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American Studies Minor

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Requirements for the Minor (15 credits)

A. American Studies Foundation Courses (6 credits)

AMST 20100 - Interpreting America (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
AMST 30100 - Perspectives On America * - May be repeated ONCE to help fulfill Requirement B

B. Additional Courses (9 credits)

At least six credit hours must be 30000 level or above.
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 minor.

Economics

Education: Curriculum and Instruction & Educational Studies

EDST 20010 - Educational Policies And Laws (satisfies Behavioral/Social Sciences for core) and
EDPS 32700 - Classroom Assessment

English

ENGL 25000 - Great American Books (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
ENGL 35000 - Survey Of American Literature From Its Beginnings To 1865 * (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
ENGL 35100 - Survey Of American Literature From 1865 To The Post-World War II Period * (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
ENGL 35200 - Native American Literature
ENGL 35400 - Asian American Literature
ENGL 35800 - Black Drama (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
ENGL 35900 - Black Women Writers (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
ENGL 37000 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENGL 37100 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
ENGL 38200 - The American Novel (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
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 56000 - Modern American Poetry
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 *

Global Studies

GSLA 10100 - Global Awareness
GSLA 30100 - Theories Of Global Studies (satisfies Humanities for core)
GSLA 48000 - Senior Interdisciplinary Capstone Project In Global Studies

History

HIST 30200 - Historical Topics *
HIST 30400 - America In The 1960s (satisfies Humanities for core)
HIST 35400 - Women In America To 1870 (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 35500 - History Of American Military Affairs (satisfies Humanities for core)
HIST 35600 - America In Vietnam
HIST 36600 - Hispanic Heritage Of The United States (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 37100 - Society, Culture, And Rock And Roll (satisfies Humanities for core)
HIST 37200 - History Of The American West
HIST 37600 - History Of Indiana
HIST 37700 - History And Culture Of Native America (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 38200 - American Constitutional History (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 38300 - Recent American Constitutional History (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 38400 - History Of Aviation (satisfies Humanities and Science, Technology & Society for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 38700 - History Of The Space Age (satisfies Humanities and Science, Technology & Society for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 39400 - Environmental History Of The United States (satisfies Humanities for core)
HIST 39600 - The Afro-American To 1865 (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
HIST 39800 - The Afro-American Since 1865 (satisfies Humanities for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
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 Society 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 (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)

Political Science

POL 23100 - Introduction To United States Foreign Policy (satisfies Behavorial/Social Sciences for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
POL 31400 - The President And Policy Process
POL 32600 - Black Political Participation In America (satisfies Behavorial/Social Sciences for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
POL 35300 - Current Political Ideologies
POL 36000 - Women And The Law (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
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 (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)

Sociology

SOC 31000 - Racial And Ethnic Diversity (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
SOC 31200 - American Society (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
SOC 36700 - Religion In America (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
SOC 39100 - Selected Topics In Sociology *
SOC 45000 - Gender Roles In Modern Society (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
SOC 51400 - Racial And Cultural Minorities
SOC 53100 - Community Organization

Spanish

SPAN 33500 - The Literature Of The Spanish-Speaking Peoples In The United States (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)

Women’s Studies

WGSS 38000 - Gender And Multiculturalism
IDIS 49100 - Special Topics In Interdisciplinary Studies *- Women and Film (satisfies Behavorial/Social Sciences for core) (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
WGSS 38100 - Women Of Color In The United States (may also satisfy Liberal Arts core)
WGSS 38300 - Women And Work
WGSS 48200 - Interdisciplinary Studies In Sexuality: Scholarship On Lesbian And Gay Issues

Notes

Students must earn a “C-” or better in order to receive credits for meeting [a unit level requirement]. The P/NP option is not available to complete this minor.
50% of credits for CLA minors must come from Purdue University.
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 Minor 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 Minor.

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American Studies Minor

Requirements for the Minor (15 credits)

A. American Studies Foundation Courses (6 credits)

B. Additional Courses (9 credits)

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Spanish

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