AMST Courses

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Data last updated: 2024-07-26 11:09:15.782033

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	20/20
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	0/2	140/142	17/999
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	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	8/999
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	35/35	4/999
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	To be Announced	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	3/999
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	To be Announced	Davie Hall-Rm 0101	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	2/999
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 2:00PM - 2:50PM	To be Announced	Hanes Hall-Rm 0107	0/24	Seats filled	0/24
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	To be Announced	Dey Hall-Rm 0208	0/24	Seats filled	0/24
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	Seats filled	Seats filled	91/91	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	To be Announced	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	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	To be Announced	Hanes Hall-Rm 0130	Seats filled	Seats filled	13/13	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	To be Announced	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	12/12	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	To be Announced	Phillips Hall-Rm 0275	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.
12155	AMST 110 - 604 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	To be Announced	Dey Hall-Rm 0305	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.
12156	AMST 110 - 605 Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	To be Announced	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	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	To be Announced	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0203	Seats filled	Seats filled	9/9	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	To be Announced	Peabody Hall-Rm 3018	Seats filled	Seats filled	9/9	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	Murphey Hall-Rm 0116	Seats filled	11/12	49/50	25/999
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	Seats filled	10/11	15/16	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	22/22	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	To be Announced	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	2/999
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	Seats filled	Seats filled	14/14	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	Seats filled	Seats filled	51/51	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 - 1:20PM	Brittany Hutchinson	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	Seats filled	Seats filled	21/21	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	Seats filled	Seats filled	18/18	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	To be Announced	Murray Hall-Rm G201	Seats filled	Seats filled	8/8	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	To be Announced	Dey Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled	Seats filled	4/4	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 0205	Seats filled	Seats filled	22/22	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	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24	4/999
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	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	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 0318	18/25	Seats filled	18/25	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	19/25	Seats filled	19/25	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	1/9	Seats filled	1/9	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	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.
12132	AMST 878 - 001 Readings in Native American History	Th 6:00PM - 8:30PM	Raquel Escobar	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0570	3/4	Seats filled	3/4	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, Michelle Robinson	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526A	2/6	Seats filled	2/6	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.