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Department Course Count
312
Longest Course Name
United We Stand - Divided We Fall: The Rise of Polarization and Social Division - and What it Means
Longest Course Name Length (chars)
99
Shortest Course Name
Parody
Shortest Course Name Length (chars)
6
Lower Division Course Count
105, 33.7%
Upper Division Course Count
164, 52.6%
Graduate Courses Count
43, 13.8%
Average Course Name Length (characters)
42
Number of American Studies Courses with "American Studies" in their name
4, 1.3%

American Studies Department Courses Table

American Studies Cornell University
Course Name Course Code Credits Classification
Introduction to American Studies AMST 1101 4 Lower Division
Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Social Constructs, Real World Consequences AMST 1104 3 Lower Division
Introduction to American Government and Politics AMST 1115 4 Lower Division
FWS: Topics in American Studies AMST 1139 3 Lower Division
American Society through Film AMST 1290 3 Lower Division
History of Rock Music AMST 1312 3 Lower Division
(Intro) To Black Music: Listening, Sounding, and Studying Black Radical Possibility AMST 1332 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Cultural Analytics: Data, Computation, and Culture AMST 1350 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Africana Studies AMST 1500 4 Lower Division
American Capitalism AMST 1540 4 Lower Division
War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror AMST 1576 4 Lower Division
Sports and Politics in American History AMST 1585 3 Lower Division
African American History from 1865 AMST 1595 3 Lower Division
Indigenous North America AMST 1600 4 Lower Division
Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives AMST 1601 3 Lower Division
U.S. History since the Great Depression AMST 1640 4 Lower Division
U.S. History through Literature AMST 1770 4 Lower Division
Immigration in U.S. History AMST 1800 4 Lower Division
Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History AMST 1802 3 Lower Division
U.S. Borders, North and South AMST 1820 3 Lower Division
Thinking about History with the Manson Murders AMST 1850 4 Lower Division
Foreign Policy as Subversion AMST 1951 4 Lower Division
American History from 1500 to 1800 AMST 1985 3 Lower Division
Disasters! A History of Colonial Failures in the Atlantic World, 1450-1750 AMST 1986 4 Lower Division
Introduction to Visual Studies AMST 2000 3-4 Lower Division
The First American University AMST 2001 1 Lower Division
Punk Culture: The Art and Politics of Refusal AMST 2006 3 Lower Division
September 11 and the Politics of Memory AMST 2012 3 Lower Division
Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning AMST 2016 4 Lower Division
Fighting for Our Lives: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Activism in Historical Perspective AMST 2023 3-4 Lower Division
Asian American Oral History AMST 2043 4 Lower Division
The Great American Cornell Novel AMST 2060 3 Lower Division
Social Problems in the United States AMST 2070 3 Lower Division
A History of Human Trafficking in the Atlantic World, ca. 1400-1800 AMST 2092 4 Lower Division
The American Musical AMST 2105 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Latinx Studies AMST 2106 3 Lower Division
Food in America AMST 2145 3 Lower Division
(Im)migration and (Im)migrants: Then and Now AMST 2152 3 Lower Division
Television AMST 2160 3 Lower Division
US Public Opinion AMST 2162 3 Lower Division
Social Inequality AMST 2208 4 Lower Division
The U.S. Empire AMST 2212 4 Lower Division
From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan AMST 2220 4 Lower Division
Controversies About Inequality AMST 2225 4 Lower Division
Queer Pop from the Stonewall Uprising to the Millennium AMST 2232 3 Lower Division
U.S. Immigration Narratives AMST 2251 3 Lower Division
Diasporas from the Spanish Caribbean AMST 2253 4 Lower Division
Ecocriticism and Visual Culture AMST 2255 4 Lower Division
Schooling and Society AMST 2256 3 Lower Division
Music of the 1960's AMST 2260 3 Lower Division
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy AMST 2280 3 Lower Division
Public History Lab: The History of People Setting Themselves Free From Slavery in the US AMST 2297 4 Lower Division
The Occupation of Japan AMST 2315 4 Lower Division
Black Religion and Pop Culture AMST 2322 3 Lower Division
Literature and Medicine AMST 2330 3 Lower Division
The Beatles AMST 2340 3 Lower Division
Archaeology of Indigenous North America AMST 2350 3 Lower Division
Civil Rights vs. Human Rights in the Black Freedom Struggle AMST 2353 4 Lower Division
African American Visions of Africa AMST 2354 4 Lower Division
Race, Racism, and Public Policy AMST 2365 4 Lower Division
Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It's Going AMST 2371 3 Lower Division
Songs of the Summer: Social Histories of U.S. Popular Music AMST 2372 3 Lower Division
US Climate Catastrophes: Rethinking US History through the Climate AMST 2375 4 Lower Division
Corruption, Collusion, and Commerce in Early America and the Caribbean AMST 2381 4 Lower Division
From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps AMST 2391 3 Lower Division
Where Fire Meets Ice: Histories of the U.S.-Canada Border Across Four Centuries AMST 2392 3 Lower Division
Introduction to U.S. Latinx Literature AMST 2401 3 Lower Division
Contemporary Narratives by Latina Writers AMST 2460 3 Lower Division
Playing out Difference: History and Identity in Sports Film AMST 2505 4 Lower Division
Introduction to Latin American Art AMST 2555 3 Lower Division
Black Queer Writing and Media AMST 2562 4 Lower Division
Environmental History AMST 2581 4 Lower Division
Millennial Jewish Stars: Race, Gender and Sexuality AMST 2585 4 Lower Division
Introduction to Native American Literature AMST 2600 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Asian American Literature AMST 2620 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Asian American Performance and Media AMST 2622 3-4 Lower Division
Brazil to Brooklyn: Jewish Cultures of the Americas AMST 2630 4 Lower Division
A Haunted House Divided: The American Gothic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Literature AMST 2635 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Asian American History AMST 2640 4 Lower Division
Race and Modern US History AMST 2645 3 Lower Division
Introduction to African American Literature AMST 2650 3 Lower Division
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History AMST 2660 3 Lower Division
The American Revolutionary Era AMST 2665 3 Lower Division
Octavia Butler AMST 2667 3 Lower Division
American Political Thought AMST 2669 4 Lower Division
Cultures of the Cold War AMST 2675 3 Lower Division
Sex, Drugs, and Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s and 1970s America AMST 2682 4 Lower Division
American Poetry Since 1850 AMST 2690 3 Lower Division
Introduction to African American and African Diaspora Art AMST 2700 4 Lower Division
US Education System: Courts, Data, Law and Politics AMST 2710 3-4 Lower Division
Introduction to Latina-o-x Performance AMST 2725 3 Lower Division
From the Swampy Land: Indigenous People of the Ithaca Area AMST 2729 3 Lower Division
Children's Literature AMST 2735 3 Lower Division
Introduction to Humanities AMST 2751 3 Lower Division
Race and Slavery in the Early Atlantic World AMST 2755 4 Lower Division
American Cinema AMST 2760 4 Lower Division
The North American West AMST 2775 4 Lower Division
Civil Disobedience AMST 2785 4 Lower Division
Jewish Films and Filmmakers: Hollywood and Beyond AMST 2790 3 Lower Division
Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History AMST 2792 4 Lower Division
Social Movements AMST 2801 3 Lower Division
America Confronts the World AMST 2817 4 Lower Division
Consumer Culture AMST 2885 4 Lower Division
Socialism in America AMST 2955 3 Lower Division
Inventing an Information Society AMST 2980 3 Lower Division
Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World AMST 3015 3 Upper Division
Being Native in the 21st Century: American Indian and Alaska Native Politics, History, and Policy AMST 3024 4 Upper Division
Asian Americans and Popular Culture AMST 3025 4 Upper Division
Revolutionary John Brown: As Figured by W.E.B. Du Bois AMST 3029 3 Upper Division
Politics of Public Policy in the U.S. AMST 3033 4 Upper Division
Climate Politics in the US AMST 3061 3 Upper Division
Enduring Global and American Issues AMST 3071 4 Upper Division
The U.S. Constitution: Crisis, Change and Legitimacy AMST 3072 4 Upper Division
Strategic Advocacy: Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in Washington, D.C. AMST 3092 4 Upper Division
Congress and the Legislative Process AMST 3112 4 Upper Division
Crime and Punishment AMST 3121 4 Upper Division
Democracy AMST 3122 4 Upper Division
The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law AMST 3131 4 Upper Division
Prisons AMST 3141 4 Upper Division
Incarceration, Policy Response, and Self-Reflection AMST 3142 1-4 Upper Division
Political Journalism AMST 3145 4 Upper Division
Prisons, Politics and Policy AMST 3155 4 Upper Division
The American Presidency AMST 3161 4 Upper Division
Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk AMST 3185 4 Upper Division
Historical Archaeology: Capitalism, Colonialism, Race, Gender AMST 3200 3 Upper Division
Dance in America: Cultures, Identities, and Fabrication AMST 3214 3 Upper Division
Black Power, Black Theology to After Black Lives Matter AMST 3237 3 Upper Division
Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast AMST 3248 3 Upper Division
Health Equity, Politics and Policy AMST 3261 4 Upper Division
The US Regime in Comparative and Historical Perspective AMST 3262 4 Upper Division
Constitutional Law: An Introduction AMST 3271 4 Upper Division
Constitutional Politics AMST 3281 4 Upper Division
Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women's History I, 1900-1973 AMST 3322 3 Upper Division
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge AMST 3330 3 Upper Division
Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and Debates AMST 3334 3 Upper Division
Beyoncé Nation: The Remix AMST 3355 4 Upper Division
American Drama and Theatre AMST 3360 3 Upper Division
American Theatre on Stage and Screen II (1960-Present) AMST 3370 3 Upper Division
Korean American Literature AMST 3378 3 Upper Division
Urban Inequality AMST 3380 3 Upper Division
The Whites are Here to Stay: US-Africa Policy from Nixon to Date AMST 3401 3 Upper Division
A Maritime History of Early America, ca. 1450-1850 AMST 3404 4 Upper Division
Multicultural Issues in Education AMST 3405 4 Upper Division
Labor and Migration in Asian America AMST 3409 4 Upper Division
Recent American History, 1965 to the Present AMST 3410 3 Upper Division
Environmental Justice Studio AMST 3418 3 Upper Division
Social Justice: Special Topics AMST 3420 4 Upper Division
Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women’s History II, 1973-2023 AMST 3422 3 Upper Division
History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction AMST 3430 4 Upper Division
Underground Railroad Seminar AMST 3434 3 Upper Division
History of the Cops: Racialized Policing in the US AMST 3436 4 Upper Division
Merchants, Whalers, Pirates, Sailors: Early American Sea-Faring Literature AMST 3442 3 Upper Division
Inequality in U.S. Higher Education AMST 3445 3 Upper Division
Race and the American Labor Market in Historical Perspective AMST 3449 3 Upper Division
Americanish: Identity and Selfhood in US History AMST 3452 4 Upper Division
Introduction to African American Cinema AMST 3461 4 Upper Division
Contemporary Television AMST 3463 3 Upper Division
Representational Ethics in Film and Television AMST 3464 3 Upper Division
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes AMST 3503 3 Upper Division
African American Literature: 1930s-present AMST 3508 3 Upper Division
United We Stand - Divided We Fall: The Rise of Polarization and Social Division - and What it Means AMST 3510 4 Upper Division
Howls and Love Songs: Twentieth Century American Poetry AMST 3525 3 Upper Division
Screen and Story: Script Analysis AMST 3533 3 Upper Division
Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies AMST 3562 3 Upper Division
Black Ecoliterature AMST 3565 3 Upper Division
American Defense Policy & Military History from the World Wars to the Global War on Terror AMST 3571 4 Upper Division
The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S. AMST 3590 3 Upper Division
From Witchcraft to K-Pop Crossover: A Cultural History of North America AMST 3602 3 Upper Division
Podcast, Radio, Gramophone: Literary Technologies of Sound AMST 3616 3 Upper Division
Cornell Hip-Hop Collective AMST 3617 1 Upper Division
Dissent and Protest in U.S. History AMST 3621 4 Upper Division
Frederick Douglass and Frances E.W. Harper AMST 3625 4 Upper Division
After Nature: Art and Environmental Imagination AMST 3629 4 Upper Division
U.S. Literature and the End of the American Century AMST 3632 3 Upper Division
Loving Latinx L.A.: Music, Literature, Art, and Stage AMST 3637 3 Upper Division
Reading the Nineteenth-Century American Novel AMST 3661 4 Upper Division
Diasporas, Disasters, and Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries AMST 3679 3 Upper Division
The Art of Telling: Chicanx, Latinx, and AfroLatinx Testimonios AMST 3680 4 Upper Division
Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective AMST 3703 3 Upper Division
Hidden Identities Onscreen AMST 3707 4 Upper Division
Colonialism and Anticolonialism AMST 3715 3 Upper Division
Sitcom Jews: Ethnic Representation on Television, 1948-Present AMST 3717 3 Upper Division
Africans and African Americans in Literature AMST 3732 3 Upper Division
Whiteness in Literature and Popular Culture AMST 3734 4 Upper Division
America Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era AMST 3744 3 Upper Division
Parody AMST 3745 3 Upper Division
Spoken Word, Hip-Hop Theater, and the Politics of Performance AMST 3754 4 Upper Division
American Cinema since 1968 AMST 3760 4 Upper Division
Law and Literature AMST 3764 3 Upper Division
Latinos and the United States, 1492-1880 AMST 3775 4 Upper Division
Migration: Histories, Controversies, and Perspectives AMST 3800 3 Upper Division
Mass Incarceration and Social Inequality in America AMST 3808 3 Upper Division
Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles AMST 3812 3 Upper Division
Poetry and Poetics of the Americas AMST 3820 3 Upper Division
War and Revolution in 20th Century Latino History AMST 3831 3 Upper Division
Special Topics in Regional Development and Globalization AMST 3854 4 Upper Division
Race and War in History: Workers, Soldiers, Prisoners, Activists AMST 3885 3 Upper Division
Science in American Politics AMST 3911 3 Upper Division
Independent Research AMST 3980 1-4 Upper Division
Latinx Popular Culture Matters AMST 3981 4 Upper Division
Readings in American Studies AMST 3990 1-4 Upper Division
Diasporic and Indigenous Health AMST 4002 4 Upper Division
Diversity, Racism, Democracy AMST 4011 4 Upper Division
American Conservative Thought AMST 4021 4 Upper Division
U.S. Cultures of War and Empire AMST 4022 4 Upper Division
Black and Indigenous Histories AMST 4023 3 Upper Division
Poetry in Process AMST 4030 4 Upper Division
Reconstruction and the New South AMST 4039 4 Upper Division
Fictions of Dictatorship AMST 4040 4 Upper Division
Death Penalty in America AMST 4051 3 Upper Division
Critical Filipino and Filipino American Studies AMST 4052 4 Upper Division
Technological Change at Work AMST 4066 3 Upper Division
History of US-China Relations, 1949-2025 AMST 4076 4 Upper Division
Critical Race Theory: What Is It? What Does It Do? Why Should It Matter? AMST 4104 3 Upper Division
The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History AMST 4109 4 Upper Division
The Historical Geography of Black America AMST 4111 4 Upper Division
August Wilson: the Cycle of Black Life AMST 4133 4 Upper Division
The Ethnography of Poverty and Inequality AMST 4160 3 Upper Division
The Politics of Inequality: The History of the U.S. Welfare State AMST 4202 4 Upper Division
Contesting Votes: Democracy and Citizenship Throughout U.S. History AMST 4203 4 Upper Division
Early American History through Film, ca. 1500-1800 AMST 4205 4 Upper Division
Black Women's Autobiography in the 21st Century WritingHerStory AMST 4212 3 Upper Division
History of the United States Senate AMST 4218 4 Upper Division
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances AMST 4220 3 Upper Division
Migration and the Peopling of America: A Perennial Debate AMST 4252 4 Upper Division
Environmental Justice: Past, Present, Future AMST 4262 4 Upper Division
Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World AMST 4264 4 Upper Division
Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement AMST 4272 3 Upper Division
Health and Environmental Justice AMST 4280 4 Upper Division
Latino Politics as Racial Politics AMST 4283 4 Upper Division
Moving Pictures and a Changing Society AMST 4290 3 Upper Division
American Dream?: Journalism, Politics, and Identity in U.S. Immigration Policy AMST 4318 4 Upper Division
Culture Wars in the Age of Tribal Politics AMST 4320 3 Upper Division
It's the End of the World As We Know It AMST 4416 4 Upper Division
Ecopolitics AMST 4417 3 Upper Division
The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937 AMST 4506 4 Upper Division
Black Abstraction and Conceptual Art AMST 4515 3 Upper Division
Toni Morrison's Novels AMST 4519 3 Upper Division
Gender, Memory, and History in Twentieth Century Fiction AMST 4521 4 Upper Division
The Bible in America AMST 4548 3 Upper Division
Race and the University AMST 4550 4 Upper Division
Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing AMST 4555 3 Upper Division
Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas AMST 4556 3 Upper Division
The Politics and Joy in Black Women's Writing AMST 4560 4 Upper Division
Desbordando: Reading Caribbean Waters in Latinx Studies AMST 4577 4 Upper Division
Black Speculative Fiction AMST 4603 4 Upper Division
LA Stories: Literature, Film, and Music from Los Angeles AMST 4612 4 Upper Division
Lovecraft Country: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Literary Racial Speculation AMST 4615 4 Upper Division
Contemporary Native American Fiction AMST 4627 3 Upper Division
Rethinking Asian American Literature: Indigeneity, Diaspora, Settler Colonialism AMST 4632 4 Upper Division
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: A History of Policing in Black Communities AMST 4669 4 Upper Division
Dispossession, Truth, and Reconciliation AMST 4674 3 Upper Division
The Environmental Imagination in American Literature AMST 4675 4 Upper Division
Cages and Creativity: Arts in Incarceration AMST 4681 3 Upper Division
Disturbing Settlement AMST 4682 3 Upper Division
Disturbing Settlement - Engaged AMST 4683 3 Upper Division
Feeling Free: Radical Aesthetics and Political Affects AMST 4686 3 Upper Division
Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness AMST 4695 3 Upper Division
Nightlife AMST 4705 4 Upper Division
American Indian Lands and Sovereignties AMST 4725 4 Upper Division
Be a Man! Masculinity, Race, and Nation AMST 4757 4 Upper Division
Indigenous Spaces and Materiality AMST 4774 3 Upper Division
Latinx Education Across the Americas AMST 4792 3 Upper Division
Refugees AMST 4851 4 Upper Division
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics AMST 4880 3 Upper Division
Digital Biopolitics AMST 4944 3 Upper Division
Honors Essay Tutorial I AMST 4993 4 Upper Division
Honors Essay Tutorial II AMST 4994 4 Upper Division
Engaged Learning About Policy Making in Washington D.C. AMST 4998 4 Upper Division
US Education System: Courts, Data, Law and Politics AMST 5710 3-4 Graduate
Doing Research With Marginalized Populations AMST 6003 3 Graduate
The American State AMST 6011 4 Graduate
U.S. Cultures of War and Empire AMST 6022 4 Graduate
Revolutionary John Brown: As Figured by W.E.B. Du Bois AMST 6029 3 Graduate
History of US-China Relations, 1949-2025 AMST 6076 4 Graduate
The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History AMST 6109 4 Graduate
The Historical Geography of Black America AMST 6111 4 Graduate
Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S. AMST 6122 4 Graduate
Political Culture AMST 6202 4 Graduate
Historical Archaeology: Capitalism, Colonialism, Race, Gender AMST 6210 3 Graduate
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances AMST 6220 3 Graduate
Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast AMST 6248 3 Graduate
Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World AMST 6264 4 Graduate
Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement AMST 6272 3 Graduate
Black Power Movement and Transnationalism AMST 6321 4 Graduate
Readings in 20th Century African-American History AMST 6322 4 Graduate
Environmental Justice Studio AMST 6418 3 Graduate
Underground Railroad Seminar AMST 6464 3 Graduate
Queer Proximities AMST 6502 4 Graduate
United We Stand - Divided We Fall: The Rise of Polarization and Social Division - and What it Means AMST 6510 4 Graduate
Toni Morrison's Novels AMST 6513 3 Graduate
Black Abstraction and Conceptual Art AMST 6515 3 Graduate
Culture Wars in the Age of Tribal Politics AMST 6520 3 Graduate
American Political Thought AMST 6585 4 Graduate
Violence, Power, and Nonviolence AMST 6596 4 Graduate
Minoritarian Aesthetics In-And Performance AMST 6612 4 Graduate
Disobedience, Resistance, Refusal AMST 6615 4 Graduate
Modern American Poetry, 1910-1950 AMST 6632 3 Graduate
Democratic Theory AMST 6645 4 Graduate
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: A History of Policing in Black Communities AMST 6669 4 Graduate
Disturbing Settlement AMST 6682 3 Graduate
Disturbing Settlement - Engaged AMST 6683 3 Graduate
Feeling Free: Radical Aesthetics and Political Affects AMST 6686 3 Graduate
Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness AMST 6695 3 Graduate
Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective AMST 6703 3 Graduate
Indigenous Spaces and Materiality AMST 6774 3 Graduate
Martin Luther King, Jr. AMST 6865 4 Graduate
It's the End of the World As We Know It AMST 7416 4 Graduate
Ecopolitics AMST 7417 3 Graduate
Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing AMST 7555 3 Graduate
American Indian Lands and Sovereignties AMST 7725 4 Graduate
Latinx Education Across the Americas AMST 7792 3 Graduate
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