The following list is intended to help you think about how to plan your American Studies journey around the theme of Social Justice. You will find many other courses related to this theme.
AFAM 100N Black Freedom Struggles
AFAM 101N/WMNST 101N African American Women
AFAM 103 Racism and Sexism
AFAM/RLST 146 The Life and Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.
AFAM /RLST147 The Life and Thought of Malcolm X
AFAM 210/HIST 210 Freedom's First Generation: African American Life and Work, from the Civil War to World War II
ART 144z Climate Change: Arts Agency and Activism
CRIMJ 100 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CRIMJ 210 Policing in America
CRIMJ 230 Corrections in America
CRIMJ 415 Drug Control Policy in Comparative Perspective
CRIMJ 430 Alternatives to Incarceration
CRIMJ 441 The Juvenile Justice System
CRIMJ 453/WMNST 453 Women and the Criminal Justice System
CRIMJ 465 Ethics in Criminal Justice
ECON 315 Labor Economics
ECON 410 Economics of Labor Markets
EDTHP 115A Competing Rights: Issues in American Education
ENGL 135 Alternative Voices in American Literature
ENGL 400 Authors, Texts, Contexts (Some sections are suitable for this theme; check with the instructor.)
ENGL 401 Studies in Genre (Some sections are suitable for this theme; check with the instructor.)
ENGL 402 Literature and Society (Some sections are suitable for this theme; check with the instructor.)
ENGL 403 Literature and Culture (Some sections are suitable for this theme; check with the instructor.)
ENGL 436: American Fiction Since 1945
ENGL 490/WMNST 490 Women Writers and Their Worlds
HIST 003 The American Nation: Historical Perspectives
HIST 109 Introduction to U.S. Environmental History
HIST 150 America in the 1960s
HIST 444 U.S. in Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
HIST 447 Recent American History
HIST 459Y Social and Cultural History of the United States Since 1783
PLSC 1 American Politics: Principles, Processes and Powers
PSYCH 144Z Climate Change: Individual Behaviors and Group Attitudes
SOC 5 Social Problems
SOC 30 Sociology of the Family
SOC 103 Racism and Sexism
SOC 110 Sociology of Gender
SOC 119N Race, Ethnicity and Culture
SOC 409 Racial and Ethnic Inequality in America
SOC 451 Health, Disease & Society
SOC 477 Sociology of Sexuality
THEA 207 Gender and Theatre
THEA 412 African American Theatre
