Minor Requirements

The American Studies Department also offers a minor in American Studies. The minor is especially beneficial if you are majoring in the humanities/arts and social sciences, where a strong background in American society and culture can effectively complement your major course of study. The minor consists of 18 credits. Minors are required to take all the core courses except for the senior research seminar (AMST 100, 290, 391, 392), and two additional American Studies topic courses, at least one at the upper level.

Emphasis Areas

The department offers five options for the emphasis areas:

1. Communications, Media, and the Arts
2. Community and Diversity
3. Culture and Policy
4. Pre-Professional Emphasis:
   1. Early Childhood Education
   2. Elementary Education
   3. Secondary Education/Social Studies
   4. Social Work
5. American Studies or Related Field

Communications, Media, and the Arts

(Includes courses in Popular Culture, Art, Material Culture, Public Culture)

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

• AMST 100 Ideas and Images in American Culture
• AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
• AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
• AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
• AMST 490 Senior Seminar
• and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits, at least 12 at the 300-400 level).

Three courses must be selected from the following emphasis course list:

• AMST 220 Studies in Popular Culture
• AMST 230 Arts in America
• AMST 320 Television in American Culture
• AMST 322 American Society and Culture in Film
• AMST 365 Art and Politics
• AMST 420 Seminar in Mass Media

For the remainder of the emphasis requirement, select three additional courses from the preceding list or following lists of related courses in AMST or other departments; other courses may be approved by your advisor, as appropriate. No more than 3 performance or technique courses may be counted toward the major.

Related AMST courses:

• AMST 200 Multicultural America
• AMST 260 American Folklife
• AMST 310 Gender and Inequality in America
• AMST 329 Special Topics in Media and Arts
• AMST 344 Made in America
• AMST 360 Gender and Folk Tradition
• AMST 372 American Food
• AMST 446 Special Topics in American Culture and Film

Recommended courses in other departments for Communications, Media, and the Arts emphasis.

• AFST 205 Contemporary Black Popular Culture
• AFST 241 The Making of the Carribean
• AFST 245 Introduction to Black Music
• AFST 260 Black Literature to 1900
• AFST 261 Black Literature: 20th Century
• AFST 263 Intro. to Black Drama
• AFST 344 Black Folklore
• AFST 345 Black American Music
• AFST 347 Women and the Media
• AFST 361 Studies in Black Drama
• AFST 362 Studies in Black Poetry
• AFST 363 Literature, Society, and Blacks
• AFST 368 African Religions in Africa and the Diaspora
• AFST 415 Music, Arts, and Society in West Africa
• AFST 445 Black Music in the New World
• ANTH 211 Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 212 The Ethnographic World
• ANTH 311 Urban Anthropology
• ANTH 316 Anthropology of Religion
• ANTH 325 Latin America
• ANTH 326 American Indian Cultures
• ANTH 400 Anthropological Theory
• ANTH 415 Anthorpology and the Historical Imagination
• ANTH 416 Cyberspace, Culture, and Society
• ARCH 340 Cities of the Past
• ARCH 360 Rise of Civilization
• ART 220 Art History I
• ART 221 Art History II
• ART 224 History of Film I
• ART 225 History of Film II
• ART 321 19th Century Art
• ART 323 20th Century Art
• ART 326 History of Photo I
• ART 327 History of Photo II
• ART 342 Intro. to Film Theory
• ART 343 History of Animation
• ART 423 Art Since 1945 and the Ideology of the Star System
• ART 424 Contemporary Art: Theory and Criticism
• ART 426 Imagery as Language
• ART 428 Theory and Practice of the Art Museum
• ART 443 Experimental Film
• ART 454 Photographic Criticism
• EDUC 395 TV Production I
• EDUC 396 TV Production II
• EDUC 397 TV Direction I
• EDUC 398 TV Direction II
• ENGL 200 Language and Scientific Value
• ENGL 202 Language and Aesthetic Value
• ENGL 243 Currents in American Literature
• ENGL 260 Black Literature to 1900
• ENGL 261 Black Literature: 20th Century
• ENGL 270 Creative Writing
• ENGL 307-8 American Literature
• ENGL 312 Topics in Fiction
• ENGL 314 Topics in Drama
• ENGL 316 Literature and the Other Arts
• ENGL 317 Literature and the Sciences
• ENGL 318 Myth and Literature
• ENGL 322 Contemporary American Lit.
• ENGL 343 Folklore
• ENGL 347 Contemporary Developments in Literature and Culture
• ENGL 348 Literature and Culture
• ENGL 366 World Literature Written in English
• ENGL 369 Race Relations in American Literature
• ENGL 380 News Writing
• ENGL 382 Feature Writing
• ENGL 383 Science Writing
• ENGL 395 Writing Internship
• ENGL 416 Seminar on Literature and Culture
• ENGL 480 Advanced Journalism
• GEOG 320 Cultural Geography
• GEOG 327 Cultural Ecology
• GERM 321 Studies in German Popular Culture
• HIST 358 Art and Society in the Renaissance
• HIST 371 History and Film
• HIST 381 From Samauraia to "Salariman": Japanese History through Film and Literature
• HIST 416 Seminar on Literature and Culture
• IFSM 304 Uses of Information in Democratic Society
• LING 330 Language in Context
• MLL 190 World of Language I
• MLL 191 World of Language II
• MLL 211 Postwar West European Cinema
• MLL 212 East European Cinema
• MLL 214 New German Cinema
• MLL 215 French Film Classics
• MLL 216 Classics in German Cinema
• MLL 217 Classics in Russian Film
• MLL 218 Latin American Film
• MLL 219 Contemporary French Cinema
• MLL 222 Classics of Japanese Cinema
• MLL 230 World Language Communities
• MLL 234 Culture and Values Through Art I
• MLL 235 Culture and Values Through Art II
• MLL 245 Hispanic Societies and the Creative Arts
• MLL 261 German Ethnic and Cultural Identity
• MLL 301 Textual Analysis
• MLL 310 Studies in International Film
• MLL 320 Women and Film
• MLL 321 Jewish Writing in World Literature
• MLL 325 Ethnic Minorities
• MLL 326 Literature and Social Change
• MLL 425 Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication
• MUSC 214 History of Jazz
• MUSC 217 Rock: 1950-Present
• MUSC 230 Musics of the World
• MUSC 255 Music History
• MUSC 322 History of American Music
• MUSC 337 American Popular Song
• MUSC 338 Survey of Jazz
• MUSC 364 Psychology of Music
• MUSC 430 Musics of the World
• MUSC 460+ (Students may choose any of the Music, Art, and Society courses listed from MUSC 460 to MUSC 484, inclusive.)
• PHIL 260 Philosophy of Art
• PHIL 390 Philosophy of Sport
• RLST 230 Introduction to Comparative Religion
• SOCY 321 Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOCY 349 The Sociology of Religion
• SOCY 355 The Sociology of Women
• SOCY 357 The Sociology of the Life Cycle
• THTR 200 Great Performers
• THTR 204 The American Musical
• THTR 210 History of Theatre I
• THTR 211 History of Theatre II
• THTR 270 Theatre into Film
• THTR 320 Script Analysis I
• THTR 349 Women and Theatre
• THTR 364 American Theatre
• THTR 365 Modern American Theatre
• Production courses as appropriate
• VPA 225 Ideas in the Arts
• VPA 320 Art and the Artist
• VPA 322 Ideas of Performance
• VPA 325 Contemporary Art in Process
• VPA 400 Performance in Culture
• Production courses as appropriate
• WMST 320 International Women Directors
• WMST 322 Women and the Media
• WMST 349 Women and the Theatre
• WMST 364 Perspectives on Women in Literature

Community and Diversity

(Includes courses in Multicultural Studies, Women's Studies, Community and Urban Studies, Regional and Environmental Issues, Foodways, and Folklife)

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits, at least 12 at the 300-400 level).

Three courses must be selected from the following emphasis course list:

AMST 200 Multicultural America
AMST 260 American Folklife
AMST 310 Gender and Inequality in America
AMST 372 American Food
AMST 380 Community in America
AMST 410 Seminar in Community and Diversity

For the remainder of the emphasis requirement, select three additional courses from the preceding list or following lists of related courses in AMST or other departments; other courses may be approved by your advisor, as appropriate. Note: *This emphasis area may be completed in conjunction with a Women's Studies minor or certificate program.

Related AMST courses

AMST 210 Lesbian and Gay Studies
AMST 303 Ethnography in America
AMST 344 Made in America
AMST 352 American Culture in Global Perspective
AMST 356 Special Topics in Community and Diversity
AMST 359 Issues in American Studies
AMST 360 Gender and Folk Tradition
AMST 382 Persectives on the Family
AMST 384 Perspectives on Childhood
AMST 386 Studies in Baltimore Society and Culture
AMST 388 American Environments
AMST 414 The New Woman
AMST 480 Research Seminar on Community

Recommended courses in other departments for Community and Diversity emphasis:

AFST 100 Introduction to the Black Experience
AFST 206 Afro-American History
AFST 271 Introduction to Community Involvement
AFST 352 African-American History to 1865
AFST 353 African-American History since 1865
AFST 369 Black Families in the U.S.
AFST 372 Economic Activity in the Black Community
AFST 375 The Black Church
AFST 377 Black Community Development
AFST 381 Urban Housing Policy
AFST 385 Problem Solving in the Urban Black Community
AFST 390 American Health Care System and the Black Community
AFST 420 Comparative Slavery: Africa and the New World

ANTH 211 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 304 Kin, Community, and Ethnicity
ANTH 311 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 316 Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 326 American Indian Cultures
ANTH 429 Aging in Cultural Context

ECON 433 Urban Economics
ECON 465 Economics of Discrimination

ENGL 260 Black Literature to 1900
ENGL 261 Black Literature: Twentieth Century
ENGL 360 Literature of Minorities
ENGL 369 Race Relations in American Literature
ENGL 460 Advanced Topics in Minority Literature
ENGL 461 Seminar in Minority Lit.

GEOG 338 Regional Planning
GEOG 341 Urban Geography
GEOG 342 Metropolitan Baltimore

HIST 301 American City
HIST 302 History of Maryland
HIST 304 The U.S. and the Vietnam War
HIST 305 American Rural History
HIST 315 Ethnic Groups in America
HIST 330 U.S. and Latin America: Twentieth Century Foreign Policy
HIST 346 America during the 1960s
HIST 370 History of the Jews in the U.S.
HIST 410 U.S. Labor History
HIST 429 History of Baltimore
HIST 433 Comparative History of New York and London
HIST 447 History of Civil Rights Since the Civil War

JDST 270 History of the Jews in the U.S.

MLL 230 World Language Communities
MLL 325 Ethnic Minorities
MLL 425 Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication

POLI 170 Politics, Culture, and Human Diversity
POLI 240 State and Local Politics
POLI 360 Comparative Political Analysis
POLI 412 Ethics and Public Policy
POLI 432 Civil Rights
POLI 440 Urban Politics
POLI 446 Politics of Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
POLI 464 Comparative Political Econ.

PSYC 340 Social Psychology
PSYC 387 Community Psychology

RLST 315 Religious Influences in American Life
RLST 316 Anthropology of Religion
RLST 349 Sociology of Religion

SOCY 201 Social Problems in American Society
SOCY 210 Class and Inequality in the U.S.
SOCY 220 Urban Sociology
SOCY 320 Urban Community Organization and Change
SOCY 321 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCY 335 Sociology of Violence
SOCY 349 Sociology of Religion
SOCY 353 Marriage and the Family
SOCY 358 Contemporary Problems of Aging in American Society
SOCY 430 Sociology of Aging

WMST 100 Introduction to Women's Studies
WMST 210 Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies
WMST 250 Gender Roles in Economic Life
WMST 290 Issues in Women's Studies
WMST 311 Women and Work
WMST 320 International Women's Directors
WMST 322 Women and the Media
WMST 325 History of Women in America to 1870
WMST 326 History of Women in America Since 1870
WMST 327 African-American Women's History
WMST 328 Women and Politics
WMST 332 Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspective
WMST 338 Women and the Law
WMST 349 Women and Theatre
WMST 355 The Sociology of Women
WMST 357 Psychology of Women
WMST 364 Perspectives on Women in Literature
WMST 370 Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
WMST 371 The Female Offender
WMST 377 Women and Social Policy
WMST 391 Philosophy of Sex
WMST 465 Economics of Discrimination
WMST 480 Theories of Feminism

Culture and Policy

(Includes courses in Environmental Studies, Public Culture, Science and Technology, Art and Politics)

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits, at least 12 at the 300-400 level).

Three courses must be selected from the following emphasis course list:

AMST 270 American Culture and Science
AMST 352 American Culture in Global Perspective
AMST 372 American Food
AMST 374 Perspectives on the Future
AMST 388 American Environments
AMST 430 Seminar in Cultural Policy

For the remainder of the emphasis requirement, select three additional courses from the preceding list or following lists of related courses in AMST or other departments; other courses may be approved by your advisor, as appropriate.

Related AMST courses:

AMST 200 Multicultural America
AMST 230 Arts in America
AMST 310 Gender and Inequality in America
AMST 320 Television in American Culture
AMST 344 Made in America
AMST 355 Special Topics in Cultural Policy
AMST 372 American Food
AMST 384 Perspectives on Childhood
AMST 380 Community
AMST 386 Studies in Baltimore Society and Culture
AMST 480 Research Seminar on Community

Recommended courses in other departments:

AFST 213 Africa: Culture and Development
AFST 241 The Making of the Carribbean
AFST 347 Women and the Media
AFST 369 Black Families in the United States
AFST 370 Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
AFST 375 The Black Church
AFST 381 Urban Housing Policy
AFST 385 Problem Solving in the Urban Black Community
AFST 390 American Health Care System and the Black Community
AFST 473 The Black Senior Citizen

ANTH 212 The Ethnographer's World
ANTH 303 Anthropological Research Methods
ANTH 304 Kin, Community, and Ethnicity
ANTH 311 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 312 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 313 Applied Anthropology
ANTH 415 Anthropology and the Historical Imagination
ANTH 416 Cyberspace, Culture, and Society
ANTH 419 Qualitative Methods in Social Research

ART 423 Art Since 1945 and the Ideology of the Star System
ART 424 Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism
ART 425 Writing by and ?About Artists
ART 428 Theory and Practice of the Art Museum

BIOL 397 Ethics and Integrity in Scientific Research

CHEM 397 Ethics and Integrity in Scientific Research

CPLT 446 Literature and Interdisciplinary Study
CPLT 480 Studies in Comparative Literature

ECAD 210 Practice of Management
ECAD 310 Human Resource Management
ECAD 385 Law, Business Ethics, and Society

ECON 250 Gender Roles in Economic Life
ECON 280 The International Economy
ECON 352 Industrial Relations
ECON 405 Benefit-Cost Evaluation
ECON 414 Public Policy Toward Business
ECON 416 Economics of Law
ECON 433 Urban Economics
ECON 434 Regional Economics
ECON 439 Environmental Economics
ECON 451 Labor Economics
ECON 453 Household Economics
ECON 454 Economics of Education and Human Capital
ECON 465 Economics of Discrimination
ECON 465 Health Economics

EDUC 210 Psychological Foundations of Education
EDUC 220 Social Foundations of Education
EDUC 349 Issues, Practices, and Policies in Education
EDUC 450 Educational Ideas and Cultural Perspectives

EHS 345 Death and Dying

ENGL 200 Language and Scientific Value
ENGL 317 Literature and the Sciences
ENGL 332 Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 348 Literature and Culture
ENGL 360 Literature of Minorities
ENGL 364 Perspectives on Women in Literature
ENGL 369 Race Relations in American Literature
ENGL 418 Advanced topics in Literature and the Sciences
ENGL 447 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture

GEOG 302 Environmental Science and Regulatory Policy
GEOG 326 American Conservation Thought
GEOG 327 Cultural Ecology
GEOG 332 Natural Resources: Problems and Policies
GEOG 352 Geography of Crime and Justice

HIST 307 American Legal History
HIST 330 U.S. and Latin America: 20th Century Foreign Policy
HIST 369 Darwinism: the Evolutionary Perspective
HIST 371 History and Film
HIST 375/6 European Women's History
HIST 404 History of Computers and Computing
HIST 410 U.S. Labor History
HIST 412 American Business and Economic History
HIST 416 History of American Thought
HIST 445/6 History of Science
HIST 448 American Political History
HIST 450 Social History of American Medicine

IFSM 304 Uses of Information in a Democratic Society

MLL 326 Literature and Social Change

PHIL 355 Philosophy of Law and State
PHIL 358 Ethical Issues in Health

POLI 327 Interest Groups and Lobbying
POLI 328 Women and Politics
POLI 330 Public Law and Judicial Politics
POLI 338 Women and the Law
POLI 411 Environmental Ethics and Policy
POLI 412 Ethics and Public POlicy
POLI 467 Comparative Environmental Politics and Policies
POLI 481 International Environmental Politics and Policies

SOCY 333 Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SOCY 361 Science and Society
SOCY 380 Political Sociology
SOCY 406 Social Inequality and Public Policy
SOCY 415 Higher Education and Social Inequality
SOCY 416 Cyberspace, Culture, and Society
SOCY 433 Gender, Work, and Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective

4(a). Pre-Professional Emphasis: Early Childhood Education

(For Students seeking Early Childhood Education certification)

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits, at least 12 at the 300-400 level).

Three courses must be selected from the following emphasis course list:

AMST 200 Multicultural America
AMST 310 Gender and Inequality in America
AMST 380 Community in America
AMST 382 Perspectives on the Family
AMST 384 Perspectives on Childhood
AMST 452 Seminar in Education, Policy, and Culture

For the remainder of the emphasis requirement, select three additional courses from the preceding list or following lists of related courses in AMST or other departments; other courses may be approved by your advisor, as appropriate.

Related AMST courses

AMST 220 Studies in Popular Culture
AMST 230 Arts in America
AMST 270 American Culture and Science
AMST 303 Ethnography in America
AMST 320 Television in American Culture
AMST 344 Made in America
AMST 372 American Food
AMST 374 Things to Come: Perspectives on the Future
AMST 388 American Environments
AMST 450 Educational Ideas and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Recommended courses in other departments for Early Childhood Education emphasis:

AFST 206 Introduction to Afro-American History
AFST 345 Black American Music
AFST 350 Psychology of Racism
AFST 353 African American History Since 1865
AFST 369 Black Famliies in the U.S.
AFST 370 Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

ANTH 211 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 304 Kin, Community, and Ethnicity
ANTH 311 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 326 American Indian Cultures
ANTH 429 Aging in Cultural Context

ENGL 243 Currents in American Literature
ENGL 260 Black Literature to 1900
ENGL 261 Black Literature: 20th Century
ENGL 307 American Literature through the Civil War
ENGL 308 American Literature: 1870-1930
ENGL 348 Literature and Culture
ENGL 360 Literature of Minorities
ENGL 369 Race Relations in American Literature

GEOG 102 Human Geography
GEOG 110 Physical Geography

HIST 101 American History to 1877
HIST 102 American History, 1877 to Present
HIST 301 American City
HIST 302 History of Maryland
HIST 310 Women and Work
HIST 315 Ethnic Groups in America
HIST 316 Native American History from Contact to 1840
HIST 325 History of Women in America to 1870
HIST 326 History of Women in America Since 1870
HIST 346 American during the 1960s
HIST 403 The American Colonies
HIST 407 Founding of the American Nation, 1774-1815
HIST 421 The American Civil War
HIST 429 History of Baltimore
HIST 441 Origins of Modern America, 1877-1920
HIST 442 The United States, 1917-1945
HIST 443 The United States Since 1945

POLI 100 American Government and Politics
POLI 320 American Political Thought

SOCY 210 Class and Inequality
SOCY 321 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCY 345 Sociology of Education
SOCY 353 Marriage and the Family
SOCY 355 Sociology of Women
SOCY 360 Sociology of Work
SOCY 372 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCY 414 Evaluation of Educational Policy
SOCY 431 Family and Aging

WMST 311 Women and Work
WMST 328 Women and Politics
WMST 347 Women and the Media

4(b). Pre-Professional Emphasis: Elementary Education

(For students seeking certification for grades 1-8 with an emphasis in Social Studies)

I. The AMST Core (15 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
*one course from American Institutions, below, substitutes for requirement of one additional upper level course in the core.

II. The Emphasis (21 credits)

Social Studies:

History 101 (U.S. to 1877)
History 102 (U.S. from 1877 to present)
Geography 102

Non-U.S. History:

Ancient History or
Non-Western History

American Institutions (one course from each of the following categories; one course substitutes for the upper-level course requirement in the core):

Family/Childhood (AMST 382 or 384)
Multicultural Perspectives (AMST 200 or 352)
Community and Diversity (AMST 310 or 380)

4(c). Pre-Professional Emphasis: Secondary Education/Social Studies

(Recently revised to meet requirements for the National Council for Social Studies, the program has Maryland State Department of education approval, meaning that students don't have to receive special review of their curriculum for certification. Note that the approved program requries a total of 42 credits).

I. The AMST Core (15 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
*one course from American Institutions, below, substitutes for requirement of one additional upper level course in the core.

II. The Emphasis (27 credits)

Supplementary (cognate) Social Studies Courses

Geography 102
Political Science 100
Economics 101 or 102
History 101 (U.S. to 1877)
History 102 (U.S. from 1877 to present)

World Culture Courses

Ancient History
Non-Western History

Advanced Emphasis on American Institutions
(One course each from two of the following categories; one course substitutes for the
upper-level course requirement in the core)

Family (AMST 310 or 382)
Community (AMST 380 or 480)
Mass Media (AMST 220 or 320 or 420)

4(d). Pre-Professional Emphasis: Social Work

(For students seeking a double major with SOWK)

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits)

Two social work courses apply to the AMST major:

SOWK 360 Social Welfare, Social Policy, and Social Work II
SOWK 481 Social Work Methods II: A Generalist Approach to Practice

Three courses must be selected from the following emphasis course list:

AMST 200 Multicultural America
AMST 310 Gender and Inequality in U.S. Society
AMST 355 Special Topics in Cultural Policy
AMST 380 Community in America
AMST 382 Perspectives on the Family
AMST 384 Perspectives on Childhood
AMST 410 Seminar in Community and Diversity

The remaining course may be selected from the preceding list or from related courses in other departments, as approved by your advisor.

American Studies or Related Field

I. The AMST Core (18 credits)

AMST 100: Ideas and Images in American Culture
AMST 290 Approaches in American Studies (seminar)
AMST 391 Studies in American Culture (Fall)
AMST 392 Studies in American Society (Spring)
AMST 490 Senior Seminar
and one additional AMST course at the 300-400 level

II. The Emphasis (18 credits, at least 12 at the 300-400 level).

Student selects courses focusing on American culture from one of these fields:

American Studies
Africana Studies
American History
American Literature
Anthropology
Geography
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Visual and Performing Arts
Women's Studies