Committees
 
American Cultures Breadth Requirement

The following is a list of UC Berkeley courses approved for AC credit. Students who successfully complete one of these courses with a C- (P) or better will fulfill their American Cultures graduation requirement.

The instructors listed here are the current and previous instructors who have had their syllabi reviewed and endorsed by AmCult.

[Updated June 2008]

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

17AC  (Cross-listed with History 17A) VèVè Clark

25AC  (previously AfricAm 25) William Banks

27AC  Percy Hintzen • Tommy Lott

28AC  Stephen A. Small • Utz McKnight • Barnor Hesse

29AC  Margaret Wilkerson

119AC  (Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies 150AC) Stephen A. Small

136AC  Michel Laguerre

142B  Albert Johnson • Karen Jacobs • Robert Chrisman • Frank Wilderson • Mario Barrera • Christopher Knaus

142AC  Leigh Raiford

156AC  June Jordan • Junichi Semitsu

158A  June Jordan

158B  June Jordan • Junichi Semitsu

190AC  Charles Henry

 

AMERICAN STUDIES

10 Michael Cohen

10AC  Pedro Noguera • Christine Palmer • Hertha Sweet Wong

30AC  Roberta Park

101AC  Donald McQuade • David Henkin • Waldo Martin • Mark Brilliant

102AC  Carlos Camargo • Mary Ryan • Margaret Dubin • Christine Palmer

110AC  Carlos Camargo • Trane De Vore

114  (Cross-listed with ISF 115) Kathleen Moran

118AC  (Cross-listed with ISF 118AC & Mass Communications 118AC) Annalee Newitz • Steven Rubio

120  (Cross-listed with ISF 120) Carlos Camargo

139AC  (Cross-listed with History C139C) Mark Brilliant • Waldo Martin

C174  (Cross-listed with English C143V, Visual Studies C185A, and UGIS C135) Hertha Wong • Lewis Watts

C178B  (Cross-listed with Architecture C174B) Dell Upton

179AC Kathleen Moran • Michael Cohen • Leigh Raiford

 

ANTHROPOLOGY

XB3AC Gisele Bousquet

2AC  Kent Lightfoot • Meg Conky • Katherine Howlett Hayes • Andy Roddick

3AC  Gerald Berreman • Aihwa Ong • Kevin Karpiak • Sholey Shahrokhi

10AC  (Previously Anthro 10) William Simmons • Kent Lightfoot • C. Richard Hitchcock

XB10AC (UC Extension)

11AC  Stanley Brandes

12AC  Gerald Berreman • Robin Maria Delugan

121AC  Laurie Wilkie• Stacy Kozakavich

121B  (Only approved for AC credit prior to fall 1996) James Deetz

124AC  Patrick Kirch

153AC  John Ogbu

160AC  Charles Briggs

162AC  JoAnn Conrad and Charles Briggs

163AC  Alan Dundes

172  (Only approved for AC credit prior to spring 1997) Jack Potter

172AC  John Ogbu • Aihwa Ong • Philippe Bourgois • Robin Maria Delugan • Angela Davies • Nell Gabiam • Anke Schwittay

174AC  William Simmons • Kent Lightfoot • Stephen Silliman • Beverly Ortiz • Christine Palmer

 

ARCHITECTURE

110AC  Galen Cranz • Marie-Alice L’Heureux • Sam Davis• Rosa Lane

118AC  Renée Y. Chow

119  Sara Ishikawa

179AC  Jean McMann

C174B  (Cross-listed with American Studies C178B) Dell Upton

Visual Studies

182AC  Lewis Watts

185AC

C185A  (Cross-listed with UGIS C135, English C143V, American Studies C174) Lewis Watts • Susannah Hays • Hertha Sweet Wong

 

ART PRACTICE

23AC &
C23AC  Gregory Niemeyer • Charis Thompson

 

ART HISTORY

190AC  Sharon Corwin • Kevin Muller

192AC  Margaretta Lovell• Derek Murray

192G Kevin Muller

 

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

128AC Hatem Bazian

 

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (UGBA)

39AC  M. Frances Van Loo

 

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING

118AC  (Previously City & Regional Planning 118) Judith Innes • Arthur Blaustein • Rula Sadik • Robert Ogilvie • Mary Gail Snyder • Juan Onésimo Sandoval • Patrick McGovern • Elsie Harper-Anderson • Robert Smith• David Campt • Alex Schafran • Malo Andre Hutson • Lisa Feldstein

 

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

20  (Cross-listed with UGIS 20AC) Michael Lucey

31  Kenneth Weisinger • Sylvia Swift • George Handley • Will Crooke

34  Michael Lucey

36AC  Elizabeth Wheeler • Donna Jones • Barbara Mann

50  (Only approved for AC credit prior to 1995) Francine Masiello • Lisa Dresner • Anna Kazumi Stahl

51  (Cross-listed with Rhetoric 41AC) Elizabeth Maddock • Faith Barrett • Elizabeth Dillon

56  Kathleen Davis • Jeffrey Akeley

60AC  Despina Kakoudaki and Jasen Hensley • Jun Qian • Elizabeth • Richard Serrano • Susann Cokal • Lilya Kaganovsky • Lenore Kitts and Ute Rupp • Todd Hasak-Lowy • Afrodesia McCannon • Alexandra Hammond • Julie Anderson • Christina Civantos • Caroline Webber • Despina Kakoudaki • Lincoln Shlensky • Jennifer Greiman • Deirdre Flynn • John Ronan • Promita Chatterji • John Ronan • Ute Rupp • Promita Chatterji • Jennifer Greiman • Monica Heredia • Patricia Wareh • Jacqueline Fulmer • Josephine Park • Trinity Treat • Lael Gold • Jenny White • Anna Stenport • Jenny White • Jenny White • Anna Stenport • Michael Allen• Leticia Bermudez • Juan Cabellero • Luis Ramos • Alvin Henry • Michael Allan • Paul Haack

 

DEMOGRAPHY

145AC  (Cross-listed with History C139B) Eugene Hammel • Jon Gjerde • Carl Mason

 

DRAMATIC ART—see Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

 

EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE

170AC  (Previously EPS 106AC, Cross-listed with L&S 170AC) George Brimhall

 

EDUCATION

30AC 

40AC  (Previously Education 40) (Including Education N40AC) Geraldine Clifford • Pedro Noguera • Richard P. Mesa • Kitty Kelly Epstein and W. Fred Ellis • David Keiser • Elena Silva • Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade • Carmina Brittain • Anne Okahara • Jean Yonemura Wing • Hodari Toure • Erica Boas • Maris Thompson • Kenzo Ka-Fai Sung • Linn Posey

XB40AC  (UC Extension) Elena Silva • Anne Okahara • Jean Yonemura Wing

75AC  Derek van Rheenen

140AC  Glynda Hull • Lily Wong Fillmore • Korina Jocson • Mara Mahmood • Urvashi Sahni

180AC  Francisco Hernandez

186AC  (Cross-listed with Geography 159AC and Ethnic Studies 159AC) Harley Shaiken • Beatriz Manz

 

ENGINEERING

130AC Will Seng

 

ENGLISH

31AC  (Previously English 31) Hertha Wong • Alfred Arteaga • Abdul JanMohamed • Annalee Newitz • Louis Suárez-Potts • Elaine Greco • Elise Miller • Lauren Muller • Ron Loewinsohn• Marcial González • Elise Miller

XB31AC (UC Extension)

135AC  (Previously English 135) (English N135 in summer) Elizabeth Abel • David Lloyd • Robert Hass • Susan Schweik • Richard Hutson • Mitchell Breitwieser • Donald McQuade • William Nestrick • Susan Schweik • Charles Altieri • Hertha Wong • John Niles• Abdul JanMohamed • Ron Loewinsohn• Anne Cheng • Bharati Mukherjee • Carolyn Porter • Lynn Wardley • Stephen Best • Susan Schweik • Jessica Adams • Marsha Saxton

C143V  (Cross-listed with American Studies C174, Visual Studies C185A, and Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies C135) Hertha Wong

150AC (fall 1993 to spring 1995 only) Scott Saul

165AC  Dorri Beam

178  (fall 1993 to spring 1995 only)

178AC  John Niles

166AC  Anne Cheng • Colleen Lye • Kathleen Donegan

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

140AC  Jeff Romm

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, POLICY, AND MANAGEMENT

XB50AC  (UC Extension) Christopher Lever

50AC  (Previously ESPM 50, Previously Forest 18) Lynn Huntsinger • Sarah McCaffrey • Sally Fairfax • Mark Spencer • Robin Liffmann

102D  Jeff Romm

160AC &
C160  (Previously 160, Cross-listed with History C120), Carolyn Merchant • Sandra Marburg

XB160AC  (UC Extension) Sandra Marburg

163AC  (Cross-listed with SOC 128AC) Dara O’Rourke • Torri Estrada

 

ETHNIC STUDIES

10AC

11AC Nelson Maldonado-Torres

20AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 20, 1991-1997) Ling-chi Wang

21AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 21, 1991-1997) Alex Saragoza • Kerry Riley • Henry Gutierrez • Gloria Chun • Terry Wilson • Katja May • Beatriz Tapia • Jason Ferreira • Horacio Roque Ramírez • Victoria Robinson • María Villaseñor • Daphne Taylor-Garcia • Timothy Randazzo • Emad Rezvani • Joseph Morales • Timothy Randazzo and Kenzo Sung

XB21AC  (UC Extension) Michael Tuncap • Siri Brown

41AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 41) Carlos Muñoz, Jr. • Robert Allen • José Novoa • Jason Ferreira • Harvey Dong • Jason Cato

122AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 122) Mario Barrera • Maile Ornellas • Nerissa Balce-Cortes and Caroline Streeter • Teresa Osa Hidalgo de la Riva

124AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 124)  Terry Wilson • Patrick LeBeau • Jonathan Yorba • Nancy Ordover • Celine Salazar Parreñas

125AC  Timothy Taylor • Josh Kun

130AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 130, 1991-1997) (Ethnic Studies N130 in summer) Ronald Takaki • Terry Wilson • Helen Lara-Cea • Robert Allen • Herbert Green • David Leonard • Sara Kaplan • Michael Hurt • Kent Haldan • Jason Ferreira • Victoria Robinson • Victor Rios

133AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 133 fall 1992 to fall 1994) Jean Molesky-Poz

135AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 135 1991-1997) Jean Molesky-Poz • Eithne Luibheid • Alexandro Gradilla • Kent Haldan • Anthony Tiongson • Timothy Randazzo • Delberto Dario Ruiz • C. Jay Ou • Victor Rios • Sara Kaplan • Victoria Robinson, Contemporary US immigrations • Priya Kandaswamy • Bao Lo

141  (spring 1991 to fall 1993 only) Carlos Muñoz, Jr.

144AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 144, 1991-1997) (Ethnic Studies N144 in summer) Rory SnowArrow Fausett • Karen Biestman • Alexandra Witkin • Charlotte Cote • Toeutu Fa’aleava • Dylan Rodríguez • Priya Kandaswamy • Timothy Randazzo • Delberto Dario Ruiz • Kirstie Dorr, Racism and the law

145  (spring 1991 to spring 1997 only) Margarita Melville

150AC  (Previously Ethnic Studies 150) Terry Wilson • Cynthia Nakashima • Robert Allen • Stephen Small • Caroline Streeter • Jared Sexton • Karina Cespedes • Mercy Romero • Siri Brown

159AC  (Cross-listed with Geography 159AC and Education 159AC) (Previously Ethnic Studies 159/Geog 159)Beatriz Manz • Harley Shaiken

190AC  Gloria Chun • Sau-ling Wong • Hatem Bazian

Asian American Studies

190AC  Hatem Bazian

Native American Studies

178AC  Tiya Miles • Robert Collins

 

FILM STUDIES

40AC  Eric Smoodin

 

GEOGRAPHY

50AC  Richard Walker • Gray Brechin • Julie Guthman

70AC  Michael Johns • Victoria Randlett • Robert Acker

150AC  Richard Walker

159  (Spring 1995 to spring 1997 only)

159AC  (Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies 159AC and Education 186AC) Beatriz Manz • Harley Shaiken

 

GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES (formerly WOMEN’S STUDIES)

C23AC  (Fall 2004 to summer 2005 only, Cross-listed with Art C23AC) Gregory Niemeyer and Charis Thompson

50AC  Usha Welaratna • Eric Smoodin • Elaine Greco • Catherine Macklin • Jasbir Puar • Gillian Harkins • Amy Hudock • Jillian Sandell• Lisa Hall • Jillian Sandell • Jacqueline Fulmer • Jillian Sandell • Ralina Joseph • Nitasha Sharma • Aparajita Nanda • Ayse Agis • Clare Fischer • Zakkiyah Jackson • Irum Shiekh • Barbara Barnes

XB50AC  (UC Extension) Jillian Sandell • Jacqueline Fulmer

100AC  Gwen Kirkpatrick • Sarah Herbold • Deborah Cohler • Eric Smoodin • Karina Cespedes • Maura Daly • Susan A. George • Ayse Agis

133AC  Melinda Chen

LGBT

20AC  Don Romesburg

 

HISTORY

7A  Robin Einhorn • Jon Gjerde • Paula Fass

7B  Leon Litwack • Andrew Heinze • Gerd Horten • Jessica Weiss • Steven Leiken • Eyal Naveh • Lisa Rubens • Jill Schlessinger • Jonathan Spiro • Charles Postel • Carlos Mujal• Jennifer Spear • Jennifer Burns • Christopher Agee • Samantha Francois • Kathleen Frydl

XB7B  (UC Extension) Kevin Adams • Samantha H. Gervase

16AC  (Previously History 16) Diane Clemens • Richard Allen • Steve Leiken

XB16AC (UC Extension)

17A  (Fall 1993 to fall 1997 only, Cross-listed with African American Studies 17AC) Lawrence Levine

39W  (Effective fall 2001) David Hollinger

100AC  Alexandra Weathers Smith • Robin Einhorn and David Henkin • Justin Suran

C120  (Cross-listed with ESPM C160)  Carolyn Merchant

121A  (As of fall 2004) Jennifer Spear

122AC  David Henkin • Jonathan Spiro

124A  (As of fall 2004)  Richard Candida Smith

124B  Kathleen Frydl

126A  Gunther Barth

126B  Gunther Barth • Kerwin Klein

127AC  (Previously History 127) James Gregory • Mark Eifler • Sherry Katz • Nancy Quam-Wickham • Kerwin Klein • David Igler • Martin Meeker

128AC  Mary Ryan

131B  (As of fall 2005) Nancy Quam-Wickham • Steve Leiken

134B  (As of summer 2004) Robin Einhorn • Sandra Weathers Smith

134AC

136AC Ruth Rosen

137AC  (Previously History 137) Jon Gjerde • Kevin Adams

139A  (As of spring 2002) Alexandra Weathers Smith • Karen Sawislak

C139B  (Cross-listed with  Demography 145AC) Jon Gjerde • Eugene Hammel

139C  Waldo Martin

C139C  (Cross-listed with American Studies 139AC) Mark Brilliant • Waldo Martin

 

HUMAN BIODYNAMICS

30  (Cross-listed with American Studies 30) Roberta Park

 

INFORMATION (formerly INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS)

142AC  (Previously 142) Michael Buckland

182AC  (Previously 182) Mary Kay Duggan

 

INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

35AC  Leslea Hlusko

 

INTERDEPARTMENTAL STUDIES

100AC  Larry Lagerstrom • Frederic Quivik • Christopher Ritter • Karen Wieckert

156AC  Liza Knapp

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES FIELD MAJOR

115  (Effective spring 1996, Cross-listed with American Studies 114) Kathleen Moran

118AC  (Cross-listed with American Studies 118AC and Mass Communications 118AC) Annalee Newitz • Steven Rubio

120  (Cross-listed with American Studies 120) Carlos Camargo

137AC  (Previously ISF 137) (Cross-listed with Theater 137AC) Carla Blank

 

JOURNALISM

39AC  Thomas Leonard

 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

131AC  Randolph Hester

141AC  (Previously 141) Walter Hood

 

LEGAL STUDIES

19AC  Jonathan Simon

 

LETTERS AND SCIENCE

40AC  Alex Saragoza

119AC  T.N. Narasimhan

170AC  (Cross-listed with EPS 170AC) George Brimhall

 

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES—see  INFORMATION

 

LINGUISTICS

55AC  (Previously Linguistics 55) Leanne Hinton • Robin Lakoff • Laurel Sutton • Mary Bucholtz • Pamela Morgan • John McWhorter • Jocelyn Ahlers • Anna Berge • Kevin Moore • Laura Buszard-Welcher • Rosemary Beam de Azcona • Rose Wilkerson

155AC  (Previously Linguistics 155) Richard Rhodes • Wesley Y. Leonard

 

MASS COMMUNICATIONS

118AC  (Cross-listed with American Studies 118AC and Interdisciplinary Studies 118AC) Annalee Newitz • Steven Rubio

 

MUSIC

26AC  (Previously Music 26) Bonnie Wade • Maria Johnson • Alan Mason • Mark DeWitt • Shannon Dudley • Benjamin Brinner • David Roche • Rajna Klaser • Steve Pond • Henry Spiller • Jocelyne Guilbault • Stephen Lessard • Francesca Rivera and Carla Brunet • Lisa Gold • Timothy Fuson • Gregory Bloch • John-Carlos Perea • Rebecca Bodenheimer • Shalini Ayyagari

 

PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

125AC  Jerry Sanders

128AC  Rita Maran • Charles Henry

154AC  Edith Ng

 

PHILOSOPHY

113AC  Hannah Ginsborg

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE

1AC  Taeku Lee

33AC  (Previously Political Science 33) Michael Rogin

18AC  Gaston Alonso-Donate  • Donnett Flash

60AC  Wendy Brown

111AC  (Previously Political Science 111) Aaron Wildavsky • Michael Sukhov

118AC  (Previously Political Science 118) D. Paul Thomas • Dennis Galvan • Nadesan Permaul • Keally McBride • Gaston Alonso-Donate • Alyson Cole • Felicia Wong • Christine Trost • John Brady • Edward King • Jill Hargis • Alison Kaufman • Lon Troyer • Ivan Ascher

167AC  Taeku Lee

 

PSYCHOLOGY

125AC  Susan Ervin-Tripp

132AC  Rhona Weinstein • Clark McKown • Jennifer Treuting

135AC  Enrico Jones

166AC  Kaiping Peng

167AC  Rodolpho Mendoza-Denton

 

PUBLIC HEALTH

130AC  (Previously Public Health 130) Meredith Minkler • Juliet Rothman

131AC  Bernard Griego

 

PUBLIC POLICY

117AC  David Kirp • Jane Mauldon and Michael Treviño

180  (As of fall 1993) David Kirp

189  (As of spring 1993) Phyllis Green

 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

171AC  Jon Stone • Luís León

172AC  Jon Stone • Luís León

 

RHETORIC

40AC  Susan Courtney • Mark Feldman

41AC  Sarah Pelmas • Pamela Lougheed • David Kazanjian • Sarah Pelmas • Pamela Lougheed • Jennifer Gurley • James Salazar • Jacqueline Fulmer • Mark Feldman • Mark Pedretti • James Rogers

42AC  Gregory Niemeyer and Charis Thompson

129AC (Previously Rhetoric 139AC)

139AC  (fall 1998 to summer 2010 only) Michael Mascuch • James Martel

141AC  Frederick Dolan • Forrest Hartman

152AC  Nadesan Permaul

162AC  Marianne Constable

163  (As of fall 1993) David Cohen

180AC  David Stern • Stephen Hartnett

 

SCANDINAVIAN

190AC  Linda Rugg • Arne Lunde

 

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

149AC  (Previously Slavic 149 —only valid for AC as of spring 1994) Anne Nesbet

 

SOCIAL WELFARE

20AC  Henry Miller

105AC  Andrew Scharlach

150AC  Kurt Organista

174AC  Wendy Walker-Moffat • Evaon Wong-Kim

175AC  (Previously Social Welfare 175) Valerie Edwards

 

SOCIOLOGY

3AC  Bob Blauner • Christopher Rhomberg • Troy Duster • Eric Brown • Brian Powers • Deborah Gerson • Leslie Bell • Christopher Davidson • Mary Kelsey • D. Mark Wilson • Sandra Smith

XB3AC  (UC Extension) David Nasatir • Leslie Bell • Christopher Davidson • James Stockinger

124AC  Martin Sanchez-Jankowski

125AC  Claude Fischer

128AC  (Cross-listed with ESPM 163AC) Dara O’Rourke

127  (Fall 1991 to spring 2003 only) Russell Thornton

131AC  Andrew Barlow • Mary Kelsey • Sandra Smith

132AC  Bob Blauner • Nadesan Permaul

137AC (Previously Scoiology 128AC, cross-listed with ESPM 163AC)

144AC  Martin Sanchez-Jankowski

170AC  Andrew Barlow

190AC  Irene Bloemraad

 

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Spanish

135AC  Gwen Kirkpatrick • Myrna García-Calderón • Adam Lifshey

137AC  (Cross-listed with Portuguese 137AC) Candace Slater

165AC  (Previously Spanish 165)  Jerry Craddock • Juan Sempere

Portuguese

137AC  (Cross-listed with Spanish 137AC) Candace Slater

 

THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES (formerly DRAMATIC ART)

25AC  Dunbar Ogden • Irma Mayorga • Stephen Wilmer • Tate Davis • Brandi Catanese

52AC  Jenefer Johnson

137AC  (Cross-listed with ISF 137AC) Carla Blank

152AC  (Dramatic Art 152AC was offered from fall 1993 – fall 1996 only) Jenefer Johnson

 

UNDERGRADUATE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

20AC  (Previously UGIS 20—only valid for AC as of spring 1995) Michael Lucey • Katie Gilmartin • Carolyn Dinshaw • Christopher Nealon • Martin Meeker • Ute Rupp • Dawne Moon

56AC  Alex Saragoza

C135  (Cross-listed with Visual Studies C185A, English C143V, and American Studies C174) Lewis Watts • Susannah Hays • Hertha Sweet Wong

 

WOMEN’S STUDIES – see GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES

 

END OF LIST