All American Studies (AMS) Courses
A. Introduction to American Studies (AMS core courses)
** AMS listing dependent upon topic
- BIS 363 Conflict and Connection in the Americas
- BIS 364 Public Memory and Dissent in American Culture
- BIS 365 Exploring American Culture: Popular and Consumer Culture
- BIS 366 Exploring American Culture: Americans at the Margins
- BIS 367 Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- BIS 368 Sex, Love, Romance
B. Methods and Modes of Inquiry
- BIS 312 Approaches to Social Research
- BIS 410 Topics in Qualitative Inquiry
C. Literature, Media, and Art in Cultural Context
- BIS 204 Introduction to Journalism
- BIS 309 History of Dance in Europe and America
- BIS 318 Performance, Identity, Community and Everyday Life
- BIS 322 **Topics in Performance Studies
- BIS 325 Disability and Human Rights
- BIS 336 Native American Cultures: The Northwest Coast
- BIS 339 **Issues in Global Cultural Studies
- BIS 341 **Topics in the Study of Culture
- BIS 347 History of American Documentary Film
- BIS 349 Hollywood Cinema and Genres
- BIS 351 Topics in American Culture
- BIS 357 Native American Religious and Philosophical Thought
- BIS 360 Literature, Film and Consumer Culture
- BIS 361 Studies in American Literature
- BIS 370 Nineteenth Century American Literature
- BIS 371 Twentieth Century American Literature
- BIS 378 Languages of Poetry
- BIS 379 American Ethnic Literatures
- BIS 383 American Art and Architecture
- BIS 384 Literary and Popular Genres
- BIS 385 Cross-Cultural Oral Traditions
- BIS 387 Women and American Literature
- BIS 389 American Indian Literature
- BIS 407 Children's Literature and Reader Response Criticism
- BIS 418 Masculinity, Homoeroticism, and Queer Theory in America
- BIS 451 Northwest Indian Myths and Tales
- BIS 455 Literature and Sexuality
- BIS 460 **Topics in Critical Theory
- BIS 464 ** Topics in Advanced Cinema Studies
- BIS 476 ** Issues in Art History
- BIS 481 Modernism, Postmodernism, and American Literature
- BIS 486 **Studies in Women and Literature
- BIS 487 Topics in American Literature
D. Policies, Institutions, and Social Structure
- BIS 219 The Politics of Sex Education
- BIS 242 Environmental Geography
- BIS 280 U.S. Political Processes
- BIS 304 Institutions and Social Change
- BIS 305 ** Issues in Social and Political Philosophy
- BIS 307 Technology and Society
- BIS 308 ** Issues in Philosophy and Culture
- BIS 314 **Topics in Geography
- BIS 321 U.S. Politics and Culture from 1865
- BIS 323 U.S. Politics and Culture to 1865
- BIS 327 History of U.S. Labor Institutions
- BIS 330 Democratic Capitalism in the United States
- BIS 331 The Family in U.S. Society
- BIS 333 The Individual and Society
- BIS 335 Human Rights in America
- BIS 338 Political Institutions and Processes
- BIS 343 Community Psychology
- BIS 353 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
- BIS 359 Ethics and Society
- BIS 362 Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies
- BIS 369 Women Across Cultures
- BIS 392 Water and Sustainability
- BIS 401 **Topics in Economic History and Analysis
- BIS 403 Washington DC Seminar on Human Rights
- BIS 414 Topics in Human Rights
- BIS 415 Public Policy and Law
- BIS 419 Urban Politics and Policy
- BIS 421 Technology Policy
- BIS 425 Topics in United States Social and Political History
- BIS 426 Comparative Urban Politics
- BIS 431 **Issues in Sexual Politics and Culture
- BIS 433 Gender, Work and Family
- BIS 436 Comparative Family Systems
- BIS 440 **Topics in Everyday Social and Cultural Life
- BIS 443 Educational Policy and the American Economy
- BIS 444 **Issues in Comparative History
- BIS 445 Meanings and Realities of Inequality
- BIS 463 U.S. Women's History
- BIS 470 Art, Politics, and Social Change
E. Advanced American Studies
- BIS 423 The City in American Culture
- BIS 424 Topics in American Studies
- BIS 461 Studies in U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History
- BIS 462 The Culture of the Cold War in America
- BIS 467 Post-1945 U.S. Youth Culture
