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AMERICAN STUDIES COURSE LISTS PRIOR TO AUTUMN 2018
Total: 65 credits
Of the 65 credits in the major, students must take one course that meets the Ethnicity/Race subject matter requirement. This may be taken within the credits of Areas of Focus or elsewhere in the major.
FOUNDATION COURSES: 35 CREDITS
- Required:
- One of the following skills and methods courses:
- One of the following:
- One of the following:
- Two of the following American Studies Topics Courses:
- TAMST 410 Studies in U.S. Popular Culture (formerly TCULTR 410)
- TAMST 420 Drugs and U.S. Culture
- TAMST 430 Queer Performance
- TAMST 440 Gender and American Childhood
- TLIT 311 Themes in American Literature
- TSOC 434 Women, Race and Class: Identity and Intergroup Relations
- TSOC 455 The Sociology of Gender
AREAS OF FOCUS: 30 CREDITS
American Studies students have access to broad-ranging curriculum and the opportunity to concentrate their study in one of the three designated areas. Courses that offer an exploration into American political and economic thought, American philosophic traditions and United States legal institutions are housed in American Systems & Experiments (List A). The myriad ways in which individual and community experiences are expressed in art, literature and popular culture are explored in the contingent of courses titled American Lives (List B). Courses selected for American Spaces (List C) reflect either a geographical or a metaphorical exploration of the political, cultural economic or environmental terrain. Because courses are drawn from a variety of disciplines and cover a wide range of material, some courses straddle two lists, and students are welcome to use a course for either requirement. With the exception of courses that meet the Ethnicity/Race requirement, a single course cannot meet multiple requirements.
Students take six (6) Areas of Focus courses; two (2) from each list.
- List A: American Systems & Experiments
- (Political thought, systems of belief and philosophy and economy, and legal institutions as social experiments in the U.S.)
- (Political thought, systems of belief and philosophy and economy, and legal institutions as social experiments in the U.S.)
- List B: American Lives
- (Individual and community experience and its expression in art, literature, popular culture and other areas)
- (Individual and community experience and its expression in art, literature, popular culture and other areas)
- List C: American Spaces
- (Geography, environments: urban, suburban, rural, natural, Inter-American or the U.S. in international contexts)
Of the 65 credits in the major, students must take one course that meets the Ethnicity/Race subject matter requirement. This may be taken within the credits of Areas of Focus or elsewhere in the major.
LIST A: AMERICAN SYSTEMS & EXPERIMENTS
- TAMST 420 Drugs and U.S. Culture
- TANTH 365 North American Indian Traditions
- TCOM 353 Critical Approaches to Mass Communication
- TCOM 465 Contemporary Free Speech Issues
- TECON 316 Current Issues in US Public Policy (formerly TECON 416)
- TEGL 202 Introduction to Contemporary American Indian Issues
- TEGL 303 Introduction to American Indian Education
- THIST 322 American Labor Since the Civil War
- THIST 343 Vietnam and the 1960s
- THIST 410 Early American Politics, Constitution, and Law
- THIST 411 History of Religion in American
- THIST 413 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties
- THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis
- THIST 440 Black Labor in American
- TLAW 150 Introduction to the American Legal System (formerly TLAW 205)
- TLAW 320 American Constitutional Law: Institutional Powers and Constraints (formerly TPOLS 320)
- TLAW 465 Law and Public Policy in the United States (formerly TPOLS 465)
- TLIT 433 Native American Literature and Federal Indian Law
- TPHIL 354 American Modes of Thought and Experience
- TPHIL 356 Themes in American Philosophy
- TPOLS 260 American Political Theory
- TPOLS 343 Community and Labor Organizing: Multicultural Perspective (formerly TPOLS 456)
- TPOLS 400 The American Presidency
- TRELIG 310 Religious Diversity in America
- TSOC 335 Social Class and Inequality
- TSOC 436 History of Social Welfare Policy in the United States
- TSOC 455 Sociology of Gender
- TWOMN 345 Women and Work in the United States
LIST B: AMERICAN LIVES
- TAMST 120 Mythic America
- TAMST 220 Introduction to Popular Culture (formerly TCULTR 210)
- TAMST 410 Studies in U.S. Popular Culture (formerly TCULTR 410)
- TAMST 430 Queer Performances
- TAMST 440 Gender and American Childhood
- TAMST 450 Monstrous Imagination (formerly TCULTR 450)
- TANTH 365 North American Indian Traditions
- TARTS 225 Musical History of Tacoma
- TARTS 471 Culture and Meaning in the Visual Arts
- TCOM 258 Children and Television
- TCOM 444 Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Media
- TEGL 201 Introduction to American Indian Education
- TEGL 202 Introduction to American Indian Contemporary Issues
- TEGL 271 American Indians in Film
- TEGL 301 Introduction to Indigenous Women and Feminism
- TEGL 305 American Indian Movement
- TEGL 419 African-American Culture and Consciousness
- TFILM 386 Silent Cinema
- TFILM 458 Media Genres: Conspiracy Thriller
- TFILM 486 Feminist Perspectives in Film and Literature
- TFILM 488 Gender and Sexuality in Film
- TGEOG 420 Gender, Space and Culture
- THIST 340 History of the United States-American Indian Relations
- THIST 377 Art of the Americas
- THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis
- THIST 420 African American Religious History
- THIST 440 Black Labor in America
- THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective
- THIST 442 History of African American Education
- THIST 444 The Pacific Northwest
- THIST 445 History of Tacoma
- TIAS 300 The Making of America
- TIAS 515 Themes in the Interpretation of Culture
- TLAW 361 American Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties (formerly TPOLS 361)
- TLAW 452 Minorities and the Law
- TLAX 238 Latinos in the United States (formerly THISP 238)
- TLIT 210 Studies in American Literature
- TLIT 306 Studies in Selected American Writers
- TLIT 311 Themes in American Literature
- TLIT 313 American Poetry
- TLIT 320 African American Literature
- TLIT 324 African American Women's Literature
- TLIT 331 Immigrant and Ethnic Literature
- TLIT 332 Asian American Literature
- TLIT 335 Middle Eastern American Literature
- TLIT 338 Writing in the Pacific Northwest
- TLIT 425 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- TLIT 431 Contemporary Native American Women's Literature
- TLIT 432 American Indian Literature
- TLIT 438 American Folklore
- TLIT 439 Western American Literature
- TLIT 476 American Women's Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Texts
- TPOLS 202 Introduction to American Politics
- TPOLS 251 Cultural Studies
- TPOLS 260 American Political Theory
- TPOLS 321 American Foreign Policy
- TPOLS 400 The American Presidency
- TPOLS 450 Contemporary Theories of Culture
- TPSYCH 349 Sexual Identities
- TRELIG 310 Religious Diversity in America
- TSOC 265 Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- TSOC 432 Schooling in the United States
- TSOC 434 Women, Race and Class: Identity and Intergroup Relations
- TSOC 435 Migration in the Modern World: Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees
- TSOC 436 History of Social Welfare Policy in the United States
- TSOC 437 Immigration Today
- TSOC 446 Family Relationships and Diverse Family Forms in the United States
- TSOC 447 AIDS and American Society
- TSOC 455 The Sociology of Gender
- TWOMN 101 Introduction to Women's Studies
- TWOMN 345 Women and Work in the United States
- TWOMN 347 History of Women in the United States
LIST C: AMERICAN SPACES
- TAMST 101 American Art, Place and Space
- TAMST 250 Science Fiction in American Culture
- TARTS 210 The African Diaspora through Music: The Rhythm, the Blues and Beyond
- TARTS 240 Landscape in Contemporary Art
- TARTS 280 3-Dimensional Art and Contemporary Approaches to Sculpture
- TARTS 395 Community-Based Arts Practice
- TBIOL 232 Issues in Biological Conservation (formerly TESC 232)
- TBIOL 234 Biology, History and Politics of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest (formerly TESC 234)
- TBIOL 236 Sustainable Agriculture (formerly TESC 236)
- TCOM 220 Social Media
- TCOM 247 Television Studies
- TCOM 440 Advertising and Consumer Culture
- TECON 418 Urban Problems and Policies
- TEGL 304 Indigenous Ethnoecology
- TEGL 340 Race, Gender and Sexuality in a Global Perspective
- TEGL 464 Indigenous Health, Political Ethnoecology and Governance (formerly TANTH 464)
- TESC 345 Pollution and Public Policy
- TEST 332 A Natural History of Garbage
- TGEOG 403 Geography of the United States of America and Canada
- TGEOS 216 Pacific Northwest Geology (formerly TESC 316)
- TGEOS 243 Geography of the Physical Environment (formerly TESC 243)
- TGEOS 247 Maritime History and Science in the Pacific Northwest (formerly TESC 247)
- THIST 378 American Architecture (formerly THIST 226)
- THIST 444 The Pacific Northwest
- THIST 445 History of Tacoma
- THIST 456 North American Regions
- THIST 495 The Metropolis
- TIAS 328 The American Environment: Literature, Culture and Social Policy
- TIAS 443 Ethnicity and the Urban Landscape
- TLAW 438 Environmental Law (formerly TPOLS 438)
- TLAX 323 The Making of Mexico (formerly THISP 323)
- TLAX 325 Mexico: Problems and Perspectives (formerly THISP 325)
- TLAX 410 Caribbean Basin: Selected Topics (formerly THISP 410)
- TLIT 237 Introduction to Literature and the Environment
- TLIT 437 Topics in Literature and Environment
- TLIT 439 Western American Literature
- TPOLS 224 Modern Latin America
- TPOLS 321 American Foreign Policy
- TPOLS 440 American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- TURB 230 Cities and the Constitution
- TURB 312 Race and Poverty in Urban America
- TURB 315 Homes, Housing and Homelessness
- TURB 360 The African American Urban Experience
- TURB 479 Planning and Development in the Puget Sound Region
- TWRT 389 Nature Writing
ETHNICITY/RACE REQUIREMENT
In addition to TAMST 210, students in American Studies are required to take at least one course within the requirements of the major that focuses on how ethnicity and race have been fundamental to the development of American culture. Courses that fulfill this requirement are noted on the list below.
- TCOM 444 Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Media
- TEGL 201 Introduction to American Indian Education
- TEGL 202 Introduction to American Indian Contemporary Issues
- TEGL 301 Introduction to Indigenous Women and Feminism
- TEGL 302 Tribal Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Theory
- TEGL 303 Introduction to American Indian Education
- TEGL 305 American Indian Movement
- TEGL 419 African-American Culture and Consciousness
- THIST 340 History of the United States-American Indian Relations
- THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis
- THIST 440 Black Labor in America
- THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective
- THIST 444 The Pacific Northwest
- TLAW 452 Minorities and the Law (formerly TPOLS 452)
- TLAX 238 Latinos in the United States (formerly THISP 238)
- TLIT 324 African American Women's Literature
- TLIT 331 Immigrant and Ethnic Literature
- TLIT 332 Asian American Literature
- TLIT 425 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- TLIT 431 Contemporary Native American Women's Literature
- TLIT 433 Native American Literature and Federal Indian Law
- TSOC 265 Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
- TSOC 434 Women, Race and Class: Identity and Intergroup Relations
- TURB 312 Race and Poverty in Urban America
