Requirements

All students minoring in American Studies must take AMST 300 Perspectives in American Studies (3 hours) and 12 hours of designated courses divided into two fields (arts and humanities in one, social sciences in the other) for a total of 15 hours.  Course offerings include:

1.  Core Course

AMST 300 Perspectives in American Studies

2.  Arts and Humanities (at least one course)

ARTH 325 American Art before 1865
ARTH 326 American Art after 1865
ENGL 340 American Drama
ENGL 342U Southern Literature
ENGL 345 American Literature to 1860
ENGL 346 American Literature from 1860
ENGL 465U African American Literature
FLET 473 Contemporary Latina Literature
MUSC 460U History of Jazz

3.  Social Sciences (at least one course)

COMM 434 African American Rhetoric
COMM 479 American Film History
GEOG 350U Geography of the U.S. & Canada
HIST 357 America in the 1960s
HIST 363 Women in U.S. History
HIST 365 Native American History
HIST 445U History of Early American Thought
HIST 446U History of Modern American Thought
POLS 312 American Political Thought
POLS 415U Women and Politics in America
SOC 320U Social Inequality
SOC 340U Sociology of Women
WMST 302U All American Women

Students may, with the approval of the American Studies coordinator, substitute other courses than those listed.