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Cross-Listed Courses

AAAS 70A

Introduction to Afro-American History

AAAS  79B

Afro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century

AAAS  81B

Religion in African-American History

AAAS  82A

Urban Politics

AAAS  114B

Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics in the Unites States

AAAS  120B

Race in African-American History

AAAS  131B

American Freedom Before Emancipation

AAAS  155A

Slavery in America

AAAS  156A
The Civil Rights Movement

ANTH  158A

Urban Anthropology

ANTH  159A

Museums and Public Memory

ENG  6A

American Literature in the Age of Lincoln

ENG  7A

American Literature from 1900 to 2000

ENG  8A

Twenty-First Century American Literature

ENG  16A

Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature:  Texts and Contexts

ENG  17A

The Alternative Press in the United States:  1910-2000

ENG  27B

Page, Stage, and Screen

ENG  46A

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

ENG  47A

Asian-American Literature

ENG  106B

American Utopias

ENG  118A

Stevens and Merrill

ENG  126A

American Realism and Naturalism, 1865-1900

ENG  147A

Film Noir

ENG  157A

American Women Poets

ENG  166B

Whitman, Dickson, and Melville

ENG  167B

The Postmodern African American Novel

ENG  176A

American Gothic and American Romance

ENG  177A

Hitchcock’s Movies

ENG  180A

The Modern American Show Story

ENG  187A

American Fiction since 1945

ENVS  11B

Water Resources Management and Policy

ENVS 13B

Coastal Zone Management

ENVS  14B

The Maritime History of New England

FA  22B

History of Boston Architecture

FA  123A

American Painting

FA  130A

Twentieth-Century American Art

FA  173A

Picasso and Matisse

FA  194B

Studies in American Art

HIST  51A

History of the United States:  1607-1865

HIST  51B

History of the United States:  1865 to the Present

HIST 105B

The U.S. and the World, 1898-1945

HIST 150B

Gettysburg:  Its Context in the American Civil War

HIST  151B

The American Revolution

HIST  152A

The Literature of American History

HIST  152B

Salem, 1692

HIST  153A

Americans at Home:  Families and Domestic

Environments, 1600 to the Present

HIST  153B

Slavery and the American Civil War

HIST  154B

Women in American History, 1600-1865

HIST  157A

Americans at Work:  American Labor History

HIST  158B

Social History of the Confederate States of America

HS  110A

Wealth and Poverty

JOUR  103B

Advertising and the Media

JOUR  104A

Political Packaging in America

JOUR  107B

Media and Public Policy

JOUR  109B

The New Media Landscape

JOUR  110B

Ethics in Journalism

JOUR  112B

Literary Journalism:  The Art of Feature Writing

JOUR  114B

Arts Journalism

JOUR  120A

The Culture of Journalism

JOUR  125B

Journalism of Crisis

JOUR  140B

Investigating Justice

LGLS  10A

Introduction to Law

LGLS  114A

American Health Care:  Law and Policy

LGLS  120A

Sex Discrimination and the Law

LGLS  121B

Law and Social Welfare:  Citizen

Rights and Government Responsibilities

LGLS  127B

Law and Letters in American Culture

LGLS  132B

Environmental Law and Policy

LGLS  133B

Criminal Law

LGLS  137A

Libel and Defamation, Privacy and Publicity

LGLS  138B

Science on Trial

MUS  19B

A Way of Listening:  Exploring the Creative Process

In American Experimental Music

MUS  32B

Everybody Sings the Blues:  A Jazz Survey

MUS  38A

American Music

NEJS  153B

Abraham Joshua Heschel:

Spirituality and Action

NEJS  158A

Divided Minds:  Jewish Intellectuals

In America

NEJS  161A

American Jewish Life

NEJS  162A

American Judaism

NEJS  162B

It Couldn’t Happen Here:  Three

American Anti-Semitic Episodes

NEJS  163A

Jewish-Christian Relations in America

NEJS  164A

Judaism Confronts America

NEJS  164B

The Sociology of American Jewish Community

NEJS  165A

Analyzing the American Jewish Community

NEJS  165B

Changing Roles of Women in American Jewish Societies

NEJS  167A

East European Jewish Immigration

to the United States

NEJS  172A

Women in American Jewish Literature

NEJS  173B

American Jewish Writers in the Twentieth Century

NEJS  176A

Seminar in American Jewish Fiction:  Philip Roth

and Cynthia Ozick

PHIL  74B

Foundations of American Pragmatism

POL  14B

Introduction to American Government

POL  101A

Parties, Interest Groups, and Public Opinion

POL  103B

Seminar:  Political Leadership

POL  105A

Elections in American

POL  108A

Social Movements in America

POL  110A

Media, Politics and Society

POL  111A

The American Congress

POL  112A

National Government of the United States

POL  115A

Constitutional Law

POL  115B

Seminar:  Constitutional Law and Theory

POL  116B

Civil Liberties in America

POL  117A

Administrative Law

POL  118B

Courts, Politics, and Public Policy

POL  120B

Seminar:  The New Politics of Public

Policymaking

POL  124A

Race and Politics in the United States

POL  125A

Women in American Politics

POL  167A

United States and China in World Politics

POL  168B

American Foreign Policy

POL  169B

U.S. Policy in the Middle East

SOC  105A

Feminist Critiques of Sexuality

and Work in American

SOC  122A

The Sociology of American Immigration

SOC  156A

Social Change in American Communities

THA  25A

American Musical Theater

THA  150A

The American Drama since 1945

THA  155A

Icons in Masculinity

THA  165B

Tough Guys and Femmes Fatales:

Gender Trouble in Noir and Neo-Noir

WMGS  106B

Women in the Health Care System

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