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AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies 6 credits
This overview of the βinterdisciplinary disciplineβ of American Studies will focus on the ways American Studies engages with and departs from other scholarly fields of inquiry. We will study the stories of those who have been marginalized in the social, political, cultural, and economic life of the United States due to their class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship, and level of ability. We will explore contemporary American Studies concerns like racial and class formation, the production of space and place, the consumption and circulation of culture, and transnational histories.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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AMST 115.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Christopher Elias π« π€
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AMST 115.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Christopher Elias π« π€
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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AMST 321 Indigenous Chicago: Indigenous Histories and Futures in Zhegagoynak 6 credits
Before ChicagoΒ as we know it today existed, many Indigenous nations had long standing relationships with this place.Β TheyΒ knew it as Zhegagoynak,Β Gaa-zhigaagwanzhikaag, Zhigaagong, Ε ikaakonki,Β ShekΓ’kΓ΄heki, Sekakoh,Β andΒ GuuΕ‘ge honak, among others. ThisΒ course emerges from four years of community-engagedΒ curriculum development and examines ChicagoΒ histories through fiveΒ themes: Chicago'sΒ lands and environment, ChicagoΒ as a Native place,Β Chicago as a place ofΒ convergence, activism and resistance in Chicago, and community-driven education movements in Chicago.Β Drawing from History, American Studies, Education, and Indigenous Studies,Β studentsΒ willΒ also examine how research and curricula canΒ center Indigenous perspectives and sources.
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HIST 112 Freedom of Expression: A Global History 6 credits
Celebrated as the bedrock of democracy, freedom of expression is often seen as an American or western value. Yet the concept has a rich and global history. In this course we will track the long and turbulent history of freedom of expression from ancient Athens and medieval Islamic societies to the Enlightenment and the drive for censorship in totalitarian and colonial societies. Among the questions we will consider are: How have the parameters of free expression changed and developed over time? What is the relationship between free speech and political protest? How has free speech itself been weaponized? How does an understanding of the history of free speech help us think about the challenges of combating hatred and misinformation in today’s internet age?
- Winter 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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HIST 112.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Amna Khalid π« π€
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 116 Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887-present 6 credits
Many Americans grow up with a fictionalized view of Indigenous people (sometimes also called Native Americans/American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians within the U.S. context). Understanding Indigenous peoples’ histories, presents, and possible futures requires moving beyond these stereotypes and listening to Indigenous perspectives. In this class, we will begin to learn about Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and the Pacific through tribal histories, legislation, Supreme Court cases, and personal narratives. The course will focus on the period from 1887 to 2018 with major themes including (among others) agency, resistance, resilience, settler colonialism, discrimination, and structural racism.
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HIST 116.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Meredith McCoy π« π€
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 125 African American History I: From Africa to the Civil War 6 credits
This course is a survey of early African American history. It will introduce students to major themes and events while also covering historical interpretations and debates in the field. Core themes of the course include migration, conflict, and culture. Beginning with autonomous African politics, the course traces the development of the United States through the experiences of enslaved and free African American women and men to the Civil War. The main aim of the course is for students to become familiar with key issues and developments in African American history and their centrality to understanding U.S. history.
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HIST 125.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann π« π€
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 126 African American History II 6 credits
This course analyzes Black Freedom activism, its goals, and protagonists from Reconstruction until today. Topics include the evolution of racial segregation and its legal and de facto expressions in the South and across the nation, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Black activism in the New Deal era, the effects of World War II and the Cold War, mass activism in the 1950s and 1960s, white supremacist resistance against Black rights, Black Power activism and Black Internationalism, the “War on Drugs,” racialized welfare state reforms, and police brutality, the election of Barack Obama, and the path to #BlackLivesMatter today.
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HIST 126.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann π« π€
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205 American Environmental History 6 credits
Environmental concerns, conflicts, and change mark the course of American history, from the distant colonial past to our own day. This course will consider the nature of these eco-cultural developments, focusing on the complicated ways that human thought and perception, culture and society, and natural processes and biota have all combined to forge Americans’ changing relationship with the natural world. Topics will include Native American subsistence strategies, Euroamerican settlement, industrialization, urbanization, consumption, and the environmental movement. As we explore these issues, one of our overarching goals will be to develop an historical context for thinking deeply about contemporary environmental dilemmas.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:George Vrtis π« π€
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:George Vrtis π« π€
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 228 Civil Rights and Black Power 6 credits
This course treats the struggle for racial justice from World War II through the 1960s. Histories, journalism, music, and visual media illustrate black and white elites and grassroots people allied in this momentous epoch that ranges from a southern integrationist vision to northern Black Power militancy. The segregationist response to black freedom completes the study.
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HIST 228.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann π« π€
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History 6 credits
Historically work has been a central location for the constitution of gender identities for both men and women; at the same time, cultural notions of gender have shaped the labor market. We will investigate the roles of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping multiple sexual divisions of labor and the ways in which terms such as skill, bread-winning and work itself were gendered. Topics will include domestic labor, slavery, industrialization, labor market segmentation, protective legislation, and the labor movement.
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HIST 229.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Annette Igra π« π€
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 301 Indigenous Histories at Carleton 6 credits
Carleton’s new campus land acknowledgement affirms that this is Dakota land, but how did Carleton come to be here? What are the histories of Indigenous faculty, students, and staff at Carleton? In this course, students will investigate Indigenous histories on our campus by conducting original research about how Carleton acquired its landbase, its historic relationships to Dakota and Anishinaabeg people, histories of on-campus activism, the shifting demographics of Native students on campus, and the histories of Indigenous faculty and staff, among others. Students will situate these histories within the broader context of federal Indian policies and Indigenous resistance.
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HIST 308 American Cities and Nature 6 credits
Since the nation's founding, the percentage of Americans living in cities has risen nearly sixteenfold, from about five percent to the current eighty-one percent. This massive change has spawned legions of others, and all of them have bearing on the complex ways that American cities and city-dwellers have shaped and reshaped the natural world. This course will consider the nature of cities in American history, giving particular attention to the dynamic linkages binding these cultural epicenters to ecological communities, environmental forces and resource flows, to eco-politics and social values, and to those seemingly far-away places we call farms and wilderness.Β HIST 205 is recommended but not required.
HIST 205 is recommended but not required.
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HIST 308.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:George Vrtis π« π€
- Size:30
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 320 The Progressive Era? 6 credits
Was the Progressive Era progressive? It was a period of social reform, labor activism, and woman suffrage, but also of Jim Crow, corporate capitalism, and U.S. imperialism. These are among the topics that can be explored in research papers on this contradictory era. We will begin by reading a brief text that surveys the major subject areas and relevant historiography of the period. The course will center on the writing of a 25-30 page based on primary research, which will be read and critiqued by members of the seminar.
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HIST 320.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Annette Igra π« π€
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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