In addition to AMST 200, students who minor in American Studies must take five courses/15 hours from the following list, although other courses may be substituted with the approval of the American Studies coordinator.  Please note that no more than two courses from a single department may count toward the American Studies minor.  See the Undergraduate Catalog for course descriptions.

American Studies

AMST 300 Special Topics in American Studies
AMST 400 Seminar in American Studies
 

Anthropology

ANTH 302 Archaeology of North America
ANTH 320 Peoples and Cultures of Early America
ANTH 323 African American Society and Culture
ANTH 351 Urban Anthropology
 

Art History

ARTH 230 Introduction to Historic Preservation
ARTH 250 American Art
ARTH 260 Arts and Culture of the Lowcountry
ARTH 265 City as a Work of Art
ARTH 270 Pre-Columbian Art of Meso-America
ARTH 333 Traditional Design and Preservation in Charleston
ARTH 335 American Architecture
ARTH 338 American Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture
ARTH 394 18th and 19th-Century Architecture
 

Economics

ECON 307 Urban Economics
ECON 350 Financial Markets in the U. S. Economy
 

English

ENGL 207 American Literature to World War II
ENGL 313 African American Literature
ENGL 341 Twentieth-Century Southern Literature
ENGL 342 Colonial and Revolutionary American Literature
ENGL 343 American Renaissance
ENGL 346 Contemporary American Fiction
ENGL 349 American Novel to 1900
ENGL 351 Studies in American Film
ENGL 354 Jewish-American Literature
ENGL 355 American Short Story
ENGL 356 Twentieth-Century American Literature
 

History

HIST 201 United States to 1865
HIST 202 United States since 1865
HIST 210 Topics in U. S. History
HIST 211 American Urban History
HIST 212 American Labor History
HIST 213 American Jewish History
HIST 214 American Ethnic History
HIST 216/7 African American History
HIST 221 Women in the United States
HIST 222 History of South Carolina
HIST 224/5 History of the South
HIST 291 Medical History
HIST 301 Colonial America
HIST 302 Era of the American Revolution
HIST 303 US: The Young Republic
HIST 304 US: Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 305 US: Response to Industrialism
HIST 306 US: Affluence and Adversity
HIST 307 Cold War America
HIST 310 Topics in U. S. History
HIST 311/2 Diplomatic History of the United States
HIST 320 Topics in Lowcountry History
HIST 323 Society and Culture of Early Charleston
 

Management and Marketing

MGMT 390 The New South Carolina: Foreign and Domestic Industrial Development
 

Music

ARTM 347 History of Jazz
ARTM 348 Music in America
 

Philosophy and Religious Studies

PHIL 310 American Philosophy
RELS 250 Religions in America
RELS 260 Native American Religions
 

Political Science

POLS 101 American Government
POLS 220 Criminal Justice
POLS 304  American Foreign Policy Process
POLS 305 Urbanization and Urban Geography
POLS 306 Urban Policy
POLS 341 Constitutional Law
POLS 342 Civil Liberties
POLS 343 Mass Media and the First Amendment
POLS 347 American Political Thought
POLS 349 Contemporary Constitutional Issues
POLS 361 United States in World Affairs
POLS 380 State Politics
POLS 381 Urban Government and Politics
POLS 382  Congress
POLS 383 Judicial Behavior
POLS 384 Presidency
POLS 385 American Bureaucracy
POLS 386 American Politics and the Mass Media
POLS 387 Political Parties and Interest Groups
POLS 388 Elections, Participation, and Voting Behavior
POLS 389 Public Opinion in American Politics
POLS 390 Southern Politics
POLS 391 Extremist Politics
POLS 392 Women and Politics
POLS 393 Religion and Politics
POLS 399  Topics in American Politics
 

Sociology

SOCY 336 Death and Dying
SOCY 340 Medical Sociology
SOCY 341 Criminology
SOCY 324 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCY 343 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCY 348 Substance Abuse and Society
SOCY 351 Urban Sociology
SOCY 363 African American Society and Culture
 

Theatre

THTR 212 American Theatre
THTR 214 Modern American and European Drama
THTR 316 African American Theatre