Delisted Course
As of Autumn Quarter, 2010, one course marked ^^ will NOT count for either the AMS major or the AMS option. If taken prior to Autumn Quarter, 2010, the course will count for the AMS option, but will NOT count if the student decides to declare the major.
Key: ^^Denotes the delisted AMS Option to Major course.
A. Introduction to American Studies (AMS core courses)
Key: **AMS listing dependent upon topic
- BISAMS 363 Conflict and Connection in the Americas
- BISAMS 364 Public Memory and Dissent in American Culture
- BISAMS 365 Exploring American Culture: Popular and Consumer Culture
- BISAMS 366 Exploring American Culture: Americans at the Margins
- BISAMS 367 Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- BISAMS 368 Sex, Love, Romance
B. Methods and Modes of Inquiry
- BIS 312 Approaches to Social Research
- BIS 340 Approaches to Cultural Research
- BIS 410 Topics in Qualitative Inquiry
C. Literature, Media, and Art in Cultural Context
- BIS 204 Introduction to Journalism
- BIS 233 Participatory Media Culture
- BIS 309 History of Dance in Europe and America
- BISCLA 318 Performance, Identity, Community and Everyday Life
- BISIA 319 Interdisciplinary Arts
- BIS 322 **Topics in Performance Studies
- BIS 325 Disability and Human Rights
- BIS 333 Media and Communication Studies
- 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
- BISCLA 349 Hollywood Cinema and Genres
- BIS 351 Topics in American Culture
- BIS 357 Native American Religious and Philosophical Thought
- BISCLA 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
- BISCLA384 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 465 Performance, History, Memory
- BIS 471 **Advanced Topics in Media and Communication
- BIS 476 ** Issues in Art History
- BIS 481 Modernism, Postmodernism, and American Literature
- BIS 484 Arts Learning in the Community
- BIS 485 **Topics in Cultural Studies
- 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 224 Introduction to Feminist Studies
- ^^BIS 225 Applied Social Psychology
- BIS 242 Environmental Geography
- BIS 275 Social Problems
- BIS 280 U.S. Political Processes
- BISSEB 304 Institutions and Social Change
- BIS 305 ** Issues in Social and Political Philosophy
- BISSTS 307 Science, Technology, and Society
- BIS 308 ** Issues in Philosophy and Culture
- BIS 314 **Topics in Geography
- BIS 318 Education and Society
- 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
- BISSEB 331 The Family in U.S. Society
- BISSEB 333 The Individual and Society
- BIS 335 Human Rights in America
- BIS 338 Political Institutions and Processes
- BISCP 343 Community Psychology
- BIS 353 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
- BISSEB 359 Ethics and Society
- BISGST 362 Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies
- BIS 369 Women Across Cultures
- BIS 391 Environmental History of the Pacific Northwest
- BIS 392 Water and Sustainability
- BIS 396 **Topics in Sustainability
- BIS 397 **Topics in Environmental Studies
- 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 466 Human Rights and Resistance
- BIS 468 Human Rights and Sustainable Development
- BIS 470 Art, Politics, and Social Change
- BIS 491 ** Topics in Policy Studies
- BIS 496 **Community Service Project
- BIS 497 Political Internship in State Government
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