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AMERICAN STUDIES
Bachelor of Arts in American Studies
Are you interested in American history, society, literature or art but prefer not to major in a single discipline such as English or history? If so, the American Studies program is for you.
The B.A. in American Studies enables students to look at the experiences of North Americans and their environment from a variety of historical and contemporary perspectives. Students may choose to emphasize a particular area in American Studies, for example, or select other courses to develop a program focusing on a particular topic, such as the American West, the 20th century or American multiculturalism.
All students complete a core of American Studies courses that provides them with an overview of American history and society and introduces them to interdisciplinary study.
Courses are grouped into four emphases:
- American systems, which deals with political, economic, religious and legal institutions.
- American cultures, which concentrates on systems of belief and their symbolic expression in literature, art, philosophy, and regional and popular cultures.
- American lives, which explores the ways in which categories of race, ethnicity, class and gender intersect with individual and community experience.
- Writing, which stresses critical writing skills and helps train students to undertake careers in which writing is a major activity.
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