American Studies Concentration
American Studies classes emphasize interdisciplinary, multimedia, and multicultural approaches to learning about dynamic cultural and historical interactions in America. Students will complete this concentration with a better sense of how to read and interpret the meanings of historical documents, literary works, popular culture texts, and various forms of visual and material culture. American Studies concentrators are encouraged to develop multiple perspectives from which to look at the world of American history and culture, and to develop strategies that will allow them to analyze and contextualize a wide range of American events, texts, and issues.
Sponsored by: Arts and Humanities and History and Society Divisions
Faculty Contact: Marjorie Feld
Faculty contacts serve as advisers to those students who have an interest in the given concentration; you should feel free to contact these faculty members with questions.
Required Courses
Students must choose four (4) courses from the following distribution list. Note: Of these four (4) courses, students must take courses from at least two (2) disciplines.
- AMS 3615 Borderlands
- AMS 3672 Working in America: Labor in the 20th Century
- AMS 3673 American Music History (Inactive)
- AMS 3674 Immigrants and Popular Culture (Inactive)
- AMS 3675 9/11 Culture: American Expressions after the Fall
- AMS 4660 American Studies Seminar (Inactive)
- HIS 3671 Peoples and Cultures of the Americas (Inactive)
- HIS 3674 U.S. Women’s History
- LAW 3661 American Constitutional Law
- LAW 3672 Intolerance, Culture and the Law
- LIT 3676 The (Un)Natural Imagination: American Nature Writing and the Human Spirit
- POL 3677 The American Presidency
- POL 3673 Native American Politics
- SOC 3662 IQ and American Society (Inactive)