Comparative American Studies Minor

Africana Studies Courses

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• AAST 202 - African American History Since 1865
• AAST 219 - Freedom Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
• AAST 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration
• AAST 225 - Social Justice in Dance
• AAST 231 - African American Politics
• AAST 234 - Africana Popular Culture
• AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora
• AAST 249 - Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Fiction: Black to the Future
• AAST 261 - Framing Blackness: African Americans and Film in The United States, 1915 to the Present
• AAST 263 - Black English and Voice: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
• AAST 264 - African American Drama
• AAST 285 - African American Women’s History
• AAST 302 - Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition
• AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean
• AAST 382 - Seminar: James Baldwin

Anthropology Courses

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• ANTH 227 - Medical Anthropology
• ANTH 416 - Race, Racism, and Human Variation in Global Perspective

Comparative American Studies Courses

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• CAST 106 - The History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place
• CAST 200 - Theories and Methods in American Studies
• CAST 201 - Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective
• CAST 204 - Pop Music and Media
• CAST 207 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• CAST 208 - Which American Life?
• CAST 210 - Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Latina/o/x Practices of Accompaniment
• CAST 212 - Queer(ing) Media
• CAST 223 - Surviving America: Introduction to Native Studies
• CAST 226 - Music of the Americas
• CAST 229 - How We Look: Visualizing U.S. Identities
• CAST 231 - The Coalition of the Future: How We Combat White Nationalism and Weave the Fabric of Democracy
• CAST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs
• CAST 237 - Alaska Natives and the Environment
• CAST 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads
• CAST 245 - Asian American Experiments in Life Writing
• CAST 248 - (Re)Mapping Asian American Studies: An Introduction to Asian American Studies
• CAST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
• CAST 260 - Asian American History
• CAST 261 - Contemporary Arab American Literature
• CAST 265 - Arab and Muslim American Studies
• CAST 268 - The Feminist Sex Wars: 50 Years Later
• CAST 270 - Latina/o History
• CAST 277 - Rap the Disco, Punk the Queen: Music of the 1970s
• CAST 279 - Imagining Borders
• CAST 284 - Disability and Queer Community Health in a Time of Pandemic
• CAST 302 - American Agricultures
• CAST 309 - Performing America
• CAST 311 - Militarization of American Daily Life
• CAST 312 - Cultures of Surveillance
• CAST 313 - Archives and Affects
• CAST 315 - Brown TV
• CAST 317 - Transgender Cultural Studies
• CAST 319 - Sexual “Absences”
• CAST 335 - Latinx Oral Histories
• CAST 336 - Sanctuary and Solidarity
• CAST 339 - Indigenous Activism, Environmental Justice, and the State
• CAST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective
• CAST 385 - Indigenous Nations, Treaty Rights, and the Great Lakes
• CAST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973
• CAST 408 - Race, Religion, and Citizenship
• CAST 411 - Seminar: Ethnic and Racial Minority Mental Health
• CAST 416 - Taste the Nation: Culture, Consumption, and American Identities
• CAST 427 - Borderlands
• CAST 500 - Capstone Research Seminar
• CAST 501 - CAST Senior Honors I
• CAST 502 - CAST Senior Honors II
• CAST 995F - Private Reading - Full

Comparative Literature Courses

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• CMPL 347 - Sophistications: Queer Postwar New York-Paris Connections
• CMPL 365 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas

Dance Courses

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• DANC 214 - Moving into Community
• DANC 225 - Social Justice in Dance

Economics Courses

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• ECON 430 - Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution

English Courses

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• ENGL 104 - Supervidere: Surveillance Cultures of the American Canon
• ENGL 201 - Rethinking Gender in American Literature
• ENGL 223 - Meaning and Being
• ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction
• ENGL 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads
• ENGL 243 - Promise and Peril: Race and Multicultural America
• ENGL 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America
• ENGL 258 - August Wilson: The Century Cycle
• ENGL 260 - Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments
• ENGL 261 - Constructing the Subject: African American Women and Auto/Biography
• ENGL 263 - Black English and Voice: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
• ENGL 267 - Ethnic Experiments
• ENGL 277 - American Drama
• ENGL 279 - Imagining Borders
• ENGL 293 - Acquired Taste: Literature and Colonial American Foodways
• ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology
• ENGL 343 - American Gothic
• ENGL 357 - Inventing America: Histories of the Book, Archive, and Empire
• ENGL 360 - The End: Globalization and Literature
• ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Narratives of the Maternal

Environmental Studies Courses

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• ENVS 219 - Climate Change
• ENVS 223 - Surviving America: Introduction to Native Studies
• ENVS 302 - American Agricultures
• ENVS 339 - Indigenous Activism, Environmental Justice, and the State
• ENVS 385 - Indigenous Nations, Treaty Rights, and the Great Lakes

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Courses

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• GSFS 201 - Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective
• GSFS 203 - Sociology of Sexualities
• GSFS 204 - Rhetorics of Gender Non-Conformity
• GSFS 207 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• GSFS 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America
• GSFS 309 - Performing America
• GSFS 313 - Archives and Affects
• GSFS 317 - Transgender Cultural Studies
• GSFS 319 - Sexual “Absences”
• GSFS 335 - Queering Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
• GSFS 347 - Sophistications: Queer Postwar New York-Paris Connections

Hispanic Studies Courses

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• HISP 450 - Puerto Rico Post-Mortem: Nation, Identity, and Language in a Non-Sovereign Territory

History Courses

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• HIST 214 - Oberlin Oral History: Community-Based Learning & Research Practicum
• HIST 227 - The History and Practice of Whiteness in the United States
• HIST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs
• HIST 238 - Slavery in the U.S.
• HIST 244 - The U.S. in World War II
• HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy
• HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
• HIST 260 - Asian American History
• HIST 270 - Latina/o History
• HIST 285 - American Indians: Pre-Columbus to the Present
• HIST 305 - Research Methods in Black Women’s Intellectual History
• HIST 376 - Westworlds: Research Seminar in Western History
• HIST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective
• HIST 407 - Civil War Era
• HIST 427 - Borderlands
• HIST 473 - Colloquium: Violence and Terror in Early America
• HIST 493 - Repairing the Past: Readings in Historical Justice

Jewish Studies Courses

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Music History Courses

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• MUSY 223 - Hip-Hop History and Analysis

Politics Courses

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• POLT 206 - Intergroup Political Conflict and Polarization
• POLT 219 - Work, Workers, and Trade Unions in Advanced Capitalist Societies
• POLT 228 - U.S. Foreign Policy
• POLT 238 - Empire and Political Thought
• POLT 279 - American Presidency and Presidential Power
• POLT 280 - U.S. Congressional Politics and Legislative Strategies
• POLT 281 - Interest Groups and American Democracy
• POLT 282 - Politics of Inequality in the United States
• POLT 284 - The American Right
• POLT 370 - Race in Congress
• POLT 371 - Power and American Democracy

Psychology Courses

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• PSYC 310 - Advanced Methods in Racism and Asian American Mental Health
• PSYC 411 - Seminar: Ethnic and Racial Minority Mental Health
• PSYC 412 - Seminar in Asian American Psychology

Religion Courses

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• RELG 209 - The Bible in American Politics
• RELG 271 - American Islam

Sociology Courses

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• SOCI 203 - Sociology of Sexualities
• SOCI 219 - Race and Racism in the U.S.
• SOCI 224 - Sociology of Sport
• SOCI 241 - American Urbanism
• SOCI 314 - Unequal Educations
• SOCI 345 - Gender, Work, and Labor in a Global Context

Theater Courses

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• THEA 264 - African American Drama
• THEA 277 - American Drama

Writing and Communication Courses

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• WRCM 310 - Indigenous Rhetorics: Native American Narratives of Survivance