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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
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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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Sophomore Priority.
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AMST 221 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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AMST 221.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Meredith McCoy π« π€
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 10:10am-11:55am
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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 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.
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HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits
This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.
Extra time
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HIST 220.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann π« π€
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 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 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:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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