Student Opportunities
- Students benefit from a strong liberal arts curriculum that broadens intellectual horizions and provides sound preparation for a successful career in desired fields.
- Students seeking experiences and studies that are not easily contained within a single discipline may find American Studies an accomodating discipline in which to work.
- All students who major in American Studies must take four required courses which are supplemented by seven additional courses from three areas (American History, American Culture, and American Social and Natural Sciences).
- Students may include in their program appropriate courses taken during the Washington Term (if they choose to attend the Washington Term).
- The Integrative American Studies course is the capstone of the major. This course allows faculty and students maximum flexibility in exploring ways to integrate their knowledge of American civilization through consideration of a specific era, institution, or issue in American culture through examination of academic or creative works.
- Students attain a reasonably broad knowledge of American civilization while gaining experience with the methods and materials of several general areas.
