*If a course is not listed but you think it should qualify for the minor, encourage the instructor to submit the Request for Course Inclusion form.
Note: Several courses will count on a section-by-section basis. These courses are listed at the bottom of the page.
CM 302 Free Speech, Free Expression
CM 305 Media and the Political Process
CM 306 Popular Culture in America
CM 342 Media, Culture, and Society
CM 360 Literary Journalism EC 210 American Economic History
EN 203 Major Writers: American
EN 366 American literature to World War I
EN 367 Topics in American Literature
EN 378 Multiethnic Literature of the United States
EN 379 Gender in American Literature
EN 388 Seminar in Multiethnic Literature of the United States
EN 391 The American West in Art and Literature (same as AH 391)
EN 397 Seminar in American Literature
AH 207 African-American Art
AH 307 African-American Art
AH 318 American Art: Art for a Democracy (same as HS 356)
AH 349 Baltimore: Its History and Architecture (same as HS 349)
AH 351 American Urban Culture: A Tale of Four Cities
AH 391 The American West in Art and Literature (same as EN 391)
AH 402 Special Topics‡
DR/MU 210 American Musical Theatre: Uptown and Downtown
DR 360 Classic Hollywood Film
MU 208 American Roots Music
HS 340 America through Reconstruction
HS 341 The U.S. since the Civil War
HS 343 American Environmental History
HS 344 American Women’s History
HS 345 The Peoples of Early America
HS 346 Revolutionary America
HS 348 The Civil War and Reconstruction
HS 350 World War II in America
HS 352 America Since 1945
HS 353 History of Violence in America
HS 356 American Art: Art for a Democracy (same as AH 318)
HS 358 African-American History through the Civil War
HS 359 African-Americans and Jazz
HS 361 Merchants and Farmers, Planters and Slaves: The Roots of American Business, 1600-1850
HS 362 Industrial and Big Business Economy
HS 363 A Century of Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1890
HS 364 The Old South
HS 366 The Civil Rights Crusade
HS 367 Black Women in the Atlantic World
HS 372 The Vietnam War through Film and Literature
HS 406 Transatlantic Slave Sites: Study Tour
HS 423 Disasters in American History
HS 425 Modern American Social Movements
HS 426 Propaganda, Culture, and American Society: 1780-1830
HS 427 The Era of Good Stealings? Gilded Age America, 1865-1900
HS 428 The Making of the Early Republic: A Study of Race, Place, and Ideology
HS 441 The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (same as PS 441)
HS 460 Seminar: American Progressivism
HS 462 Seminar: Taking Care of Business: The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s
HS 463 Seminar: Colonial British America ML 340 “Xicanismos”: An Introduction to Chicano/a Culture
ML 351 U.S. Latino/a Film and Literature
ML 363 Voices Across America: A Symphony of Thought PL 340 Public/Private Distinction in American Life
PL 390 American Philosophy
PL 392 William James
PS 102 American Politics
PS 314 Public Opinion and American Democracy
PS 316 American Political Parties
PS 318 Media and Politics
PS 319 Interest Groups in American Democracy
PS 321 Religion and Politics in America
PS 325 Introduction to Public Policy
PS 326 Congress: The Legislative Process
PS 327 Congressional Politics
PS 329 The Modern American Presidency
PS 330 Strategic Intelligence and American Democracy
PS 331 Political Responses to Crisis
PS 334 American Judicial Process
PS 341 Constitutional Law: Power in the National System
PS 342 Equal Protection Law
PS 343 Crime, the Individual, and Society
PS 344 Civil Liberties I
PS 345 Civil Liberties II
PS 359 Approaches to American Foreign Policy
PS 367 The Cold War
PS 368 The Vietnam War
PS 384 American Political Thought
PS 389 African-American Political Thought
PS 410 Seminar: Modern Constitutional Theory
PS 420 Seminar: American Political Development
PS 421 Seminar: Legislative Peculiarities
PS 441 The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (same as HS 441)
PS 476 Intelligence, Secrecy, and Governmental Reform
PS 488 Research Seminar: National Policy-Making SC 103 American Society
SC 204 The Family
SC 205 Social Problems
SC 207 Protest: Legacy of the Sixties
SC 271 Race and Ethnic Relations in America
SC 307 Male and Female Roles
SC 331 Deviance and Social Control
SC 332 The Sociology of Crime and Criminals
SC 333 Juvenile Delinquency
SC 334 Criminal Justice
SC 361 Social Inequality
SC 365 Neighborhood and Community in Urban America
SC 370 Population Studies
SC 430 Seminar: America in the Twenty-First Century
SC 471 Minority Group Conflict TH 220 The Catholic Church in the United States
TH 262 African-American Religious Thought
TH 313 Ethics: Being Moral in America
TH 316 Ethics: Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States
TH 324 Faith and Film: The Apostle’s Creed in the American Cinema
TH 336 Catholic Intellectual Life in the United States: Two Hundred Years of American Catholic Opinion
TH 338 Catholic Literature and American Culture in the Twentieth Century WR 350 The Art of Prose: E.B. White
WR 351 The Art of the Essay: Women Writers
WR 354 Nature Writing
WR 385 Writing about Music and Culture
WR 385 Comics in America
Section-specific courses Specific sections of the courses listed below may count for the minor, depending on course content: the course must contain at least 50% American-related material, and address the "Americanness" of that material in some meaningful way. Students who are enrolled in one of these courses who would like to count it toward the minor should either ask the professor teaching the course to submit a Request for Course Inclusion or contact the American Studies Committee (contact: Jean Lee Cole, jcole1@loyola.edu). EN 365 Seminar in Literature and Catholicism
EN 368 Critical Methodologies (Post-1800)
EN 371 Postmodern Fiction
EN 377 Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature
EN 382 Topics in Literature and Film Studies
EN 383 Seminar in Modern Twentieth-Century Literature
EN 386 Seminar in Literature and Film
EN 387 Seminar in Post-Modern Twentieth-Century Literature
EN 389 Seminar in Literature and Gender
EN 399 Seminar in Literary Topics after 1800
EN 409 Senior Honors Seminar DR 362 Special Topics in Dramatic History/Literature MU 306 American Jazz
WR 320 Art of the Argument
WR 352 Biography and Autobiography
WR 353 The Contemporary Essay
WR 358 Advanced Nonfiction Prose
WR 400 Senior Seminar: New Writers | 
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