American Studies

Major, Minor

PROGRAM: AMERICAN STUDIES

This interdisciplinary field draws on courses from 12 departments, giving a broad perspective of the history, art, politics, religion, popular culture, literature and other features of American life.

This highly individualized program tailors course work to personal interests and needs. Students develop a thematic core around which to build an innovative course of study. Themes may be centered on a specific era (e.g., antebellum America or the United States since the Cold War) or a topic (e.g., the emergence of mass culture or issues of ethnicity and race in American life).