Bachelor degrees in American + United States Studies + Civilization: A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of the United States and its Pre-Columbian and colonial predecessors, and including the flow of immigrants from other societies.
The American Studies Program offers a major to students who desire an interdisciplinary preparation for careers that will demand a broad yet in-depth knowledge of American society, including an understanding of its economics, socio-cultural patterns, political traditions, and historical heritage, especially as it fits into today's global society. Students are prepared for an extensive range of careers such as law, journalism, public affairs, politics...
American Studies 11 and 12 are required of all majors. Students may also fulfill this requirement by taking American Studies 11 or American Studies 12 twice when the topic changes. In addition, all majors will take American Studies 68, the junior seminar, and, in the senior year, American Studies 77 and 78 in order to write an interdisciplinary essay on an aspect of American experience. Ideally, majors take these courses in order, but study abroad...
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 Students will complete this concentration with a better sense of how to read and interpret the meanings of historical documents, literary works, popular culture...
The American Studies Program brings together scholars pursuing the interdisciplinary study of American culture. Participating faculty come from several departments, including English, History, Art History, Psychology, and Communications.
American Heritages Recommended for students who are interested in the American heritage from literary and historical perspectives. Two tracks are available for students pursuing this major, a cultural track with emphasis in the literary perspective, and a social science track for students interested in historical and sociological perspectives.
The concentration in American Studies is an integrated interdisciplinary major that offers students the opportunity to study the society and culture of the United States in its national and global contexts. By drawing on a broad range of knowledge from the humanities and social sciences, the concentration provides students with a wide-ranging, yet disciplined exploration of problems that cross the boundaries of traditional academic fields and reflect...
American studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the culture, society, politics, institutions, identities, thoughts, values and behavior of Americans, in all their variety, and to the critical issues that confront the United States domestically and internationally.
Using materials central to the disciplines of American studies ” film, literature, popular and material culture, music, art and architecture, oral history, social and intellectual...
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