American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

AMST 1312

This course examines the development and cultural significance of rock music from its origins in blues, gospel, and Tin Pan Alley up to alternative rock and hip hop. The course concludes with the year ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MUSIC 1312

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3772 AMST 1312   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3773 AMST 1312   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3774 AMST 1312   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3775 AMST 1312   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3776 AMST 1312   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3777 AMST 1312   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3778 AMST 1312   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3779 AMST 1312   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3780 AMST 1312   DIS 208

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1500

At the inception of this department at Cornell University in 1969, the Africana Studies and Research Center became the birthplace of the field Africana studies. Africana studies emphasizes comparative ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4303 AMST 1500   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4304 AMST 1500   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1540

This course studies the history of American capitalism. It helps you to answer these questions: What is capitalism? Is the U.S. more capitalist than other countries? How has capitalism shaped the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1540ILRGL 1845

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9882 AMST 1540   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

      Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9883 AMST 1540   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9884 AMST 1540   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9885 AMST 1540   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9886 AMST 1540   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9887 AMST 1540   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9888 AMST 1540   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9889 AMST 1540   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9890 AMST 1540   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9891 AMST 1540   DIS 209

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9892 AMST 1540   DIS 210

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9893 AMST 1540   DIS 211

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9894 AMST 1540   DIS 212

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9895 AMST 1540   DIS 213

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9896 AMST 1540   DIS 214

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1595

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction Nadir of black life; the mass black insurgency ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 1595HIST 1595

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9938 AMST 1595   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1601

This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 1110

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13055 AMST 1601   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13056 AMST 1601   DIS 201

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13057 AMST 1601   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13058 AMST 1601   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2000

This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2000COML 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  4597 AMST 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4598 AMST 2000   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4599 AMST 2000   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4600 AMST 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4601 AMST 2000   DIS 204

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4602 AMST 2000   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4603 AMST 2000   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4604 AMST 2000   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4605 AMST 2000   DIS 208

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2001

Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University the first American university, referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2999HIST 2005

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  4360 AMST 2001   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Earle, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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AMST 2012

As a country, we are what we remember. But who decides what facts and stories about the past are important enough to memorialize? What does that decision tell us about power and truth? This class will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 2011SHUM 2011

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6566 AMST 2012   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Margulies, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2162

This course provides an overview of public opinion in the United States. We will learn how opinions affect and are affected by politics. This course is divided into two sections where we will answer two ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 2162

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17825 AMST 2162   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Andrews, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2208

This course surveys research on inequalities in education, income, wealth, prestige, occupation, political power, and health in the U.S. and other rich countries. How much inequality exists and why is ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PUBPOL 2208SOC 2208

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6387 AMST 2208   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6388 AMST 2208   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6389 AMST 2208   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6390 AMST 2208   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6391 AMST 2208   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6392 AMST 2208   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6393 AMST 2208   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6394 AMST 2208   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6395 AMST 2208   DIS 209

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2251

Americans are conflicted about immigration. We celebrate and commercialize our immigrant heritage in museums, folklife festivals, parades, pageants, and historical monuments. We also build fences and detention ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2251LSP 2251

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9935 AMST 2251   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2280

This course examines the evolution of modern rational legal capitalism as the dominant economic order of the global economy. It explores the question of capitalism and socialism through the lens of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRGL 2180SOC 2280

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  6447 AMST 2280   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Nee, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2353

This course explores the changing meaning of American freedom and citizenship in the context of the long struggle for black liberation. Relying on social and political history, it confronts the promise, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 2353HIST 2353

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9944 AMST 2353   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9945 AMST 2353   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 2365

Public policy is a fundamental mechanism for addressing the most vexing and important social problems of our time. Racial inequality and structural racism are chief among such problems. Policy is thus ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PUBPOL 2370SOC 2370

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17818 AMST 2365   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17819 AMST 2365   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17820 AMST 2365   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17821 AMST 2365   DIS 203

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17822 AMST 2365   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2640

An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AAS 2130HIST 2640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9715 AMST 2640   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9716 AMST 2640   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9717 AMST 2640   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9718 AMST 2640   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9719 AMST 2640   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9720 AMST 2640   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2650

This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2680ENGL 2650SHUM 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6238 AMST 2650   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2660

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 2660HIST 2660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9836 AMST 2660   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9837 AMST 2660   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9838 AMST 2660   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2700

This course focuses on African American and African Diaspora visual art from the 1800s to the present. It introduces significant artists and artworks as well as key movements, social, political, and economic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2700ASRC 2700

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17840 AMST 2700   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17841 AMST 2700   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17842 AMST 2700   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2710

This course aims to explore and answer a single question about America's promise-of success if you work hard and do well in school: Why do we have such substantial and long-standing inequality in the U.S.? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11583 AMST 2710   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  • 11584 AMST 2710   LEC 002

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11585 AMST 2710   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11586 AMST 2710   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11587 AMST 2710   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11588 AMST 2710   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2729

Who lived in the Ithaca area before American settlers and Cornell arrived? Where do these indigenous peoples reside today? This class explores the history and culture of the Gayogoho:no (Cayuga), which ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2720ANTHR 2720ARKEO 2720

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14787 AMST 2729   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2775

In this course, we will learn about the history of the West. We will deconstruct popular myths about the West, as we engage with the major themes and significant debates that define the historical scholarship. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2765LSP 2765

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10034 AMST 2775   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10035 AMST 2775   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 2785

This course examines controversies in the theory and history of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? Can law breaking ever be civil rather than criminal? Do disruptive ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2785PHIL 2945

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6549 AMST 2785   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6550 AMST 2785   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6551 AMST 2785   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6552 AMST 2785   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6553 AMST 2785   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2790

What does it mean to call a film is Jewish? Does it have to represent Jewish life? Does it have to feature characters identifiable as Jews? If artists who identify as Jews-actors, directors, screenwriters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2790PMA 2490VISST 2790

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1433 AMST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Shapiro, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2801

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 2800

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18212 AMST 2801   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Strang, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2980

Provides an introduction to the role computing and information technologies played in political public life, from tabulating machines used to calculate the census to Big Tech's impact on democratic procedures, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16941 AMST 2980   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Vidan, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in America," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6029ASRC 3029ASRC 6029

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17852 AMST 3029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3131

A general-education course to acquaint students with how our legal system pursues the goals of society. The course introduces students to various perspectives on the nature of law, what functions it ought ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3131LAW 4131

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  6719 AMST 3131   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chutkow, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18279 AMST 3131   DIS 201

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3237

This course examines compelling and complementary philosophies, pieties, and consequences of the Black Power era to the present. With an eye to the history that precedes this era, we chart the liberatory ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3237

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17851 AMST 3237   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pickett, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3271

In this course, we will examine one of the most important documents in American history - our Constitution. Course topics will include the historical background of the document from the Magna Carta to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5321 AMST 3271   LEC 001

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Christie, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3322

In her pathbreaking text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman writes that young Black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17826 AMST 3322   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3401

At the conclusion of World War II, the United States ushered in a new international order based on the principles of the Atlantic Charter, which became the basis for the United Nations Charter: including ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3401GOVT 3211

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4312 AMST 3401   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Grovogui, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3420

Social Justice highlights refugee-led organizing and its intersections with un/documented and Indigenous beyond borders activism. We will work with and learn from refugee and asylum seekers led organizations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3402FGSS 3400GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17866 AMST 3420   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3445

Is the U.S. college system a great equalizer or a cause of growing inequality? Improved access to higher education has brought millions of Americans into the middle class, and yet rising selectivity has ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3770ILRLE 3445

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9261 AMST 3445   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Riehl, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3508

In 1940, with the publication of his novel Native Son, Richard Wright helped to launch the protest era in African American literature. This course focuses on the development of key fiction and nonfiction ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3508ENGL 3508

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17827 AMST 3508   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3525

Our focus in this course will be on the vibrantly varied body of poetry produced in the United States during the 20th century. Encompassing strains of worldly celebration and prophetic rage, visionary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3525

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6324 AMST 3525   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gilbert, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3571

America has fought two wars in the 21st century, in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were the longest wars in American history and ended badly, amid much ambivalence about the defense policies that created them. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18075 AMST 3571   LEC 001

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Silbey, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: students participating in the Cornell in Washington, Brooks DC Connect program.

AMST 3602

This course examines the history of culture in North America from the pre-contact era to present. We will examine how Native, African, European, Asian, and Latino/a influences, along with colonization, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3602

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10044 AMST 3602   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Clark, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3617

This course is open to experienced rappers, beatmakers, and vocalists interested forging collaborative relationships with other students. Taking as a foundation hip-hop's relationship to social justice, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3616

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  4224 AMST 3617   STU 501

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fall, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3760

In 1968, amongst cultural and political turmoil, the American film industry adopted the ratings system, which helped usher in the kinds of cinema we know today. This course focuses on developments in U.S. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PMA 3560VISST 3760

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4363 AMST 3760   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4364 AMST 3760   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4365 AMST 3760   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3808

In this course we will explore the origins and consequences of mass incarceration- extraordinarily high incarceration rates within particular demographic groups above and beyond historical levels in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PUBPOL 3810SOC 3810

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  5332 AMST 3808   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3820

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the Americas? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  1211 AMST 3820   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3980

Affords opportunities for students to carry out independent research under appropriate supervision. Each student is expected to review pertinent literature, prepare a project outline, conduct the research, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4328 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

AMST 3990

Individualized readings for junior and senior students. Topics, requirements, and credit hours will be determined in consultation between the student and the supervising faculty member. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4341 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

AMST 4011

This seminar will explore the relationship between diversity and democracy in American political thought and in the social sciences more broadly. In the US, understandings of what “diversity” means have ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: GOVT 4011

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6594 AMST 4011   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bateman, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6595 AMST 4011   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bateman, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4021

American conservative thought rests on assumptions that are strikingly different from those made by mainstream American liberals. However, conservative thinkers are themselves committed to principles ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: GOVT 4021

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6542 AMST 4021   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6543 AMST 4021   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4051

The death penalty has gotten increased media attention due to high profile death row exonerations, and has long been under siege for other reasons, such as racial disparities in its imposition and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 4051

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6710 AMST 4051   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Blume, J

      Stanley, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4076

How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17956 AMST 4076   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17958 AMST 4076   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4160

This course explores poverty and inequality in American society through the lens of ethnographic and other field-based research. We will read classic and contemporary texts which have shaped our understanding ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PUBPOL 4160SOC 4160

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  5249 AMST 4160   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Waller, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4515

This seminar brings together work in critical black studies and psychoanalysis with recent black art histories to examine black abstraction and conceptualism. Blackness can be understood as a concept made ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17834 AMST 4515   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4577

As Latinx studies continues to expand beyond its nationalistic origins and re-examines its geographical bounds, nuancing the role of borders within the field becomes urgent. This course probes at the primacy ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4577LSP 4577SPAN 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6343 AMST 4577   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6344 AMST 4577   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4612

This seminar will explore the extraordinary literature, music, art, and film emerging from and about Los Angeles. As a global city, Los Angeles offers a glimpse of a world in transit; one that challenges ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4612LSP 4612

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18024 AMST 4612   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18025 AMST 4612   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4674

The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4674HIST 4674SHUM 4674

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10014 AMST 4674   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4675

This course focuses on works that exemplify environmental consciousness-a sense that humans are not the center of the world and that to think they are may have catastrophic consequences for humans themselves. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4675

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6321 AMST 4675   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6322 AMST 4675   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4681

This course explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country and examines the increasing scholarship surrounding arts programs and their efficacy for incarcerated persons. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4681SHUM 4081

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5479 AMST 4681   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4705

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks. Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5472 AMST 4705   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4944

This course is a theoretical exploration of digital biopolitics, a convergence of how digital technologies mediate, govern, and regulate life, particularly within frameworks of power and control. Extending ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  1232 AMST 4944   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4994

To graduate with honors, AMST majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an AMST faculty member and defend that thesis orally before a committee. Students interested in the honors program ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4344 AMST 4994   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4345 AMST 4994   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4351 AMST 4994   IND 610

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 5710

This course aims to explore and answer a single question about America's promise-of success if you work hard and do well in school: Why do we have such substantial and long-standing inequality in the U.S.? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11607 AMST 5710   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  • 11608 AMST 5710   LEC 002

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11609 AMST 5710   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11610 AMST 5710   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11611 AMST 5710   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11612 AMST 5710   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in AMerica," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3029ASRC 3029ASRC 6029

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17991 AMST 6029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6076

How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17960 AMST 6076   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17963 AMST 6076   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6515

This seminar brings together work in critical black studies and psychoanalysis with recent black art histories to examine black abstraction and conceptualism. Blackness can be understood as a concept made ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17836 AMST 6515   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person