American Studies Courses

Any course carrying the AMS prefix can be counted toward the major or minor.

AMS courses regularly offered include:

AMS 1000	THE AMERICAN DREAM	3
AMS 1050	American Voices	3
AMS 2041	Americans Abroad	3
AMS 2021	American Places I: Cities on a Hill	3
AMS 2022	American Places II: Frontier Nation	3
AMS 2040	THE AMERICAN HERO IN TEXT AND IMAGE	3
AMS 3998
AMS 4495

Many courses that do not carry the AMS prefix (i.e. courses offered in other departments and programs at Manhattanville) can be fully counted as electives in American Studies.

Any liberal arts course the content material of which is at least 80% focused on North American society and culture may be approved for American Studies major or minor credit by the Program Director

A complete list of the many non-AMS prefix courses already approved for AMS credit is available on request from the Program Director.