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AMST 235 American Immigration 6 credits
A critical examination of the legal, political, social, and cultural history of immigration to the United States and the immigrant experience. This course will provide an overview of the major phases of American immigration since the 1840s, with a particular focus on the periods between 1885-1924 and since 1965. We will center the voices of immigrants as we consider issues related to constitutional and social belonging, including those of race/ethnicity, language/culture, gender/sexuality, health/(dis)ability, and socioeconomic class. Students will have the opportunity to research a topic of their choosing related to course themes.
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AMST 235.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AMST 238 9/11 and the War on Terror in American Culture 6 credits
An exploration of how the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and the subsequent War on Terror impacted American culture. We will focus on issues of both form (the elements determining the look and feel of post-9/11 artwork) and content (the social and moral concerns driving post-9/11 culture). Shared texts will include novels, short stories, poetry, music, art, and films. Particular attention will be paid to themes such as race and racism, religion and religious discrimination, immigration and xenophobia, debates over American exceptionalism, critiques of American capitalism, the “death of irony,” attempts to define “truth,” and the spread of conspiracy theories.
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AMST 238.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 305 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Winter 2027
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Art History (ARTH) course with a grade of C- better.
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ARTH 240.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment 6 credits
How do we address increasingly urgent problems of environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources? This course develops the economic approach to addressing a wide variety of related issues, while also considering how issues of law and political economy affect resource allocations and the desirability and feasibility of various policies. Topics covered include climate change, energy production, air quality regulation policies, wildlife management, endangered species protection, water resource management, and valuation of the environment.
- Winter 2027
- QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 111 with a grade of C- or better or has received a grade of B or better in ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) or has received a score of 5 on the AP Microeconomics test or has received a score of 6 or better on the IB Economics test or has received an ECON 111 requisite equivalency.
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ECON 271.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 397 Decolonial Feminisms 6 credits
This course familiarizes students with major issues and debates within the field of decolonial feminisms. We will start by considering some of the historical, geopolitical, and theoretical underpinnings from which decolonial feminisms emerged. We will then investigate core concepts and problems pertaining to decolonial feminisms as a critical methodology and as a practice to build solidarity between and across anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist schools of thought and/or political coalitions. We will pay particular attention to Latina feminist philosopher María Lugones and her development of the “colonial modern gender system” and her articulation of “decolonial feminism.”
Recommended Preparation: One prior course in Philosophy or a relevant area of studies.
PHIL 304 is cross listed with GWSS 397.
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GWSS 397.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 211 Revolts and Resistance in Early America 6 credits
Far from being a single entity, America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a world of vibrant, polyglot, globally linked, and violent societies. What was it like to live in this vast world of early America? How did the people who lived there respond to their rapidly changing circumstances? How and why did some people resist and others revolt? This class will particularly focus on how ordinary people – free and enslaved, male and female, immigrant and indigenous – argued over conflicting expectations and hopes in a newly-colonized world.
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HIST 211.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Serena Zabin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 304 Decolonial Feminisms 6 credits
This course familiarizes students with major issues and debates within the field of decolonial feminisms. We will start by considering some of the historical, geopolitical, and theoretical underpinnings from which decolonial feminisms emerged. We will then investigate core concepts and problems pertaining to decolonial feminisms as a critical methodology and as a practice to build solidarity between and across anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist schools of thought and/or political coalitions. We will pay particular attention to Latina feminist philosopher María Lugones and her development of the “colonial modern gender system” and her articulation of “decolonial feminism.”
Recommended Preparation: One prior course in Philosophy or a relevant area of studies.
PHIL 304 is cross listed with GWSS 397.
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PHIL 304.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 122 Politics in America: Liberty and Equality 6 credits
An introduction to American government and politics. Focus on the Congress, Presidency, political parties and interest groups, the courts and the Constitution. Particular attention will be given to the public policy debates that divide liberals and conservatives and how these divisions are rooted in American political culture.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
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POSC 122.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Meredith Dost 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHulings 316 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 122.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 209 Cause and Effect: Politics of U.S. Social Policy 6 credits
Why is the American welfare state less generous than similar countries, and how did we get here? Nearly everyone benefits from the welfare state or social policies, whether Medicaid, SNAP, or Social Security. We examine the politics of social policy as both cause and effect, tracing the origins and distinctive features of the American welfare state across the 20th century. We then ask, how can policy change given polarized and gridlocked politics? Do policies reshape the very citizens and politics that created them? We emphasize how social policy implementation falls unevenly across race and class and implications for American democracy.
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POSC 231 American Foreign Policy 6 credits
An introduction to the actors and processes of American foreign policymaking and to the substance of American foreign policy. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of how knowledge of the past, the global policy environment, the processes of foreign policymaking, and the specifics of a foreign policy issue come together to help determine modern American foreign policy. The course will review the structure of the international system of states, state power and interests, the historical context of American foreign policy, actors in American foreign affairs, models of foreign policy decision making, and the instruments of foreign policy.
Recommended Preparation: POSC 122, AP American Government or AP U.S. History.
- Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 231.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 311 Bureaucracy and Belonging: Administrative Burden in U.S. Politics and Policy 6 credits
Have you ever waited hours at the DMV, wrestled with government benefits paperwork, or seen polling lines wrap around the block? Why do some Americans face these obstacles while others don't, and who decides? We examine the politics of administrative burden: costs governments impose on citizens seeking services or exercising civic rights. From Medicaid enrollment to voting, burdens can be hidden or visible but are never neutral. We explore how federalism and the entanglement of politics and markets shape where burdens fall–and why they consistently land hardest on those already facing challenges. Can administrative processes perpetuate inequality, or dismantle it?
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POSC 311.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Meredith Dost 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 8:15am-10:00am
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