, women, and children. Emphasizes social and cultural responses to such changes, as well as the organized labor movement. | |
| HIUS 3490 | From Motown to Hip-Hop (3) |
| This survey traces the history of African American popular music from the late 1950s to the current era. It examines the major sonic innovations in the genres of soul, funk, and hip-hop over the course of the semester, students will examine how musical expression has provided black women and men with an outlet for individual expression, community building, sexual pleasure, political organizing, economic uplift, and interracial interaction | |
| HIUS 3491 | Rural Poverty in Our Time (3) |
| This course will use an interdisciplinary format and document based approach to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the US South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect during the Great Depression, the War on Poverty, and the present. | |
| HIUS 3501 | Introductory History Workshop (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term. |
| HIUS 3523 | Disco and Disillusionment: The United States in the 1970s (3) |
| This lecture provides both a chronological and thematic approach to the history of 1970s America. Class will focus on significant shifts in American politics, culture, and society. The course will encourage us to think more deeply about the fate of liberalism in post-1960s America, the rise of ethnic identity and its impact on the rights revolution, gender and the politics of sexuality, religion and the rise of the South, Nixon and Watergate. Course was offered Spring 2019 | |
| HIUS 3559 | New Course in United States History (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2009 |
| HIUS 3611 | Gender & Sexuality in AM, 1600-1865 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Studies the evolution of women's roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups. |
| HIUS 3612 | Gender & Sexuality in America, 1865 to Present (3) |
| Studies the evolution of women's roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups. Course was offered Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| HIUS 3620 | All Politics is Local (3) |
| The history of local government and local politics in shaping American life. Course examines issues, themes, and problems of local democracy in historical and contemporary contexts. Class meetings combine lectures and discussions. Course includes local civic engagement component. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 | |
| HIUS 3641 | American Indian History (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | From the post-Ice Age migrations to the Americas to current developments in tribal sovereignty, this survey course will include such topics as mutually beneficial trade and diplomatic relations between Natives and newcomers; the politics of empire; U.S. expansion; treaties and land dispossession; ecological, demographic, and social change; pan-Indian movements; and legal and political activism. |
| HIUS 3652 | Afro-American History since 1865 (3) |
| Studies the history of black Americans from the Civil War to the present. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| HIUS 3654 | Black Fire (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the history and contemporary experiences of African Americans at the University of Virginia from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the present era. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2015 |
| HIUS 3671 | African American Freedom Movement, c 1945-Present (3) |
| This course examines the history and legacy of the African American struggle for civil rights in twentieth century America. It provides students with a broad overview of the civil rights movement -- the key issues, significant people and organizations, and pivotal events -- as well as a deeper understanding of its scope, influence, legacy, and lessons for today Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 3752 | The History of Early American Law (3) |
| Studies the major developments in American law, politics, and society from the colonial settlements to the Civil War. Focuses on legal change, constitutional law, legislation, and the common law from 1776 to 1860. | |
| HIUS 3753 | The History of Modern American Law (3) |
| Studies the major developments in American law, politics, and society from the era of Reconstruction to the recent past. Focuses on legal change as well as constitutional law, legislation, and the common law. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| HIUS 3756 | American Legal Thought since 1880 (3) |
| A survey of American legal thought from Holmes to Posner. Emphasizes theories of property, contract, tort, corporations and administrative law in Legal Realism, Legal Process Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, and Critical Legal Studies. Course was offered Spring 2014 | |
| HIUS 3852 | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States since 1865 (3) |
| Analyzes the main traditions of thought and belief in the relationship to significant historical events and cultural changes from the Civil War to the present. | |
| HIUS 3853 | From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how and why real estate ownership, investment, and development came to play a critical role in the formation and endurance of racial segregation, modern capitalism, and the built environment. |
| HIUS 4160 | History Behind the Headlines (4) |
| This course takes advantage of the nationally known academic experts, journalists, and policy-makers who come through UVa's Miller Center of Public Affairs each week. Based on the work of these visiting scholars, students will consider the historical background of some of our most pressing policy and public affairs issues. Assignments will include extensive weekly readings, a few short op-eds, and a lengthy original research essay. | |
| HIUS 4260 | Voices of the Civil War (3) |
| This course uses the writings of participants to examine major themes relating to the American Civil War. Assigned texts will illuminate, among other topics: (1) Why the war came; (2) How it evolved from a struggle for Union to one for Union and emancipation; (3) How the conflict affected civilians on both sides; (4) Why soldiers fought; and (5) How men and women on each side remembered the war and how those memories influence current perceptions. Course was offered Spring 2018 | |
| HIUS 4501 | Seminar in United States History (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| HIUS 4511 | Colloquium in United States History (4) |
| The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies. | |
| HIUS 4559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. | |
| HIUS 4591 | Topics in United States History (3) |
| Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis. Course was offered Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 4993 | Independent Study in United States History (1 - 3) |
| In exceptional circumstances and with permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Enrollment is open to majors or non-majors. Note: These courses are open only to Human Biology majors. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 5000 | African-American History to 1877 (3) |
| This course will introduce graduate students to the differing interpretations, methodologies, and analyses of African-American History to 1877. | |
| HIUS 5232 | Oral History Workshop: A Hands-On Approach to Researching the Past (3) |
| The course is run as a workshop, a space for students to learn oral history methodologies in a hands-on manner. In partnership with local/regional organizations, students will learn to conduct interviews and related research, which may include completing historical surveys, doing genealogical work, & completing archival or database research. Students will learn new skills while helping expand historical archives and knowledge of regional history. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023 | |
| HIUS 5559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2010 | |
| HIUS 6175 | Law in American History: The Twentieth Century (3) |
| A survey of law in American history in the twentieth century. Some topics to be covered include jurisprudence and legal education from Legal Realism through "aw and"; regimes of mass media law; the emergence of administrative law; and several chapters on constitutional jurisprudence from 1930 to 2000, including foreign relations, equal protection, free speech, and due process. | |
| HIUS 6240 | Constitutional Law II: Poverty (3) |
| This course will explore the Supreme Court's flirtation with constitutional protection for poor people during the 1960s and 1970s. We will place the Court's efforts in the context of the civil rights movement and ongoing concerns about race. Finally, we will discuss the demise of such protections, the reasons for it, and the recent developments in constitutional interest in poverty, income inequality, and their relationship to racial inequality. | |
| HIUS 6559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Fall 2020, Spring 2020 | |
| HIUS 7011 | Colloquium in US History to 1877: Teaching the American History Survey (3) |
| This course is designed to help students craft an undergraduate course on the first half of the US Survey. Through both reading and discussion, we will focus on the big questions of the period and consider the various ways in which one might convey a narrative(s). Attention will be given to pedagogy and content, with emphasis on best practices in the classroom. Students will design their own course with a syllabus, assignments, and lectures. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| HIUS 7021 | Comparative Cultural Encounters in North America, 1492-1800 (3) |
| This course examines Spanish, French, Dutch, and British encounters with the native peoples of North America during the initial centuries of colonization: 1492-1800. It combines the "Atlantic" approach to early America with a "Continental" approach that accords dynamism and agency to native peoples in their interplay with colonizers. | |
| HIUS 7031 | Colonial British America (3) |
| This colloquium offers an introduction to themes, regions, and debates in the history of colonial and Revolutionary America. It will focus on colonization, development, and cultural encounter in early North America, West Indies, and the Atlantic World in the early modern period, ca. 1600-1800, from a variety of historical approaches. | |
| HIUS 7057 | Judicial Role in American History (3) |
| A survey of leading American Supreme Court judges from Marshall through the Burger Court. The course consists of lectures and readings, along with discussions of topics on contemporary issues. The course also provides an overview of the two hundred-plus year history of the Court and its role in the American constitutional system. | |
| HIUS 7061 | Black Intellectual and Cultural Production since the 1960s (3) |
| We'll explore the intellectual and cultural production of the civil rights/Black power era and its enabling and uneasy relationship with other social movements, incl. feminism and gay liberation, disability rights, the anti-apartheid movement, and demands for economic justice/redress/reparations. A guiding premise in the course will be tensions within the movement giving rise to subsequent Black thought and activism. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2009 | |
| HIUS 7072 | Civil War And The Constitution (3) |
| This course will examine the constitutional history of the United States from 1845 to 1877, paying attention to how the U.S. Constitution shaped the Civil War, and also to how the war left its mark on the Constitution. | |
| HIUS 7082 | Foundational Texts of the 19th Century US (3) |
| This course will acquaint students with foundational texts relating to 19th-Century U.S. history. The primary goal is to provide a sound understanding of books, essays, and other documents that often are mentioned but too seldom read carefully. The readings will convey crucial insights into the political, social, cultural, military, and economic history of the century--though they are not intended to offer comprehensive coverage of the era. | |
| HIUS 7151 | The United States, 1945-Present (3) |
| An intensive reading course emphasizing historiographic approaches to synthesizing post-war America. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2019 | |
| HIUS 7559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| HIUS 7621 | Topics in United States Gender History (3) |
| This colloquium will survey foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on the social construction of femininity and masculinity in U.S. history, from the colonial era to 1900. We will explore how gender conventions take shape, and how they are perpetuated and contested. Our readings reconsider key events in women's and gender history such as the Salem witch trials and Seneca Falls convention. | |
| HIUS 7641 | The American West Since 1850 (3) |
| This is a graduate readings seminar in which students will become familiar with the major issues in the history of the American West including, but not limited to, American Indians, the environment, and the federal presence in the region. | |
| HIUS 7658 | Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History (3) |
| Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| HIUS 7659 | Twentieth Century US Cultural Hisory (3) |
| This readings course introduces graduate students to the theory, methods, and historiography of cultural history through a survey of key texts in twentieth century US history. | |
| HIUS 8452 | History of the American Administrative State (3) |
| This course will explore the development of the American administrative state from the nineteenth century through the present. This course will engage political and theoretical debates over the bureaucratic state's role, and its implications for democracy and inequality. Readings will include work by historians, social scientists, and legal academics. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| HIUS 8559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. | |
| HIUS 8755 | American Legal History (3) |
| Directed research in selected areas of American legal history. | |
| HIUS 9000 | Slavery & Emancipation in American History (3) |
| This seminar will examine the literature on the history of slavery and emancipation in the United States and the Atlantic World. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| HIUS 9023 | Tutorial in Early American History to 1763 (3) |
| The course examines the historiography of colonial British America and the Atlantic world from the late sixteenth century through the late eighteenth century. It surveys scholarship on the imperial and Atlantic contexts of early modern colonization and focuses on the regional histories of settlement and development in North America and the Caribbean with a special focus on Native Americans and African Slavery. Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 | |
| HIUS 9035 | Tutorial in American Economic History (3) |
| A graduate tutorial devoted to close analysis of key issues in American Economic History from 1750 to 1940. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2020 | |
| HIUS 9559 | New Course in United States History (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history. | |
| General Linguistics | |
| LNGS 2220 | Black English (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces the history and structure of what has been termed Black English Vernacular or Black Street English. Focuses on the sociolinguistic factors that led to its emergence, its present role in the Black community, and its relevance in education and racial stereotypes. Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2011 |
| LNGS 2240 | Southern American English (3) |
| An examination of the structure, history, and sociolinguistics of the English spoken in the southeastern United States. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| Media Studies | |
| MDST 3105 | Latina/o Media Studies (3) |
| This course is designed to introduce students to critical analyses of media texts, media industries, and media audiences that help explain the social, political, economic, and cultural locations of Latinas/os in America. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2012 | |
| MDST 3402 | War and the Media (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines media coverage of American wars from World War I to the present. Study of the evolution in media coverage of war provides an ideal vantage point for understanding the changing nature of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries, war's impact on American society, and the ways in which political elites have attempted to mobilize public support for foreign conflicts. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 3502 | Special Topics in Film Genre (3) |
| This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, January 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, January 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| MDST 3505 | Special Topics in Diversity and Identity in Media (3) |
| This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on issues of diversity and identity in media studies. Topics may include the relationship between media and underrepresented groups, media use in identity construction, masculinity and feminine role models in media, media power, etc.
Prerequisite: MDST Major and Minors or Instructor Permission Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, January 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 | |
| MDST 4559 | New Course in Media Studies (3) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, January 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| Music | |
| MUSI 2070 | Popular Musics (3) |
| Scholarly and critical study of music circulated through mass media. Specific topic for the semester (e.g. world popular music, bluegrass, country music, hip-hop, Elvis Presley) announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| MUSI 2120 | History of Jazz Music (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required. Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| MUSI 3120 | Jazz Studies (3) |
| Introduction to jazz as an advanced field of study, with equal attention given to historical and theoretical approaches. Prerequisite: MUSI 3310 or comparable fluency in music notation, and instructor permission. Course was offered Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| MUSI 4510 | Cultural and Historical Studies of Music (3) |
| Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| MUSI 4512 | Studies in Jazz Literature (3) |
| Topics, announced in advance, exploring the world of jazz music. Prerequisite: MUSI 3120 or instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2013 | |
| MUSI 4525 | Topics in Ethnomusicology (3) |
| Addresses specific issues and cultural areas according to the interests of the students and instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. | |
| Urban and Environmental Planning | |
| PLAN 1010 | Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Analyzes community and environmental planning in the United States; the planning process; and sustainable communities. |
| PLAN 3500 | Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in planning. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 | |
| Politics-American Politics | |
| PLAP 2250 | American Political Tradition (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the theoretical ideas that informed the creation and development of America's political system and considers some of the major contemporary challenges to the maintenance of American liberal democracy. Topics to be treated include the political thought of the American Founders, the place of religion in public life, the nature of written constitutions and the role of America in the world. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAP 2500 | Special Topics in American Politics (3) |
| Special Topics in American Politics. | |
| PLAP 3190 | Judicial Process and Policy-Making (3) |
| Survey of empirical and, to a lesser extent, normative questions concerning actors and institutions in American judicial politics. Topics include the selection of judges, judicial decision making, the legal profession, the impact of court decisions, and the role of judges in a democracy. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or permission of instructor. Course was offered Summer 2020, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| PLAP 3270 | Public Opinion and American Democracy (3) |
| This course examines public opinion and its place in American democracy. We study the psychological and political roots of citizens' opinions, as well as the relationship between public opinion and political campaigns, the media, and government. This class replaces PLAP 2270 there fore you will not get credit for the course twice. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 | |
| PLAP 3350 | American Congress (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Focuses on the contemporary organization and workings of the United States Congress. Emphasizes elections, the committee system, political parties, staff, and the law-making process, as well as the role of Congress in the national policy making system. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 |
| PLAP 3370 | Workshop in Contemporary American Electoral Politics (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Provides students with the opportunity to be directly involved with the research, programming, operations, and outreach of the University's non-profit, non-partisan Center for Politics. Includes projects focused on state and national politics, political history, civic engagement, voter behavior, media and politics, campaign finance and political analysis. Prerequisite: instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAP 3700 | Racial Politics (3) |
| Examines how attributions of racial difference have shaped American Politics. Topics include how race affects American political partisanship, campaigns and elections, public policy, public opinion, and American political science. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| PLAP 3810 | Constitutional Interpretation: Separation of Powers and Federalism (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Studies the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and the functional and territorial distribution of powers as reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes the nature of the judicial process. (No CR/NC enrollees.) Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAP 3820 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (3) |
| Studies judicial construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations. (No CR/NC enrollees.) Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| PLAP 4180 | Political Advertising and American Democracy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Explores the role of political advertising in American democracy. Examines ad messages as strategic political communications, analyzing both classic and contemporary ads. Explores the effects (if any) of political advertising on citizens' attitudes and behavior. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 |
| PLAP 4360 | Campaigns and Elections (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Reviews and analyzes the techniques and technologies of modern American election campaigns. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. |
| PLAP 4500 | Special Topics in American Politics (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Investigates a selected issue in American government or American political development. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAP 4601 | Democracy in America (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Democracy in America Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAP 4841 | Seminar in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (3) |
| Explores the vexatious lines between the rights of individuals and those of the state in democratic society, focusing on such major issues as freedom of expression and worship; separation of church and state; criminal justice; the suffrage; privacy; and racial and gender discrimination. Focuses on the judicial process. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. | |
| Politics-International Relations | |
| PLIR 4380 | America in a World Economy (3) |
| Seminar focusing on politics of the international trade and monetary systems, emphasizing third world industrialization, trade conflicts between the U.S. and Japan, and the global debt crisis. Prerequisite: PLIR 2050 or instructor permission. | |
| Politics-Political Theory | |
| PLPT 3200 | African-American Political Thought (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the critical and the constructive dimensions of African American political thought from slavery to the present. We will assess the claims that black Americans have made upon the polity, how they have defined themselves, and how they have sought to redefine key terms of political life such as citizenship, equality, freedom, and power. Course was offered Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 |
| PLPT 4060 | Politics & Literature (3) |
| This seminar considers how works of fiction enhance our understanding of the terms of democratic life. The theme for the spring of 2020 is the life and afterlife of slavery in American political experience; and the central authors are Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. | |
| PLPT 4070 | Liberalism and Its Critics (3) |
| Major themes in the liberal tradition of political theory. The course examines central elements of liberal political theory and traces the development of classical liberalism into contemporary welfare-state liberalism. Focus is on strengths and weaknesses of both positions, and criticisms of the overall liberal approach. Among authors covered are Locke, Mill, Hobhouse, Rawls, and Nozick. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| PLPT 4305 | American Political Thought to 1865 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the development of American political thought from the Puritans through the Civil War. The questions they posed and attempted to answer are the eternal questions of all political thought, such as, what is the best form of government; what are the rights and obligations of citizens; what is the proper relationship between the state and religion. |
| Religion-African Religions | |
| RELA 2850 | Afro- Creole Religions in the Americas (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | A survey course which familiarizes students with African-derived religions of the Caribbean and Latin America Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 |
| RELA 3351 | African Diaspora Religions (3) |
| This seminar examines changes in ethnographic accounts of African diaspora religions, with particular attention to the conceptions of religion, race, nation, and modernity found in different research paradigms. Prerequisite: previous course in one of the following: religious studies, anthropology, AAS, or Latin American studies | |
| Religion-Christianity | |
| RELC 2401 | History of American Catholicism (3) |
| This course engages in a historical survey of American Catholicism from colonial beginnings to the present. It especially explores the theme of how Catholicism has been enculturated in America, how Catholic faith and practice have interacted with the social, cultural, and political environment of the nation. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| RELC 2559 | New Course in Christianity (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity Course was offered Fall 2021, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, January 2014, Fall 2013, January 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| Religion-General Religion | |
| RELG 2150 | Religion in American Life and Thought to 1865 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine American religious life and thought prior to the Civil War, including but not limited to Puritanism, the "Great Awakening," slavery, the American Revolution, reform movements, and the Civil War. |
| RELG 2160 | Religion in American Life and Thought from 1865 to the Present (3) |
| Includes American religious pluralism, religious responses to social issues, and the character of contemporary American religious life. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| RELG 2660 | "Spiritual But Not Religious": Spirituality in America (3) |
| This course asks: what does "spiritual but not religious" mean, and why has it become such a pervasive idea in modern America? We'll study everything from AA to yoga to Zen meditation, with stops in Christian rock, Beat poetry, Abstract Expressionist painting and more. In the end, we'll come to see spirituality in America as a complex intermingling of the great world religions, modern psychology, and a crassly commercialized culture industry. Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| RELG 3200 | Martin, Malcolm, and America (3) |
| An analysis of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| RELG 4220 | American Religious Autobiography (3) |
| Multidisciplinary examination of religious self-perception in relation to the dominant values of American life. Readings represent a variety of spiritual traditions and autobiographical forms. | |
| Sociology | |
| SOC 2320 | Gender and Society (3) |
| Gender and Society Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| SOC 2442 | Systems of Inequality (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person's life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| SOC 3410 | Race and Ethnic Relations (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| SOC 4100 | Black Community Life (3) |
| Study of a comprehensive contemporary understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the African-American community. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 | |
| SOC 4750 | Racism (3) |
| Racism, the disparagement and victimization of individuals and groups because of a belief that their ancestry renders them intrinsically different and inferior, is a problem in many societies. In this course we will examine the problem of racism by investigating the workings of these sociological processes theoretically, historically, and contemporaneously. | |
| Spanish | |
| SPAN 3420 | Politics and Power in the Early Americas (1492 - 1800) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces students to the expressions and experiences of people in the early Americas. By studying primary source materials, students will enrich their knowledge of the colonial period while further developing methods of historical and literary analysis. By the end of the course, students will be able to close read primary sources, situate them within specific historical contexts, and explain their analysis in spoken and written Spanish. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| SPAN 3430 | Contemporary Latin American Voices (1800 to the present) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course provides students with a survey of Latin American literature and the context in which it developed from 1800 to the present. This course will cover how the region's cultural production has been shaped by its cultures, peoples, and historical events, the consciousness, memory, and imagination expressed within the region's literature, and how the region's representation has been shaped by who has (and has not) had access to literature. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| SPAN 4310 | Latin American Women Writers from 1900 to the Present (3) |
| Study of major Latin American women writers from 1900 to the present, including poets, essayists, playwrights, and fiction writers. Discussion will focus on the literary representation of issues related to gender and culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement. | |
| SPAN 4319 | Borges (3) |
| This course offers an overview of Borges' short stories and some essays and poems. The aim is to present Borges as dominating the great shift in literary sensibility in Spanish America in the 1940s, his influence on the 'Boom' and the relevance of his work to the notions of Modernism and Post-modernism in the Anglo-Saxon sense. The course will attempt to cover not only the thematics of Borges' main works but also his innovations in technique.
Study of major literary works from the 20th and 21st centuries by Mexican authors, including poetry, fiction, essay and/or theatre. Discussion will focus on literary representation, historical and gender issues relevant to this period in Mexican society.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| SPAN 4320 | Contemporary Latin-American Short Fiction (3) |
| Contemporary Latin-American Short Fiction Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| SPAN 4520 | Special Topics Seminar: Culture and Civilization (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 |
| SPAN 4621 | Latin American Women Poets (3) |
| In this course we will read extensively from the poetry of the three most famous women poets of Latin America in the twentieth century: Uruguay's Delmira Agustini, Argentina's Alfonsina Storni, and Chile's Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement | |
| SPAN 4710 | Latin American Culture and Civilization (3) |
| Latin American Culture and Civilization Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| SPAN 4712 | Travelers in Latin America (3) |
| In this course we will study diaries and accounts of travelers in Latin America since the first European got in contact with the continent for the first time What did they see? What did they want to see? How did the describe it? How much influence their account had in the construction of continental imaginary. We will start with el Diario of Christopher Columbus, and finish with some diaries of today.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 | |
| SPAN 4715 | Cuban Culture Through Cinema (3) |
| The aim of this course is to study Cuban films in the context of Cuba's history and culture. The course will include the viewing of films outside the classroom (roughly one a week), readings about the films, history, and culture. Please note that out-of-class preparation and the reading load will be significant. The format of the class will be lecture/discussion with a strong emphasis on class participation.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement. | |
| Women and Gender Studies | |
| WGS 3611 | Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1600-1865 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the first European settlements to the Civil War. |
| WGS 3612 | Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present (3) |
| This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the Civil War to the present. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |