Minor Requirements

The American Studies Minor consists of a minimum of 3 required courses (US History, American Literature, and Methodology) and 2 electives for a total of 20 units.

COURSEWORK

Introduction to History

Choose one of the following:

HIST 101	United States Culture and Society I	4 units
	Or
HIST 102	United States Culture and Society II	4 units

American Literature Survey

Choose one of the following:

ENGL 189	The American Experience in Literature	4 units
	Or
ENGL 289	The American Experience in Literature	4 units

Methodology

Choose one of the following:

AMST 290	American Studies Theory and Methodology	4 units
	Or
AMST 390	Junior Seminar	4 units

American Studies

Students must select two courses from the list below:

AMST 101	United States Redux: Introduction to American Studies	4 units
AMST 240/BLST 240	African American Women Writers	4 units
AMST 242/BLST 242	The Great Migration	4 units
AMST 256/BLST 256	Race Women: African American Women's Protest Culture	4 units
AMST 260/LLAS 260	United States Latino Literature and Cultural Studies	4 units
AMST 268/BLST 268	Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History	4 units
AMST 270	Asian American Literature	4 units
AMST 272/EASN 272	Asian Immigrants in American Society	4 units
AMST 280/DWA 246	The United States and East Asia	4 units
AMST 295	Topics in American Studies	4 units
AMST 296/DWA 287	Transnational Liberation: Black Radical Thought in the Middle East and North Africa	4 units
AMST 310	The American South	4 units
AMST 320	Graphic Narratives: From Pulp Fiction to Comix Literature	4 units
AMST 346/ENGL 346	Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature	4 units
AMST 375/PSYC 375	Sociopolitics of Race: Color-blind/Color-insight	4 units
AMST 376/BLST 376	Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory	4 units
BLST 252/MAC 252	African-American Film: 1967–Present	4 units
LLAS 385/PSYC 385	Chicanx in Contemporary United States Society	4 units