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American Studies
No major available.
Director: Dr. Robert Allison
Minor in American Studies
For students interested in examining multiple aspects of American
culture and society, the American Studies minor program offers a
chance to create an individualized, interdisciplinary course of
study. Drawing on history, literature, sociology, psychology, and
other fields,students in American Studies pursue knowledge in a
wide variety of courses.
Required Core Component - 3 Credits
AM ST 111 What Is An American?
Designated Course Component - 15 Credits
Four courses from the following list, with no more than
6 credits in any one department.
CJN 285 Media and Popular Culture I
CJN 286 Media and Popular Culture II
CJN 365 The American Cinema
CJN 485 Rhetoric of Protest and Reform
EHS 372 Environmental Law
EHS 503 Foundations of Education
EHS 711 Critical Issues in Education
ENG 353 The Rise of American Fiction
ENG 354 Hawthorne and Melville
ENG 355 American Prose 1870-1920
ENG 356 Whitman and Dickinson
ENG 357 African-American Literature
ENG 359 Selected African-American Authors
ENG 361 Contemporary American Fiction: 1950-Present
ENG 364 Modern American Poetry
ENG 365 Contemporary American Poetry
ENG 367 Twentieth-Century American Fiction 1920-1950
ENG 369 Modern American Drama
ENG 387 Women and Literature
ENG 396 American Political Literature
ENG 398 Boston: A City in Fiction
ENG 407 Seminar in American Theatre History
GVT 204 Women in American Politics
GVT 243 American Constitutional Law
GVT 244 Civil Liberties
GVT 346 The American Presidency
GVT 348 Blacks and the U.S. Constitution
GVT 355 American Parties and Politics
GVT 363 American Foreign Policy
GVT 435 Race and Public Policy
GVT 473 American Political Thought
HST 271 African American History, 1619-1860
HST 272 African American History Since 1860
HST 291 American Diplomatic History to 1898
HST 292 American Diplomatic History Since 1898
HST 329 History of African-American Education
HST 360 Native America: From Pre-History to the Trail of Tears
HST 361 Native America: 1832 to the Present
HST 371 U.S. Women's History: Colonial to 1865
HST 372 U.S. Women's History: 1865 to Present
HST 381 American Colonial History
HST 382 The American Revolution
HST 383 Boston: The Heritage of a City
HST 388 Crime in America: 20th Century Case Studies
HST 389 American Constitutional History, I
HST 390 Constitutional History II: From the 14th Amendment to the Present
HST 391 The Young Nation: U.S. History, 1789-1850
HST 392 The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HST 393 America: The Old and New South
HST 394 Slavery
HST 395 Race and Ethnicity in American History
HST 482 Culture of
the Sixties
HST 483 Death, Disease and Healing in American History
HST 484 Crime, Law, and Society in U.S. History
HST 485 History of American Law
HST 486 The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film
HST 487 History, Literature, and the South
HST 489 Law, Literature and History
HST 492 The U.S. in the Twentieth Century
HUM 211 Music of the United States
HUM 227 Jazz
HUM 320 Art and Architecture of New England
HUM 311 Art of the United States
PHIL 253 Philosophy of America
PSYCH 239 Black Psychology
PSYCH 245 Consumer Psychology
PSYCH 474 Community Psychology
SOC 223 Families in Contemporary Society
SOC 227 Race in American Society
SOC 237 Drugs and Society
SOC 238 Cops and Robbers: Crime on Film
SOC 275 Women and Crime
SOC 286 Women and Work
SOC 325 Popular Culture in America
SOC 326 Social Movements
THETR 301 Fifty Years of American Musicals
Information/Advising
Each student's four elective courses for the minor must be related
in some coherent way. With his/her American Studies Minor advisor,
a student will identify a particular focus (e.g., an era, a topic,
a theme, a region, a population, or a problem in American culture)
that he or she wishes to explore closely through interdisciplinary
study.
American Studies Committee:
Robert Allison, History
Robert Bellinger, History
John Berg, Government
John Cavanagh, History
Gail Coffler, English
Sharon Kurtz, Sociology
Fred Marchant, English
Jon Marko, Humanities
Joseph McCarthy, Education and Human Services
Quentin Miller, English
Allan Tow, Education and Human Services
Lauri Umansky, Associate Dean, CAS
Yvonne Wells, Psychology
Da Zheng, English.
American Studies Course:
American Studies 111 - What is an American? This course will examine
the nature of American society, and the historical roots of American
character and identity. We will read works by American authors as
well as works by European observers of America to see how Americans
define themselves and how others see them. 1 term - 3 semester hours.
American Studies 311 - American Renaissance: Emerson and His Contemporaries
Readings from Emersn and other American Renaissance writers, including
Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, William and Henry James,
and Emily Dickinson and examination of their intellectual congruence
with pragmatism, modernism, and postmodernism. This is a course
in American culture, intellectual, political, and socio-economic
history which will examine the relationship between Ralph Waldo
Emerson and other comtemporary American "cultural critics,"
as well as their relationship to the society from which they spray
and to the values of which they were, at the same time, giving enduring
cultural formulation. This is a seminar in American and European
civilization and literature, and, above all, a comparison and contrast
of American intellectual/cultural "habits" with those
of Europe and, in particular, with those of the Czech Republic.
1 term - 3 semester hours. Offered yearly in Prague as part of
the Suffolk Semester in Prague Program.
American Studies 312 - American Baroque: Emersonian Influences
on 20th-Century American Culture
Readings from Emerson, and examination of their role in defining
the American canon, as represented by Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville,
Henry James, W.E.B. DuBois, Lewis, Fitsgerald, Steinbeck, Baldwin,
Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Tom Robbins. In this couse, an examination
will be undertaken of the formative influence of Emerson and his
contempories on their successors in American cultural production
and cultural criticism, and of their enduring influence, for good
or ill, on a twentieth-century America that was in the process of
changing profoundly - socially, economically, and ethnically - from
that of Emerson's day. This is a seminar in American and European
civilization and literature, and above all, a comparison and contrast
of American intellectual/cultural "habits" with those
of Europe and, in particular, with those of the Czech Republic.
1 term - 3 semeser hours. Offered yearly in Prague as part of
the Suffok Semester in Prague Program.
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