Boston College - Lynch School of Education
American Heritages Interdisciplinary Major
Academic Year 2015-2016
This major was designed for students in the Lynch School of Education who are pursuing
Elementary Education and Applied Psychology and Human Development. This major
fulfills the Arts and Sciences program requirements for students in teacher certification
programs. The major is recommended for students who are interested in the American Heritage
from the literary, social, and historical perspectives. Two tracks are available for students
pursuing this major: a cultural track with emphasis in the literary perspective, and a social
science track for students interested in historical and sociological perspectives on our American
heritage.
This 27-credit major comprises:
• 4 required courses
• 5 elective courses
o 4 (12 credits) from the same track and department/1 from the other track
o the majority of the courses taken must be above the introductory level
o courses cannot count twice
FOUR REQUIRED COURSES
FALL
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Select Two of the Following Three Foundation in American History Courses:
HIST2401
U.S. History I
HIST2402
U.S. History II
HIST2475
America’s War in Vietnam
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Select Two of the Following Three Foundation in American Literature Courses:
ENGL2141
American Literary History I
ENGL2142
American Literary History II
ENGL2143
American Literary History III
CULTURAL TRACK
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FALL
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AADS1104
African-American History I
AADS1105
African-American History II
AADS2194
Reading Race at the Millennium
AADS2222
Black Education Movements
ARTH1109
Clues to Seeing
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ARTH2258
Twentieth Century Art
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ARTH2267
Saltbox to Skyscraper: American Architecture
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ARTH4461
Frank Lloyd Wright
BK310
Booker T. Washington
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ENGL2125
Introduction to Feminisms
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ENGL2277
Intro to American Studies
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ENGL2288
God and the Imagination: Epitaphs for the Journey
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ENGL3235
2nd Voices:21st Century American Immigrant Writing
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ENGL4423
20th C American Fiction: American Dreams
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ENGL4531
Making Americans
FILM2280
American Film History: Early Years
FILM2290
American Film History: Pre-War Period
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FILM3331
Independent American Film
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FILM3391
American Film Genres
FILM3392
American Film History: Post-Classical Period
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SOCY3387
Sixties Through Film
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TMHC7063
Catholics and American Culture
THTR3374
American Theater and Drama
SOCIAL SCIENCE TRACK
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FALL
SPRING
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AADS2253
The Modern Black Freedom Movement
AADS3310
Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance
BK155
Introduction to African-American Society
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BK310
Studies of Race, Law and Resistance
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BK553
The Old South from Colonial Times to 1860
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BK566
American Immigration II (From 1865)
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BK570
Social Action in Urban America
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ENGL4478
Poetry and the Gothic
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HIST2301
Colonial Latin America
HIST2420
Major Political Rivalries in American History
HIST2430
Business in American Life
HIST2450
Spies, Spying and the Presidency
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HIST2481
African-American History I
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HIST2482
African-American History II
HIST2828
American Religious History since 1945
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HIST2841
Nuclear Terror
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HIST3426
Ku Klux Klan Violence in the Post Civil War South
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HIST4402
Natives and Newcomers in Early America
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HIST4422
Race,Riots&Rodeos:U.S.1865-1900
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HIST4423
The Plains Indians
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HIST4449
U.S. 1929-1960
HIST4450
U.S. Since 1960
HIST4495
U.S. Foreign Policy/I
HIST4496
U.S. Foreign Policy/1945-Present
HIST5490
American Immigration
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POLI2305
American Federalism
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POLI2317
The American Presidency
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POLI2330
Immigration: Process, Politics and Policies
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POLI2363
Muslims in U.S. Society and Politics
SOCY1020
Poverty in America
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SOCY1043
Introduction to African American Society
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SOCY1036
Introduction to Latin American Societies
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SOCY1039
African World Perspective
SOCY1058
Sociology of the Family
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SOCY1072
Inequality in America
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SOCY1089
Women & the Body
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SOCY1092
Peace or War – U.S. and Third World
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SOCY3303
Social construction of Whiteness
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SOCY3308
Crime and Punishment in America
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SOCY3310
Studies in Crime & Social Justice
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SOCY3350
Black and Green: Race and Urban Ecology
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SOCY3359
Sports in American Society
SOCY3375
American Economic Crisis and Social Change
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SOCY5597
Contemporary Race Theory
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Course selections are revised each year.
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