2011-2012 Archived Catalog Information

Required Core Component, 4 Credits

AMST 111    Defining America and Americans

Designated Course Component, 16 Credits

Four courses from the following list, with no more than 8 credits in any one department.

AMST 311    American Studies: European Perspective
AMST 313    American Renaissance: Emerson and His Contemporaries
AMST 314    American Baroque: Emersonian Influences on 20th-Century American Culture

BLKST 169    African-American Genealogy
BLKST 295    Black Women in America
BLKST 296    Medical Experimentation in the United States 
BLKST 299    Research Seminar: Busing in Boston - The Moakley Archives
BLKST 323    Seeking Freedom: African Americans Making Life in New England From the Colonial Era to the Present
BLKST 469    Research Seminar: African American Life in Slavery and Freedom – Reconstruction and the Freeman’s Bureau Papers

CJN 285    Media and Popular Culture I
CJN 286    Media and Popular Culture II
CJN 365    The American Cinema
CJN 485    Rhetoric of Protest and Reform

EHS 372    Environmental Law
EHS 503    Foundations of Education
EHS 711    Critical Issues in Education

ENG 353    The Rise of American Fiction
ENG 354    Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe
ENG 355    American Prose 1870 - 1920
ENG 356    Whitman and Dickinson
ENG 357    African-American Literature
ENG 359    Selected African-American Authors
ENG 361    Contemporary American Fiction: 1950 - Present
ENG 364    Modern American Poetry
ENG 365    Contemporary American Poetry
ENG 367    20th-Century American Fiction, 1920 - 1950
ENG 369    Modern American Drama
ENG 387    Writing Women
ENG 396    American Political Literature
ENG 398    Boston: A City in Fiction
ENG 407    Seminar in American Theatre History
ENG 486    The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film

GVT 204    Women in American Politics
GVT 223    American Pol & Institutions
GVT 224    American Politics & Policy
GVT 243    American Constitutional Law
GVT 244    Civil Liberties
GVT 253    State and Local Government
GVT 279    Minority Politics in the US
GVT 309    Critical Pers on Civil Rights
GVT 315    Labor in American Politics
GVT 328    American Law, Govt and Policy
GVT 329    Law for Env Prot & Pollu Prev
GVT 335    Health Care Policy
GVT 337    Public Policy & Business
GVT 346    The American Presidency
GVT 347    Legislative Politics
GVT 348    Blacks and the U.S. Constitution
GVT 352    Constitutional Reform
GVT 355    American Parties and Politics
GVT 356    Massachusetts Politic & Elect
GVT 360    Elections and Voting
GVT 363    American Foreign Policy
GVT 366    Massachusetts Legis. Process
GVT 402    Town Govern Origins & Practice
GVT 430    Intro to Campaign & Elections
GVT 431    Congress: Polarized Politics
GVT 432    Legal Issues Campaign & Elect
GVT 434    Immigration Policy and Politics
GVT 435    Race and Public Policy
GVT 437    Social Welfare Policy
GVT 438    Environmental Policy & Politics
GVT 449    The Crisis Presidency
GVT 455    African American Politics
GVT 473    American Political Thought

HST 169    African-American Genealogy
HST 221    William Lloyd Garrison in Boston’s Abolition Movement
HST 224    Civil Rights in the 20th Century
HST 249    The US, Mid-East, & Gulf Wars
HST 271    African-American History, 1619 - 1860
HST 272    African-American History Since 1860
HST 280    History of U.S. Latin American Relations
HST 290    19th-Century America
HST 291    American Foreign Relations to 1898
HST 292    American Foreign Relations Since 1898
HST 293    Race and Reconstruction
HST 294    Atlantic World History
HST 295    Black Women in America
HST 296    Medical Experimentation in the United States 
HST 299    Research Seminar: Busing in Boston - The Moakley Archives
HST 307    U.S. Race Relations, 1877-1945
HST 318    History of Sports in America
HST 319    History of Black Music in America
HST 323    Seeking Freedom: African Americans
HST 333    U.S. in the 20th Century: 1898-1945
HST 334    The United States, 1945-1970
HST 335    The United States Since 1970
HST 359    The Age of Franklin
HST H359    The Age of Franklin (Honors Level Course)
HST 360    Native America: From Pre-History to the Trail of Tears
HST 361    Native America: 1832 to the Present
HST 362    History of Piracy
HST 363    Naval History: U.S.S. Constitution
HST 370    Workers in America
HST 371    U.S. Women’s History: Colonial to 1865
HST 372    U.S. Women’s History: 1865 to Present
HST 380    History of Plymouth
HST 381    American Colonial History
HST 382    The American Revolution
HST 383    Boston: The Heritage of a City
HST H483    Death, Disease and Healing in American History (Honors-Level Course)
HST 386    Antebellum Boston
HST 388    Crime in America: 20th-Century Case Studies
HST 389    American Constitutional History I
HST 390    Constitutional History II: From the 14th Amendment to the Present
HST 391    The Young Nation: U.S. History 1789 - 1850
HST 392    The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HST 394    Slavery in History, Literature, and Film
HST 395    Race and Ethnicity in American History
HST 469    Research Seminar: African American Life in Slavery and Freedom - Reconstruction and the Freedmen's Bureau Papers
HST 471    Unraveling Selfhood: The Body, Personal Identity, and Sexuality in American History
HST 481    Boston in History, Literature, and Film
HST 482    Culture of the Sixties
HST 483    Death, Disease, and Healing in American History
HST 484    The History of the Emotions in Marriage and Family Life
HST 485    History of American Law
HST 486    The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film
HST 489    Law, Literature, and History

HUM 211    Music of the United States
HUM 227    Jazz
HUM 311    Art of the United States
HUM 320    Art and Architecture of New England

PHIL 253    Philosophy of America

PSYCH 239    Black Psychology
PSYCH 245    Consumer Psychology
PSYCH 341    Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology
PSYCH 474    Community Psychology

SOC 223    Families in Contemporary Society
SOC 227    Race in American Society
SOC 237    Drugs and Society
SOC 238    Cops and Robbers: Crime on Film
SOC 275    Women and Crime
SOC 286    Women and Work
SOC 325    Popular Culture in America
SOC 326    Social Movements

THETR 301    Fifty Years of American Musicals