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US History and American Studies Surveys

• Modern America: US History Since 1865
• Postwar America: US History Since 1945
• US Cultural and Intellectual History
• Introduction to American Studies

US History and American Studies Topics

• The Sixties in the US and the World
• History of the Computer
• American Culture in Global Circulation, 1776-2001
• History of Consumerism
• Bohemianism in America: What Is Hip?
• From Barnum to Beyoncé: Popular Culture and American History
• American Music in Context: US Popular Music History
• Hearing the Past: Sound History
• Feeling the Past: Sensory History
• Eleven Strikes: US Labor History
• Citizenship in Historical Perspective
• History of the Now: Using the Past to Understand Contemporary Times

Public, Digital, and Oral History

• Introduction to Public History
• Public History Internship Practicum
• Introduction to Oral History
• Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Introduction to Digital History
• Digital Tools for Historical Projects
• Digitizing Folk Music History

Blended Seminar-Internship

• Ideas In Action: US Intellectual History Seminar & Publication Internship
• Atlantic World Roundtable: Transatlantic History Seminar & Publication Internship

Civic Engagement

• Community in the United States: The History of a Concept and Practice
• The Challenge of the Citizen-Scholar: Graduate Practicum

Arts Journalism and Cultural Criticism

• Situation Critical: Writing Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age
• Movement, Sound, Word: Writing Cultural Criticism About Dance and Music

Methods Courses

• Historical Research Methods
• Introduction to Cultural Studies and Analysis
• The History of History: Methodologies of Historical Inquiry