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AMST 2031 - Chasing the American Dream: Economic Opportunity & Inequality in the U.S. (DSJ, HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course begins by focusing on the historical origins and meanings of the American dream. How did this dream of unlimited opportunity come about? What has it meant in different historical moments and to divergent social groups? And, why does it continue to be such a powerful and compelling idea in the United States and around the world?

AMST 1012 - Migrants, Refugees, Citizens, and Exiles: The U.S. on an Immigrant Planet (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Immigration to the United States at various historical periods and across geographical/political terrains. How immigration, as a national/racial project, is shaped by legal categories and discursive practices based on race, class, gender, and sexuality. Diverse ways marginalized groups produce national/transnational political practices.

AMST 1401 - Comparative Genders and Sexualities (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Gender/sexual practices/identities within international framework. How such practices/identities reflect/refract national ideals and express national/international division.

AMST 1511 - Americans Abroad: Rethinking Travel, Culture, & Empire (GP, HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In this course, we will look at Americans (including ourselves) who travel abroad and what their experiences, both in the present and historically, tell us about how we imagine others and our/their place in the world. What do these experiences tell us about who we are as a people, a culture, and a nation? This course will examine how these experiences have transformed (and continue to transform) Americans and the countries and cultures with which they interact. Indeed, this course challenges students to consider the overall effects that these processes have had on America�s relationship with the rest of the world.

AMST 2011 - The United States since September 11 (CIV, HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How American citizenship and nationhood have changed since 9/11. The event and its aftermath in historical perspective. Political, economic, and military antecedents. How 9/11 has changed relations between the U.S. government, U.S. citizens, immigrants, and international community. How 9/11 has been remembered.

AMST 3112 - Prince, Porn, and Public Space: The Cultural Politics of the Twin Cities in the 1980s (DSJ, HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course uses music (especially Prince and the Replacements), debates around pornography/sex, and shifts around access to public space in order to explore the local culture and national importance of the Twin Cities during the 1980s.

AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.

AMST 3114 - America in International Perspective (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The nature of international cultural exchange. The impact of U.S. cultures and society on other countries of the world as well as the impact of other cultures and societies on the United States.

AMST 3252W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1900 to 1940 (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

AMST 3253W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

AMST 3814 - Women, Rage, and Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course explores the relationship between women, rage, and politics. Following bell hooks, we ask where is the rage? Doing so, invites us to interrogate how rage is gendered, how politics are gendered, and how do rage and gender intersect to mobilize for justice. Drawing on political organizing by women of color during the recent Black Lives Matter uprising, we consider what it means to make and claim space as women of color in politics. We also look at how rage - BIPOC women's rage, white rage, rage against women - gets mobilized to cement and/or combat racism, xenophobia, and misogyny. Finally, the course reframes women's rage as intrepid and redemptive, capable of sparking change during this political movement.

AMST 3896 - Internship for Academic Credit

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

An applied learning experience in an agreed-upon, short-term, supervised workplace activity, with defined goals, which may be related to a student's major field or area of interest. The work can be full or part time, paid or unpaid, primarily in off-campus environments. Internships integrate classroom knowledge and theory with practical application and skill development in professional or community settings. The skills and knowledge learned should be transferable to other employment settings and not simply to advance the operations of the employer. Typically the student's work is supervised and evaluated by a site coordinator or instructor.

AMST 3920 - Topics in American Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMST 3993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -9.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. prereq: instr consent

AMST 4301 - Workers and Consumers in the Global Economy (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Impact of global economy on workplaces/workers in the United states, Mexico, and Caribbean countries. Influence on consumption. Consequences for American culture/character. Effects on U.S./Mexican factory work, service sector, temporary working arrangements, offshore production jobs in Dominican Republic, and professional/managerial positions.

AMST 3001 - Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3001/AmSt 3001
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interdisciplinary overview of Asian American identities. Post-1965 migration/community. History, cultural productions, and concerns of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Filipino, and Southeast Asian ancestry.

AAS 3001 - Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3001/AmSt 3001
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interdisciplinary overview of Asian American identities. Post-1965 migration/community. History, cultural productions, and concerns of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Filipino, and Southeast Asian ancestry.

AMST 3003 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

AMIN 3001 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, and websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

HIST 3001 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

AMST 3212 - Dissident Sexualities in U.S. History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 3212/GLBT 3212/Hist 3212
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of sexuality in United States. Emphasizes sexualities that have challenged dominant social/cultural norms. Development of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay identities/communities. Politics of sex across lines of race/ethnicity. Historical debates over controversial practices, including sex work.

GLBT 3212 - Dissident Sexualities in U.S. History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 3212/GLBT 3212/Hist 3212
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of sexuality in United States. Emphasizes sexualities that have challenged dominant social/cultural norms. Development of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay identities/communities. Politics of sex across lines of race/ethnicity. Historical debates over controversial practices, including sex work.

HIST 3212 - Dissident Sexualities in U.S. History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 3212/GLBT 3212/Hist 3212
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of sexuality in United States. Emphasizes sexualities that have challenged dominant social/cultural norms. Development of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay identities/communities. Politics of sex across lines of race/ethnicity. Historical debates over controversial practices, including sex work.

AMST 3361 - Asian Americans and Food

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3361/AmSt 3361
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Asian Americans have always been intimately connected to food practices and institutions in the American imagination. Food is the medium through which Asian American cultural difference, their status as "perpetual foreigners" and the "model minority character" are typically expressed and disseminated. Historically, Asian migration to the United States was fueled by labor needs particularly in the agricultural sector. In addition, Asian labor has been stereotypically linked to food service and preparation such as the ubiquitous Chinese take-out place and more recently, the sushi and Korean fusion joints. This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of food to better understand the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Asian American food preparation, distribution and consumption. Students will investigate the politics and poetics of Asian American foodways by examining social habits, and rituals around food in restaurants, homes and other public venues. The course texts include ethnographic essays, fictional works, memoirs, magazines, and television shows.

AAS 3361 - Asian Americans and Food

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3361/AmSt 3361
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Asian Americans have always been intimately connected to food practices and institutions in the American imagination. Food is the medium through which Asian American cultural difference--including their status as "perpetual foreigners" or their "model minority character"--are typically expressed and disseminated. Historically, Asian migration to the United States was fueled by labor needs particularly in the agricultural sector. In addition, Asian labor has been stereotypically linked to food service and preparation such as the ubiquitous Chinese take-out place and more recently, the sushi and Korean fusion joints. This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of food to better understand the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Asian American food preparation, distribution and consumption. Students will investigate the politics and poetics of Asian American foodways by examining social habits, and rituals around food in restaurants, homes and other public venues. The course texts include ethnographic essays, fictional works, memoirs, magazines, and television shows.

AMST 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 4101/GLBT 4101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

GLBT 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 4101/GLBT 4101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

AMST 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

AMIN 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

ANTH 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the inter connections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

CHIC 3412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

CHIC 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

GWSS 3515 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

AAS 3271 - Learning in the Asian American Community

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course is intended to give students a general introduction to participatory learning through engagement with Asian American community organizations and/or leaders. The course is based within Asian American studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that examines how histories of immigration, exclusion, racialization, and citizenship have shaped Asian American communities and identities. In turn, Asian American studies asks how Asian Americans, configured as immigrants, refugees, "forever foreigners," and "model minorities," impact how American nation, empire, rights, and belonging are constructed. Working with community partners, students will have the opportunity to learn several different community-based research skills: newspaper article search, archival research and/or archival organization, interviewing skills, and audio/video production. Students also have the option to complete service learning with an organization throughout the semester; with this option, students will write a short reflection statement on their service learning as their final project. prereq: AAS and CRES minors must register A-F.

AAS 3601W - War and Empire: Asian American Perspectives (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course examines the reach of war and empire in Asian America since the turn of the twentieth century. Starting with US wars in the Philippines (1898-1910) and the formation of the colonial state, the course will track the ascendancy of US empire in Asia and paths toward wars against imperialist Japan (1941-1945), in Korea (1950-53), and in Vietnam (1955-1975). The course will address the relevance of the unending Global War on Terrorism (2001-) in contemporary Asian America. Together, the course explores how these wars have shaped and continue to inform the lives and memories of Asian immigrants and refugees, their children, and other Asian Americans.

AFRO 3006 - Impact of African Migrations in the Atlantic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

People of African descent through history. Archeology, geography, literature. Migrations/activities in the Atlantic world. African history in the New World. Transfer of African rice growing technology and other skills. Development of African American society in the United States.

AFRO 3108 - Black Music: A History of Jazz

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The development of jazz in America and in the world, with special emphasis given to the roots or jazz in the African American experience.

AFRO 3112 - In the Heart of the Beat: the Poetry of Rap

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Contemporary African American poetry as expressed by popular culture contributors. Students analyze/evaluate poems used in rap, in context of African American literature, American culture, and aesthetics.

AFRO 3125W - Black Visions of Liberation: Ella, Martin, Malcolm, and the Radical Transformation of U.S. Democracy (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Course on the critical thought of Black intellectual-activists and others enmeshed in the struggles for the radical transformation of U.S. democracy. Introduces the following three leaders and activists--Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X--whose work in the building of the Black freedom movement spanned the period from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Course proposition is that their life and times in the struggle for liberation offer important insights into the transformation of the U.S. political economy from the welfare/warfare state to the neoliberal state. These intellectual-activists, as well as others who translate their radical traditions through Black-Brown and Afro-Asian solidarity projects (e.g. Grace Lee Boggs of Detroit) have responded to racial formation in the U.S. and presented not just visions of liberation but concrete alternatives at the grassroots to usher in a more just, egalitarian, and ethical society.

AFRO 3301 - The Music of Black Americans (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3301/Mus 3301
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course examines the variety of ways African and African Americans express social history through music. It will consider the union of African elements and European elements that combined to present a new syncretized African-American product. To do this it is imperative that we explore the diversity of musical ?voices? found within the African American culture. This diversity can be seen in the struggles to retain African cultural effects and the desire to be eclectic, creative, and contemporary. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. The ?multi-layered operation of power, prestige, and privilege? can be understood through an examination of the music of African Americans, which represents both a Free African voice and an enslaved African voice; the western-trained Black performer/composer and the self-taught performer/composer. It also represents the habits of well-to-do African Americans and the poor African Americans. Students will examine the complexities of the history of African Americans and how this is played out in the development of musical styles and genres. From this, students will then begin to understand how this unique diversity within a community affects those outside of those communities. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. We will follow elements found in West African culture and music such as "call and response" and the "2nd Line" as they travel to the "New World" and expressed through Spirituals, Symphonies, Gospel Music, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Step Bands and more. Through lectures, readings, discussion, audiovisual examples, and homework assignments student can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the ways music both reflects and influences the social history of all Americans.

AFRO 3426 - African Americans, Social Policy, and the Welfare State

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Period between New Deal (1930s) and present. History/impact of federal policy (presidential, congressional, judicial) and race on African Americans. Politics of allocation of insurance versus relief in Social Security Act of 1935. Race and expansion of social benefits after World War II. School desegregation. Kennedy�s civil rights policy, LBJ�s War on Poverty. Affirmative Action. Warren court. Busing. Conservative retreat from welfare state under Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

AFRO 3745 - Black Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

What is black life? And what does it mean to talk about black life in the context of the push toward the liberation of black lives? In recent years we have become accustomed to hearing about and debating the efficacy of the term and movement "Black Lives Matter," but what, other than precarity, constitutes these lives that matter? How have black people collectively thrived even under conditions that would assume otherwise? In this course we will consider the myriad ways black people have gone about creating, dreaming, struggling, building, educating, loving, and living, even in the midst of all that works to bring death near. We will explore a range of cultural forms, including stand-up comedy, hip hop and R&B music, reality television, social media, and film, in order to contemplate the urgency and necessity of black social life, or, what it means to be with and for black people.

AFRO 3867 - Black Men: Representations and Reality

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course will explore the lived reality of black men in the United States. Ranging historically-far and thematically-wide, this course will introduce students to the experience of black male labor force participation and employment outcomes; deconstruct representations of black masculinity in popular culture; explore academic dilemmas associated with primary and secondary educational pursuits; and uncover issues connected with law, incarceration, and criminal justice. In addition, this course will examine relationship complexities involving black men and black women, black men and white women, and black men and black men, looking closely at the African-American role in traditional and non-traditional family structures. The course will also address the most central of questions: What is the black male experience, given the growing diversity of black maleness in Minnesota, the United States, and the Diaspora. At the center of the course is not only what other people have said about the black male historical and contemporary experience, but also how black men have imagined and constructed their own experience over time.

AFRO 3910 - Topics in African American and African Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AFRO 5910 - Topics in African American and African Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics vary by instructor.

AMIN 3303 - American Indians and Photography (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3303/AmIn 5303
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Historical/comparative overview of photos in which American Indian people are central subjects. Primary features of images in American Indian photos. Relationships among those involved in making/viewing photos. Ways in which photos are interpreted. Relation of photos to social contexts in which they are produced and to agencies of those who stand behind their making.

AMIN 3304 - Indigenous Filmmakers (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of film/video made by American Indian writers, directors, producers within contexts of tribally specific cultures/histories, as well as within context of US culture/film history.

AMIN 3312 - American Indian Environmental Issues and Ecological Perspectives (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

American Indian environmental issues in U.S./Canada. Analysis of social, political, economic, legal forces/institutions. Colonial histories/tribal sovereignty.

AMIN 3604 - Indigenous Immersion Methods for the Home, Classroom, and Community

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Prepares students as advanced language students to participate in and facilitate immersion environments within both formal and informal settings including the home, second language classrooms, immersion classrooms, language tables, immersion camps, and other community settings. prereq: OJIB 3104, DAKO 3124 or four semesters of another target language, or with instructor approval.

AMIN 3711 - Dakota Culture and History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Dakota culture, language, history, literature. Contemporary issues, the arts.

AMIN 4501 - Law, Sovereignty, and Treaty Rights

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4501/Pol 4507
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

History of American Indian law and the post-contact effects of colonial and U.S. law on American Indians through the 20th century. prereq: 1001

AMIN 4511 - Indigenous Political Economies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Sources, nature, consequences of social/economic development/change in Indian communities. Precontact Indian communities. Effect of European contact. Social movements into 20th century, including phenomenon of urban Indian communities. prereq: 1001

AMIN 4532 - Vine Deloria, Jr.: A Renaissance Indigenous Figure

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In-depth consideration of indigenous scholar and activist Vine Deloria Jr.'s intellectual works, and impacts on fields such as law, religion and theology, history, natural and social science, literary criticism, education, anthropology, paleontology, and political science. Students read, discuss, produce research on an aspect of Deloria's work.

AMIN 4990 - Topics in American Indian Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMIN 5107 - The Structure of Anishinaabemowin: The Ojibwe Language

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3107/5107
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Analysis of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) structure in the context of an endangered Algonquian language. Examine writing systems, phonological (sound) features, morphology (word parts), and grammatical structures as documented historically and presently. The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the structure of Anishinaabemowin and introduce them to primary sources readings. Unlike language courses students may be familiar with from other departments, this course will not require memorization of extensive amounts of vocabulary ? our focus will be on understanding the structure of the language and acquiring an appreciation of the relevant linguistic issues and language revitalization issues.

AMIN 5202 - Indigenous Peoples and Issues Before the United States Supreme Court

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar explores the role and the practice of the US Supreme Court as a policy-making institution when dealing with indigenous nations and their citizens. Analysis of theoretical, behavioral, political, and institutional perspectives. Student work includes reading and textual analysis, leading discussions, analytical research paper.

AMIN 5920 - Topics in American Indian Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Various topics in American Indian studies, depending upon instructor/semester.

CHIC 3221 - Chicana/o Cultural Studies: Barrio Culture and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Cultural studies approach to investigating aesthetic dimensions of experience that inform and are informed by dynamic relationship between culture, class, ethnicity, and power.

CHIC 3223 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Representation in Film (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o visual representation. Depiction of Latina/o experience, history, and culture in film. Analyzing independent/commercial films as texts that illuminate deeply held beliefs around race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin.

CHIC 3352 - Transborder Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Demographic realities, political/economic shifts, cultural exchanges that characterize U.S.-Mexico borderland spaces in global economy. Historically contextualized, transnational approach to cultures, politics, and economics of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Dynamics of borderland spaces.

CHIC 3375 - Folklore of Greater Mexico (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly survey and exploration of the sociocultural function of various types of folklore in Greater Mexico. Ways in which folklore constructs and maintains community, as well as resists and engenders cultural shifts.

CHIC 3452 - Chicanx/LatinX Indigeneity (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Historical, cultural, and political processes impacting Chicanas/os and their understanding of being indigenous to the North American continent. History, culture, and identity formation as dynamic processes intimately related to present and future constructions of Mexican American identities and sociopolitical perspectives.

CHIC 3672 - Chicana/o Experience in the Midwest (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people generally defined as Chicano or Latino, living in the Midwest. Individual/group identity. Focuses on construction of Chicano-Latino experience. How identity affirmation, migration stories, immigration status, historical memory, and cultural traditions are impacted by being in the Midwest.

CHIC 3771 - Latino Social Power and Social Movements in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

How Latinos have collectively resisted social domination. Theories of social power/movements. Resistance by Latinos during 60s/70s. Current organized efforts to curb immigration, establish English as official language, and limit immigrant rights.

CHIC 3888 - Immigration and the U.S. Latina/o Experience: Diaspora, Identity, and Community (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3888/Hist 3445
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of migrants from Latin America to the United States in 20th/21st century. Migrant engagements with US society. Pre-existing Latina/o and other ethnic communities. experiences within political, economic, and social aspects of life at local/global level.

CHIC 3900 - Topics in Chicano Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topic: Health in Indig chicx/Latinx

CHIC 4232 - Chicana/o - Latina/o Gender and Sexuality Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4232/GLBT 4232/GWSS 4232
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Critical thinking of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os around construction of gender. Politics of sexual identity. How the self is gendered in relationship to sexual, racial, class, and national identities under different social structural conditions. Way in which the "borders" that define/confine sexual norms shift over time.

CHIC 4275 - Theory in Action: Community Engagement in a Social Justice Framework (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theoretical frameworks of social justice and community engagement for work outside classroom with/in Latina/o community. Worker issues/organizing. Placements in unions, worker organizations. Policy initiatives on labor issues. Students reflect on their own identity development, social location, and position of power/privilege.

CHIC 5920 - Topics in Chicana(o) Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Multidisciplinary themes in Chicana(o) studies. Issues of current interest.

CHIC 5993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading, research, and study for completion of the requirements for a senior paper or honors thesis. prereq: instr consent

TH 5181W - Blacks in American Theatre (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5181W/Th 5181W
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Historical survey of significant events in the development of American black theatre traditions. Essays, plays, playwrights, and theatres from early colonial references to the Black Arts Movement.

TH 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950?s to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women?s Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

AAS 3211W - Race & Racism in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3211W/Soc 3211W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

We live in a society steeped in racial understandings that are often invisible?some that are hard to see, and others that we work hard not to see. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial ?problems? by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. The course will conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.

SOC 3211W - Race and Racism in the US (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3211W/Soc 3211W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

We live in a society steeped in racial understandings that are often invisible?some that are hard to see, and others that we work hard not to see. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. This course is designed to help students begin to develop their own informed perspectives on American racial ?problems? by introducing them to the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism. We will expand our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics by exploring the experiences of specific groups in the U.S. and how race/ethnicity intersects with sources of stratification such as class, nationality, and gender. The course will conclude by re-considering ideas about assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, our goal will be to consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power, and inequality affecting everyone in the society albeit in different ways.

AAS 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality.

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

SOC 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

AAS 3301 - Asian America Through Arts and Culture (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3301/EngL 3301
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

The course focuses on the close analysis and interpretation of individual works by a range of modern and contemporary artists. Students will analyze, critique, and interpret these works in light of the historical and social contexts in which they were produced, their creation and uses of aesthetic form, and their impact on individuals and communities. Discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations will focus on different ways of encountering and evaluating artistic work; for instance, students will write critical analyses and production reviews as well as dialogue more informally through weekly journal entries and online discussion forums. We will examine what it means to define artists and their work as being "Asian American" and explore how other categories of identity such as gender, sexuality, or class intersect with race. We will study how art works not only as individual creativity but also as communal and social practice; for instance, we look at the history of theaters, such as East-West Players or Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, that have sustained Asian Americans as actors, playwrights, and designers.

ENGL 3301 - Asian America through Arts and Culture (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3301/EngL 3301
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

The course focuses on the close analysis and interpretation of individual works by a range of modern and contemporary artists. Students will analyze, critique, and interpret these works in light of the historical and social contexts in which they were produced, their creation and uses of aesthetic form, and their impact on individuals and communities. Discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations will focus on different ways of encountering and evaluating artistic work; for instance, students will write critical analyses and production reviews as well as dialogue more informally through weekly journal entries and online discussion forums. We will examine what it means to define artists and their work as being "Asian American" and explore how other categories of identity such as gender, sexuality, or class intersect with race. We will study how art works not only as individual creativity but also as communal and social practice; for instance, we look at the history of theaters, such as East-West Players or Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, that have sustained Asian Americans as actors, playwrights, and designers.

AAS 3341 - Asian American Images (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3341/Comm 3341
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

From 19th-century anti-Chinese political cartoons to Harold and Kumar, visual representations of Asians in the United States have long influenced how Asian Americans are seen and treated. What are some of the ways that photography, graphic arts, and digital culture have pictured Asian Americans as aliens, citizens, immigrants, workers, family and community members, entertainers, and artists? Course topics will relate visual images to particular historical moments, including the early exclusion period and the "yellow peril" stereotype; WWII Japanese American incarceration and the drawings of Min� Okubo, and photo-journalism documenting U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and its aftermath. How do photographic and other images work to counter historical amnesia, heal traumatic loss, and document social injustice? Other weeks of the class will explore the ways that individuals, families, and communities use photographs, video, and other visual media to preserve a sense of connection and belonging. We will also look at how contemporary Asian American photographers such as Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki Lee, and Wing Young Huie experiment with visual images to raise questions of racial and national identity, social inequality, gender, sexuality, and political agency. The course also includes a digital storytelling project that encourages students to create video images and sound reflecting Asian American immigration stories from local communities.

COMM 3341 - Asian American Images (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3341/Comm 3341
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

From 19th-century anti-Chinese political cartoons to Harold and Kumar, visual representations of Asians in the United States have long influenced how Asian Americans are seen and treated. What are some of the ways that photography, graphic arts, and digital culture have pictured Asian Americans as aliens, citizens, immigrants, workers, family and community members, entertainers, and artists? Course topics will relate visual images to particular historical moments, including the early exclusion period and the "yellow peril" stereotype; WWII Japanese American incarceration and the drawings of Min� Okubo, and photo-journalism documenting U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and its aftermath. How do photographic and other images work to counter historical amnesia, heal traumatic loss, and document social injustice? Other weeks of the class will explore the ways that individuals, families, and communities use photographs, video, and other visual media to preserve a sense of connection and belonging. We will also look at how contemporary Asian American photographers such as Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki Lee, and Wing Young Huie experiment with visual images to raise questions of racial and national identity, social inequality, gender, sexuality, and political agency. The course also includes a digital storytelling project that encourages students to create video images and sound reflecting Asian American immigration stories from local communities.

AAS 3351 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3351/Comm 3351
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Over the past few decades, Asian Americans have become increasingly visible both as the subjects and producers of popular culture in the United States. This course will explore how this new recognition of Asian Americans in popular literature, cinema, television, and entertainment is related both to longer histories of Asian immigration and racial exclusion and to post-1960s efforts to forward racial awareness, community activism, and social justice. Our first unit will look at how particular stereotypes such as the yellow peril or the wartime enemy encouraged anti-Asian feeling and violence and legal restrictions on immigration and naturalization. We will then examine how throughout history, Asian immigrants and their descendants used song, dance, theater, writing, and other forms of popular culture to express personal desires and foster collective ties. Our final unit concentrates on contemporary popular culture and its relationship to the changing identities of Asian Americans. How do Asian Americans influence the current essays, films, and videos that are consumed by millions today? How are increasingly pan-ethnic, interracial, multiracial, transnational, and global experiences reflected in popular culture?

COMM 3351 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3351/Comm 3351
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Over the past few decades, Asian Americans have become increasingly visible both as the subjects and producers of popular culture in the United States. This course will explore how this new recognition of Asian Americans in popular literature, cinema, television, and entertainment is related both to longer histories of Asian immigration and racial exclusion and to post-1960s efforts to forward racial awareness, community activism, and social justice. Our first unit will look at how particular stereotypes such as the yellow peril or the wartime enemy encouraged anti-Asian feeling and violence and legal restrictions on immigration and naturalization. We will then examine how throughout history, Asian immigrants and their descendants used song, dance, theater, writing, and other forms of popular culture to express personal desires and foster collective ties. Our final unit concentrates on contemporary popular culture and its relationship to the changing identities of Asian Americans. How do Asian Americans influence the current essays, films, and videos that are consumed by millions today? How are increasingly pan-ethnic, interracial, multiracial, transnational, and global experiences reflected in popular culture?

AAS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Diversity of cultures designated "Asian American." Understanding women's lives in historical, cultural, economic, and racial contexts.

GWSS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis of media, art, literature, performance, on artistic contributions. History, politics, culture of Asian American women. Interpret cultural production to better understand role of race, gender, nation within American society/citizenship.

AAS 3483 - Hmong History Across the Globe

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3483//ALL 3776/Hist 3483
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Hmong interaction with lowland Southeast Asian states (Laos, Vietnam) and Western colonial powers (French, American) since 19th century. Changes to religious, social, political, and gender institutions. Aspirations for political autonomy.

HIST 3483 - Hmong History Across the Globe

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3483//ALL 3776/Hist 3483
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Hmong interaction with lowland Southeast Asian states (Laos, Vietnam) and Western colonial powers (French, American) since 19th century. Changes to religious, social, political, and gender institutions. Aspirations for political autonomy.

AAS 3503 - Asian American Identities, Families, & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project.

SOC 3503 - Asian American Identities, Families & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project. prereq: SOC 1001 recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A/F

SOC 3503H - Honors: Asian American Identities, Families & Communities (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3503/Soc 3503/Soc 3503H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course provides a sociological overview of Asian American identities, families, and communities. To place these experiences within a broader historical, structural, and cultural context the course will begin with a brief introduction to the history of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States and sociological theories about incorporation and racial stratification. We will then examine the diversity of Asian American communities and families, highlighting ethnic, gender, and class variations. Other topics of focus include racialization and discrimination, education, ethnic enclaves, family and intergenerational relationships, identity, media, culture, and politics and social action. Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which society affects individuals, and how in turn, individuals affect society. Students will have an option to do community-engaged learning or another course project. Honors students are expected to demonstrate a greater depth of discussion, depth and to a degree length of writing assignments, presentations, and leadership of the students. Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester. Examples of additional requirements may include: - Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session. - Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour). - Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading - Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper. - Interview a current Sociology graduate student and present briefly in class or write a reflective piece, not more than 2 pages in length, to be submitted to the Professor. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, honors

AAS 3877 - Asian American History, 1850 to Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3877/HIST 3877
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Asian American history and contemporary issues, from 1850 to present. Immigration, labor, anti-Asian movements, women/families, impact of World War Two, new immigrant/refugee communities, civil rights, Asian American identity/culture.

HIST 3877 - Asian American History, 1850-Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3877/HIST 3877
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Asian American history and contemporary issues, from 1850 to the present. Immigration, labor, anti-Asian movements, women/families, impact of World War Two, new immigrant/refugee communities, civil rights, Asian American identity/culture.

AAS 3486 - Hmong Refugees from the Secret War: Becoming Americans

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3486/Hist 3486
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Socio-economic, political, gender, cultural/religious changes in Hmong American community during last three decades. How Hmong are racialized in American society. Impact to first/second generations.

HIST 3486 - Hmong Refugees from the Secret War: Becoming Americans

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3486/Hist 3486
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Socio-economic, political, gender, cultural/religious changes in Hmong American community during last three decades. How Hmong are racialized in American society. Impact to first/second generations.

AAS 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

CHIC 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin American, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

HIST 3862 - American Immigration History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19nth century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.

AAS 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History (HIS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America. The focus is placed on how American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Latin America struggle over identity, place, and meanings of these categories in society where racial hierarchy not only determined every aspect of how they lived, but also functioned as a lever to reconstitute a new nation and empire in the aftermath of the Civil War. We are interested in studying how these diverse groups experienced racialization not in the same way but in various and distinct ways in relation to each other.

HIST 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History (HIS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race in the American past and make legible how racially aggrieved groups responded to this shaping power. Thus, throughout, we ask, "What did racial subjects do with what was done to them by the American system forged out of settler colonialism, slavery, racism, and other forms of injustice, exclusion, and violence?" This question issues an intellectual challenge to do all that needs to be done to capture community life, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of social identities in all their richness, fullness, and complexity. In other words, we study and write about the racial history of modern America, including its ugly past and arc of justice, to consider what it would take to transcend this racial past.

AAS 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AFRO 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AMIN 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

CHIC 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of the structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AAS 4232 - American Drama by Writers of Color

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4232/EngL 4232
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected works by Asian American, African American, American Indian, Latino, and Chicano playwrights. How racial/ethnic differences are integral to shaping different visions of American drama. History of minority/ethnic theaters, politics of casting, mainstreaming of the minority playwright.

ENGL 4232 - American Drama by Writers of Color (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4232/EngL 4232
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected works by African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American playwrights. How racial/ethnic differences are integral to shaping different visions of American drama. History of minority/ethnic theaters, politics of casting, mainstreaming of the minority playwright. Students in this class will have the opportunity to participate in service-learning.

AAS 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4311/ENGL 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.

ENGL 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4311/ENGL 4311
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.

AFRO 3120 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe.

AFRO 5120 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

HIST 3456 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbeans. Socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries within African Diaspora. Resistance in Suriname, Guyana, Caribbean. Protest organizations, intellectual discourses, radical movements in United States/Europe.

AFRO 3402 - Pleasure, Intimacy and Violence

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3402/GWSS 3402
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Gender/sexual violence to poststructural, anti-racist theories and debates about social construction of sexuality. How intimacy and violence are co-constituted within normative frameworks of U.S. governmentality. Writings by black feminist criminologists who have linked incarceration, welfare reform, and other forms of state regulation to deeply systemic forms of violence against people of color.

GWSS 3402 - Pleasure, Intimacy and Violence

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3402/GWSS 3402
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Gender/sexual�violence�to�poststructural,�anti�racist�theories/debates�about�social�construction�of�sexuality. How�intimacy/violence�are�co�-constituted�within�normative frameworks�of�U.S.�governmentality.�Writings�by�black feminist�criminologists�who�have�linked�incarceration,�welfare�reform,�other�forms�of�state�regulation�to�deeply� systemic�forms�of�violence�against�people�of�color.

AFRO 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3592W/EngL 3592W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The literature of African American women writers explored in novels, short stories, essays, poetry, autobiographies, and drama from the 18th to the late-20th century.

ENGL 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3592W/EngL 3592W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The literature of African American women writers explored in novels, short stories, essays, poetry, autobiographies, and drama from the 18th to the late-20th century.

AFRO 3593 - The African American Novel

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3593/Afro 5593/EngL 3593/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Explore African American novelistic traditions. Plot patterns, character types, settings, symbols, themes, mythologies. Creative perspectives of authors themselves. Analytical frameworks from contemporary literary scholarship.

AFRO 5593 - The African American Novel

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3593/Afro 5593/EngL 3593/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Explore African American novelistic traditions. Plot patterns, character types, settings, symbols, themes, mythologies. Creative perspectives of authors themselves. Analytical frameworks from contemporary literary scholarship.

ENGL 3593 - The African American Novel

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3593/Afro 5593/EngL 3593/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Explore African American novelistic traditions. Plot patterns, character types, settings, symbols, themes, mythologies. Creative perspectives of authors themselves. Analytical frameworks from contemporary literary scholarship.

ENGL 5593 - The African-American Novel

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3593/Afro 5593/EngL 3593/
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century black novelists, including Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Petry, Morrison, and Reed.

AFRO 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3597W/EngL 3597W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.

ENGL 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3597W/EngL 3597W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.

AFRO 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3598W/EngL 3598W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.

ENGL 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3598W/EngL 3598W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.

AFRO 5627 - Seminar: Harlem Renaissance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3627/Afro 5627/ArtH 3627/
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Review Harlem Renaissance from variety of perspectives. Literary, historical, cultural, political, international. Complex patterns of permeation/interdependency between worlds inside/outside of what W.E.B. Du Bois called "the Veil of Color." prereq: Grad student or instr consent

ARTH 3655 - African-American Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3655/ArtH 3655/ArtH 5655
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

African American cinematic achievements from silent films of Oscar Micheaux through contemporary Hollywood and independent films. Class screenings, critical readings.

ARTH 5655 - African-American Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3655/ArtH 3655/ArtH 5655
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

African American cinematic achievements, from silent films of Oscar Micheaux through contemporary Hollywood and independent films. Class screenings, critical readings.

AFRO 3864 - African American History: 1619 to 1865 (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3864/Hist 3864
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Importance of dynamics of class, gender, region, and political ideology. Changing nature of race/racism.

HIST 3864 - African American History: 1619-1865 (HIS, CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3864/Hist 3864
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Importance of dynamics of class, gender, region, and political ideology. Changing nature of race/racism.

AFRO 3865 - African American History: 1865 to the Present

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3865/Hist 3865
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

History of African American men and women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Discussion of internal migrations, industrialization and unionization, The Great Depression, world wars, and large scale movements for social and political change.

HIST 3865 - African American History, 1865 to Present

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3865/Hist 3865
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

History of African American men and women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Discussion of internal migrations, industrialization and unionization, The Great Depression, world wars, and large scale movements for social and political change.

AFRO 3866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Modern black civil rights struggle in the U.S., i.e., the second reconstruction. Failure of reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Assault on white supremacy via courts, state, and grass roots southern movement in 1950s and 1960s. Black struggle in north and west. New emphasis on Black Power, by new organizations. Ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, conservative assault on the movement.

AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The "second reconstruction." Failure of Reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Post-1945 assault on white supremacy via courts/state, grass-roots southern movement in 1950s/1960s. Black struggle in north and west, emphasis on Black Power by new organizations/ideologies/leaders. Ascendancy of Reagan, conservative assault on movement.

HIST 3856 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Modern black civil rights struggle in U.S. Second reconstruction. Failure of reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Assault on white supremacy via courts, state, grassroots southern movement in 1950s/1960s. Black struggle in north/west.

AFRO 3868W - Race, War, and Race Wars in American History (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3868/Hist 3868
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Role that race has played in American war history. Impact that wars have had on race and race relations in the United States and the world. Literature and film.

HIST 3868W - Race, War, and Race Wars in American History (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3868/Hist 3868
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Role that race has played in American war history. Impact that wars have had on race and race relations in the United States and the world. Literature, film.

AFRO 4335 - African American Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4335/Pol 4335
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course examines the historical and contemporary efforts by African Americans to gain full inclusion as citizens in the U.S. political system. Specifically, the course explores advocacy efforts by civil rights organizations and political parties to obtain and enforce civil and political rights for blacks. An examination of these efforts begins in the Reconstruction Era and concludes with the historic election of the nation?s first African American president. The course will cover topics such as the politics of the civil rights movement, black presidential bids and racialized voting in federal and state elections. Finally, the course examines how political parties and organized interests used the Voting Rights Act to increase the number of minorities in Congress. The course focuses on whether the growing number of minorities in Congress increases citizens? trust in government and their involvement in voting and participation in political organizations.

POL 4335 - African American Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4335/Pol 4335
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course examines the historical and contemporary efforts by African Americans to gain full inclusion as citizens in the US political system. Specifically, the course explores advocacy efforts by civil rights organizations and political parties to obtain and enforce civil and political rights for blacks. An examination of these efforts begins in the Reconstruction Era and concludes with the historic election of the nation's first African American president. The course will cover topics such as the politics of the civil rights movement, black presidential bids and racialized voting in federal and state elections. Finally, the course examines how political parties and organized interests used the Voting Rights Act to increase the number of minorities in Congress. The course focuses on whether the growing number of minorities in Congress increases citizens' trust in government and their involvement in voting and participation in political organizations.

AFRO 4406 - Black Feminist Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

AFRO 5406 - Black Feminist Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 4406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 5406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examines spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

AMIN 3141 - American Indian Language Planning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3141/5141
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Planning for maintenance/revitalization of North American indigenous languages. Condition/status of languages. Documentation, cultivation, literacy, education.

AMIN 5141 - American Indian Language Planning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3141/5141
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Planning for maintenance/revitalization of North American indigenous languages. Condition/status of languages. Documentation, cultivation, literacy, education. prereq: 3103 or 3123 or instr consent

AMIN 3201W - American Indian Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3201W/EngL 3201W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of oral traditions, modern literature from various tribal cultures.

AMIN 3301 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

RELS 3321 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

AMIN 3402 - American Indians and the Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3402/AmIn 5402
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Representations of American Indians in film, historically/contemporarily. What such representations assert about Native experience and cultural viability. What they reflect about particular relationships of power.

AMIN 5402 - American Indians and the Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3402/AmIn 5402
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Representations of American Indians in film, historically/contemporarily. What such representations assert about Native experience and cultural viability. What they reflect about particular relationships of power.

AMIN 3409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 3501 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states, federal government.

POL 3701 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states and federal government.

AMIN 3602 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

ANTH 3601 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

ANTH 5601 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

AMIN 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

American Indian history from the era of ancient Native America to the removal era. Social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

HIST 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to American Indian history from ancient native America to the removal era. Focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

AMIN 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3872
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.

HIST 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3872
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.

AMIN 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature related to policies.

POL 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance of new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature on policies.

AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

HIST 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.

GWSS 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.

CHIC 3216W - Chicana and Chicano Art (AH, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

A Chicana/o has been described as a Mexican-American with a political sense of identity that emerges from a desire for social justice. One journalist bluntly stated, "A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself" (Ruben Salazar, Los Angeles Times, 1970). This identity emerged through the Chicano Movement, a social and political mobilization that began in the 1960s and 1970s. The Chicano Movement witnessed the rise of community-based political organizing to improve the working conditions, education, housing opportunities, health, and civil rights for Mexican-Americans. For its inception, the Chicano Movement attracted artists who created a new aesthetic and framework for producing art. A major focus of Chicana/o artists of the 1960s and 1970s was representation, the right to self-determination, and the role of art in fostering civic and public engagement. This focus continues to inform Chicana/o cultural production. Social intervention, empowerment, and institutional critique remain some of the most important innovations of American art of the last several decades, and Chicana/o artists played a significant role in this trend.

ARTH 3216W - Chicana and Chicano Art (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ArtH 3216W/Chic 3216W/Chic 512
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

A Chicana/o has been described as a Mexican-American with a political sense of identity that emerges from a desire for social justice. One journalist bluntly stated, "A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself" (Ruben Salazar, Los Angeles Times, 1970). This identity emerged through the Chicano Movement, a social and political mobilization that began in the 1960s and 1970s. The Chicano Movement witnessed the rise of community-based political organizing to improve the working conditions, education, housing opportunities, health, and civil rights for Mexican-Americans. For its inception, the Chicano Movement attracted artists who created a new aesthetic and framework for producing art. A major focus of Chicana/o artists of the 1960s and 1970s was representation, the right to self-determination, and the role of art in fostering civic and public engagement. This focus continues to inform Chicana/o cultural production. Social intervention, empowerment, and institutional critique remain some of the most important innovations of American art of the last several decades, and Chicana/o artists played a significant role in this trend.

CHIC 3374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

CHIC 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3444GloS 3634/Hist 3444
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.

HIST 3444 - Chicana and Chicano History I (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3444GloS 3634/Hist 3444
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Important eras in histories of Mexico, the United States, and Mexican Americans. Central role of Chicana/os in U.S. history, culture, and politics. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, migration.

CHIC 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.

HIST 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Experiences of people of Mexican descent in U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, demographics. Social, economic, political changes. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans/other Latino groups.

CHIC 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3507W/EngL 3507W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.

ENGL 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3507W/EngL 3507W
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.

CHIC 3852 - Chicana/o Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3852/Pol 3752
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory/practice of Chicana/o politics through an analysis of Mexican American experience, social agency, and response to larger political systems and behaviors using social science methods of inquiry. Unequal power relations, social justice, and the political economy.

POL 3752 - Chicana/o Politics (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3852/Pol 3752
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory/practice of Chicana/o politics through analysis of Mexican American experience, social agency. Response to larger political systems/behaviors using social science methods of inquiry. Unequal power relations, social justice, political economy.

CHIC 4401 - Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4401/GWSS 4401
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.

GWSS 4401 - Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4401/GWSS 4401
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.

AMST 4962W - Proseminar in American Studies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course serves as the capstone course for majors of the American Studies BA program. prereq: AmSt sr or instr consent

AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.

AMST 3252W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1900 to 1940 (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

AMST 3253W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

AMST 4962W - Proseminar in American Studies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course serves as the capstone course for majors of the American Studies BA program. prereq: AmSt sr or instr consent

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American Studies B.A.