American Studies Electives

Electives for the Minor

AMST  13.220 American Studies for the Middle School Classroom
AMST  13.301 Interdisciplinary Research and Writing (Co-requisite AMST 13101 Introduction to American Studies)
HIST  05.321 US History 1820-1861*
HIST  05.322 Civil War and Reconstruction *
HIST  05.324 Twentieth Century US *
HIST  05.328 Colonial North America*
HIST  05.334 Urban History of the US *
HIST  05.329 Gilded Age and Progressive Era *
HIST  05.338 America War to War*
HIST  05.339 History of the American Revolution & Early Republic *
HIST  05.371 US Legal and Constitutional History to 1870 *
HIST  05.372 US Legal and Constitutional History since 1870 *
HIST  05.373 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements *
HIST  05.375 America Since 1945 *
HIST  05.376 African American History to 1865 *
HIST  05.377 African American History since 1865 *
HIST  05.407 History of World War II *
HIST  05.412 American Intellectual History*
HIST  05.422 Women in American History *
HIST  05.429 Topics in US History (with approval from Coordinator)*
HIST  05.436 US Homefront 1941-1945*
HIST  05.438 History of the Vietnam War *
HIST  05.441 Imperialism and Colonialism *
HIST  05.471 History of the American West *
HIST  05.472 Cultural History of the US *
HIST  05.474 US Labor History  *
HIST  05.475 History of NJ *
HIST  05.495 Internship in History *
ENGL  02.200 Women in Literature
ENGL  02.205 Adolescent Literature
ENGL  02.216 African American Literature to the Harlem Renaissance
ENGL  02.217 Latino/a Literature
ENGL  02.316 African American Literature since the Harlem Renaissance
ENGL  02.313 US Literature I (if not taken in the “English” bank)
ENGL  02.315 US Literature II
ENGL  05.301 American English Grammar
ANTH  02.310 Indians of North America
ARHS  03.310 History of American Art
ASL   01.101 American Sign Language I
ASL   01.102 American Sign Language II
CMS   04.210 Mass Media and its Influences
CMS   04.215 Fiction to Film
CMS   04.310 Images of Gender in Popular Culture
CMS   04.315 Participatory Media
CMS   04.320 Communicating Gender
GEOG  16.302 Urban Geography
GEOG  16.241 Geography of NJ
GEOG  16.303 Political Geography
INTR  20.399 Internship in Applied Liberal Arts
LAWJ  05.322 Illegal Drugs and Crime in America
LAWJ  05.312 Criminal Procedure
LAWJ  05.315 Criminal Justice and Social Conflict
LAWJ  05.346 Women, Crime & Criminal Justice
LAWJ  05.401 Law and Human Rights
PHIL  09.325 American Philosophy
PHIL  09.393 Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL  09.328 Philosophy and Gender [G]
POSC  07.306 The Presidency
POSC  07.310 American Constitutional Law
POSC  07.311 Women in American Politics
POSC  07.323 Politics of Race, Poverty, and Welfare in the US
POSC  07.330 Contemporary US Foreign Policy
POSC  07.340 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
POSC  07.380 Politics On Film
POSC  07.400 American Political Thought
PSY   01.310 Psychology of Racism and Ethnocentricism
SOC   08.220 Sociology of the Family
SOC   08.221 Social Problems
SOC   08.281 Sex and Sexuality
SOC   08.230 Sociology of Minority Groups
SOC   08.320 Urban Sociology
SOC   08.326 Socialization of the Child through Adolescence
SOC   08.327 Comparative Education in Sociological Perspective
SOC   08.330 Social Stratification
SOC   08.331 Classical Sociological Theory
SOC   08.336 Sociology of Education
SOC   08.370 Sociology of Women in Society
SOC   08.431 Social Psychology of City Life

* Pre-requisite: HIST 05304 Historical Methods or AMST 13301 Interdisciplinary Research and Writing