American Studies (AMST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 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

  • 10608 AMST 1312   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10609 AMST 1312   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10610 AMST 1312   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10611 AMST 1312   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10612 AMST 1312   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10613 AMST 1312   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10614 AMST 1312   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10615 AMST 1312   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10616 AMST 1312   DIS 208

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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 1500, GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14628 AMST 1500   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14629 AMST 1500   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1585

This course will explore the relationship between sports and politics over the course of American history since the 19th century. Sports and politics have come together surprisingly frequently in the last ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10407 AMST 1585   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10408 AMST 1585   DIS 201

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10409 AMST 1585   DIS 202

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10410 AMST 1585   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10411 AMST 1585   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10412 AMST 1585   DIS 205

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10413 AMST 1585   DIS 206

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10414 AMST 1585   DIS 207

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10415 AMST 1585   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10416 AMST 1585   DIS 209

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10417 AMST 1585   DIS 210

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • 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

  •  5835 AMST 1601   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Kassam, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5836 AMST 1601   DIS 201

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5837 AMST 1601   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1802

This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as America. We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history-territorial expansion and empire, migration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10426 AMST 1802   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 1986

This course provides an overview of disastrous attempts at colonization in the Americas from ca. 1500 through ca. 1760. Over thirteen weeks, we will engage with the question of why some attempts at colonization ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 1986, HIST 1986, LATA 1986

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10466 AMST 1986   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10467 AMST 1986   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10468 AMST 1986   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10469 AMST 1986   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10470 AMST 1986   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • 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 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5168 AMST 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5169 AMST 2000   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5170 AMST 2000   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5171 AMST 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5172 AMST 2000   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5173 AMST 2000   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5174 AMST 2000   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5175 AMST 2000   DIS 207

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5176 AMST 2000   DIS 208

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • 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 2999, HIST 2005

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  3999 AMST 2001   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Earle, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    If you are unable to enroll, see https://forms.gle/8KKWpd2E2TWeieM16 to add yourself to the waitlist.

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 2011, SHUM 2011

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 13717 AMST 2012   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Margulies, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2016

This course is a seminar focused on a service-learning approach to understanding the history of neoliberal transformations of the global economy through the lens of an island (Jamaica) and a community ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one field studies. Combined with: ASRC 2006, HIST 2006

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10349 AMST 2016   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10350 AMST 2016   FLD 801

    • Mar 27 - Apr 4, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Taught in Petersfield, Jamaica.

AMST 2105

The musical is a distinct and significant form of American performance. This course will consider the origins, development, and internationalization of the American musical and will emphasize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2150, MUSIC 2250, PMA 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8223 AMST 2105   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2106

This course is an introduction to Latina/o Studies, an interdisciplinary field of knowledge production that focuses on historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and economic experiences of Latinx peoples in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 2100

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8082 AMST 2106   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ambriz, E

  • 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 2208, SOC 2208

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8529 AMST 2208   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8530 AMST 2208   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8531 AMST 2208   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8532 AMST 2208   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8533 AMST 2208   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8534 AMST 2208   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8535 AMST 2208   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8536 AMST 2208   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8537 AMST 2208   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2248

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8059 AMST 2248   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2322

This course uses art and popular culture to provide a dynamic view of Black religion in the United States and the Diaspora throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Discussion topics include: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2322, RELST 2322

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 14648 AMST 2322   LEC 001

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2350

This introductory course surveys archaeology's contributions to the study of American Indian cultural diversity and change in North America north of Mexico. Lectures and readings will examine topics ranging ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2350, ANTHR 2235, ARKEO 2235

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4581 AMST 2350   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jordan, K

  • 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 2353, HIST 2353

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10355 AMST 2353   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10356 AMST 2353   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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 2370, SOC 2370

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 13078 AMST 2365   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13079 AMST 2365   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13080 AMST 2365   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13081 AMST 2365   DIS 203

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13082 AMST 2365   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2401

Latina/os have always been part of U.S. history, yet the media often represents Latinx as only recent immigrants or as stereotypes that reduce rich cultures into a single, unified category or group of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2400, ENGL 2400, LSP 2400

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7668 AMST 2401   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2507

While the march toward the Civil War centers race in our recollection of the nineteenth century, the question of slavery’s abolition was deeply intertwined with issues of gender and citizenship. One challenge ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2505, FGSS 2505

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17563 AMST 2507   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sanders, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2581

This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity's interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2581, HIST 2581

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10303 AMST 2581   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sachs, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10304 AMST 2581   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10305 AMST 2581   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10306 AMST 2581   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10307 AMST 2581   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2600

The production of North American Indigenous literatures began long before European colonization, and persists in a variety of printed, sung, carved, painted, written, spoken, and digital media. From oral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2600, ENGL 2600

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5826 AMST 2600   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hu Pegues, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2635

This course looks at the American Gothic tradition as showing us the fissures in early American political life specifically around the issues of slavery and Native American land rights. While Gothic literature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7700 AMST 2635   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2652

This survey course introduces students to key movements and figures in North American Art, Architecture, and Design across the twentieth century. Engaging with works of art and design from within the cannon ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2650

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17557 AMST 2652   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Blanchfield, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17558 AMST 2652   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Blanchfield, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17559 AMST 2652   DIS 202

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Blanchfield, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2690

This course introduces students to major American poets from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is designed for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of and appreciation for poetry while ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2690

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7698 AMST 2690   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hutchinson, G

  • 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
  • 13425 AMST 2710   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13427 AMST 2710   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13428 AMST 2710   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13429 AMST 2710   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13430 AMST 2710   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  • 13426 AMST 2710   LEC 002

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • 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 2765, LSP 2765

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10521 AMST 2775   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10522 AMST 2775   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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 2790, PMA 2490, VISST 2790

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15355 AMST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Shapiro, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 2955

Why no socialism in America? Scholars and activists have long pondered the relative dearth (compared to other industrialized societies) of sustained, popular, anticapitalist activity in the United States. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2955, HIST 2955

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10446 AMST 2955   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Rickford, R

  • 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
  • 14654 AMST 3029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3121

This is a class about the American criminal justice system-from policing to prisons, from arrest to reentry. In many ways, the operation of the modern criminal justice system is taken for granted, which ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3121

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13713 AMST 3121   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Margulies, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17540 AMST 3121   DIS 201

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17542 AMST 3121   DIS 202

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17546 AMST 3121   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Margulies, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17548 AMST 3121   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17550 AMST 3121   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17552 AMST 3121   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • 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 3131, LAW 4131

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16899 AMST 3131   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Chutkow, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 16900 AMST 3131   DIS 201

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3230

This course is designed to introduce students to important theories, concepts, and empirical findings in the study of aging and policy, giving them a deeper understanding of the issues people encounter ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PUBPOL 3230, SOC 3230

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17075 AMST 3230   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Reyes, A

  • 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, RELST 3237

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14659 AMST 3237   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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
  • 13085 AMST 3271   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Christie, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3323

This course asks a deceptively simple question: what do we mean by “American music?” This class explores how the idea of American music was constructed, debated, and contested from the nineteenth century ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3323

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17074 AMST 3323   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Skoronski, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3355

This popular course was introduced here at Cornell a decade ago. This year will mark the third time that we’ve been able to offer it, in light of all the moving parts and unique components that pulling ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3350, ENGL 3950, FGSS 3350

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14642 AMST 3355   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3405

This course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 3405, EDUC 3405, LSP 3405

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4570 AMST 3405   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4571 AMST 3405   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4572 AMST 3405   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4573 AMST 3405   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4574 AMST 3405   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3406

Hardly a day passes that we do not encounter some reference to the idea of Conservatism in ordinary discourse, especially in the political sphere. And there is no dearth of claimants to conservative identity. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3406

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17072 AMST 3406   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3418

Environmental Justice Studio is a space for engaged learning and research, giving students an opportunity to join ongoing struggles to seed more equitable environmental futures. Each semester, students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3418

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4665 AMST 3418   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ahmann, C

      Bize, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3420

Social Justice: Special Topics explores feminist, anthropological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on social justice. It connects domestic and international concerns and fosters active and engaged learning, ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17501 AMST 3420   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3422

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3422, RELST 3422

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14651 AMST 3422   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dromgoole, A

  • 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 3770, ILRLE 3445

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14201 AMST 3445   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Riehl, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3515

Why is the black home and black place an unstable concept in the United States? Why does spatial disinvestment, gentrification, redlining, and eminent domain disproportionately target black people and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3515, ASRC 3515

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17543 AMST 3515   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3565

Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping clean at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3565, ENGL 3565, FGSS 3565

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7694 AMST 3565   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Frazier, C

  • 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
  • 13155 AMST 3571   LEC 001

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Silbey, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

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

  • 10530 AMST 3602   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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

  • 11049 AMST 3617   STU 501

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Fall, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3715

This seminar overviews political theories of colonialism and empire, and in doing so, allows us to pose questions about the constitutive elements of our modernity, such as slavery, racism, dependency, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3715

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13711 AMST 3715   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Adalet, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3732

When an African and an African American meet, solidarity is presumed, but often friction is the result. In this course, we will consider how Africans and African Americans see each other through literature. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3742, ENGL 3742, SHUM 3742

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7679 AMST 3732   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3752

This course invites students to consider how Black women interacted with material objects and how these artifacts informed the contexts of their daily lives. the history of Black women as creators, consumers, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 3750, HIST 3750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17134 AMST 3752   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Alexander, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17483 AMST 3752   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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 3810, SOC 3810

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 13096 AMST 3808   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sykes, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3812

Anchoring the East and West coasts, New York and Los Angeles have been celebrated and excoriated in films. On the edge literally and metaphorically, these cities seem to be about competing visions of urban ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3441, VISST 3812

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3996 AMST 3812   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3885

Across twentieth-century history, race and war have been dynamic forces in shaping economic organization and everyday livelihoods. This course will approach labor and working-class history, through a focus ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3885, HIST 3884, ILRGL 3885

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14227 AMST 3885   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Nagaraja, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 3911

This course reviews the changing relations between science, technology, and the state in America, focusing on the period from 1960 to the present. We will explore science-intensive policy controversies. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3091, STS 3911

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8618 AMST 3911   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hilgartner, S

  • 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

  •  3969 AMST 3980   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.

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

  •  3981 AMST 3990   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.

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 that ... 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

  • 13705 AMST 4021   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13706 AMST 4021   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4022

This course examines the history and afterlives of U.S. war and empire across the Asia/Pacific region and the politics they engender for Asian/Pacific Americans. Since the Philippine American war (1898-1904), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 4020, ASIAN 4458, PMA 4020

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3223 AMST 4022   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 16885 AMST 4051   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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
  • 10555 AMST 4076   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10556 AMST 4076   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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 4160, SOC 4160

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 13003 AMST 4160   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Waller, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4246

Since the first live sporting event was televised in 1939, sports and television have enjoyed a privileged relationship. Sports coverage has driven technological advances in television production, while ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4446

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4002 AMST 4246   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Contess, K

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Contess, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4290

American society has changed dramatically over the last century, arguably most profoundly in terms of gender and gender roles. This course examines changing interpretations of gender through film and sociology. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 4290

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8570 AMST 4290   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Strang, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4412

This course focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between media technologies and society, approaching media not as a set of technologies but as a set of practices, infrastructures, and struggles ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4412, PMA 6412

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8246 AMST 4412   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Obadike, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4515

Abstract art poses generative problems and possibilities for thinking racial blackness. Some accounts posit a turn from figurative representation to visual abstraction of blackness/black experience as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5228 AMST 4515   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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 4577, LSP 4577, SPAN 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7711 AMST 4577   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7712 AMST 4577   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4640

Forced or chosen, migration exacts complex costs. How have writers from across the globe adopted and changed the novel -- a form associate with rise of imperialism -- to tell stories about migration and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4640, ENGL 6640, LSP 4640

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17565 AMST 4640   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17566 AMST 4640   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 4672

This course will explore the cultural, political and social ramifications of stand-up comedy through the lens of twentieth and twenty-first century stand up comedians. Because of streaming services, Stand ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4671

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8232 AMST 4672   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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 4681, SHUM 4081

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8228 AMST 4681   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4712

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17048 AMST 4712   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4792

This course examines Latinx education in comparative perspective, with a focus on transnational communities and cross-border movements that link U.S. Latinx education with Latin American education. We ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4659 AMST 4792   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 4851

Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4851, HIST 6851, LSP 4851, LSP 6851

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17490 AMST 4851   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17487 AMST 4851   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  3984 AMST 4994   IND 603

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3985 AMST 4994   IND 604

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3991 AMST 4994   IND 610

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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
  • 13443 AMST 5710   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13445 AMST 5710   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13446 AMST 5710   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13447 AMST 5710   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13448 AMST 5710   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sipple, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  • 13444 AMST 5710   LEC 002

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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
  • 14657 AMST 6029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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
  • 10537 AMST 6076   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10538 AMST 6076   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6202

This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ANTHR 6102, GOVT 6202, HIST 6202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13675 AMST 6202   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13676 AMST 6202   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bensel, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6240

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8063 AMST 6240   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6252

This course explores the concepts of membership, belonging, citizenship and (im)migration with regards to the U.S. Latina-o-x experience. In this course, we will examine how historically, politically, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: GOVT 4000, GOVT 6252, LSP 6252

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17051 AMST 6252   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Coronado, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17053 AMST 6252   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Coronado, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 6515

Abstract art poses generative problems and possibilities for thinking racial blackness. Some accounts posit a turn from figurative representation to visual abstraction of blackness/black experience as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5231 AMST 6515   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6631

This course will explore postwar US poetry through the lens of what might be called micro-periodization. Taking the decade as a privileged frame of reference, we’ll ask what recognizable shifts in style, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6631

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7671 AMST 6631   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Gilbert, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6712

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17047 AMST 6712   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AMST 6865

This seminar is an intensive study of the political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. Approaching texts in contexts, we will seek to recover King the political thinker from his mythologization in American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 6865, GOVT 4000, GOVT 6865, RELST 6865

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13735 AMST 6865   SEM 102

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13736 AMST 6865   IND 602

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

AMST 7792

This course examines Latinx education in comparative perspective, with a focus on transnational communities and cross-border movements that link U.S. Latinx education with Latin American education. We ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4663 AMST 7792   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person