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Lower Division

• UCSC AMST 01 America and Americans
• UCSC AMST 02 California and Californians
• UCSC AMST 80E U.S. Racial and Ethnic Histories and Formations
• UCSC AMST 80F Introduction to U.S. Popular Cultures
• UCSC AMST 80G Introduction to U.S. Political Cultures

Upper Division

• UCSC AMST 100 Key Concepts in American Studies
• UCSC AMST 101 Race and Ethnicity
• UCSC AMST 102A Gender and U.S. Society
• UCSC AMST 102B Sexuality and Culture
• UCSC AMST 105A Oral History
• UCSC AMST 105B Understanding "America" through Ethnography
• UCSC AMST 107A U.S. Popular Culture: 1800-1918
• UCSC AMST 107B U.S. Popular Culture: 1920-Present
• UCSC AMST 109A Technology and American Culture
• UCSC AMST 109B Science Fiction in Multicultural America
• UCSC AMST 111A The West in American Culture
• UCSC AMST 112 Immigration and Assimilation
• UCSC AMST 113A Imagining America
• UCSC AMST 114A Politics and American Culture
• UCSC AMST 114B Marxist Thought in American Culture
• UCSC AMST 114C Labor in U.S. Society
• UCSC AMST 121C Mixed Race in America

Native American Studies (AMST123)

• UCSC AMST 123F Native American Women
• UCSC AMST 123H Native Americans: Decolonization, Identity, and Resistance
• UCSC AMST 123T Inventing the Savage

African American Studies (AMST125)

• UCSC AMST 125A Aspects of African American Culture
• UCSC AMST 125E Jazz Cultures
• UCSC AMST 125G African American Life in the City
• UCSC AMST 125H Black Feminism
• UCSC AMST 125X Hip Hop Music Culture

Chicano Studies (AMST126)

• UCSC AMST 126B Chicana/o Music
• UCSC AMST 126C Chicana/o Literature and Film

Asian American Studies (AMST127)

• UCSC AMST 127A Aspects of Asian American Culture
• UCSC AMST 127C Asian American Literature and Culture: Memories of War
• UCSC AMST 127D Filipino Americans: History and Culture
• UCSC AMST 127E Asian American Women
• UCSC AMST 127F Chinese Americans: History and Culture
• UCSC AMST 127K South Asian Americans

• UCSC AMST 141 The Great Book of America
• UCSC AMST 145 Mark Twain and American Culture
• UCSC AMST 157 Sexual Identities and Communities
• UCSC AMST 188 9/11

Senior Seminars

• UCSC AMST 190C Debating American Culture
• UCSC AMST 190D American Studies and Cultural Studies
• UCSC AMST 190E Rethinking American Studies
• UCSC AMST 190H Race, Politics, and Region

Graduate

• UCSC AMST 205 Theorizing American Culture
• UCSC AMST 207 Politics of Popular Music
• UCSC AMST 208 Readings in the History of the U.S. West
• UCSC AMST 210 Studies in Early American Nationality
• UCSC AMST 211 Nativity, Culture, Race, and Space
• UCSC AMST 222 Tradition and Modernity in Black Culture
• UCSC AMST 223 Cultural Citizenship
• UCSC AMST 225 Black Feminist Thought and Practice