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Examples of Thematic Concentrations
(Some of these have been used by students. Some are hypothetical. They are meant to be suggestive.
There are innumerable other possibilities. You are invited to design a unique thematic concentration
that fits YOUR interests. Each thematic focus must be approved by the Director and Program coordinator,
and must include at least one seminar. Not every hypothetical grouping below fits this last requirement;
some might need one course replaced by a seminar. This list is designed simply to spark your imagination.)
- Race and Racism in American Culture and Society:
- HIST 064: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in the American
Experience
- AMSTUD/ENG 138C: Huckleberry Finn and American Culture
- SOC 148: Racial Identity
- PHIL 177: Philosophical Issues Concerning Race and Racism
- SOC 141A: Social Class, Race and Ethnicity
- Constructions of Female Identity in America:
- HIST 173B: U.S. Women's History, 1820-1980
- HIST 264: History of Women and Medicine in the U.S.
- HIST 265A: The History of Sexuality in the United States
- ENG 139: American Women Writers, 1850-1915
- SOC 142: Sociology of Gender
- Health Policy in America:
- SIW (Stanford in Washington): Internship on Health Policy
- HIST 265A: The History of Sexuality in the United States
- HUM BIO 160: Health Care in America: The Organizations and Institutions that
Shape our Health Care System
- HUM BIO 160A: Seminar in American Health Care Policy
- SOC 141A: Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Health
- The Artist in American Society:
- ART 154A: Art and Politics in America, 1900-1945
- ENGL 142B: Films of Woody Allen
- ART 251: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ART 178 Ethnicity and Dissent in US Art and Literature
- DRAMA 179A: Teatro America Workshop: The Theatre of Native/Chicano
America
- Nature and the Environment in American Culture:
- Stanford-in-Washington (SIW): Internship on Environmental Policy
- ECON 155Y: Environmental Economics and Policy
- PUBLIC POLICY 182B: Policy Making and Problem-Solving at the Local and
Regional Level
- HIST 281A: Environmental History of the Americas
- AMSTUD 152: American Spaces: An Introduction to Material Culture and the
Built Environment
- Civil Rights in America:
- ECON 18N: Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution
- EDUC 203X: Education and Inequality in American Culture
- HIST 150B: Introduction to African-American History: The Modern African
American Freedom Struggle
- SOC 149: The Urban Underclass
- HIST 253A: America's Civil Rights Movements--1940-present
- Technology and Culture:
- CASA 181: Car Culture
- AMSTUD 205: Labor, Race and Politics in the Industrializing West
- HIST 56S: Advertising and Consumer Culture
- HIST 281A: Environmental History of the Americas
- HIST 115: Technology and Culture in the 19th C
- Urban Politics and Education:
- EDUC 212X: Urban Education
- EDUC 220B: Intro to the Politics of Education
- POLISCI 123: Politics and Public Policy
- POLISCI 121: Urban Politics
- EDUC 177 Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives
- Media and Politics:
- COMM160: The Press and the Political Process
- COMM 162: Analysis of Political Campaigns
- COMM 125: Perspectives on American Journalism
- POLI SCI 120A: American Political Sociology & Public Opinion: Who We Are
and What We Believe
- COMM 136 Democracy and the Communication of Consent
- The Culture of the African Diaspora
- ENG 152D: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Culture
- ENG 152G: Harlem and Chicago Renaissances
- MUSIC 018A: Jazz History I: Ragtime to Bebop, 1900-1945
- MUSIC 018B: Jazz History II: Bebop to the Present, 1945-
- LINGUISTICS 153: Ebonics and Other Vernaculars
- The Politics of Poverty in America
- HIST 251B: Poverty and Homelessness in America
- EDUC 203X: Education and Inequality in American Culture
- ECON 116: American Economic History
- POLI SCI 123: Politics and Public Policy
- POLI SCI 124T: Legislature, Courts and Public Policy
- The History and Culture of Early America
- HIST 272: Creating the American Republic
- RELIGST 247: Self and Other in Puritan America
- ART 132: American Art and Culture, 1528-1860
- HIST 274A: American Ideas and Ideologies 1600-1800
- POLISCI 172J: Thomas Jefferson and His World
- The Social Contexts of American English
- ENG 260A: American Literature and the Politics of Language
- LING 146C: Language and Gender
- LING 150Z: Language in Society
- LING153X: Ebonics and Other Vernaculars
- LING 157: Language as a Public Concern
- Art and Culture in the 19th C:
- ENGL 139B: American Women Writers, 1850 Ð1915
- ENGL 123G: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age
- ENGL 186: Henry James and Edith Wharton
- ENG 138: Melville
ART 133: American Art and Culture in the Gilded Age
- American Culture Since WWII:
- AMSTUD 214: The American 60Õs: Thought, Protest and Culture
- HIST 172A: America Since 1945
- STS 150: Car Culture
- STS 145: History of Comparative Game Design
- ENGL 142B: Films of Woody Allen
- America and the Global Economy:
- AMSTUD 207: American Workers, International Politics and Global
Capitalism
- ECON 116: American Economic History
- ECON 157Z: Imperfect Competition
- HIST 172A: The United States Since 1945
- POLI SCI 120A: American Political Sociology & Public Opinion: Who
We Are and What We Believe
- Popular Culture in America
- ENG 173: American Comedy and Satire: Topics in Laughter and Ethics
- ENG 145F: American Detective Fiction: From Low Art to High Culture
- MUSIC 8A: Rock, Sex and Rebellion
- MUSIC 18B: Jazz History II: Bebop to the Present, 1945-
- COMM 141B :History of Film: The Second 50 Years
- Technology in American Life and Thought:
- SPBER Ð2 1 (Stanford-in-Berlin): The Role of Technology in Modern
Life: A Comparison between the U.S. and Germany
- CASA 132x: Science, Technology and Gender
- HIST 262S: Science and High Technology in Silicon Valley,
- HIST 165C: The United States in the 20th Century
- HIST 115: Technology and Culture in 19th-Century America
- Dissent and Democracy:
- ART 156: The Sixties: the United States and Europe
- AMSTUD 179: Introduction to American Law
- COMM 136/236: Democracy and the Communication of Consent
- COMM 116X: Journalism Law
- POLI SCI 120C: American National Institutions: Congress, the Executive Branch,
and the Courts
- Race and the Law in America:
- AMSTUD 179: Introduction to American Law
- CASA 088: Theories of Race and Ethnicity
- EDUC 203X: Education and Inequality in American Culture
- EDUC 201A: History of African American Education
- HUM BIO 199L: The Death Penalty, Human Biology, Law and Policy
- Borders and Boundaries in American Culture:
- COMP LIT 183: Border Crossings and American Identities
- DRAMA 110: Workshop: Cartographies of Race
- COMP LIT 202: Comparative Ethnic Autobiography
- COMP LIT 168X: Introduction to Asian American Culture
- CASA 088: Theories of Race and Ethnicity
- Religion in American Life
- HIST 274: History of Religion in North America
- JEWISH STUDIES 174C: The Question of Jewish American Fiction
- RELIGST 178X: Freewill and Religion in America
- RELIGST 247: Self and Other in Puritan America
- ENG 142B: The Films of Woody Allen
- Native American Cultures
- CASA 016: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Exploring Sovereignty,
Identity and Narratives of Native Peoples
- DRAMA 179A: Teatro America Workshop: The Theatre of Native/Chicano
America
- SOC 138/238: American Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective
- SOC 139/239: American Indians in Contemporary Society
HIST 281A: Environmental History of the Americas
- Education in America
- EDUC 201A: History of African American Education
- EDUC 203X: Education and Inequality in American Culture
- EDUC 212x: Urban Education
- EDUC 220B: Introduction to the Politics of Education
HUM BIO 102B: Children, Youth and the Law
- American Moderns
- ART 151: Transatlantic Modernism: Paris and New York in the Early 20th
Century
- ENG 152D: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Culture
- ENG 146C: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner,and Fitzgerald
- HIST 267: Yesterday's Tomorrows-Technology and the "Future" in History
- ENG 150C: W.H. Auden
- The Media and Public Policy
- POLI SCI 123: Politics and Public Policy
- COMM 137: Telecommunication Policy and the Internet
- POLI SCI 120B: Political Parties, Interest Groups, Media & Elections
- COMM 125: Perspectives on American Journalism
- POLI SCI 120C: American National Institutions: Congress, the
Executive Branch, and the Courts
- Inequality and Democracy in America
- EDUC 203X: Education and Inequality in American Culture
- COMM 136/236: Democracy and the Communication of Consent
- POLI SCI 120A: American Political Sociology & Public Opinion: Who We Are
and What We Believe
- POLI SCI 120C: American National Institutions: Congress, the Executive Branch,
and the Courts
- POLI SCI 123: Politics and Public Policy
- The Politics of War and Peace
- HIST 251C: The Civil War
- HIST 26S: The Second World War
- HIST 252: Decision-Making in International Crises--The A-Bomb, the Korean
War, andThe Cuban Missile
- HIST 155: The U.S. and Asia During the Cold War
- HUM 194H: The Literature of War and Revolution
- The Development of the American Voice in Literature
- ENGL 179E: Hemingway and Fitzgerald
- ENGL 145F: American Detective Fiction: From Low Art to High Culture
- ENGL 139: American Women Writers, 1850 Ð1915
- ENGL 186: Henry James and Edith Wharton
- ENGL 121: Masterpieces of American Literature
- Debating Democracy in America
- HIST 272: Creating the American Republic
- AMSTUD 179: Introduction to American Law
- COMM 136/236: Democracy and the Communication of Consent
- COMM 138/238: Democratic Theory: Normative & Empirical Issues
- POLI SCI 120A: American Political Sociology & Public Opinion: Who We Are
and What We Believe
- Hollywood and American Culture
- COMM 141B: History of Film: The Second 50 Years
- COMM 122A/222A: The Documentary Tradition
- ENG 142B: The Films of Woody Allen
- ENG 142F: Film Noir
- HIST 165C: The United States in the 20th Century
- Ethics and the Professions in America
- AMSTUD 221: Public and Professional Service: Theories and Ethical
Practice of Public and Community Service for the Professions
- COMM 131x: Media Ethics and Responsibility
- POLI SCI 133X: Ethics and Politics in Public Service
- HIST 267A : The Politics and Ethics of Modern Science and Technology
- STS 110: Ethics and Public Policy
- Planned Spaces: The Built Environment and American Life:
- AMSTUD 152: American Spaces: An Introduction to Material Culture and
the Built Environment
- HIST 271A: The Suburban West
- PUBLPOL 182B: Policy Making and Problem-Solving at the Local and
Regional Level
- ART 150: American Architecture and Urbanism
- HIST 270A: Cities in the North American West, 1800-1915
- Personal and National identity in the 19th Century:
- ENG 138: Melville
- ENG 186: Henry James and Edith Wharton
- ENG 139: American Women Writers, 1850-1915
- HIST 251C: The Civil War
- ART 132: American Art and Culture, 1528-1860
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