Institute for American Thought

American Studies Crosslisted Courses

The courses listed below are courses that have been offered as combined courses in American Studies in past semesters. The courses in bold-face are discipline-specific courses that are being offered as American Studies cross-lists in Fall 2009. The upper-division (300-400 level) courses will fulfill elective requirements within the American Studies undergraduate minor. Overseas exchange students may take any of these combined-section courses, and may also enroll in the broader range of courses identified in the listing below.

African American Studies | Department of Anthropology/Museum Studies | Communication Studies | English | Film Studies | Geography |Germanic Languages | History | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Spanish | Herron School of Art | School of Music

• Department of African American Studies
  
  
  • Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: Topics in Afro-American Studies
    Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: Mrkt / Msg 20 ct Afro-American Pop Music
  • Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: Sport, Culture & Afro Amer.
    Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: Afro-Am Pop Music
    Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: Afro-Brazilian Culture
    Afro-A303 Topics in Afro-American Studies: MLK & Malcolm X: Men & Their Movements 
    Afro-A352 Afro-American Art II: Afro-American Artists
    Afro-A369 The African American Experience
    Afro-A402 Seminar in Afro-American Studies
    Afro-A440 History of the Education of Black Americans 
    Afro-A495 Individual Readings in Afro-American Studies 
    
    
  • Department of Anthropology / Museum Studies
    

    Anth-A337 African American Health Care
    Anth-A460 Topics in Anthropology: Native American Law
    Anth-A460 Topics in Anthropology: Native American Film 
    Anth-A460 Topics in Anthropology: Race and Social Action
    Anth-A460 Topics in Anthropology: Native American Law 
    Anth-E316 Pre History of North America
    Anth-E320 Indians of North America 
    Anth-E336 African American Culture
    Anth-E403 Women of Color in the US
    Folk-F360 Indiana Folklore/Folklife/Mus 
    Mstd-A418 Museums and Audiences 
    Mstd-A 460 Current Topics: Landscape Archeology 
    

  • Department of Communication Studies
    Comm-M370 History of Television 
    Comm-R309 Great Speakers: American Public Addresses 
    Comm-R330 Communication Criticism
    Comm-R350 American Feminist Rhetoric 
    
     
  • Department of English 
    Eng-L351 American Literature 1800-1865 
    Eng-L352 American Literature 1865-1914 
    Eng-L354 American Literature since 1914 
    Eng-L355 American Literature to 1900 
    Eng-L357 20th Century American Poetry 
    Eng-L358 20th Century American Fiction 
    Eng-L370 Recent Black American Writing (3 credits)
    Eng-L372 Contemporary American Fiction 
    Eng-L378 Studies in Women and Literature
    • 19 th Century American Domestic Fiction
    Eng-L379 American Ethnic and Minority Literature 
    Eng-L381 Recent Writings: Indiana Writers
    Eng-L384 Comics in American Culture
    Eng-L385 Science Fiction 
    Eng-L406 Topics in African-American Literature
    • African-American Women Novelists
    • The Harlem Renaissance
    • Traditions in African-American Literature
    Eng-L440 Seminar in English & American Lit.
    
    • Austen & Wharton
    • Henry James & Edith Wharton
    • Joyce’s Ulyssess
    Eng-L606 20 th Century African-American Women Writers 
    Eng-L680 Topics in Literary Criticism
    • Multiculturalism and American Literature
     
  • Film Studies
    Film-C390 Topics in Film Studies
    • Oprah Winfrey
    Film-C392 Genre Study in Film 
    
    • The Hollywood Biopic (1980-present)
    • The Western
    • Film Noir 
      
  • Department of Geography 
    Geog-G314 Urban Geography
    Geog-G326 Geography of North America
    Geog-G327 Geography of Indiana 
    Geog-G328 Rural Landscapes of North America
    Geog-G330 North American House Types
    
    
  • Germanic Languages
    Ger-G391 German Colloq in Eng Trans 2
    
     
  • Department of History
    Hist-F354 African American Folklore/Folk Life/Folk Music
    Hist-A301 Colonial and Revolutionary America
    Hist-A302 Colonial and Revolutionary America II
    Hist-A303 United States 1789-1865 I
    Hist-A304 United States 1789-1865 II
    Hist-A304 U.S. History 1840-1865
    Hist-A313 Origins of Modern America 
         1865-1917
    Hist-A314 United States History 1917-1945
    Hist-A315 United States since World War II
    Hist-A321 History of American Thought I
    Hist-A322 History of American Thought II
    Hist-A337 American Frontier I
    Hist-A338 American Frontier II
    Hist-A346 American Diplomatic History 2 
    Hist-A347 American Urban History
    Hist-A348 Civil War and Reconstruction
    Hist-A352 History of Latinos in the United States
    Hist-A355 African-American History I
    Hist-A356 African-American History II
    Hist-A364 History of Black America
    Hist-A390 Representative Americans
    Hist-A410 American Environmental History
    Hist-A421 Topics in United States History
    
    • African Americans in Indiana
    • American Dissent
    • America in the 1950s
    • American Legal History to 1865
    • American Military History
    • American Reform Movements
    • American Sports Movements
    • American West
    • American Philanthropy
    • Family and Household in the Atlantic World 1500-1800
    • Historical Perspectives on American Ethnicity
    • History of American Women to 1877
    • History of the American Working Class
    • History of Philanthropy in the United States
    • Public Interp-African Amer Hist
    • Sports, Recreation, and Leisure
    • The 60s in America
    • U.S. Women’s History Since 1890
    • United States in the 1950s
    • 20 th Century U.S. Popular Culture
      Hist-H511 Special Topics in U.S. History
      • - U.S. History
      • - America in the 1950s
      • - American Environmental History
      • - African American History to 1865
      • - American Diplomatic History Since 1898
    • INTG-I300 Junior/Senior Integrator: The African American Exp. 
      
       
  • Department of Philosophy
    Phil-P316 20th Century Philosophy: Santayana’s Critique of America
    Phil-P383 Topics in Philosophy: Diversity, Conflict & Wisdom in American Philosophy
    Phil-P383 Topics in Philosophy: American Indiana Philosophy 
    Phil-P358 American Philosophy
    Phil-P414 Philosophy and Culture
    Phil-P458 American Philosophy
    Phil-P448 Seminar in American Philosophy
    • William James on Religious Experience
    • Dewey’s Philosophy 
      
       
  • Department of Political Sciences
    Pols-Y303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
    Pols-Y304 Constitutional Law 
    Pols-Y305 Constitutional Rights and Liberties 
    Pols-Y307 Indiana State Gov and Politics 
    Pols-Y311 Democracy and National Security
    Pols-Y313 Environmental Policy
    Pols-Y317 African American Politics
    Pols-Y318 The American Presidency 
    Pols-Y325 African American Politics
    Pols-Y337 Latin American Politics 
    Pols-Y360 United States Foreign Policy
    Pols-Y373 American Politics: Film and Fiction
    Pols-Y380 Organizing for Social Action
    Pols-Y384 American Political Ideas 2
    Pols-Y490 Senior Seminar in Political Science: American Political Dev
     
  • Department of Religious Studies
    Rel-R173 American Religion
    Rel-R300 Studies in Religion
    • 1844: Religious Pluralism in America
    • Indian Missions and Colonialism
    • Race and Religion in American History
    • Nature, Religion and American Culture
    • Women in Native American Religion
    Rel-R312 American Religious Lives 
    Rel-R313 Religion and American Ideas 
    Rel-R339 Varieties of American Religion
    Rel-R383 Religions, Ethics, US Society 
    
    
    
  • Department of Sociology
    Soc-R321 Women and Health 
    Soc-R461 Race and Ethnic Relations
    Soc-R495 Topics in Sociology: The African American Family 
    
  • Spanish
    Span-S412 Spanish America: Cultural Context
    Span-S472 Spanish American Literature 2 
     
  • Herron School of Art 
    Her-H304 Advanced Topics in Art History: American Art
    Her-H345 American Art to 1913
    Her-H400 Seminar
    • Frank Lloyd Wright
    • American Southwest Art
    • Cont Architecture in Indiana 
      
       
  • School of Music
    Mus-M393 History of Jazz
    Mus-M394 History of Black Music in America
    Mus-Z301 History of Rock Music 70s and 80s
    Mus-Z320 Special Topics in Popular Music
    • Music of Jimi Hendrix
    • History of American Pop Music
    • History of Jazz Since 1950
    • American Pop & Urban Music
    Mus-Z373 The American Musical 
    Mus-Z374 Cont Broadway Musicians
    Mus-Z393 History of Jazz 
    Mus-Z401 The Music of the Beatles