Major Requirements

American Studies Major (36 semester hours)
 American Studies
AMS 200 Introduction to American Studies 3
AMS 400, 401
 Seminar in American Studies I, II 6
  One American studies elective 3
 Humanities Distribution
  Two American Literature Electives 6
Two American studies courses from the following: 6
AMS 210 Growing Up American  
AMS 213 The American Myth in Literature, Landscape, and Music  
AMS 214 Special Topics in American Studies  
AMS 215 Alfred Hitchcock in America  
AMS 225 American Folklore  
AMS 226 The New South in Literature, Music, and Film  
AMS 228 Studies in American Jewish Culture  
AMS 229 American Popular Culture  
AMS 305 Religion in America  
AMS 306 Poetry and Poetics in American Culture  
AMS 309 Hip Hop and American Culture  
AMS 310 The American Identity in the Arts  
AMS 312 American Photography  
  Appropriate Special Topics in American Studies course  
  Other humanities courses with a preponderance of American material
 Social Science Distribution 
HIS 208 US I: American History from European Settlement through Reconstruction 3
HIS 209 US II: American History from Reconstruction to the Present 3
Two American Studies courses from the following: 6
AMS 210 Growing Up American  
AMS 211 Sports in American Life  
AMS 212 Multicultural America  
AMS 225 American Folklore  
AMS 227 The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr  
AMS 228 Studies in American Jewish Culture  
AMS 229 American Popular Culture  
AMS 304 Technology and Science in America  
AMS 309 Hip Hop and American Culture  
AMS 311 Radicalism in 20th-century America  
AMS 338 The Social Impact of Rock and Roll  
  Appropriate special topics in American Studies course  
  Other social science courses with a preponderance of American material