American Studies Minor

Required Courses (6 credit hours)

• AMST 3700 - Principles and Methods of American Studies
• AMST 3710 - U.S. in the World

Select at least two of the following (6-9 credit hours)

• AMST 3740 - American Popular Culture
• AMST 3750 - Place in American Culture
• AMST 3760 - Advanced Studies in American Identities
• AMST 3770 - American Cultural Productions
• AMST 3780 - American Cultural Movements
• AMST 4490 - Special Topics in American Studies

Electives (0-3 credit hours)

The balance of credits are drawn from the following. Alternatively, students may take an additional course from the list of program courses above. With the permission of the AS coordinator, English majors may use one ENGL course toward the minor AREA II electives, and history majors may use one HIST course toward the minor AREA II electives.

• ANTH 3321 - Indigenous Peoples of North America
• ENGL 3340 - Ethnic Literatures
• ENGL 3360 - Major African American Writers
• ENGL 3500 - Topics in African American Literature
• ENGL 4360 - American Literature Before 1800
• ENGL 4460 - 19th-Century American Literature
• ENGL 4560 - 20th-Century American Literature
• FILM 3220 - Studies in Film
• GWST 3010 - Queer Theory & Sexuality
• GWST 3020 - Black Feminisms
• GWST 3030 - Gender in Popular Culture
• HIST 3310 - The Old South
• HIST 3311 - The New South
• HIST 3315 - The History of the American West
• HIST 3331 - History of Religion in the U.S.
• HIST 3332 - U.S. Social and Cultural History
• HIST 3333 - African American History to 1865
• HIST 3335 - African American History, 1865 to Present
• HIST 3341 - Women in U.S. History and Culture
• HIST 4435 - History and Memory
• PHIL 3020 - American Philosophy
• POLS 4427 - American Political Thought
• SOCI 3314 - Race and Ethnicity

Program Total (15 credit hours)