For American Studies, you need to complete 55-65 credits, which must include a minimum of 30 credits of upper-division courses. Overall, 45 credits upper-division and 45 credits of IAS courses are required to meet the degree requirements. You must earn a total of 180 quarter credits, or 225 quarter credits for a double degree, to earn a bachelor of arts degree in your chosen major.
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AMERICAN STUDIES CHECKLIST
| Core List: Required 10 credits |
- THIST 200: American History I, 1607-1877
- THIST 201: American History II, 1877-present
(Must complete during first 45 credits at UW Tacoma)
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American Focus List: Minimum one Individual and Society (I&S)
and one Visual, Literary and Performing Arts (VLPA) course |
- TANTH 365 North American Indian Traditions
- TANTH 464 Native American Cultural Areas
- TARTS 210 Africa Diaspora Through Music: The Rhythm, the Blues, and Beyond
- TARTS 311 History of Rock and Roll
- TARTS 315 Music and Crisis
- TARTS 411 History of Jazz
- TCOM 201 Media and Society
- TCOM 257 Ethical Issues in Mass Communication
- TCOM 258 Children and Television
- TCOM 353 Critical Approaches to Mass Communication
- TCOM 354 Communication History
- TCOM 444 Gender, Ethnicity, Class, and the Media
- TCOM 454 Communications Law
- TECON 416 Current Issues in US Public Policy
- TECON 420 Economics of Education
- TECON 421 Environmental Policy
- TECON 422 Economics of Sports
- TESC 247 Maritime History and Science in the Pacific Northwest
- TESC 343 The Atmosphere and Air Pollution
- TESC 345 Pollution and Public Policy
- TESC 434 Biology, History, and Politics of the Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
- TFILM 485 Media Genres
- TGEOG 403 Geography of the USA and Canada
- THISP 238 Hispanics in the United States
- THIST 220 African American History 1619-1865
- THIST 221 African American History 1865-1945
- THIST 222 African American History 1945-Present
- THIST 226 American Architecture
- THIST 315 Industrialization and Reform
- THIST 320 Asian American History
- THIST 333 Early American Music, Art, Literature, and Theater
- THIST 336 Black, Labor, and Protest Music in Historic Perspective
- THIST 340 History of the United States - American Indian Relations
- THIST 341 African American History
- THIST 349 Minorities in Higher Education in American History
- THIST 377 Art of the Americans
- THIST 410 Early American Politics, Constitution, and Law
- THIST 411 History of Religion in American
- THIST 413 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties
- THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis
- THIST 417 United States History 1945-Present
- THIST 419 African American Culture and Consciousness
- THIST 420 African American Religious History
- THIST 430 Introduction to Public History
- THIST 437 Doing Community History
- THIST 440 Black Labor in American
- THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective
- THIST 442 History of African American Education
- THIST 444 The Pacific Northwest
- THIST 445 History of Tacoma
- THIST 456 North American Regions
- THIST 470 The Material World: Art and Artifacts
- THIST 495 The Metropolis: American Cities Topics
- THLTH 470 Challenges and Controversies in US Health Care
- THLTH 480 Death and American Society
- TIAS 300 Making of American
- TIAS 443 Ethnicity and the Urban Landscape
- TLIT 230 Multiethnic Studies in American Literature
- TLIT 305 American Literary Movements, Genres, and Historical Periods
- TLIT 306 Studies in Selected American Writers
- TLIT 311 Themes in American Literature
- TLIT 313 American Poetry
- TLIT 320 African American Literature from Slavery to the Present
- TLIT 324 African American Women's Literature
- TLIT 331 Immigrant and Ethnic Literature
- TLIT 332 Asian American Literature
- TLIT 338 Writing in the Pacific Northwest
- TLIT 388 Cross Cultural Studies in Contemporary Women's Literature
- TLIT 425 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- TLIT 431 Contemporary Native American Women's Literature
- TLIT 432 American Indian Literature
- TLIT 437 Nature and Environment in American Literature
- TLIT 438 American Folklore
- TLIT 439 Western American Literature
- TLIT 476 American Women's Literature: 19th & 20th Century
- TMGMT 348 Leading the Nonprofit Organization in the 21st Century
- TNPRFT 348 Leading the Nonprofit Organization in the 21st Century
- TNPRFT 431 Community Organizations and the Nonprofit Sector
- TNPRFT 433 Organizational Structures and Sociocultural Systems in Nonprofit
- TPHIL 354 American Modes of Thought and Experience
- TPHIL 356 Themes in American Philosophy
- TPOLS 202 Introduction to American Politics
- TPOLS 251 Cultural Studies
- TPOLS 260 American Political Theory
- TPOLS 305 Campaigns and Elections
- TPOLS 320 American Constitutional Law
- TPOLS 321 American Foreign Policy
- TPOLS 322 American Labor Since the Civil War
- TPOLS 361 United States Courts and Civil Liberty
- TPOLS 382 State Government
- TPOLS 400 The American Presidency
- TPOLS 438 Environmental Law
- TPOLS 440 American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- TPOLS 452 Minorities and the Law
- TPOLS 456 Community and Labor Organizing: Multicultural Perspective
- TPOLS 465 Law and Public Policy in the United States
- TPSYCH 401 Family Violence
- TPSYCH 414 Psychology of Contemporary African-American Culture
- TPSYCH 415 Issues in Social Psychology: Hip Hop Culture
- TRELIG 310 Religious Diversity in America
- TSOC 265 Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- TSOC 266 Introduction to Labor Studies
- TSOC 335 Social Class and Inequality
- TSOC 346 The History of Childhood and the Family in the United States
- TSOC 369 Diversity and Adulthood
- TSOC 432 Schooling in the United States
- TSOC 434 Women, Race, & Class
- TSOC 436 History of Social Welfare Policy in the United States
- TSOC 439 Field Work and Interviewing in Communities
- TSOC 446 Family Relationships and Diverse Family Forms in the United States
- TSOC 447 AIDS and American Society
- TSOC 455 Sociology of Gender
- TURB 312 Race and Poverty in Urban American
- TURB 360 African American Urban Experience
- TWOMN 250 Seminar in Service Learning: A Feminist Approach
- TWOMN 345 Women and Work in the United States
- TWOMN 347 History of Women in the United States
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Language or International Course(s): 5-10 credits
Option one (5 credits): Students must demonstrate competency in a foreign language in one of four ways: three years of high school in one language, 3rd quarter foreign language at the college level, native speaker certification, or placement through testing in the second year of the language. Students meeting this requirement will need an additional 5 credits from the International Focus List.
Option Two (5 credits): One college level foreign language course beyond the first year, i.e. TSPAN 201.
Option Three (10 credits): 5 credits from THIST 150, THIST 151, or TGH 301; 5 additional credits from International Focus List
| International Focus List |
- TANTH 354 History of the Concept of Culture
- TARTS 210 The African Diaspora Through Music: The Rhythm, the Blues, and Beyond
- TARTS 281 Art and Culture in India
- TARTS 282 Art and Culture in China
- TARTS 283 Art and Culture in Japan
- TARTS 284 Art and Culture in the Pacific
- TARTS 480 Contemporary Art and Society 1945-Present
- TCHIN 101 First-Year Chinese
- TCHIN 102 First-Year Chinese
- TCHIN 103 First-Year Chinese
- TCHIN 201 Second-Year Chinese
- TCHIN 202 Second-Year Chinese
- TCHIN 203 Second-Year Chinese
- TCOM 230 Media Globalization and Citizenship
- TCOM 388 Russian Media Studies: From Communism to Democracy
- TCOM 430 Global Networks, Local Identities
- TCOM 461 Media and Identity in Asia
- TECON 328 Third World Problems and Prospects
- TECON 332 Rise of East Asia
- TECON 340 International Economics
- TECON 350 Economic History of Europe
- TECON 360 Poverty in Developing Countries
- TECON 394 Comparative Economic Development
- TECON 417 Political Economy of India
- TECON 425 Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy
- TECON 440 Global Economic Challenges
- TECON 460 China's Rise and its Global Economic Implications
- TFILM 386 Silent Cinema
- TFILM 420 Contemporary World Cinema
- TFILM 474 Russian History and the Soviet Film
- TFILM 481 Film Theory and Analysis
- TFILM 484 French Cinema
- TFILM 486 Feminist Perspectives in Film and Literature
- TGEOG 352 Cultural Geography
- TGEOG 435 Contemporary Geopolitics
- THISP 277 Latin American Literature
- THISP 323 Making of Mexico
- THISP 325 Mexico: Problems and Perspectives
- THISP 376 Latin American Film
- THISP 377 Spanish Film
- THISP 378 The Magical Land: A Cultural Exploration in Latin America
- THISP 390 Preparation for Study Abroad
- THISP 400 Afro-Hispanic Culture
- THISP 410 Caribbean Basin: Selected Topics
- THISP 441 Mexican Cinema and Society
- THISP 461 Contemporary Mexican Culture
- THISP 462 Women in Latin American
- THISP 463 Contemporary Cuban Culture
- THISP 464 The Art, Cultures, and History of Mexico
- THISP 465 Latin American Visual Arts
- THISP 476 Latin American Women Writers
- THISP 490 Contemporary Spanish Culture
- THISP 491 Society and Culture in Cuba
- THIST 150 World History I
- THIST 151 World History II
- THIST 270 Premodern East Asia
- THIST 271 Modern East Asia
- THIST 280 German Culture
- THIST 320 Asian American History
- THIST 350 Modern Germany Since 1848
- THIST 363 Making of Russia
- THIST 365 Europe in the Twentieth Century
- THIST 372 Comparative Perspectives on East Asian and Latin American Development
- THIST 385 Russian Civilization
- THIST 451 Renaissance Europe
- THIST 452 Art, Culture, and History of the Eternal City
- THIST 457 Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
- THIST 462 History of Vietnam
- THIST 463 Premodern Japan
- THIST 464 Modern China
- THIST 465 Modern Japan
- THIST 466 Modern Korea
- THIST 467 Siberia and the Russian Far East
- THIST 474 Imperial China
- THIST 477 Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
- THIST 478 Revolution, Industrialization, and Modernity in European Culture 1750-1870
- THIST 479 Modern European Culture
- THIST 480 Eastern Europe in Transition: 1940-2000
- THIST 484 The Pacific War
- THIST 486 Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society
- THIST 488 History of Urbanization and the Environment
- TIAS 109 Elementary Intensive German Study Abroad
- TIAS 130 German Culture, History, and Philosophy: Frankfurt and Main
- TIAS 209 Intermediate Intensive German Study Abroad
- TIAS 309 Advanced German Study Abroad
- TIAS 480 Society and Culture in China Study Abroad
- TLIT 251 Ancient Literature of Western Civilization
- TLIT 252 Medieval and Renaissance Literature of Western Civilization
- TLIT 253 Modern Literature of Western Civilization
- TLIT 332 Asian American Literature
- TLIT 380 Myths and Literary Sagas in Creative Expressions
- TLIT 453 Ancient Greek Tragedy
- TLIT 455 Medieval Quests
- TLIT 480 Russian Literature and Society
- TLIT 481 Post-Colonial Fiction
- TLIT 485 Comparative Mythology
- TLIT 487 African Folklore and Literature
- TPHIL 355 Mind of Modernity
- TPHIL 357 The Greek Mind and Imagination
- TPHIL 358 The History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern
- TPHIL 359 Themes in Existentialism
- TPHIL 360 History of Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary
- TPHIL 451 The Enlightenment
- TPHIL 466 Modernity and its Critics
- TPOLS 203 Introduction to International Relations
- TPOLS 224 Modern Latin America
- TPOLS 229 Making of Modern Africa
- TPOLS 310 Modern European Political Theory
- TPOLS 311 International Human Rights
- TPOLS 312 19th Century Revolutions and Revolutionaries
- TPOLS 314 Twentieth Century Revolutions
- TPOLS 326 Modern Brazil
- TPOLS 340 Middle East Politics
- TPOLS 342 Third World Countries
- TPOLS 410 Labor Rights & Human Rights
- TPOLS 411 Human Rights and Violence in the Third World
- TPOLS 420 Theories of Political Violence
- TPOLS 421 Human Rights and Emerging Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America
- TPOLS 422 International Humanitarian Law
- TPOLS 435 Popular Movements in Latin America
- TPOLS 440 American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- TPOLS 448 Human Rights in Latin America: Argentina Study Abroad
- TPOLS 450 Contemporary Theories of Culture
- TPOLS 460 Political Economy of the European Union
- TRELIG 235 Religion in the Modern World
- TRELIG 320 Confucianism and East Asian Modernity
- TRELIG 365 Hinduism and Buddhism
- TRELIG 366 Islam
- TRELIG 367 East Asian Religions: Zen and Taoism
- TRELIG 461 Religion and Church in Latin America
- TRELIG 463 God: East and West
- TRELIG 465 God and the New Physics
- TSOC 456 Rural Societies and Development
- TSPAN 103 Elementary Spanish III
- TSPAN 110 Basic Spanish Review
- TSPAN 121 Spanish Immersion I
- TSPAN 122 Spanish Immersion II
- TSPAN 123 Spanish Immersion III
- TSPAN 134 Intensive First-Year Spanish
- TSPAN 199 Foreign Study -- Elementary
- TSPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
- TSPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
- TSPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish III
- TSPAN 210 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
- TSPAN 299 Foreign Study: Intermediate
- TSPAN 301 Spanish Language and Lexicon
- TSPAN 302 Spanish Conversation
- TSPAN 351 Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies
- TSPAN 393 Foreign Study
- TWOMN 420 Women in the Global Economy
- TWOMN 434 Women's Voices: Third World Testimonials
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Natural World (Environmental Science): 5 credits
One TESC course or an Environmental Science transfer course. Please see an adviser for applicable courses. If certain courses with a TESC prefix are taken as a part of the American Focus, then this requirement converts to 5 open elective credits.