Princeton University

Courses below satisfy the American Studies Program requirement for three (3) one‑term electives in the American field, pass‑fail not acceptable. The electives must be from three different departments or programs. None may be in the student's major department.

 

 

201     African American Cultural Practices
310     Music from the Hispanophone Caribbean

314     Model Memoirs:  The Life Stories of International Fashion Models
329     Chinatown, USA

339     Josephine Baker and the Modern

348     Black Popular Music Culture
353     African American Literature: Origins to 1910

359     African American Literature:  Harlem Renaissance
362     Black, Yet American: An Exploration of Law, Policy, and Culture

364     Race, Drugs and Drug Policy in America

368     Black Religion and Black Political Thought
445     The Post Colonial Subject
                                 

 

Anthropology 
                        
350     Desire and Repression: Economic Anthropology and American Pop-Culture

 

 

 

304     Cities of the 21st Century

401     Theories of Housing and Urbanism
        

 

Art  
                                     
370     History of American Art to 1900
456     Seminar in Contemporary Art
                                   

 

Civil and Environmental Engineering
 

102 A/B     Engineering in the Modern World

262 A/B     Structures and the Urban Environment

 

 

 

312     Violence and Moving Images:  Politics, Aesthetics, Spectatorship

                                   

 

Computer Science

109 Computers in Our World

 

 

 

211     The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices

 

Economics     
             
100     Introduction to Microeconomics
101     Introduction to Macroeconomics
324     Law and Economics
331     Economics and the Labor Market

341     Public Finance

363     Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions

370     American Economic History

385     Ethics and Economics

429     Issues in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics


Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

321     Introduction to Population and Community Ecology

 

 

 

277     Technology and Society


English

 

337     The Literary South

347     The Curious Aesthetics of Musical Theatre

351     Contemporary Fiction

356     Contemporary Drama

362     American Literature, 1865-1930
360     American Literature before 1825
363     American Literature: 1930 - Present
365     Topics in American Literature: Henry James and William Faulkner

366     American Colonialisms
369     American Women Writers

411     The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim:  Process to Production

 

 

 

202B   Fundamentals of Environmental Studies:  Climate, Air Pollution, Toxics, and Water

304     Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy

310     Environmental Law and Moot Court

340     Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Solutions
 

History   

                      
280     Approaches to American History
373     The New Nation

377     The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era in the U.S.
383     The United States Since 1920

384     Gender and Sexuality in Modern America

387     African American History from Reconstruction to the Present

398     Technologies and Their Societies:  Historical Perspectives

407     The Politics of Racial Violence in America

411     War and Society in the Modern World

465     Race, Civil War, and Reconstruction

469     The Bush Presidency

471     Slavery in Colonial North America
474     American Economic Crises, 1873-2009

478     The United States and Vietnam Wars
480     The American Military Experience
484     Public History in the United States

  

Journalism 
                 

400     The Media in America
445     Investigative Journalism
447     Politics and the Media--Media and Society: The Obama Presidency

448     The Media and Social Issues -- Social Issue Filmmaking

452     Journalism on the Screen -- the Digital Journalist

462     News on the Edge:  Inside the Buisiness of Journalism

 

 

 

200     Latinos in American Life and Culture

 

 

 

328     U.S. Medial Research and Researchers:  Preeminence, Problems, Policies


Music

262     Evolution of Jazz Styles

264     Urban Blues and the Golden Age of Rock
 

Politics                       
 

220     American Politics

304     Conservative Political Thought

311     Political Psychology
315     Constitutional Interpretation

318     Law and Society
320     Judicial Politics
322     Public Opinion

323     Party Politics

327     Mass Media and American Politics
330     Campaigns and Elections

332     American Statesmanship

379     Intelligence, National Security and the Constitutional Democracy

392     American Foreign Policy
420     Seminar in American Politics--Presidential Power: Strategies of Governance

421     Racial Politics in the U.S.
 

 

Psychology     
            
252     Social Psychology
307     Educational Psychology
329     Psychology of Gender

 

Religion                      
 

 

219     Buisiness Ethics and Modern Religious Thought
257     Religion and American Movies

359     Religion and Immigration to the United States
371     Religious Radicals

372     Race, Religion, and the Harlem Renaissance
373     Studies in Religion--Holy Ordinary: Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Fiction
383     Disorderly Women in American Religious History

 

Sociology   
                
101     The Sociological Perspective
205     Sociology from E-Street: Bruce Springsteen's America

221     Inequality:  Class, Race, and Gender

240     Families

347     The Social Life of the Metropolis
345     Money, Work, and Social Life

 

Theater
 

366     American Musical Theatre History


Urban Studies

201     Introduction to Urban Studies
 

 

 

400     Contemporary Feminist Theory

 

 

 

301     Ethics and Public Policy

306     Public Leadership and Public Policy
307     Economics and Public Policy

309     Media and Public Policy
315     Bioethics and Public Policy

320     Human Genetics, Reproduction and Public Policy
324     Education Policy
327     Pharmaceutical Research and Health Policy
451     Special Topics in Public Affairs: The Internet and Public Policy

456     Urban Revitalization
468     Special Topics in Public Affairs: The iraq war and It's Aftermath
480     Special Topics in Public Affairs: National Security Policy
487     Special Topics in Public Affairs:     Civil and Political Participation