AMST Courses

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Data last updated: 2024-09-04 10:34:50.781072

Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14581	AMST 60 - 001 First-Year Seminar: American Indians in History, Law, and Literature	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Daniel Cobb	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0317	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: This research seminar provides a grounding in American Indian law, history, and literature. Students will conduct research for presentation on Wikipedia. 3 units.
10156	AMST 101 - 001 This Place Called "America"	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:10PM	PATRICIA SAWIN	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm G200	Seats filled	Seats filled	175/175	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 3 units.
10157	AMST 101 - 601 This Place Called "America"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Dana Mulligan	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10158	AMST 101 - 602 This Place Called "America"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Dana Mulligan	Peabody Hall-Rm 3018	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10159	AMST 101 - 603 This Place Called "America"	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Isabella Millikan	Peabody Hall-Rm 2094	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
10160	AMST 101 - 604 This Place Called "America"	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Isabella Millikan	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	24/25	Seats filled	24/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
17682	AMST 101 - 605 This Place Called "America"	Th 12:30PM - 1:20PM	Ellen Patronas	Hanes Hall-Rm 0107	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
17683	AMST 101 - 606 This Place Called "America"	Th 3:30PM - 4:20PM	Ellen Patronas	Dey Hall-Rm 0208	22/25	Seats filled	22/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
17994	AMST 101 - 607 This Place Called "America"	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	PATRICIA SAWIN	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	23/25	Seats filled	23/25	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary examination of two centuries of American culture, focusing on moments of change and transformation. 0 units.
7525	AMST 110 - 006 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Daniel Cobb	Manning Hall-Rm 0209	104/112	Seats filled	104/112	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. 3 units.
12159	AMST 110 - 600 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Frankie Bauer	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled	Seats filled	14/14	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.
7526	AMST 110 - 601 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Miquell Shaw	Hanes Hall-Rm 0130	Seats filled	Seats filled	14/14	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.
7527	AMST 110 - 602 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Frankie Bauer	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	14/14	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.
7528	AMST 110 - 603 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Riya Parshad	Phillips Hall-Rm 0275	12/14	Seats filled	12/14	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.
12155	AMST 110 - 604 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Miquell Shaw	Dey Hall-Rm 0305	13/14	Seats filled	13/14	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.
12156	AMST 110 - 605 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Frankie Bauer	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	12/14	Seats filled	12/14	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.
7529	AMST 110 - 606 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Riya Parshad	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0203	11/14	Seats filled	11/14	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.
8149	AMST 110 - 607 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Frankie Bauer	Peabody Hall-Rm 3018	13/14	Seats filled	13/14	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.
7866	AMST 175 - 001 Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Kelly Alexander, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Simiyha Garrison, Robert Anderson	Murphey Hall-Rm 0116	Seats filled	11/12	49/50	0/999
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.
12119	AMST 202 - 001 Historical Approaches to American Studies	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Khalil Dalton	Gardner Hall-Rm 0210	19/21	Seats filled	23/25	0/999
Description: A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American studies with an emphasis on historical and cultural analysis. 3 units.
9101	AMST 210 - 001 This Place Called "The South"	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Zachary Faircloth	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	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. 3 units.
12122	AMST 211 - 001 Approaches to Southern Studies: The Literary and Cultural Worlds of the American South	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Jordan Lovejoy	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	24/25	Seats filled	24/25	0/999
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.
14889	AMST 251 - 001 The Jewish American Experience	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Emily Katz	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	13/15	Seats filled	13/15	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.
12145	AMST 255 - 001 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:15PM	SHARON HOLLAND	Gardner Hall-Rm 0008	70/93	Seats filled	77/100	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.
14761	AMST 255 - 601 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Brittany Hutchinson	Hanes Hall-Rm 0125	21/25	Seats filled	21/25	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.
14762	AMST 255 - 602 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Brittany Hutchinson	Murphey Hall-Rm 0105	22/25	Seats filled	22/25	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.
14763	AMST 255 - 603 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Rachel Greiner	Murray Hall-Rm G201	23/25	Seats filled	23/25	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.
14764	AMST 255 - 604 Difference and Power in American Culture(s)	Fr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Rachel Greiner	Dey Hall-Rm 0204	11/25	Seats filled	11/25	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.
12690	AMST 268 - 001 American Cinema and American Culture	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Tony Royle	Dey Hall-Rm 0203	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
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.
14942	AMST 315 - 001 Privacy and Surveillance in America	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Tim Marr	Dey Hall-Rm 0104	23/24	Seats filled	23/24	0/999
Description: This course explores crucial challenges to privacy by changing technological, governmental, and corporate practices of surveillance. We will explore how technological and biometric tools are employed to capitalize upon and control populations. We will examine constitutional rights and privacy laws as well as practices and protections that can enable us to become more ethical citizens in the digital age. 3 units.
12588	AMST 353 - 001 Southeast Asian North Carolina	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Becky Butler	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	11/15	Seats filled	11/15	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.
12131	AMST 375 - 001 Critical Issues in Contemporary Food Studies	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Kelly Alexander	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	21/25	Seats filled	21/25	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, AMST 275 or NUTR 175. Students explore, analyze, and research the politics and ethics of major food debates in contemporary American culture, including the history of the National School Lunch program, the proposed Universal Basic Income's effect on the restaurant business, and public food/body shaming. Studying, discussing in depth, and forming their own opinions on these debates allows students to apprehend the myriad ways in which food is embedded in local, regional, national, and global narratives and identities. Restricted to Food Studies Minors and American Studies majors. 3 units.
14423	AMST 483 - 001 Seeing the USA: The Film Director as Public Intellectual	Tu 3:35PM - 6:35PM	Michelle Robinson	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	15/25	Seats filled	15/25	0/999
Description: Examines the ways in which visual works - paintings, photographs, sculpture, architecture, film, advertising, and other images - communicate the values of American culture and raise questions about American experiences. 3 units.
7563	AMST 691H - 001 Honors in American Studies	Th 6:30PM - 9:00PM	Tim Marr	New West-Rm 0103	4/9	Seats filled	4/9	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.
10153	AMST 700 - 001 The History and Practices of American Studies	We 3:30PM - 6:30PM	Michelle Robinson	Murphey Hall-Rm 0117	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.
14606	AMST 820 - 001 Critical Ethnic Studies (CES): New Perspectives	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	SHARON HOLLAND	Murphey Hall-Rm 0117	11/12	Seats filled	11/12	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.
12132	AMST 878 - 001 Readings in Native American History	Th 6:00PM - 8:30PM	Raquel Escobar	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0570	2/4	Seats filled	2/4	0/999
Description: Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history. 3 units.
10154	AMST 903 - 001 Comprehensive Exams and Dissertation Design	Fr 2:00PM - 5:00PM	Kelly Alexander	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526A	3/6	Seats filled	3/6	0/999
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.