Program Requirements

100- and 200-Level Courses
Students must select eight of the following courses, including at least one from each key theme and distributed among at least four academic departments or major programs. Three 300-level courses are also required.

I. Power and Responsibility
EC 227. Business and Government
HIS 110. American Society and Culture: 1607-1876
HIS/PCE/SOC 262.  Native Americans: Then and Now
HIS 277.  Morality and Power in 20th-Century American Foreign Policy
PCE 248.  Nonviolence in America
PSC 202.  Contemporary Political Thought
PSC 251.  America and the World: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945
PSC 270.  American Constitutional law
PSC 271.  Civil Rights in the American Constitutional System
SOC 221.  Courtship, Marriage, and Family
SOC 228.  Social Problems
SOC 245.  Wealth, Power, and Prestige
SOC 250.  Criminal Justice
WS 100.  Confronting Inequality
WS 225.  Women and Sexuality
WS 240.  Women, War and Peace
WS 260.  Women and the Law

II. Identity
ENG 252.  Topics in African-American Literature
ENG 275.  Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
HIS 234.  England and Colonial America
HIS 255.  Architectural Space and the American Family Experience
HIS 260.  Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 265.  Minority Groups in American Life
HIS 269.  Women in India and the United States
MUS 209.  History of Jazz
PSC 205.  American Political Thought
PSC 242.  Public Opinion, Propaganda, and the Mass Media
PSC 243.  The American Political System
SOC 220.  Race and Ethnic Relation
SOC 260. Deviance and Social Control
WS 230.  Contemporary Feminisms
WS 269.    Women in India and the United States

III. The Natural and Human-Made Environment
ART 278.  European and American Architecture, 1750-1900
HIS 271.  Baltimore as Town and City
HP 290  Practicum in Historic Preservation
PSC 207.  Narratives of Nature
PSC 285.  Environmentalism: The Political Dimension
WS 265.  Reproductive Technologies: Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

IV. Cultural and Social Expression
ART 284.  Fine Art in America
COM 213.  Making Sense of Popular Culture
COM 219.  History of Television and radio
COM 234.  Critical Analysis of Journalism
COM 237.  Media Criticism
DAN 195-196. Choréographie Antique
DAN 250.  Twentieth Century American Dance
DAN 255.  American Dance Heritage
ED 210.  Development of Education in the United States
ENG 250.  American Literature I
ENG 254.  American Literature II
ENG 276.  Modern Poetry
ENG 277.  Contemporary American Poets
THE 211.  History of American Theater and Drama
SOC 271.  Protest! Legacy of the Sixties
WS 250.  Fit to Be: Women and Their Bodies
 
300-Level Courses
Three required in addition to AMS 205 and 200-level courses.

I. Power and Responsibility 
COM 342.  Communication Law and Regulation
PSC 316.  Seminar in Scope and Method in Political Science
PSC 324.  Seminar in Presidential Politics
PSC 343.  Seminar in Congressional Politics
RLG 372.  Religion and Race in America

II. Identity II
PSC 322.  American Philosophy

III. The Natural and Human-Made Environment 
HP    320  Seminar in Historic Preservation
PSC 330.  Urban Environmental Policy

IV. Cultural and Social Expression 
COM 340.  Media, Politics, and Civic Engagement
COM 342.  Communication Law and Regulation
HIS 338.  Seminar in Modern European and American History
ENG 371.  Seminar in American Literature
ENG 372.  Seminar in African American Literature
WS 300.  Women and Humor