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Required Courses

The following courses are required for completion of the American Studies major.

American Civilization I, II, III and Prerequisites

AMST-203 American Civilization: 1607-1876

AMST-204 American Civilization: 1607-1876

AMST-205-01 American Civilization III: Documentary

AMST-205-02 American Civilization III

American Civilization IV

The following are recommended Civ IV courses. They may also be taken to fulfill the AMST Concentration requirements.

AMST-207-01 Re-Imagined Communities

HIST-383 What Is an American? Cultural Identity in the United States

Thesis Seminar in American Studies

American Studies are required to complete the two-semester Thesis Seminar in order to fulfill their core requirements.

AMST-304-01 Senior Seminar in American Studies

History Requirements

Majors are required to take two History survey courses. The following courses are recommended. Other courses may be substituted with the permission of the director.

HIST-180 United States History to 1865

HIST-181 The U.S. since the Civil War

Electives and Upper Level Courses

AMST-157 Civic Engagement & Education

AMST-206 American Civilization: 1876 to the Present

AMST-207-01 Re-Imagined Communities

AMST-301-01 Tutorial: American Studies

AMST-320-01 Gender/Media/Culture

AMST-353-01 Energy in America: From Black Gold to Green Power

AMST-361-01 American Gothic

AMST-378-01 20th Century American Trickster

AMST-379-01 Sports Personalities of the 20th Century

AMST-380-01 American Opinion Journalism: From Tom Paine to the Blogs

AMST-381 American Science Fiction and the Twentieth Century

AMST-382-01 Advertising and Social Change

AMST-388-01 Media & American Elections

Cross listed courses

CCTP-803-01 Media and Politics

ENGL-170-01 19C Am. Ghost Stories

ENGL-178-01 Progressive Era Literature

ENGL-204-01 American Modernisms

ENGL-209-10 New York Stories

ENGL-212-01 The Female Bildungsroman: Coming of Age in US Women's Literature

ENGL-217-01 20th C American Poetry

ENGL-218 Seminar: Transnational Modernisms

ENGL-250 Eliot's Wasteland

ENGL-293-01 Cult Politics of Migration

ENGL-301-01 Testimonial Fictions: Atrocity, Memory and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship US Latino Literature

ENGL-317-01 Young Adult Literature

ENGL-343-01 Revolution/Respect: Writing for a Cause

HIST-181 The U.S. since the Civil War

HIST-283 American Diplomatic History II

HIST-289 Women and the civil rights movement

HIST-291 The American West

HIST-296 Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST-382 Topics in US History: see description

HIST-384 Mark Twain's America

TPST-228 Performance and Activism

TPST-345 Race, Gender & Performance

WGST-224-01 Labor, Sexuality, Globalization

WGST-230-01 Athletics and Gender

WGST-251-01 Women and the Law

WGST-266-01 Women and American Politics

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