CASAM 200 A1 | Introduction to American Studies<\/span><\/strong> An exploration of the multi-faceted themes of American society and culture in selected historical periods using a variety of approaches to interpret such topics as American art, literature, politics, material culture, and the mass media. Required of majors and minors. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy. <\/p>\n CASAM 202 A1 | What\u2019s Boston?<\/span><\/b> What’s Boston? explores Boston’s complex urban and natural world. University faculty share cutting-edge research, focusing on Boston as a PLACE and a guiding IDEA, introducing the perspectives of disparate scholarly disciplines. Discover where you stand and where you might go! This course fulfills one unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. <\/p>\n CASAM 220 A1 | Native American and Indigenous Studies<\/span><\/strong> Examines diverse cultural expressions of Native peoples, from oral traditions to modern fiction, and their historic and political contexts. Employs interdisciplinary perspectives from Native American and Indigenous Studies to ask critical questions about the arts, identity, community, and creativity. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity\/Innovation. <\/p>\n CASAM 502 C1 | Research Seminar in American Studies Timed for the 250th anniversary of the American War for Independence, this course considers literature that shaped the Age of Revolution and its legacy. We will begin with a look at the iconic texts of 1776 (including Tom Paine\u2019s Common Sense <\/i>and the Declaration) and then focus on four truly revolutionary writers from North America, Haiti, and the British Empire: Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Toussaint Louverture, and Mary Wollstonecraft. <\/span><\/p>\n T<\/span>his course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy. It can also serve as a capstone course for American Studies Majors and Minors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 525 A1 | American Cultural Landscape Studies<\/strong>\u00a0 This seminar provides an introduction to analyzing and interpreting American cultural landscapes and acquaints students with the historiography of interdisciplinary study of the built environment. Also offered as CAS AH 525.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 567 A1 | Topics in American Material Culture The semiquincentennial of the American Revolutionary War presents new opportunities to decenter 1776 and recenter longstanding histories of resistance to settler colonialism, slavery, and militarization as revolutionary history. This course turns to the\u00a0landscape of Boston and beyond to consider how history is produced, memorialized, and remembered through material culture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CAS AM 502 A1 | Research Seminar in American Studies<\/strong> This seminar explores the unique challenges and solutions for preserving the vernacular environment\u2014broadly construed as \u201ceveryday\u201d buildings and landscapes\u2014that many established preservation tools are ill-equipped to serve. From triple-deckers to rural farmsteads to postwar suburbs to fieldstone dams, this course demonstrates the importance of the mundane in the built environment and how to save ensure its survival.<\/p>\n T<\/span>his course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy. It can also serve as a capstone course for American Studies Majors and Minors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 502 B1 | Research Seminar in American Studies<\/strong> This course prepares students for the experience as a professional in the field of preservation. Students will build skills of communication to the public, investigate numerous career pathways, and develop C.V.s, resum\u00e9s, and portfolios to use as they pursue their professional goals. Mts w CASAR 595 Futures in Archaeology. <\/span>T<\/span>his course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 554 A1 | Preservation Planning<\/strong>\u00a0 Introduces students to local, state, and national government policies and practices intended to protect historically and aesthetically significant structures. In addition, the course covers planning approaches aimed at managing redevelopment in established neighborhoods, to create livable and sustainable communities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is only a sampling of courses. Please refer to individual department websites and the University Class Schedule for complete course offerings. <\/em><\/p>\n American Studies Courses CASAM 200 A1 | Introduction to American Studies Tu\/Th 9:30am \u2013 10:45am Prof. Battenfeld An exploration of the multi-faceted themes of American society and culture in selected historical periods using a variety of approaches to interpret such topics as American art, literature, politics, material culture, and the mass media. 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\nTu\/Th 9:30am \u2013 10:45am
\nProf. Battenfeld
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\nTues 12:30pm \u2013 3:15pm
\nProf. Battenfeld
\nTu\/Th 9:30-10:45
\nProf. Hunziker
\n<\/strong>Topic for Spring 2026: Revolutionary Icons: Franklin, Wheatley, Wollstonecraft<\/strong><\/em>, Louverture<\/strong><\/em>
\nTues 12:30pm \u2013 3:15 pm
\nProf. Rezek<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Tue\/Thu 12:30 \u2013 1:45pm
\nProf. Moore<\/p>\n
\nTopic for Spring 2026: Placing Public History: Memory, Monumentalization, and the Built Environment.<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/u>Tue 3:30 \u2013 6:15pm
\nProf. LaForge<\/p>\nPreservation Studies Courses<\/h5>\n
\nTopic for Spring 2026: Preservation and the Vernacular Environment<\/strong><\/em>
\nFri 11:15am-2:00pm
\nProf. Stevenson<\/p>\n
\nTopic for Spring 2026: Futures in Preservation<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/u>Thur 12:30pm \u2013 3:15 pm
\nProf. White<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Thu 3:30 \u2013 6:15pm
\nProf. Wermiel<\/p>\nAffiliated Departments<\/h5>\n
African American & Black Diaspora Studies<\/a><\/h3>\n
English<\/a><\/h3>\n
Film and Television<\/a><\/h3>\n
History<\/a><\/h3>\n
History of Art & Architecture<\/a><\/h3>\n
Religion<\/a><\/h3>\n
Sociology<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"