Minor Program Requirements

The American Studies interdisciplinary minor consist of 18 credits, with distribution requirements in three disciplinary groupings, in keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the field. 15 credits are taken from courses listed under these three groupings:  Humanities; Social Sciences; and Art and Popular Culture. Students take 6 credits in courses listed under the Humanities; 6 credits in courses listed under Social Sciences; and 3 credits in courses listed in Art and Popular Culture. The remaining 3 credit requirement is satisfied in one of three ways:  by taking another American Studies course; by taking an internship in a discipline of American Studies; or by taking any course, except one within the Institute for Core Studies, with an Academic Service Learning component. This last option is subject to the approval of your academic advisor and the program director (pending approval by the Liberal Arts Faculty Council).
 

Humanities (6 credits; no more than 3 credits to be taken in any one discipline):
ENG 2060: Studies in American Literature
ENG 3300: Colonial American Literature
ENG 3310: Antebellum American Literature
ENG 3320: 19th Century American Fiction
ENG 3330: African American Literature to 1900
ENG 3340:
 American Realism and Naturalism
ENG 3350: American Women Writers
ENG 3360: Early National American Literature
ENG 3390: Special Topics in American Literature to 1900
ENG 3470: 20th Century African-American Literature
ENG 3480: The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 3560: American Ethnic Literature
   
   
HIS/GEO 1002*: North American Geography
HIS 2700: U.S.: Colonial America
HIS 2710: US.:  The Early National Period
HIS 2711: U.S.: The Revolutionary Age
HIS 2712: U.S.: Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Periods
HIS 2720: U.S.: Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 2730: U.S.: The Gilded Age
HIS 2740: U.S.:  The Age of Reform
HIS 2750: U.S.: World War II and Post-War America
HIS 3100/
ASC 2540: 
 America Meets China
HIS 3150: History of Inter-American Relations
HIS 3180:  America and the Muslim World
HIS 3375: Asian-American History
HIS 3701: U.S. Foreign Relations
HIS 3702: U.S. Foreign Relations
HIS 3705:  Race Relations in American Foreoign Policy
HIS 3711: African-American History to 1900
HIS 3712: African-American History Since 1900
HIS 3715:  History of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
HIS 3720: Indians and Europeans in Early America
HIS 3725: Law in American History
HIS 3731: Women and Gender in Early America: 
from Settlement to the Civil War
HIS 3732: Women and Gender in Modern America:
Civil War to the Present
HIS 3735: Women and Social Movements in U.S. History
HIS 3740: U.S.: Urban America
HIS 3750:  The American South from Reconstruction
to the Present
HIS 3760:
 History of New York City and Long Island
HIS 3780: Immigrants and the Catholic Church in the U.S.
HIS 3790: The Military in American History
HIS 3795: Technology and Science in 20th Century America
PHI 3540: American Philosophy
RCT 2040: American Public Address
THE 3510: Religion in the United States
   
   
Social Sciences (6 credits; no more than 3 credits to be taken in any one subject):  
CSD 1710*: Phonetics
GOV 1350*: The American Experience
GOV 2160/
ESP 2160: 
 American Environmental Politics and Policies
GOV 2240: Federalist Papers
GOV 2430: American Presidency
GOV 2510: American Political Parties and Interest Groups
GOV 2641: Foreign Policy of the United States
GOV 3330:  American Political Thought of the 19th
and 20th Centuries
GOV 3590: American Government and Business Relations
GOV 3800: American Econopolitics
   
   
SOC 1170: Inequality: Race, Class and Gender
SOC 1190:  Sociology of Poverty in America
SOC 2410: Race and Ethnicity in America
SOC 2440: Gender Identity in Popular Culture
SOC 2450: Sociology of the Black Experience
SOC 2420: Immigration and Inequality
SOC/ANT 2750:  The North American Indian
   
   
Art and Popular Culture (3 credits):   
ART 1830: Racism in Film
ART 1840: Sexism in Cinema and Television
ART 2790: Contemporary Art and Culture, 1945-present
   
   
MUS 1230: History of American Popular Music
MUS 1260: American Musical Theater
MUS 1300: History of Jazz
   

*Pending approval by the Liberal Arts Faculty Council