American Studies, BA

A. The following American Studies Foundation Courses (12 credits)

• AMST 20100 - Interpreting America (Variable Topic Course)
• AMST 30100 - Perspectives On America (Variable Topic/Title Course) May be repeated ONCE either in place of AMST 49000  or to help fulfill Requirement B
• AMST 49000 - Senior Capstone In American Studies The capstone requirement may also be fulfilled through an additional AMST 30100  plus one additional course from the courses listed below in Requirement B

B. Eighteen additional hours selected from the courses listed below (18 credits)

Nine of the eighteen hours MUST constitute an area of concentration designed in consultation with and approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies. The Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies may approve courses not listed below to be counted for the major’s Area of Concentration if the student proposes a compelling and rigorous plan of study.

No more than three CLA Core Curriculum courses may be used toward requirement B unless approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies.

All 50000 level and variable title/credit courses require the permission of the faculty offering the course and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies before they can be applied to the American Studies Major.

At least twelve (12) credit hours MUST be at the 30000 level or above: (see list below)

Fall 1st Year

• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition

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• Western Heritage - Credit Hours: 3.00
• SLC 10100 - Credit Hours: 3.00 
• MATH - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Racial & Ethnic Diversity - Credit Hours: 3.00

Spring 1st Year

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication
• STAT - Credit Hours: 3.00
• SLC 10200 - Credit Hours: 3.00 
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Fall 2nd Year

• AMST 20100 - Interpreting America ♦
• Individual & Society - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Aesth. Awareness - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Natural Science - Credit Hours: 3.00
• SLC 20100 - Credit Hours: 3.00

Spring 2nd Year

• AMST 30100 - Perspectives On America ♦
• US Traditions - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Other Cultures - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Natural Science Lab - Credit Hours: 3.00
• SLC 20200 - Credit Hours: 3.00

Fall 3rd Year

• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Gender Issues - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Global Perspective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Spring 3rd Year

• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Social Ethics - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Fall 4th Year

• AMST 49000 - Senior Capstone In American Studies ♦
• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Spring 4th Year

• REQ B - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Art and Design

• AD 33400 - New Media Culture
• AD 38200 - 19th Century Art: A Global Perspective
• AD 38400 - Contemporary Art
• AD 39500 - History Of Design

African American Studies

• AAS 47300 - Blacks In Hollywood Film #

Anthropology

• ANTH 34000 - Global Perspectives On Health
• ANTH 34100 - Culture And Personality
• ANTH 35200 - Drugs, Culture, And Society
• ANTH 36800 - Sociolinguistic Study Of African American English
• ANTH 37300 - Anthropology Of Religion
• ANTH 37900 - Native American Cultures *
• ANTH 50500 - Culture And Society

Communication

• COM 32900 - History Of The Mass Media

Economics

• ECON 37500 - United States Economic History
• ECON 45600 - Urban Economics

Education: Curriculum and Instruction & Educational Studies

• EDST 20010 - Educational Policies And Laws and
• EDPS 32700 - Assessment Literacy

English

• ENGL 25000 - Great American Books *
• ENGL 35000 - Survey Of American Literature From Its Beginnings To 1865 *
• ENGL 35100 - Survey Of American Literature From 1865 To The Post-World War II Period *
• ENGL 35200 - Native American Literature
• ENGL 35400 - Asian American Literature
• ENGL 35800 - Black Drama *
• ENGL 35900 - Black Women Writers
• ENGL 37000 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• ENGL 37100 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
• ENGL 38200 - The American Novel *
• ENGL 38600 - History Of Film To 1938
• ENGL 38700 - History Of The Film From 1938 To The Present
• ENGL 39600 - Studies In Literature And Language #
• ENGL 41100 - Studies In Major Authors #
• ENGL 41200 - Studies In Genre #
• ENGL 41300 - Studies In Literature And History #
• ENGL 41400 - Studies In Literature And Culture #
• ENGL 46000 - Studies In Women’s Literature #
• ENGL 55200 - Studies In Major American Authors #
• ENGL 55300 - Colonial And Early American Literature
• ENGL 55400 - American Literary Culture 1820-1860
• ENGL 55700 - Nineteenth-Century African-American Narrative
• ENGL 55800 - American Literature In The Later Nineteenth Century
• ENGL 57800 - Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction
• ENGL 58300 - U S Ethnic/Multicultural Literature #
• ENGL 59500 - Contemporary American Fiction
• ENGL 59600 - Advanced Studies In Literature Or Language #

History

• HIST 30200 - Historical Topics #
• HIST 30400 - America In The 1960s
• HIST 35400 - Women In America To 1870 *
• HIST 35500 - History Of American Military Affairs
• HIST 35600 - America In Vietnam
• HIST 36600 - Hispanic Heritage Of The United States *
• HIST 37100 - Society, Culture, And Rock And Roll
• HIST 37200 - History Of The American West
• HIST 37500 - Women In America Since 1870
• HIST 37600 - History Of Indiana
• HIST 37700 - History And Culture Of Native America
• HIST 38200 - American Constitutional History *
• HIST 38300 - Recent American Constitutional History *
• HIST 38400 - History Of Aviation
• HIST 38700 - History Of The Space Age
• HIST 39400 - Environmental History Of The United States
• HIST 39600 - The Afro-American To 1865 *
• HIST 39800 - The Afro-American Since 1865 *
• HIST 46000 - American Colonial History
• HIST 46100 - The Revolutionary Era, 1763 To 1800
• HIST 46300 - Creation Of American Legal Culture
• HIST 46700 - The Emergence Of Modern America
• HIST 46800 - Recent American History
• HIST 46900 - Black Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 47100 - History Of The Great Plains Indians
• HIST 47300 - History Of The South
• HIST 47500 - Spanish Frontier In North America
• HIST 47700 - Native American Women’s History
• HIST 48500 - Topics In American Political History
• HIST 49200 - Seminar In Historical Topics #
• HIST 49400 - Science And Technology In American Civilization
• HIST 49500 - Research Seminar In Historical Topics #
• HIST 58500 - American Labor History
• HIST 58600 - United States Foreign Affairs To World War I
• HIST 58700 - United States Foreign Affairs: World War I To Present
• HIST 59300 - Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History
• HIST 59400 - Afro-American Thought And Ideology

Italian

• ITAL 33500 - Italian-American Cinema

Landscape Architecture

• LA 26600 - Frank Lloyd Wright

Philosophy

• PHIL 24200 - Philosophy, Culture, And The African American Experience *

Political Science

• POL 23100 - Introduction To United States Foreign Policy *
• POL 31400 - The President And Policy Process
• POL 32600 - Black Political Participation In America *
• POL 35300 - Current Political Ideologies
• POL 36000 - Women And The Law *
• POL 37300 - Campaigns And Elections
• POL 41000 - Political Parties And Politics
• POL 41100 - Congress: Structure And Functioning
• POL 41500 - US Politics And The Media
• POL 42500 - Environmental Law And Politics
• POL 43400 - United States Foreign Policy, Central America And The Caribbean
• POL 46000 - Judicial Politics
• POL 46100 - Constitutional Law I
• POL 46200 - Constitutional Law II
• POL 51700 - The Politics Of Capital And Labor In The United States
• POL 52300 - Environmental Politics And Public Policy
• POL 52400 - Public Policy And The Family

Psychology

• PSY 33500 - Stereotyping And Prejudice *

Sociology

• SOC 31000 - Racial And Ethnic Diversity *
• SOC 31200 - American Society *
• SOC 36700 - Religion In America *
• SOC 39100 - Selected Topics In Sociology #
• SOC 45000 - Gender Roles In Modern Society *
• SOC 51400 - Racial And Cultural Minorities
• SOC 53100 - Community Organization

Spanish

• SPAN 33500 - The Literature Of The Spanish-Speaking Peoples In The United States *

Women’s Studies

• IDIS 49100 - Special Topics In Interdisciplinary Studies
• WGSS 38000 - Gender And Multiculturalism
• WGSS 38100 - Women Of Color In The United States *
• WGSS 38300 - Women And Work
• WGSS 48200 - Interdisciplinary Studies In Sexuality: Scholarship On Lesbian And Gay Issues

Note

# Courses marked with # are variable title and/or variable credit courses. They are generally individualized programs of instruction requiring the consent of the instructor. These courses may be applied to the American  Studies Major only in cases where the content is extensively relevant to American Studies. They require the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies before they may be applied to the American Studies Major.

* Courses marked with * fulfill the CLA Core Curriculum requirement.