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.

 

 

African American Studies

201    Introduction to the Study of African American Cultural Practics

311    An Introduction to Black Women's Studies
318    Black Women and Spiritual Narrative

321    Black Power and Its Theology of Liberation

325    African American Autobiography
337    Liberation Ecology:  Politics and Policy in the Creation of a Just, Green Economy
351    Law, Social Policy, and African American Women

353    African American Literature:  Origins to 1910

358    Sexuality and Religion in America
359    African American Literature:  Harlem Renaissance to Present

362    Race and the American Legal Process

365    Migration and the Literary Imagination
374    Growing Up Global:  Novels and Memoirs of Transnational Childhoods

384    Prejudice:  Its Causes, Consequences, and Cures

403    Race and Medicine
407    Race, Social Inequality, and Education

477   The Civil Rights Movement                                  

 

 

Anthropology 
                        
212    Cultural Freedoms:  Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography
232    Social Lives, Social Forces
303    Economic Experience in Cultural Context: 

                 The Anthropology of Wealth, Needs, and Wants

342    The Anthropology of Law
350    Desire and Repression:  Economic Anthropology and American Pop Culture 
429    Democracy and Ethnography in the United States

 

 

Architecture

 

401    Theories of Housing and Urbanism
408    Infrastructure and Design:  Design, Disaster and Southern California

492    American Urbanism

 

 

Art and Archaeology

 

214    Contemporary Art:  1950 to the Present  
258    History of Photography     

                                
                                 

Civil and Environmental Engineering
 

102A, B    Engineering in the Modern World

262A, B    Structures and the Urban Environment

 

 

Computer Science

 

109    Computers in Our World

 

 

Dance

 

211    The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices

321    Choreography for the American Musical

 

 

Economics     
             
100    Introduction to Microeconomics
101    Introduction to Macroeconomics

320    The Economics of Education
321    Industrial Organization

323    Economics of Crime and Crime Control

324    Law and Economics
329    Environmental Economics

331    Economics of the Labor Market

341    Public Finance

342    Money and Banking

370    American Economic History

373    Economics of Health and Health Care

429    Issues in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

 

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

321    Introduction to Population and Community Ecology

 

 

Engineering

 

277    Technology and Society

 

 

English

 

201    Introduction to the American Literary Tradition
220    Crime, Fiction, and Film

221    Words vs Music:  The Song in Modern Times

350    Literature of the American Renaissance, 1820-1860

356    Twentieth-Century American Autobiography

357    American Best Sellers

368    American Literature:  1930-Present

369    Trans-Atlantic Modernism

386    Literature and Environment

403    Forms of Literature:  American Elegy

409    Topics in Drama:  The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim

411    August Wilson:  African American Life in the 20th Century 

419    Rise of the Graphic Novel

 

 

Environmental Studies

 

201A,B   Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: 

                   Population, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Energy
304         Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy

305         Building American Style:  Land-Use Policies and Rules

306         American Environmental History

 

  

Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

201    Introduction to the Study of Gender

 

  

History 

  

280    Approaches to American History  

371    Colonial North America

373    The New Nation

377    Gilded Age and Progressive-Era U.S.

379    History of American Capitalism              
380    The United States and World Affairs

385    The Role of Law in American Society

387    African American History from Reconstruction to the Present

393    Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America

405    Native American History to 1838

468    The American Corporation

478    The United States and the Vietnam Wars

485    History of African American Families

 

 

 Journalism

 

442    Investigative Viewing:  The Art of Television Criticism

445    Investigative Journalism:  National Security Reporting

448    The Media and Social Issues:  Writing About Race

 

 

Molecular Biology

 

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

 

Music
 

242    Music Since 1945

255    Taiko Drumming Workshop:  Japanese and North American Perspectives

262    Introduction to the Evolution of Jazz Styles

265    History of Popular Music:  Rock, R&B, and Hip-Hop

 

Politics                       
 

220    American Politics

304    Conservative Political Thought

309    Politics and Religion

311    Political Psychology

315    Constitutional Interpretation 

316    Civil Liberties

320    Judicial Politics

322    Public Opinion

324    Congressional Politics

328    American Politics and Democratic Theory

330    Campaigns and Elections

337    Disaster, Race and American Politics

379    Intelligence, National Security and the Constitutional Democracy

391    Comparative Constitutionalism:  U.S and Canada

392    American Foreign Policy

413    Law, Politics and Sexual Morality

416    Moral Conflicts in Public and Private Life

420    Seminar in Ameircan Politics -- Presidential Powers:  Strategies of Governance

421    Racial Politics in the United States

463    Indigenous Peoplesand the Law in the United States and Canada

470    Secession, Civil War, and the Constitution

 

 

Psychology     
            
252    Social Psychology

307    Educational Psychology

325    Persuasion and Propaganda

400    Topics in Social and Personality Psychology:  Social Psychology and Social Change 

 

 

Religion    

 

256    Religion and War in America

258    Religion in American Society

262    Religion and Human Rights

319    Religious Encounters in the Colonial Atlantic World

357    Religion in Colonial America and the New Nation  

367    The American Jeremiad and Social Criticism

371    Religious Radicals

373    Holy Ordinary:  Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Fiction                
 

 

Sociology   
 

205    Sociology from E Street:  Bruce Springsteen's America

211    Sociology of Religion

222    The Sociology of Crime and Punishment

224    The Sociology of Law

225    Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

227    Race and Ethnicity

310    Gender and Development in the Americas

314    Sociology of Gender

342    Organizations:  Management, Bureaucracy, and Work

346    Sociology of Sports

357    Sociology of Technology  

361    Culture, Power, and Inequality      

 

  

Urban Studies

 

201    Introduction to Urban Studies        

 

 

Women and Gender

 

302    Topics in the Study of Gender -- Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

420    Born in the U.S.A.:  Culture and Reproduction in Modern Ameria 

 

 

Woodrow Wilson School 

 

300    Democracy

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

317    Race and Public Policy

320    Human Genetics, Reproduction, and Public Policy

324    Education Policy

340    The History of Financial Crises

451    Special Topics in Public Affairs -- The Internet and Public Policy

456    Special Topics in Public Affairs -- Urban Revitalization

460    The Great Society and Social Policymaking

481    Special Topics in Public Affairs -- Charting the Nation's Fiscal Future