Undergraduate Programs

Department of American Cultural Studies

Design Your Own Individual Interdisciplinary Degree

 

Combining the study of history, literature, and the arts, American Studies seeks to bring together various disciplines and modes of inquiry. Students explore the experience and values of the people of the United States as embodied in their history, literature, politics, arts, and other forms of cultural expression.
 
  • Explore the creative role of music, film, and popular culture in shaping American values, desires, tastes, and behavior.
  • Examine the ways in which the visual arts have shaped, and are a product of, the social, economic, and political developments that have defined the American experience.
  • Acquire a broad understanding of the interplay of culture and politics in America's past, present, and future.Explore how present day problems are contingent on past actions and belief systems.
  • Gain an understanding of critical approaches to the study of culture and social change. 

 

American Studies - BA

American Studies explores American cultural experience past and present, through a wide range of approaches to American lives, places, arts, knowledge, communities, institutions, histories, and ideas.

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Native American & Indigenous Studies - BA

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies will encourage students to understand and appreciate the roles of history, culture, and politics in the development of tribal world views, world views that relate to modern life and contemporary issues of concern for Native peoples. 

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Undergraduate Minors

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