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	American Studies
		American studies is an interdisciplinary major that focuses upon life and culture in the United States, past and present, using the resources, techniques, and approaches of a variety of disciplines.
		Students majoring in American studies plan, with faculty advisors, a program of study that reflects their interests in American society and culture: history, the arts, music, literature, government, economics, social structures, sociology and anthropology, institutions, education, and philosophy and religion.
		After studying the cultural, social, and economic importance of the sea in American life, the course returns to the biology of the sea through student research projects on current environmental problems, as well as national and international laws and regulations, which protect the ocean as a commons for the world.
	www.skidmore.edu /catalog/2005-06/american_studies.htm (4429 words)

	UMass Lowell American Studies:UML American Studies
		American Studies allows students to combine a number of scholarly disciplines to better comprehend the many facets of American life.
		By completing courses from a variety of disciplines, students in American Studies not only sharpen their analytical powers and critical insights, but will, in the long term, be well prepared for employment in education, government, social services, business, and other professions.
		Because of its flexibility, the American Studies major is a good choice for students who are unsure about their ultimate career choices, but who seek a foundation in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts.
	www.uml.edu /misc/amer-studies (289 words)

	American Studies
		She received her B.A. in American History and Afro-American Studies with an English minor from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and her Ph.D. in American Studies with a minor at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997.
		Park Nelson a Macalester graduate, is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
		Ruiz is a Ph.D. candiate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota and is a CSMP (Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence) fellow at Macalester College.
	www.macalester.edu /americanstudies/faculty.htm (1910 words)

	American Studies at the University of Maryland : Home
		Carceral Studies: "The Violence of Confinement" 10/17/06 @ 4-6 p.m.
		The American Studies Department and Program at the University of Maryland is one of the oldest such programs in the United States, having operated continuously since 1945.
		Teaching and research in American Studies at Maryland are shaped by two principal intellectual themes: cultures of everday life; and cultural constructions of identity and difference.
	amst.umd.edu (146 words)

	Graduate Studies: American Studies
		American Studies 801 is the "entry" course; students must successfully complete it in order to become degree candidates.
		After these two American Studies seminars, students may choose electives that examine the American experience from among the graduate courses offered in American Studies by other graduate programs at Trinity, or by the Hartford Consortium institutions (Hartford Seminary, Rensselaer of Hartford, St Joseph College, and the University of Hartford).
		When students have completed both American Studies seminars and all electives, they are expected to design and complete their own interdisciplinary research projects, in the form of either a Master's thesis, American Studies 954-955 (two course credits) or a shorter independent project, American Studies 953 (one course credit).
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/gradstud/depts/gradamst.shtml (978 words)

	American Studies
		Because American Studies trains you to adapt to new situations; to examine the connections between ideas, texts, and the political and social context; and to communicate effectively withmultiple audiences, it's good preparation for work in business, the media, and public service.
		American Studies also offers a minor, consisting of 6 courses from American Studies and two other related fields.
		Studies of cultures outside of the United States and comparative culture studies, with an emphasis on critical understanding of the complicated relationship between the U.S. and other countries and cultures.
	www.as.ysu.edu /~amerst (1355 words)

	Hamilton College - Academics - American Studies
		American Studies is the exploration of civilization and culture in the United States.
		The American studies program is overseen primarily by two faculty members, Maurice Isserman of the History Department and Catherine Kodat of the English Department.
		An American studies concentration consists of 11 courses: the three basic American studies courses, three literature courses, two history courses and three electives.
	www.hamilton.edu /academics/department.html?dept=American+Studies (588 words)

	American Studies Today On-line
		American Theme Parks and the Landscapes of Mass Culture - by Steve Mills - Disney World in Florida has become the yardstick by which theme parks throughout the world are judged, but its influence spreads far beyond the design of tourist attractions, and even impacts on the design of shopping malls and residential districts.
		American Studies in the Czech Republic - Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt and Jitka Ramadanova are lecturers in English and American Studies at the Zapadoceska University in Plzen, Czech Republic.
		The Native American Peoples of The United States - Christopher Brookeman is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Westminster, and has published widely on a variety of aspects of American culture and society.
	www.americansc.org.uk /Online/index.htm (4027 words)

	American Studies @ UC Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		American Studies explores the cultures of the United States, as well as their transnational exchanges and impact.
		Students majoring in American Studies gain an understanding of various historical and contemporary cultures and populations of the U.S., with attention to religious, racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class differences.
		American Studies graduates have used their major to enter law, journalism and mass communications, teaching and education, social work, community organizing, government, museum curatorial work, graduate school in the humanities and other disciplines, and the private sector.
	ams.ucdavis.edu (462 words)

	M.A. Program in African American Studies, Columbia University
		The Columbia M.A. program in African American Studies is designed to provide the student with a thorough grounding in the literature and research areas within African American studies, and it will enable students to produce critical analysis and research projects about the complex and historically specific experiences of Africans in the Americas.
		Contemporary African American studies is often conceptualized as either an interdisciplinary area (or ethnic) study, or a discipline unto itself.
		Theories and case studies of a variety of racial and ethnic groups in North America; identity, ethnic enclaves and immigrant enterprise, race and class formation, the nature of prejudice, and ethnic political mobilization.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/gsas/african_american_studies (2462 words)

	American Studies at UConn
		Our studies range from the first immigrations across the landbridge from Siberia, to the colonization of the Americas by Europeans, to the nationalist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the present day.
		The Minor in American Studies is in a period of transition.
		These courses may be used to fulfill a student's "related" course requirement; however, with one exception, a student may not use American Studies courses to fulfill simultaneously the requirements of his or her major field and the requirements of the minor.
	americanstudies.uconn.edu (883 words)

	American Studies Program
		The core premise of American Studies is quite simple: no discipline or perspective can satisfactorily encompass the diversity and variation that have marked American society and culture from the very beginning.
		Therefore, the American Studies major is constructed as an interdisciplinary program which invites students to combine courses from a variety of academic fields in order to create their own, unique study of America.
		However individual majors fashion their courses of study, each major will have an opportunity to engage a range of topics and faculty members in a discussion of what is entailed in the study of American society and culture.
	american-studies.richmond.edu (131 words)

	College Majors and Careers - American Studies
		American Studies is an interdisciplinary major that examines American culture and society from the colonial era through the present.
		American Studies focus on the nature of the American character and American ideas and institutions.
		American Studies as a major is versatile and helps develop skills useful anywhere.
	careerservices.rutgers.edu /americanstudies.html (212 words)

	The American Studies Collection – Study of the U.S.
		The American Studies Collection was created by an endowment fund established by the Congress of the United States "in order to promote a thorough understanding of the United States" abroad.
		The collection is especially rich in titles in history, politics, government and law and includes other works in literary criticism, contemporary American fiction, poetry and belles lettres as well as outstanding works in the fine and performing arts, American philosophy and religion, and other aspects of U.S. society and culture.
		The panel has selected titles that exemplify the most significant aspects of the American past and are broadly representative of the chronological sweep of American history.
	exchanges.state.gov /education/amstudy/collect.htm (564 words)

	Swansea University - American Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		American Studies at Swansea is a broad-based inter-disciplinary degree which is among the most challenging choices for students interested in the liberal arts and social sciences.
		The Department is one of the leading centres for American Studies in the UK and offers a wide range of courses in American literature, history and politics and popular culture at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
		The American Studies Exchange Office is located within the Department of American Studies and it's our role is to help prepare you for study in the US.
	www.swan.ac.uk /american (134 words)

	African American studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		African American studies, or Black studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans.
		Programs and departments of African American studies were first created in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of student and faculty activism at many universities, sparked by a five months strike for fl studies at San Francisco State.
		The creation of programs and departments in Black studies was a common demand of protests and sit-ins by minority students and their allies, who felt that their cultures and interests were underserved by the traditional academic structures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_American_studies (439 words)

	American studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States.
		Vernon Louis Parrington is often cited as the founder of American studies for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Main Currents in American Thought, which combines the methodologies of literary criticism and historical research.
		The first signature methodology of American studies was the "myth and symbol" approach, developed in such foundational texts as Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_studies (539 words)

	American Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A study of major issues concerning immigrant experience in the U.S., such as legislation regarding immigration, anti-immigrant social and political movements, immigrant efforts to assimilate (or to resist assimilation, or to accommodate to one degree or another).
		We will study the evolution of American jurisprudence in the area of abortion, affirmative action, freedom of expression, separation of church and state, and examine emerging areas of legal debate including the right to same sex marriage, the legalization of prostitution and the constitutionality of Megan’s law.
		In addition to studying the literature of cities, the class explores Philadelphia as a case study, with students developing techniques of observation and analysis, in an effort to understand the city of Philadelphia within the broader framework of thinking about American cities.
	www.temple.edu /bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_americanstudies.html (2975 words)

	American Studies
		The American Studies Program offers a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies with a concentration in related fields such as government, anthropology, literature, history, or communication.
		American studies allows students to explore the cultural complexity of the United States.
		American studies students draw together the tools and insights of several disciplines to discover what Americans share as well as how they differ.
	www.american.edu /american/registrar/freshman/americanstd.htm (199 words)

	African American Studies Department - Home
		African American Studies is also recognized as one of the most dynamic departments at Oberlin College.
		African American Studies is neither conceived nor conducted as a narrowly focused, separate enclave for "fls only." Rather, the discipline is recognized as a valuable under-taking for all members of the Oberlin community, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic background.
		African American Studies 101 and other beginning courses may serve as prerequisites to all intermediate and advanced courses.
	www.oberlin.edu /~afamstud (378 words)

	American Studies Flyer
		American Studies is an interdepartmental BA program administered by the Director and an advisory committee.
		Together, the students and faculty in Am erican Studies are embarked join project, which is the investigation of our cultural address as citizens of the Americas at this moment in the late twentieth century; what it means for us all,, differently, to be living here together.
		American Studies is an undergraduate degree Program that offers a unique opportunity for students to develop an interdisciplinary major tailored specifically to their interests.
	www.americanstudies.wayne.edu /flyer.html (459 words)

	American Studies, CSUF
		American Studies at Cal State Fullerton is an independent department which takes as its primary subject American culture in its historical development.
		Courses cover a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including gender studies, cultural diversity, popular culture, regionalism, law and society, expressive forms, and the history of ideas.
		This annual journal of American Studies student essays is now accepting submissions for the 2006 issue.
	hss.fullerton.edu /amst (164 words)

	American Studies Department
		Because American Studies is interdisciplinary, the major may be effectively combined with subject matter studies necessary for either the multiple subject teaching credential (K-8) or single subject credential (7-12) in social science.
		The program requires 30 units of graduate study: 21 units in the discipline of American Studies, six units in other disciplines and three units in the development of an appropriate research skill.
		American Studies 598 Thesis (3) should be taken in the semester immediately preceding graduation from the program.
	www.fullerton.edu /catalog/academic_departments/amst.asp (2781 words)

	Italian American Studies at Stony Brook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Italian American studies addresses itself to the experiences of persons of Italian descent in North and South America with a particular emphasis on experiences in the United States of America.
		Formal study of Italian American culture, in the university, is a relatively recent phenomenon.
		Italian American studies offers students an opportunity to survey the developments of the field in general, and in history, literature, media, and language study in particular.
	www.italianstudies.org /iam (292 words)

	Yale > African American Studies > Graduate Program
		Brandi Hughes (American Studies) graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001 with a B.A. in Literature and American Studies.
		Uri McMillan (American Studies) graduated cum laude from Rice University in 2003 with a B.A. in English.
		Emmanuel Raymundo (American Studies) was born in Manila and raised in New York City and Toronto.
	www.yale.edu /afamstudies/gradprogram.html (4565 words)

	Ethnic Studies \| University of Colorado at Boulder
		Ethnic Studies is an established undergraduate degree program that provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools to analyze the historical, political, social, and cultural forces that have shaped the development of America's diverse racial and ethnic peoples.
		As an Ethnic Studies major, a student chooses an area of concentration in one of the four specific racial-ethnic fields: Afroamerican studies, American Indian studies, Asian American studies, or Chicano studies, and will gain familiarity in at least one of the other areas not chosen as the primary focus.
		In 2002, the department was given the responsibility of administering the American Studies Program, and to assure that the necessary courses would be available for those students who had declared the American Studies major prior to spring 2002 so that they could complete the degree.
	www.colorado.edu /EthnicStudies (814 words)

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