AAST Approved CM/GTI Electives

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1		Last updated 06/2025 \| aast.umd.edu
2	Asian American Studies Approved CM and GTI Electives
3	Approved electives for the 'Comparative Marginalizations and Global/Transnational/International' requirement for the Asian American Studies minor.
4	Highlighted AAST courses are current course offerings. Please check Testudo for other department/program current course offerings.
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6	AASP100	Introduction to African American Studies
7	AASP101	Public Policy and the Black Community
8	AASP187	The New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex
9	AASP200	African Civilization
10	AASP202	Black Culture in the US
11	AASP210	Intro to Research Design and Analysis in African American Studies
12	AASP230	Social (In)Justice and African-American Health and Well-Being
13	AASP298	Martin Luther King Jr.
14	AASP298B	Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community
15	AASP298C	African-American History to 1865
16	AASP298L/ENGL234	African American Literature and Culture
17	AASP301	Applied Policy Analysis and the Black Community
18	AASP310	African Slave Trade
19	AASP313	Black Women in United States History
20	AASP377	Baldwin and the Black Atlantic
21	AASP413	Gentrification: Have You Met the New Neighbors?: Issues of Belonging and Displacement in Urban Areas
22	AASP487	Social Inequality and Social Policy in a Global Perspective
23	AASP498E	Special Topics in Black Culture; Emotions and Culture in the African-American Community
24	AASP498K	Black Masculinities
25	AASP499C	Advanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community; Race and Reproduction
26	AAST298Q	Special Topics in Asian American Studies; Displaced Lives: War, Memory, Globalization, and Transmigration in Asian American American Literature and Culture
27	AAST322/HIST322	Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
28	AAST398F	Selected Topics in Asian American Studies; Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
29	AAST398W	Trans-Pacific Sexualities
30	AAST422 (formerly AAST498G)	Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies; Asian American Women and Gender
31	AAST498Y	The Multiracial Experience in the U.S.
32	AMST212	Race and Diversity in American Culture
33	AMST213	Heroes and Villains in American Film
34	AMST290	Shifting Sands: Constructing Cultural Mainstreams and Margins in the U.S.
35	AMST298Q	U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture
36	AMST298Q	Selected Topics in American Studies; U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture
37	AMST298Q/ENGL235	U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture
38	AMST498R	Selected Topics in America Studies: Border Crossings: People, Power, and Politics in Translational Perspective
39	AMST498W	Globalization and the Diversifying US
40	ANTH260	Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics
41	ANTH264	Immigration Policy, Immigrant Lives
42	ANTH265	Anthropology and Global Health
43	ANTH298D/WMST298D	Women’s Bodies in Contention
44	ANTH310	Queer Anthropology
45	ANTH403	Anthropology of Immigration and Health
46	ANTH411	Hypermarginality and Urban Health
47	ANTH412	Archaeology of Slavery: Classical, Caribbean and North American Contexts
48	ANTH433	Conservation and Indigenous People in South America
49	ANTH456	Arabian Nights and the Art of Storytelling
50	ARAB253	Explorations in Arts and Humanities; Border Crossings: Immigration and the Making of the Americas
51	ARHU158G	Art and Society in Asia
52	ARTH290	Presently Black: Contemporary African American Art
53	ARTH362	Modern Chinese Film and Visual Culture
54	ARTH484	Japanese Art in the 20th Century: Empire, War & Occupation
55	ARTH488A	Leadership in a Multicultural Society
56	BSCV301	Domestic Violence
57	CCJS325	Slavery in the Twenty First Century: Combating Human Trafficking
58	CCJS370	Race, Crime and Criminal Justice
59	CHIN301	Advanced Chinese I
60	CLAS340	Ancient Slavery and its American Impacts
61	CMLT235	Black Diaspora Literature and Culture
62	CMLT270	Global Literature and Social Change
63	CMLT275	World Literature by Women
64	CMLT277	Literatures of the Americas
65	CMLT280	Film Art in a Global Society
66	COMM324	Communication and Gender
67	COMM360	The Rhetoric of Black America
68	COMM382	Essentials of Intercultural Communication
69	EALL300	The Languages of East Asia
70	EDSP470	Introduction to Special Education
71	EDSP476	Communicating with Sign Language
72	ENGL130	Race and the Cultural Politics of Blood: A Historical Perspective
73	ENGL234	African American Literature and Culture
74	ENGL316	Native American Literature
75	ENGL349J	Asian American Literatures; New World Arrivals: Literature of Asian American Migration and Diaspora
76	ENGL360	African, Indian and Caribbean Writers
77	ENGL428Y	Seminar in Language and Literature: Postcolonial, Global, Transnational
78	ENGL448C	Literature by Women of Color; Literature, Visual Culture and Art by Women of Color
79	ENGL470	African-American Literature: From Slavery to Freedom
80	FMSC110S	Families and Global Health
81	FMSC190	Man Up! Where are the Fathers?
82	FMSC310	Maternal, Child and Family Health
83	FMSC330	Family Theories and Patterns
84	FMSC381	Poverty, Affluence, and Families
85	FMSC420	African American Families
86	GVPT200	International Political Relations
87	GVPT289L	Religions, Beliefs, and World Affairs
88	GVPT409E	International Relations of East Asia
89	GVPT449G	Seminar in Political Philosophy; Global Justice
90	GVPT459A	Seminar in Comparative Politics; Ethnic Politics
91	HIST222	Immigration and Ethnicity in America
92	HIST255	African-American History, 1865 - Present
93	HIST284	East Asian Civiliation I
94	HIST285	East Asian Civiliation II
95	HIST289A	Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Tolerance, Oppression, and the Problematic Past
96	HIST289Y	Zombies, Fear, and Contagion: A Cultural History of Public Health, Medicine, and Technology
97	HIST354	Ante-Bellum America 1815-1861
98	HIST360	Women and the Civil Rights Movement
99	HIST416	History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
100	HIST429Z	Special Topics in History; Comparitive Colonialisms in Southeast Asia