Major Requirements

Course List

Code	Title
Introduction and Methods
AMST 119	Cultural Politics
AMST 200	Introduction to American Studies
AMST 250	Interdisciplinary Studies: Methods and Modes of Inquiry
300- or 400-level AMST Course
Complete at least one 300- or 400-level course in American Studies, or cross-listed with American Studies. 1
Additional Courses
Complete six courses from the following:
Any American Studies course (AMST)
AFR 114	Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
AFR 119	Cultural Politics
AFR 162	White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
AFR 201	Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought
AFR 227	#BlackLivesMatter
AFR 249	African American Popular Music
AFR 252	Contemporary Issues in Dance
AFR 259	Contemporary African American Literature
AFR 265	The Writings of Toni Morrison
AFR 269	Narrating Slavery
AFR 301E	Black Struggles against American Slavery
AFR 304	Decolonization
AFR S41	Black Genealogies
ANTH 125	Critical Perspectives on Sport and Society
ANTH 333	Culture and Interpretation
AVC 276	True or False: Documentary Photography
AVC 287	Gender and Visual Culture
AVC 288	Visualizing Race
AVC 361	Museum Internship
DANC 250	Dance Histories of the United States
DANC 252	Contemporary Issues in Dance
DCS 204	Archives, Data, and Analysis
EDUC 231	Perspectives on Education
EDUC 242	Race and Justice in American Education
EDUC 380	Education, Reform, and Politics
ENG 114	Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
ENG 143	Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENG 152	American Writers since 1900
ENG 241	Fiction in the United States
ENG 247	Contemporary Arab American Literature
ENG 259	Contemporary African American Literature
ENG 265	The Writings of Toni Morrison
ENG 269	Narrating Slavery
ENG 281	Arab American Poetry
ENG 395J	Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature
ENG S41	Black Genealogies
FRE 208	Introduction to the Francophone World
FRE 240I	French in Maine
FYS 475	Theorizing the Ku Klux Klan: The White Power Movement and the Making of "America"
GSS 100	Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
GSS 155	Gender, Power, and Politics
GSS 201	Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought
GSS 270	Sociology of Gender
GSS 273	US Immigration: Rise of the Immigration Regime
GSS 287	Gender and Visual Culture
GSS 340	Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion
GSS 341	Family, Youth and Childhood
GSS 353	Critical Theory/Critical Acts
HISP 224	Protest and Justice
HIST 140	New Peoples of North America, 1500-1820
HIST 141	Rise of the American Empire
HIST 142	The United States in the Twentieth Century
HIST 181	Creating Latin America: A History
HIST 244	Native American History
HIST 253	Dance Histories of the United States
HIST 273	US Immigration: Rise of the Immigration Regime
HIST 301E	Black Struggles against American Slavery
LALS 181	Creating Latin America: A History
LALS 249	Politics of Latin America
LALS 273	US Immigration: Rise of the Immigration Regime
MUS 247	History of Jazz
MUS 249	African American Popular Music
PLTC 115	U.S. Political Institutions and Processes
PLTC 155	Gender, Power, and Politics
PLTC 215	Political Participation in the United States
PLTC 230	The U.S. Congress
PLTC 249	Politics of Latin America
PLTC 310	Public Opinion
PLTC 329	Problems and Progress in U.S. Political Development
PSYC 210	Social Psychology
PSYC 377	Liberation Psychology
REL 100	Religion and Film
REL 216	American Religious History, 1550-1840
REL 217	American Religious History, 1840-Present
REL 247	City upon the Hill
REL 272	Islam in the Americas
REL 306B	Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays
RFSS 162	White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
RFSS 260	Lesbian and Gay Images in Film
RFSS 276	Television Criticism
RFSS 391A	The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction
RFSS 391B	Presidential Campaign Rhetoric
RFSS 391E	The Interracial Buddy Film
SOC 210	Social Psychology
SOC 242	Race and Justice in American Education
SOC 250	Privilege, Power, and Inequality
SOC 270	Sociology of Gender
SOC 340	Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion
SOC 341	Family, Youth and Childhood
SOC 380	Education, Reform, and Politics
Senior Thesis
Complete at least one course from the following:
AMST 457	Senior Thesis
AMST 458	Senior Thesis

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(excluding AMST 457 Senior Thesis and AMST 458 Senior Thesis)

Courses Taken Outside of Bates

Students should consult the program chair about transfer credits or other courses that may be used toward fulfillment of major requirements.

Pass/Fail

Students may only apply courses taken Pass/Fail to the Additional Courses requirement.

Restricted Declarations Policy

Bates Default: Students who have declared this major may declare any other major, minor, or general education concentration (GEC).

Other Considerations

None.