Satisfaction of the American Cultures Breadth Requirement is a prerequisite for every bachelor's degree awarded to students. The American Cultures Breadth Requirement is satisfied by passing, with a grade not lower than C- or P, a course expressly approved for that purpose by the appropriate committee of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. The courses that satisfy this requirement must be integrative and comparative and address theoretical and analytical issues relevant to understanding race, culture, and ethnicity in American history and society. Each course will take substantial account of groups drawn from at least three of the following: African Americans, indigenous peoples of the United States, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, and European Americans. Students may choose to take an AC course in their field of study in order to expand their experience within the field. However, many students use their AC course as an opportunity to take a course outside of their major.

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFRICAM 125AC	The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
AFRICAM 142AC	Race and American Film
AFRICAM 156AC	Poetry for the People: Introduction to the Art of Poetry
AFRICAM 158A	Poetry for the People: The Writing and Teaching of Poetry
AFRICAM 158B	Poetry for the People: Practicum
AFRICAM 173AC	Gandhi and the Civil Rights Movement in America
AFRICAM 190AC	Advanced Seminar in African Diaspora Studies
AFRICAM 27AC	Lives of Struggle: Minorities in a Majority Culture
AFRICAM 28AC	Globalization and Minority American Communities
AMERSTD 101AC	Examining U.S. Cultures in Time
AMERSTD 102AC	Examining U.S. Cultures in Place
AMERSTD 10AC	Introduction to American Studies
AMERSTD 110AC	Special Topics in American Studies--American Cultures
AMERSTD 138AC	From Civil Rights Era to the New Gilded Age: Struggles for Racial Equality and Economic Equity from 'Double Victory' to 'Occupy'
AMERSTD 139AC	Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History
AMERSTD 170AC	Race and Representation in US Culture
AMERSTD 178AC	Race and Ethnicity in American Culture: Film, Music, and Advertising
AMERSTD 179AC	Representing Race and Ethnicity in American Culture
AMERSTD C174	Visual Autobiography
ANTHRO 10AC	The California Frontier
ANTHRO 121AC	American Material Culture
ANTHRO 124AC	Hawaiian Ethnohistory
ANTHRO 124B	Hawaiian Ethnohistory
ANTHRO 160AC	Forms of Folklore
ANTHRO 172AC	Special Topics in American Cultures
ANTHRO 174AC	California Historical Anthropology
ANTHRO 2AC	Introduction to Archaeology
ANTHRO 3AC	Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology (American Cultures)
ANTHRO C12AC	Fire: Past, Present and Future Interactions with the People and Ecosystems of California
ARCH 110AC	The Social and Cultural Processes in Architecture & Urban Design
ART 23AC	Foundations of American Cyber-Culture
ART W23AC	Data Arts
ASAMST 128AC	Muslims in America
ASAMST 132AC	Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness
ASAMST 143AC	Asian American Health
ASAMST 145AC	Politics, Public Policy, and Asian American Communities
ASAMST 151AC	Asian American Women: Theory and Experience
ASAMST 20AC	Asian American Communities and Race Relations
ASAMST W20AC	Asian American Communities and Race Relations
CHICANO 180AC	Topics in Chicano Studies
COLWRIT 150AC	Researching Water in the West: Its Presence, Its Absence, and Its Consequences for the Peoples of California
COLWRIT 192AC	Advanced Composition: Community-Based Ethics
COLWRIT 25AC	Reading in and about U.S. Education Institutions
COLWRIT 50AC	Researching Water in the West: Its Presence, Its Absence, and Its Consequences for the Peoples of California
COM LIT 60AC	Topics in the Literature of American Cultures
COM LIT N60AC	Topics in the Literature of American Cultures
COM LIT W60AC	Topics in the Literature of American Cultures
CY PLAN 117AC	Urban & Community Health
CY PLAN 118AC	The Urban Community
DEMOG 145AC	The American Immigrant Experience
DUTCH 171AC	From New Amsterdam to New York: Race, Culture, and Identity in New Netherland
EDUC 131AC	Classroom Interactions in Science and Mathematics: A Focus on Equity and Urban Schools
EDUC 140AC	The Art of Making Meaning: Educational Perspectives on Literacy and Learning in a Global World
EDUC 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
EDUC 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
EDUC 186AC	The Southern Border
EDUC 190AC	Critical Studies in Education
EDUC 30AC	Race and Ethnicity inside Schools
EDUC 40AC	Experiencing Education: Political Economy, White Supremacy, and Educational Desire
EDUC 52AC	Understanding Language in Society
EDUC 75AC	American Sports, Culture, and Education
EDUC N140	Literacy: Individual and Societal Development
EDUC N40AC	Experiencing Education: Race and Ethnicity Inside Schools
EDUC W140A	The Art of Making Meaning: Educational Perspectives on Literacy and Learning in a Global World
ENGIN 157AC	Engineering, The Environment, and Society
ENGLISH 135AC	Literature of American Cultures
ENGLISH 165AC	Special Topics in American Cultures
ENGLISH 166AC	Special Topics in American Cultures
ENGLISH 31AC	Literature of American Cultures
ENGLISH C143V	Visual Autobiography
ENVECON 140AC	Economics of Race, Agriculture, and the Environment
ESPM 155AC	Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems
ESPM 160AC	American Environmental and Cultural History
ESPM 163AC	Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment
ESPM 50AC	Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management
ESPM C22AC	Fire: Past, Present and Future Interactions with the People and Ecosystems of California
ETH STD 10AC	A History of Race and Ethnicity in Western North America, 1598-Present
ETH STD 11AC	Theories and Concepts in Comparative Ethnic Studies An Introduction
ETH STD 122AC	Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films
ETH STD 144AC	Racism and the U.S. Law: Historical Treatment of Peoples of Color
ETH STD 147AC	Women of Color in the United States
ETH STD 159AC	The Southern Border
ETH STD 173AC	Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality
ETH STD 181AC	Prison
ETH STD 182AC	Race, Rights, and Citizenship
ETH STD 190AC	Advanced Seminar in Ethnic Studies
ETH STD 20AC	Introduction to Ethnic Studies
ETH STD 21AC	A Comparative Survey of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the U.S
ETH STD 41AC	A Comparative Survey of Protest Movements Since the 60's
ETH STD C73AC	Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality
ETH STD N130	Racial Inequality in America: A Comparative Historical Analysis
ETH STD N144	Racism and the U.S. Law
ETH STD N41AC	A Comparative Survey of Protest Movements Since the 60's
FRENCH 142AC	The Cultures of Franco-America
FRENCH 42AC	The Cultures of Franco-America
GEOG 159AC	The Southern Border
GEOG 50AC	California
GEOG 70AC	The Urban Experience
GEOG N50AC	California
GPP 150AC	Special Topics in Global Poverty and Practice (American Cultures)
GWS 100AC	Women in American Culture
GWS 116AC	Queer Theories: Activist Practices
GWS 130AC	Gender, Race, Nation, and Health
GWS 132AC	Gender, Race, and Law
GWS 133AC	Women, Men, and Other Animals: Human Animality in American Cultures
GWS 50AC	Gender in American Culture
HISTART 187AC	Race and Representation in the Twentieth Century in the United States
HISTART 192AC	Undergraduate Seminar: Folk Art in America
HISTART 87AC	Visual Cultures of California
HISTORY 100AC	Special Topics in the History of the United States
HISTORY 120AC	American Environmental and Cultural History
HISTORY 121A	The Colonial Americas, 1400-1763
HISTORY 122AC	Antebellum America: The Advent of Mass Society
HISTORY 124A	The Recent United States: The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II
HISTORY 124B	The Recent United States: The United States from World War II
HISTORY 126A	The American West since 1850
HISTORY 126B	The American West since 1850
HISTORY 127AC	California
HISTORY 128AC	California, the West, and the World
HISTORY 131B	Social History of the United States: Creating Modern American Society: From the End of the Civil War to the Global Age
HISTORY 134A	The Age of the City: The Age of the City, 1825-1933
HISTORY 136A	The History of Women in the United States before 1900
HISTORY 136AC	Gender Matters in 20th Century America
HISTORY 136B	Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century US History
HISTORY 136C	Defiant Women: Gender, Power and Violence in American History
HISTORY 137AC	The Repeopling of America
HISTORY 7A	Introduction to the History of the United States: The United States from Settlement to Civil War
HISTORY 7B	Introduction to the History of the United States: The United States from Civil War to Present
HISTORY C139B	The American Immigrant Experience
HISTORY C139C	Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History
HISTORY C139D	From Civil Rights Era to the New Gilded Age: Struggles for Racial Equality and Economic Equity from 'Double Victory' to 'Occupy'
HISTORY N124A	The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of the World War II
HISTORY N124B	The United States from World War II to the Vietnam Era
HISTORY N131B	Social History of the United States: 1914-Present
IAS 157AC	Engineering, The Environment, and Society
INTEGBI 35AC	Human Biological Variation
ITALIAN 150AC	After Work: Italian Theories, US Texts
JOURN 102AC	The Wire: When Journalism Meets Drama
L & S 180AC	Archaeology of Sex and Gender
LEGALST 104AC	Youth Justice and Culture
LEGALST 132AC	Immigration and Citizenship
LEGALST 133AC	Law and Social Change: The Immigrant Rights Movement
LEGALST 152AC	Human Rights & Technology
LEGALST 162AC	Restorative Justice
LEGALST 173AC	Making Empire: Law and the Colonization of America
LEGALST 185AC	Prison
LGBT 20AC	Alternative Sexual Identities and Communities in Contemporary American Society
LINGUIS 155AC	Language in the United States: a Capsule History
LINGUIS S55	The American Languages
LINGUIS S55X	The American Languages
MUSIC 137AC	Music of the Civil Rights Era
MUSIC 139AC	Topics in Musics of the World in the US
MUSIC 26AC	Music in American Culture
MUSIC N26AC	Music in American Cultures
NATAMST 120AC	Photography and the American Indian: Manifest Destiny, American Frontier, and Images of American Indians
NATAMST 173AC	Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality
NATAMST 178AC	Africans in Indian Country
NATAMST C73AC	Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality
NUSCTX 104AC	Human Food Practices AC
NUSCTX W104	Food, Culture, and the Environment AC
NWMEDIA 150AC	New Media and American Cultures
PACS 125AC	War, Culture, and Society
PACS 128AC	Human Rights and American Cultures
PACS 148AC	Social Movements, Urban Histories, and the Politics of Memory
PACS 148AC	Social Movements, Urban Histories, and the Politics of Memory
PACS 150AC	Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
PB HLTH 150E	Introduction to Community Health and Human Development
PHILOS 117AC	The Philosophy of Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
POL SCI 111AC	The Politics of Displacement
POL SCI 118AC	Three American Cultures
POL SCI 167AC	Racial and Ethnic Politics in the New American Century
POL SCI 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
POL SCI 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
POL SCI 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
POL SCI 182AC	The Politics of Educational Inequality
POL SCI 18AC	Race, Culture, and Politics in the Golden State
POL SCI N1AC	Introduction to American Politics
PSYCH 166AC	Cultural Psychology
PSYCH 167AC	Stigma and Prejudice
PSYCH 192AC	Child Development in Different Cultures
PUB POL 117AC	Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy
PUB POL 190AC	Combining Research and Practice: Inequality, Imprisonment, and Higher Education in the Community
RELIGST 173AC	Gandhi and the Civil Rights Movement in America
RHETOR 129AC	Autobiography and American Individualism
RHETOR 152AC	Race and Order in the New Republic
SOC WEL 150AC	Race, Ethnic Relations, and Social Welfare in the United States
SOC WEL 185AC	Prison
SOCIOL 111AC	Sociology of the Family
SOCIOL 113AC	Sociology of Education
SOCIOL 130AC	Social Inequalities: American Cultures
SOCIOL 131AC	Race and Ethnic Relations: U.S. American Cultures
SOCIOL 137AC	Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment
SOCIOL 145AC	Social Change: American Cultures
SOCIOL 146AC	Contemporary Immigration in Global Perspective
SOCIOL 190AC	Seminar and Research in Sociology: American Cultures
SOCIOL 3AC	Principles of Sociology: American Cultures
THEATER 117AC	Staging Race in California
THEATER 118AC	Performance, Television, and Social Media
THEATER 25AC	The Drama of American Cultures: An Introduction to Our Theater
THEATER 52AC	Dance in American Cultures
UGBA 156AC	Diversity in the Workplace
UGBA 192AC	Social Movements and Social Media
UGBA 39AC	Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
UGIS C135	Visual Autobiography
VIS STD C185A	Visual Autobiography