American Studies Major

36 Credit Hours

Required Courses: (12 credit hours)

HIST 120	American Experience to 1877	3
HIST 121	American Experience Since 1877	3
ENGL 240	Introduction to American Literary History	3
GOVT 200	American Government	3

At least two courses from each of the following areas:

American Cultures:

ART 313	Art Since 1945	3
COMM 280	History of U.S. Media	3
ENGL 150	American Cinema	3
ENGL 320	Seminar in Earlier American Literature	3
ENGL 330	Seminar in Later American Literature	3
ENGL 340	Seminar in Non-Western Literature	3
JOUR 290/HIST 290	History of The American Press	3
MUSI 111	The History of Jazz	3
RELI 223	Religion and American Culture	3

American Histories:

ANTH 376	Prehistory of the Northern Plains	3
HIST 215	Flappers, Fundamentalists, FDR: US Experience 1919-1945	3
HIST 300	Revolutionary America	3
HIST 303	History of The American West	3
HIST 305	The Era of American Civil War	3
HIST 315	The United States Since 1945	3

American Politics and Society:

GOVT 210	Congress	3
GOVT 220	The American Presidency	3
GOVT 235	American Foreign Policy	3
GOVT 305	Theories of American Democracy	3
GOVT 335/JOUR 335	Elections, Public Opinion and The Media	3
SOCI 340	Social Inequality	4

Peoples of the Americas:

ANTH 371	Mesoamerican Archaeology and Cultural History	3
HIST 261	History of Latin America 1450-2010	3
HIST 230	Cultural History of Mexico from the Aztecs to the Zetas	3
NAST 180/HIST 180	Red, White, and Black: The People of Early America	3
NAST 320/SOCI 320	Native American Social Systems	3
NAST 252/HIST 252	History of the Lakota/Dakota	3
SPAN 341	Latin American Civilization and Culture	3
SPAN 362	History of the Literature of Latin America	3
SPAN 370	Modern Latin American Novel	3