AMST 7310:Regional Studies

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
Regional Studies offers a thematic study of cultural, social, and economic patterns of a representative region using texts and methods from a variety of disciplines, such as history, literature, and sociology. Students interrogate texts ranging from literary prize-winning novels to primary historical documents located in the earliest settlement and in contemporary literature and historical analysis. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.