AMST Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14086	AMST 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Steven Marston	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0317	2/3	Seats filled	2/3
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
9388	AMST 101 - 001 This Place Called "America"	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Michelle Robinson	Stone Center-Rm 0103	82/108	1/12	83/120	2/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 3 units.
9389	AMST 101 - 601 This Place Called "America"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Dey Hall-Rm 303A	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	1/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
9390	AMST 101 - 602 This Place Called "America"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1378	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
9391	AMST 101 - 603 This Place Called "America"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Graham Memorial-Rm 0038	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
9392	AMST 101 - 604 This Place Called "America"	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	To be Announced	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	9/10	Seats filled	9/10	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
13109	AMST 101 - 605 This Place Called "America"	Th 12:30PM - 1:20PM	To be Announced	Graham Memorial-Rm 0213	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	1/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
13110	AMST 101 - 606 This Place Called "America"	Th 3:30PM - 4:20PM	To be Announced	Tate-Turner-Kuralt -Rm 0114	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
14534	AMST 101 - 607 This Place Called "America"	Fr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	To be Announced	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	6/25	Seats filled	6/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
14535	AMST 101 - 608 This Place Called "America"	Fr 3:35PM - 4:25PM	To be Announced	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0118	3/20	Seats filled	3/20	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
14547	AMST 110 - 006 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Raquel Escobar	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0109	7/18	Seats filled	7/18	1/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 3 units.
14548	AMST 110 - 600 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Raquel Escobar	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0301	1/3	Seats filled	1/3	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
14549	AMST 110 - 601 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Raquel Escobar	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	1/3	Seats filled	1/3	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
14550	AMST 110 - 602 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Raquel Escobar	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0517	2/3	Seats filled	2/3	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
14552	AMST 110 - 603 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Raquel Escobar	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0319	1/3	Seats filled	1/3	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
14553	AMST 110 - 604 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Raquel Escobar	Manning Hall-Rm 0307	2/3	Seats filled	2/3	1/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
14554	AMST 110 - 605 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Raquel Escobar	Peabody Hall-Rm G050	0/3	Seats filled	0/3	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience. 0 units.
13999	AMST 175 - 001 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0133	Seats filled	Seats filled	62/62	2/999
Description: Introduction to food studies covering a variety of topics including how food was consumed over history, land use and aquaculture, food in the arts, food and culture in the American South, food politics, and nutrition science. Previously offered as ANTH 175. 3 units.
14537	AMST 201 - 001 Literary Approaches to American Studies	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Tony Royle	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0301	3/25	Seats filled	3/25	0/999
Description: A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American Studies with an emphasis on the historical context for literary texts. 3 units.
10866	AMST 202 - 001 Historical Approaches to American Studies	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Steven Marston	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	14/25	Seats filled	14/25	0/999
Description: A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American studies with an emphasis on historical and cultural analysis. 3 units.
15337	AMST 202 - 002 Historical Approaches to American Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Amanda Martinez	TBA	8/25	Seats filled	8/25	0/999
Description: A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American studies with an emphasis on historical and cultural analysis. 3 units.
8464	AMST 210 - 001 This Place Called "The South"	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Seth Kotch	Stone Center-Rm 0103	Seats filled	0/12	108/120	12/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 3 units.
14324	AMST 210 - 601 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	To be Announced	Global Education, F-Rm 1005	19/20	Seats filled	19/20	0/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
14325	AMST 210 - 602 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Wilson Hall-Rm 0107	Seats filled	Seats filled	20/20	4/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
14326	AMST 210 - 603 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Carolina Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	20/20	3/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
14327	AMST 210 - 604 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Woollen Gym-Rm 0302	16/20	Seats filled	16/20	2/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
14530	AMST 210 - 605 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Murray Hall-Rm G201	18/20	Seats filled	18/20	2/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
14531	AMST 210 - 606 This Place Called "The South"	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	To be Announced	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	15/20	Seats filled	15/20	1/999
Description: An examination of both the mythical and real American South and its diverse peoples through the study of the region's archaeological, geographical, and environmental history integrated with the study of the region's sociology and its economic, political, intellectual, and religious history. 0 units.
10867	AMST 211 - 001 Approaches to Southern Studies: The Literary and Cultural Worlds of the American South	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Zachary Faircloth	Phillips Hall-Rm 0222	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	8/999
Description: An examination of Southern cultural identity, literary imagination, and sense of place with an emphasis on the fiction, folklore, foodways, art, architecture, music, and material culture of the American South. 3 units.
14092	AMST 222 - 001 The Death Penalty in American History	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Seth Kotch	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	16/999
Description: This course explores the history of the death penalty in America between the colonial era and the present. 3 units.
14076	AMST 246 - 001 Indigenous Storytelling: Oral, Written, and Visual Literatures of Native America	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Amanda Cobb-Greetham	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	9/25	Seats filled	9/25	0/999
Description: Offers a historically, politically, and culturally contextualized examination of Native America through oral, written, and visual storytelling. Covering a wide range of genres, including oral narratives, novels, and visual arts, this introductory course showcases the fluidity of Indigenous artistic forms and their continuing centrality in Native America. 3 units.
12613	AMST 251 - 001 The Jewish American Experience	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Emily Katz	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	11/15	Seats filled	11/15	0/999
Description: A survey of the Jewish experience in the United States from colonial times to the present, that examines connections and disjunctures with the experiences of Jews in the Americas more broadly. Topics include the social patterns and communal constructs of the various Jewish immigrations; modes of political engagement; and the diverse cultural practices through which American Jews have shaped their identities. 3 units.
14529	AMST 252 - 001 Muslim American Literatures and Cultures	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	To be Announced	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: This course examines the diversity of Muslims in America and the variety of creative expression created throughout this long history of transcultural involvement. 3 units.
10878	AMST 255 - 001 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Antonia Randolph	TBA	15/100	Seats filled	15/100	0/999
Description: This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape. 3 units.
14088	AMST 255 - 601 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	To be Announced	Carolina Hall-Rm 0322	3/25	Seats filled	3/25	0/999
Description: This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape. 0 units.
14089	AMST 255 - 602 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	To be Announced	Sitterson Hall (inc-Rm FB009	2/25	Seats filled	2/25	0/999
Description: This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape. 0 units.
14090	AMST 255 - 603 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	To be Announced	Graham Memorial-Rm 0213	3/25	Seats filled	3/25	0/999
Description: This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape. 0 units.
14091	AMST 255 - 604 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Graham Memorial-Rm 0035	7/25	Seats filled	7/25	0/999
Description: This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape. 0 units.
14079	AMST 275 - 001 Food and American Culture	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:10PM	SHARON HOLLAND	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	100/100	19/999
Description: In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity. 3 units.
14080	AMST 275 - 601 Food and American Culture	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	To be Announced	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	6/999
Description: In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity. 0 units.
14081	AMST 275 - 602 Food and American Culture	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Venable Hall-Rm G307	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	5/999
Description: In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity. 0 units.
14082	AMST 275 - 603 Food and American Culture	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1378	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	1/999
Description: In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity. 0 units.
14083	AMST 275 - 604 Food and American Culture	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Carolina Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	7/999
Description: In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity. 0 units.
14087	AMST 277 - 001 America's Role in the Global Environment	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	To be Announced	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0304	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	1/999
Description: Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores the historical role and implications for the US and other nations with respect to transnational environmental issues including climate change, sustainability, and migration. 3 units.
14623	AMST 287 - 001 Introduction to American Legal Education	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	To be Announced	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	49/49	29/999
Description: Introduces students to how legal education is conducted in the United States by mimicking the "1L" experience, or first year in law school. It is broken into units that represent classes every law school teaches in the first year: contracts, property, torts, criminal law, civil procedure, and constitutional law. 3 units.
15205	AMST 317 - 001 Adoption in America	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	PATRICIA SAWIN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	4/999
Description: An interdisciplinary approach to the history of adoption and related practices in the United States, employing the provisions society has made for the welfare of children deemed to be orphans as a powerful lens into changing values and attitudes toward childhood, race, class, gender, reproduction, parenthood, and family. 3 units.
14077	AMST 337 - 001 American Indian Activism since 1887: Beyond Red Power	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Daniel Cobb	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	12/25	Seats filled	12/25	0/999
Description: This course seeks to understand how American Indian individuals and communities survived a century that began with predictions of their disappearance. To answer that question, we take a broad view of politics and activism, exploring everything from the radical protest to art and everyday forms of resistance. 3 units.
14078	AMST 339 - 001 The Long 1960s in Native America	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Daniel Cobb	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	5/25	Seats filled	5/25	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of Native America during the "long 1960s" (1954-1973), this course focuses on how American Indian experiences intersected with and diverged from those of non-native groups via topics such as the youth movement, women's rights, nationalism, civil rights, radical protest, and creative expression. 3 units.
11106	AMST 353 - 001 Southeast Asian North Carolina	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Becky Butler	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	6/15	Seats filled	6/15	0/999
Description: Drawing from Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, the course explores the political histories and lived experiences of Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans in North Carolina. Students will consider issues relevant to NC Southeast Asian communities such as food justice, labor organizing, mental health support, anti-racism work, transnational connections, etc. Course materials will include both written academic works and first-person narrative accounts from local community members. 3 units.
10868	AMST 375 - 001 Critical Issues in Contemporary Food Studies	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Kelly Alexander	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	6/15	Seats filled	6/15	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, AMST 275 or NUTR 175. Students explore, analyze, and research the politics and ethics of food debates in contemporary American culture. These include the struggles of the National School Lunch Program, the Minimum Wage Act's effect on the restaurant business, and the impact of social media on body image. Through engaging a combination of media discourse on food politics, scholarly articles, and narratives of people working in the food system, students are invited into vibrant debates. By the end of the course, students will not only analyze food systems but also design and conduct original research projects that contribute to ongoing debates in Food Studies. Restricted to Food Studies Minors and American Studies majors. 3 units.
14528	AMST 498 - 001 Advanced Seminar in American Studies	Mo 1:25PM - 4:25PM	To be Announced	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526A	5/12	Seats filled	5/12	0/999
Description: Graduate or junior/senior standing. Examines American civilization by studying social and cultural history, criticism, art, architecture, music, film, popular pastimes, and amusements, among other possible topics. 3 units.
14536	AMST 498 - 002 Advanced Seminar in American Studies	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	Blair Kelley	Love House-Rm 0112	5/8	Seats filled	5/8	0/999
Description: Graduate or junior/senior standing. Examines American civilization by studying social and cultural history, criticism, art, architecture, music, film, popular pastimes, and amusements, among other possible topics. 3 units.
7047	AMST 691H - 001 Honors in American Studies	Th 6:30PM - 9:00PM	Jesse Fivecoate	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526A	2/9	Seats filled	2/9	0/999
Description: Directed independent research leading to the preparation of an honors thesis and an oral examination on the thesis. Required of candidates for graduation with honors in American studies who enroll in the class once permission to pursue honors is granted. 3 units.
9385	AMST 700 - 001 The History and Practices of American Studies	We 2:30PM - 5:30PM	Michelle Robinson	Stone Center-Rm 0201	3/12	Seats filled	3/12	0/999
Description: This course will acquaint students with the texts, contexts, issues, and controversies in American Studies as a field of study. It is required for most American studies graduate students and open to graduate students in other departments. 3 units.
12394	AMST 820 - 001 Critical Ethnic Studies (CES): New Perspectives	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	SHARON HOLLAND	New East-Rm 0305	5/12	Seats filled	5/12	0/999
Description: This course is devised to provide graduate students interested in theoretical interdisciplinary work with a sense of prevailing questions and critiques important to CES. CES takes on the more difficult questions of intersectional work, as it thinks through sovereignty and emancipation, identity and ontology, place, space and temporality. Each iteration of the course works itself through new perspectives in the field, challenging students to create new methodologies for their own work. 3 units.
10869	AMST 878 - 001 Readings in Native American History	Tu 3:30PM - 6:30PM	Amanda Cobb-Greetham	TBA	6/8	Seats filled	6/8	0/999
Description: Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history. 3 units.
6829	AMST 901 - 001 Ph.D. Prospectus Design and Writing	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	Seth Kotch	Dey Hall-Rm 0405	1/10	Seats filled	1/10	0/999
Description: This is the last required course for PhD students in the Department of American Studies. It is intended to scaffold you into "ABD" status: the concentrated period of research and writing that leads you to the completion of dissertation research and writing. This seminar supports you through the design and writing of your dissertation prospectus, to be completed and defended by the end of the fall term. 3 units.