American Studies

American Studies offers an interdisciplinary minor focusing on all aspects of the American experience. Students who seek the minor will compile a total of eighteen (18) credits from a variety of disciplines, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology/Sociology, Art, Religious Studies, Economics, Political Science, and International Studies. In addition to these courses, students seeking the minor must take American Studies 200, a team-taught topics course offered every other Spring Term, and American Studies 400, which is an independent study resulting in a single interdisciplinary paper.

Curriculum

Minor:

A total of twenty-four (24) credit hours as follows:

1. American Studies 200 and American Studies 400
2. Four of the following courses with an American Studies approach, chosen from three of the departments below:
   
1. Anthropology/Sociology 105: Introductory Sociology
   Anthropology/Sociology 206: Social Problems
   Anthropology/Sociology 210: Gender and Society
   Anthropology/Sociology 343: Racial and Ethnic Minorities
2. Art 334: American Art
   Art 344: Modern Art III
   Art 345: Contemporary Art
3. English 220: Women and Literature (when subject is American)
   English 224: African American Poetry
   English 225: Southern Literature
   English 241: History and Criticism of American Cinema
   English 245: Special Topics in Film (when subject is American)
   English 262: Survey of American Literature
   English 265: Special Topics (when subject is American)
   English 360: American Romanticism
   English 361: American Realism and Naturalism
   English 362: American Modernism
   English 370: American Postmodernism and Beyond
   English 364: African American Poetry
   English 381: Topics in Film (when subject is American)
   English 385: Topics in Advanced Literary Study (when subject is American)
4. History 105: Selected Introductory Topics (when topic is American)
   History 231: North America in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras.
   History 232: The United States in the Nineteenth Century.
   History 233: The United States in the Twentieth Century.
   History 242: African-American History.
   History 244: History of Childhood in the United States.
   History 245: Women in United States History.
   History 246: Gender and Warfare in America.
   History 247: The American South
   History 249: Poverty in the United States.
   History 341: Native America and American History.
   History 342: Slavery in the United States
   History 343: The Civil Rights Movement
   History 344: African American Intellectual Tradition
   History 349: Black and White Women in the History of the American
   History 350: 19th Century Women In American
   History 351: United States Constitutional History to 1865
   History 352: United States Constitutional History since 1865
   History 356: Cold War America
   History 354: Interpreting the American West.
   History 357: U.S. Intellectual History: The Twentieth Century
   History 432: Colonial North America
   History 434: The Early Republic of the United States
   History 435: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era
   History 436: The Origins of Modern American, 1877-1918
   History 439: Recent History of the United States
   History 445: Gender in the American West
5. Philosophy 250: Topics in Philosophy (when subject is American)
   Philosophy 370: American Philosophy
6. Political Science 151: United States Politics
   Political Science 200: Urban Politics
   Political Science 212: American Political Thought and Statesmanship
   Political Science 230: Black Political Thought
   Political Science 280: Topics in American Politics and Institutions
   Political Science 301-302: Constitutional Law and Politics
   Political Science 340: The American Presidency
   Political Science 360: Congress and the Political Process
   Political Science 401: Seminar in American Politics and Institutions
7. Religious Studies 251: Religion in America
   Religious Studies 258: Topics in the History of Religions (when subject is American)
   Religious Studies 259: Topics in the History of Christianity (when subject is American)
   Religious Studies 300: Selected Topics (when subject is American)
8. International Studies 371: American Foreign Policy
   International Studies 372: U. S. National Security Policy
9. Music 118: African-American Music
   

Faculty

Marshall Boswell, Ph.D. Department of English, Program Director
Thomas Bremer, Ph.D. Department of Religious Studies
Dorothy C. Garceau, Ph.D. Department of History
Timothy S. Huebner, Ph.D. Department of History
David P. McCarthy, Ph.D. Department of Art
Charles McKinney, Ph.D. Department of History
Gail Murray, Ph.D. Department of History
Leslie Petty, Ph.D. Department of English
Robert Saxe, PhD. Department of History, Chair
Patrick A. Shade, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy
Carla Shirley, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology/Sociology

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