Background Course: ARTH 105 Art: The Historical Experience
ARTH 331 Visual Arts in the U.S.:1700-1910
ARTH 332 Visual Arts in the U.S.:1900-1950
ARTH 333 Visual Arts Since 1940
ARTH 335 Twentieth Century Women Artists of the Americas
Internship/Independent Study
Background course: ANTH 215/215G Sex, Gender and Culture
ANTH 544 Transgressive Sexuality
COMM 396/516 Gay and Lesbian Documentary
WGST 350 Lesbian and Gay cultures
LIT 354 Literature of AIDS
Internship/Independent Study
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...
Focus on the U.S. and/or Western Hemisphere. The American cultural matrix will be studied through a conscious application of interdisciplinary methods to an analysis of the interrelationships among historical, economic, political, artistic, literary, geographic and other factors which define the American experience. The goal will be both theoretical and practical understanding of American culture....
Core Requirements
The core requirements consist of 12 semester hours: AMS 301 Introduction to American Studies (L)
AMS 310 American Systems (L, C, H) and
AMS 311 American Systems (H) or
AMS 320 American Cultures (SB, H) and
AMS 321 American Cultures (SB, H)
AMS 330 Introduction to American Lives (H)
Focused Course Work
The core requirements consist of 21 semester hours:
Working with an American Studies faculty advisor, students will designate...
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 Students will complete this concentration with a better sense of how to read and interpret the meanings of historical documents, literary works, popular culture...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 offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of culture and society in the United States. Students take courses in a wide range of fields with the aim of learning how to study this complex subject in a sensitive and responsible way. In the introductory course, students develop the ability to analyze a broad spectrum of texts (novels, autobiographies, newspapers, photographs, films, songs, buildings, websites, etc.);...
The American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary major for students who want to study the society and culture(s) of the United States by focusing on a central subject, theme, or set of questions. In consultation with the program director, each student chooses an adviser to define a thematic concentration within the major.
A student can choose her concentration as in Gender and American Culture.
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