All American Studies (AMS) Courses

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
  • BISAMS 369 American Culture and Mass Media

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 235 Critical Media Literacy
  • 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
  • BISMCS 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
  • BISMCS 471 **Advanced Topics in Media and Communication
  • BIS 476 ** Issues in Art History
  • BIS 481 Modernism, Postmodernism, and American Literature
  • BISIA 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 242 Environmental Geography
  • BIS 265 Multicultural America
  • 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
  • BEDUC 320 Education & Society
  • BIS 321 U.S. Politics and Culture from 1865
  • BIS 323 U.S. Politics and Culture to 1865
  • BEDUC 325 The Dream Project (2 credits, max 6 credits)
  • 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
  • BIS 358 **Issues in Environmental Science
  • 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
  • BISGST 397 **Topics in Global Studies
  • BISSTS 397 **Topics in Science, Technology and Society
  • 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 449 **Advanced Topics in Psychology
  • 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
  • BEDUC 475 Global Perspectives on Diversity and Citizenship Education (3 credits)
  • BIS 491 ** Topics in Policy Studies
  • BIS 496 **Community Service Project
  • BIS 497 Political Internship in State Government
  • BISGST 497 **Advanced Topics in Global Studies
  • BISSTS 497 **Advanced Topics in Sicence, Technology and Society

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