Sponsored by: and Divisions
Faculty Contact: Marjorie Feld
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Courses in this category have as their primary focus an innovative methodology, rather than a particular knowledge-base. 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 Students will complete this concentration with a better sense of how to read and interpret the meanings of historical documents, literary works, popular culture texts, and various forms of visual and material culture.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.
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) different disciplines.
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)
