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.

American Studies

• AMST 311 American Studies: European Perspective
• AMST 312 American Studies from a European Perspective II
• AMST 313 American Renaissance: Emerson and His Contemporaries
• AMST 314 American Baroque: Emersonian Influences on 20th-Century American Culture

Black Studies

• BLKST 169 African-American Genealogy
• 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

Art History

• ARH 311 Art of the U.S.
• ARH 320 Visual Culture of New England
• ARH 321 Women, Art, and Society

Communication and Journalism

• CJN 217 Gay and Lesbian Studies
• CJN 285 Media and Popular Culture I
• CJN 286 Media and Popular Culture II
• CJN 288 Film Language: From Silents to Citizen Kane
• CJN 290 Women in Struggle on Film
• CJN 291 Film Studies: the Modern Era
• CJN 358 Family Studies: the Modern Era
• CJN 365 The American Cinema
• CJN 389 Social Media
• CJN 465 Film and Society
• CJN 485 Rhetoric of Protest and Reform

Education and Human Services

• EHS 310 Culturally Responsive Education
• EHS 402 History and Philosophy of American Education
• EHS 414 Urban Schooling
• EHS 424 Issues and Trends in American Education

English

• ENG 217 American Literature I
• ENG 218 American Literature II
• ENG 352 Global American Literature
• ENG 353 Dwelling in American Realism
• 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 360 Mid-Twentieth Century American Fiction
• ENG 361 Contemporary American Fiction
• ENG 362 Asian-American Literature
• ENG 364 Modern American Poetry
• ENG 365 Contemporary American Poetry
• ENG 367 20th-Century American Fiction, 1920-1950
• ENG 369 Modern American Drama
• ENG 380 Wharton and James
• ENG 387 Writing Women
• ENG 398 Boston: A City in Fiction
• ENG 407 Seminar in American Theatre History
• ENG 481 Boston in History, Literature, and Film
• ENG 486 The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film

Government

• GVT 204 Women in American Politics
• GVT 223 American Politics & 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 U.S
• GVT 309 Critical Perspectives on Civil Rights
• GVT 328 American Law, Govt and Policy
• GVT 329 Law for Environmental Protection & Pollution Prevention
• GVT 335 Health Care Policy
• GVT 337 Public Policy & Business
• GVT 346 The American Presidency
• GVT 347 Legislative Politics
• GVT 348 Law, Race, and Gender
• GVT 352 Constitutional Reform
• GVT 355 American Parties and Politics
• GVT 360 Elections and Voting
• GVT 363 American Foreign Policy
• GVT 366 Massachusetts Legislative Process
• GVT 402 Town Government; Origins & Practice
• GVT 430 Intro to Campaign & Elections
• GVT 431 Congress: Polarized Politics
• GVT 432 Legal Issues in Campaign & Elections
• GVT 434 Immigration Policy and Politics
• GVT 435 Race and Public Policy
• GVT 438 Environmental Policy & Politics
• GVT 449 The Crisis Presidency
• GVT 455 African American Politics
• GVT 473 American Political Thought

History

• 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 287 Atlantic World: Print to Progress
• 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 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 The United States, 1898-1945
• HST 334 The United States, 1945-1970
• HST 335 The United States Since 1970
• HST 353 Military History of New England 
• 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 364 Oral History
• HST 365 Presenting History: Media & Methods of Public History
• HST 366 Preserving History: Museums, Archives, and Historical Sites
• HST 367 Freedom Trail 101: Historical Education at Boston's Historic Sites
• HST 368 Boston's Historic Houses
• 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 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 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
• HST 494 Politics and Protest

Music History

• MUH 211 Music of the United States
• MUH 227 Jazz
• MUH 233 The Blues
• MUH 331 Music in Film

Philosophy

• PHIL 253 Philosophy of America
• PHIL 263 Native American Religion

Psychology

• PSYCH 241 Social Psychology
• PSYCH 333 Adult Development & Aging
• PSYCH 334 Adolescent Development
• PSYCH 341 Sociocultural Perspectives 
• PSYCH 346 Community Psychology

Sociology

• SOC 223 Families in Contemporary Society
• SOC 227 Race in American Society
• SOC 228 Cultural Diversity and Human Need
• SOC 240 Licit or Lethal: America's Legal Drug Problem
• 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
• SOC 345 Welfare and Welfare Reform
• SOC 347 Immigration Law and Policy

Theatre

• THETR 225 Intro to Theatre Arts
• THETR 226 Intro to Theatre Arts II
• THETR 227 Introduction to Theatre Arts III
• THETR 310 Broadway Musicals
• THETR 455 The American Resident Theatre
• THETR H460 A House for Words to Live In: How Jones Simonson, Mielziner and Aronson Changed Theatre Design in America