Required Credit Hours: 20

Core Requirements:

At least 13 of the required 20 credits must be in courses numbered 300 and above. Students must take at least 3 credit hours each from approved courses in requirements b), c), and d) of the American Studies major (an updated list of approved courses is available on the American Studies website and from the Director of Undergraduate Studies) in addition to meeting the following three core requirements:

a) One “Introduction to American Studies” Course

Select one “Introduction to American Studies” course.

• AMST 201 - American Popular Culture and Modern America (4)
• AMST 202 - Introduction to American Studies: Cinema and the Modernization of U.S. Culture, 1914-1945 (4)
• AMST 203 - Introduction to American Studies: American Medicine: A Social and Cultural History (4)
• AMST 204 - The American Way of War (4)
• AMST 205 - Sexuality In America (4)
• AMST 206 - Black Popular Culture in the Americas: From the Folk to the New Hip Hop (4)
• AMST 207 - Black Movement and Migrations (3)
• AMST 208 - Dis/Ability Studies (4)
• AMST 209 - Interracialism: Race, Literature and the Law (4)

b) Junior Seminar

• AMST 370 - Junior Seminar: America and the Americas (4)

c) At least 3 Credits of American Studies Topics Seminars

• AMST 470 - Topics in American Studies (1-4)