AMST Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
14765	AMST 54 - 001 First-Year Seminar: The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Margaret Scarry	Alumni - Rm 0203	11/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course uses archaeological and historical scholarship to consider the histories of the Southern Indians from the Mississippian period to the end of the 18th century. 3 units.
13923	AMST 55H - 001 First-Year Seminar: Birth and Death in the United States	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Tim Marr	Greenlaw - Rm 0317	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course explores birth and death as essential human rites of passage that are invested with significance by changing and diverse American historical, cultural, ethnic, and ethical contexts. 3 units.
16915	AMST 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Ben Frey	Dey Hall - Rm 0313	23/24 (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
17006	AMST 89 - 002 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	KEITH RICHOTTE	Greenlaw - Rm 0304	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
10908	AMST 101 - 001 This Place Called "America"	MoWe 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Michelle Robinson	Gardner - Rm 0008	97/100 (102 total)	Seats filled	0/12
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 3 units.
10909	AMST 101 - 601 This Place Called "America"	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Emily McDonnell	New West - Rm 0219	24/26 (26 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10910	AMST 101 - 602 This Place Called "America"	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Emily McDonnell	Manning - Rm 0307	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10911	AMST 101 - 603 This Place Called "America"	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Shannon Wheeler	Hanes Hall - Rm 0130	Seats filled (26 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10912	AMST 101 - 604 This Place Called "America"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Shannon Wheeler	Greenlaw - Rm 0319	Seats filled (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
8010	AMST 110 - 006 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Kathleen DuVal	Manning - Rm 0209	34/36 (36 total)	Seats filled
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.
14005	AMST 110 - 600 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	We 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Jose Moreno Vega	Genome Sciences Bldg - Rm 1377	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8011	AMST 110 - 601 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	We 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Julia Fournier	Murphey - Rm 0222	2/3 (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8012	AMST 110 - 602 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Th 3:30PM - 4:20PM	Jose Moreno Vega	Dey Hall - Rm 0306	2/3 (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8013	AMST 110 - 603 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Luca Azuma	Global Center - Rm 3033	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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 110 - 604 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Julia Fournier	Phillips - Rm 0301	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
14000	AMST 110 - 605 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Julia Fournier	Stone Center - Rm 0201	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8014	AMST 110 - 606 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Luca Azuma	Tate Turner Kuralt - Rm 226A	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8662	AMST 110 - 607 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Th 3:30PM - 4:20PM	Claire Roth	Dey Hall - Rm 0303	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
9487	AMST 110 - 608 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Luca Azuma	Graham Memorial - Rm 0212	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
10960	AMST 110 - 609 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Th 9:30AM - 10:20AM	Claire Roth	New East - Rm 0301	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
14001	AMST 110 - 610 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Th 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Claire Roth	Phillips - Rm 0212	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
10961	AMST 110 - 611 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Th 12:30PM - 1:20PM	Jose Moreno Vega	Graham Memorial - Rm 0212	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
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.
8367	AMST 175 - 001 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie, David Gonzalez, Rebecca Bernstein, Robert Anderson	Rosenau (PH) - Rm 0133	47/49 (49 total)	Seats filled
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. 3 units.
14753	AMST 175 - 601 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	Fr 3:35PM - 4:20PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie	McGavran-Greenberg PH-Rm 2308	17/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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. 0 units.
14755	AMST 175 - 602 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	Fr 3:35PM - 4:20PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie	McGavran-Greenberg PH-Rm 2306	8/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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. 0 units.
14757	AMST 175 - 603 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	Fr 3:35PM - 4:20PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie	Michael Hooker Research Ctr-03	0/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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. 0 units.
14759	AMST 175 - 604 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	Fr 3:35PM - 4:20PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie	McGavran-Greenberg PH-Rm 1305	2/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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. 0 units.
14760	AMST 175 - 605 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	Fr 12:20PM - 1:05PM	Lindsey Smith Taillie, Kelly Alexander	Greenlaw - Rm 0304	Seats filled (10 total)	Seats filled
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. 0 units.
13926	AMST 202 - 001 Historical Approaches to American Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Khalil Dalton	Peabody - Rm 3018	23/24 (24 total)	Seats filled	0/4
Description: A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American studies with an emphasis on historical and cultural analysis. 3 units.
9689	AMST 210 - 001 This Place Called "The South"	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Seth Kotch	Murray Hall - Rm G202	148/150 (150 total)	Seats filled	0/15
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.
13930	AMST 211 - 001 Approaches to Southern Studies: The Literary and Cultural Worlds of the American South	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Zachary Faircloth	Murphey - Rm 0112	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled
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.
13931	AMST 225 - 001 Comedy and Ethics	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Michelle Robinson	Murphey - Rm 0116	84/120 (129 total)	Seats filled	0/12
Description: This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. 3 units.
13932	AMST 225 - 601 Comedy and Ethics	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Lauren Rekhelman	Dey Hall - Rm 0203	22/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. 0 units.
13933	AMST 225 - 602 Comedy and Ethics	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Lauren Rekhelman	Murray Hall - Rm G205	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. 0 units.
13935	AMST 225 - 604 Comedy and Ethics	Fr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Dana Mulligan	Alumni - Rm 0205	23/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. 0 units.
13936	AMST 225 - 605 Comedy and Ethics	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Dana Mulligan	Graham Memorial - Rm 0038	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. 0 units.
16815	AMST 234 - 001 Native American Tribal Studies	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Ben Frey	Greenlaw - Rm 0318	Seats filled (30 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course introduces students to a tribally specific body of knowledge. The tribal focus of the course and the instructor change from term to term. 3 units.
12627	AMST 253 - 001 A Social History of Jewish Women in America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Jillian Hinderliter	Gardner - Rm 0001	4/5 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course examines the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present and explores how gender shaped this journey. 3 units.
13961	AMST 255 - 001 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Antonia Randolph	Murphey - Rm 0116	72/79 (120 total)	Seats filled	0/12
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.
16411	AMST 255 - 601 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Simiyha Garrison	Dey Hall - Rm 0203	25/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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.
16412	AMST 255 - 602 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Simiyha Garrison	Murray Hall - Rm G201	Seats filled (30 total)	Seats filled
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.
16413	AMST 255 - 603 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Paige Mcclure	Smith - Rm 0107	Seats filled (30 total)	Seats filled
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.
16414	AMST 255 - 604 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Paige Mcclure	Caldwell - Rm 0103	28/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
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.
11802	AMST 258 - 001 Captivity and American Cultural Definition	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Tim Marr	Phillips - Rm 0220	23/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: Examines how representations of captivity and bondage in American expression worked to construct and transform communal categories of religion, race, class, gender, and nation. 3 units.
14775	AMST 268 - 001 American Cinema and American Culture	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Tony Royle	Greenlaw - Rm 0318	Seats filled (25 total)	Seats filled
Description: Examines the relationship between cinema and culture in America with a focus on the ways cinema has been experienced in American communities since 1896. 3 units.
14691	AMST 294 - 001 American Studies Seminar on Aesthetic Perspective	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Emily Katz	Genome Sciences Bldg - Rm 1374	5/35 (35 total)	Seats filled
Description: Topics in arts and literature from the perspective of American studies. 3 units.
13939	AMST 317 - 001 Adoption in America	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	PATRICIA SAWIN	Greenlaw - Rm 0222	Seats filled (25 total)	Seats filled	0/4
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.
14768	AMST 341 - 001 Digital Native America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Daniel Cobb	Greenlaw - Rm 0304	30/35 (35 total)	Seats filled
Description: This is a project-based course that explores settler colonial appropriations of American Indian knowledge. Students then use new technologies as a means of engaging in the digital re-representation and return of this knowledge. Instructor and topics vary. 3 units.
13940	AMST 351 - 001 Global Waters, American Impacts, and Critical Connections	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Rachel Willis	Murray Hall - Rm G205	17/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/4
Description: Water is a vital element for life, food, energy, and transportation. Nations are connected and separated by water through borders and trade. This seminar will examine key impacts on American port cities with respect to water: global infrastructure, foodsheds, health, and diseases. 3 units.
14641	AMST 353 - 001 Southeast Asian North Carolina	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Becky Butler	Hanes Hall - Rm 0125	14/15 (15 total)	Seats filled	0/5
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.
13941	AMST 354 - 001 Asian American Graphic Form	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Kita Douglas	Murphey - Rm 0204	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/4
Description: This course will survey Asian American graphic form: written and/or drawn works from the late 1900s to present. We will begin by considering orientalism in both American popular culture and modernist aesthetics. We will then examine works by Asian American writers and artists in a range of mediums including graphic memoir and novels, comics, animation, manga and anime, illustrated books, zines, textual art, and visual poetry. 3 units.
13942	AMST 375 - 001 Critical Food Studies: The South	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:30PM	Kelly Alexander	Graham Memorial - Rm 0038	Seats filled (25 total)	Seats filled	0/4
Description: Explores the historical arc and study of food in America and how culinary cultures reflect regional, national, and global narratives, challenges, and identities. As an intriguing lens on to the American experience, food reveals how race, class, gender, and place are entwined in cuisine, food economies, and interactions. 3 units.
16598	AMST 398 - 001 Service Learning in America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Rachel Willis	Murray Hall - Rm G205	15/25 (25 total)	Seats filled
Description: Explores history and theory of volunteerism and service learning in America. Includes a weekly academic seminar and placement in a service learning project. 3 units.
16267	AMST 512 - 001 Race and American Law	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	KEITH RICHOTTE	Carolina Hall - Rm 0322	12/25 (25 total)	Seats filled
Description: This class will explore the intersection between race and American law, both in a historical and contemporary context. It will ask how both of these major social forces have informed and defined each other and what that means for how we think about race and law today. 3 units.
8048	AMST 691H - 001 Honors in American Studies	Th 6:30PM - 9:00PM	Kita Douglas	New West - Rm 0103	1/9 (9 total)	Seats filled
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.
10905	AMST 700 - 001 The History and Practices of American Studies	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	SHARON HOLLAND	New East - Rm 0305	6/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
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.
13943	AMST 878 - 001 Readings in Native American History	Th 12:30PM - 3:30PM	Daniel Cobb	Murphey - Rm 0117	5/8 (8 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history. 3 units.
10906	AMST 903 - 001 Comprehensive Exams and Dissertation Design	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	Antonia Randolph	Greenlaw - Rm 526A	3/12 (12 total)	Seats filled	0/2
Description: Prerequisites, AMST 700, 701 and 901. This is the third and final course in a required sequence 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 will lead to the completion of a dissertation. It does so first by creating a community of common labor around studying for comprehensive exams, and then by support you through the dissertation proposal and prospectus writing process. Restricted to Graduate Students only. 3 units.