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Course Catalog 2025-2026
Comparative American Studies Minor
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Declaring the Minor
Students wishing to minor in comparative American studies must have their proposals approved by the department chair. Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
No more than one full course may be transferred from another institution toward the minor. Detailed Minor Requirements
Comparative American Studies Minor Course Lists
Introductory-Level Elective Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - AAST 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
- AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Indigenous to 1898
- AAST 123 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: 1898-1986
- AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with JAZZ 290, MUSY 290
- AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with JAZZ 291, MUSY 291
- CAST 106 - The History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place
- ENGL 104 - Supervidere: Surveillance Cultures of the American Canon
- HIST 103 - American History to 1877
- HIST 104 - American History, 1877 to the Present
- JAZZ 290 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 171, MUSY 290
- JAZZ 291 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 172, MUSY 291
- MUSY 290 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 171, JAZZ 290
- MUSY 291 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 172, JAZZ 291
- RELG 271 - American Islam
Comparative American Studies Courses
Return to the top of the list of elective courses. - 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 ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 201
- CAST 204 - Pop Music and Media
- CAST 205 - Remembering in Public: Memorials, Markers, Cemeteries, Museums
- CAST 207 - Introduction to Queer Studies ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 207
- CAST 208 - Which American Life?
- CAST 210 - Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Latina/o/x Practices of Accompaniment
- CAST 212 - Queer(ing) Media ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 212
- CAST 213 - Roots of Rock
- CAST 218 - To Write a Life: A Course on Memoir ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 218
- CAST 219 - Introduction to Transgender Studies ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 219
- CAST 221 - Immigration and the American Dream
- CAST 223 - Surviving America: Introduction to Native Studies ⇒ cross-listed with EVSS 223
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 232
- CAST 237 - Alaska Natives and the Environment ⇒ cross-listed with EVSS 237
- CAST 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads ⇒ cross-listed with ENGL 242
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 256
- CAST 260 - Asian American History ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 260
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 270
- CAST 277 - Rap the Disco, Punk the Queen: Music of the 1970s
- CAST 279 - Imagining Borders ⇒ cross-listed with ENGL 279
- CAST 300 - The Civil Rights Movement Revisited ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 300
- CAST 302 - American Agricultures ⇒ cross-listed with EVSS 302
- CAST 304 - Reality TV
- CAST 306 - National Parks & Public Memory
- CAST 308 - Doing Oral History: Storytelling Between History and Memory
- CAST 309 - Performing America ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 309
- CAST 311 - Militarization of American Daily Life
- CAST 312 - Cultures of Surveillance
- CAST 313 - Archives and Affects ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 313
- CAST 315 - Brown TV
- CAST 316 - Cold War Cultures: U.S. Militarisms in Asia and the Pacific
- CAST 319 - Sexual “Absences” ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 319
- CAST 335 - Latinx Oral Histories
- CAST 336 - Sanctuary and Solidarity
- CAST 339 - Indigenous Activism, Environmental Justice, and the State ⇒ cross-listed with EVSS 339
- CAST 350 - War Ecologies: Militarisms, Technoscience, and the Environment
- CAST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 382
- CAST 385 - Indigenous Nations, Treaty Rights, and the Great Lakes ⇒ cross-listed with EVSS 385
- CAST 404 - Trans Theory ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 404
- CAST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 405
- CAST 407 - Black Feminism and Decolonization ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 407
- CAST 408 - Race, Religion, and Citizenship
- CAST 409 - Racial Feelings/Asian Objects
- CAST 411 - Seminar: Ethnic and Racial Minority Mental Health ⇒ cross-listed with PSYC 411
- CAST 416 - Taste the Nation: Culture, Consumption, and American Identities
- CAST 427 - Borderlands ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 427
- CAST 500 - Capstone Research Seminar
- CAST 501 - CAST Senior Honors I
- CAST 502 - CAST Senior Honors II
- CAST 995F - Private Reading - Full
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