2016-2017 Undergraduate General Catalog


American Studies Minor

24 Credit Hours

Required Courses: 12 credit hours

HIST 120American Experience to 1877

3

HIST 121American Experience Since 1877

3

ENGL 240Introduction to American Literary History

3

GOVT 200American Government

3

At least one course from each of the following areas:

American Cultures:

COMM 280History of U.S. Media

3

ENGL 150American Cinema

3

ENGL 320Seminar in Earlier American Literature

3

ENGL 330Seminar in Later American Literature

3

ENGL 340Seminar in Non-Western Literature

3

JOUR 290W/HIST 290WHistory of The American Press

3

MUSI 111The History of Jazz

3

PHIL 280American Philosophy

3

PHIL 282Ethics in America

3

RELI 223Religion and American Culture

3

American Histories:

ANTH 376Prehistory of the Northern Plains

3

HIST 215Flappers, Fundamentalists, FDR: US Experience 1919-1945

3

HIST 218The Search for Equality: The United States since World War II

3

HIST 300WRevolutionary America

3

HIST 303WHistory of The American West

3

HIST 305The Era of American Civil War

3

American Politics and Society:

GOVT 210Congress

3

GOVT 220The American Presidency

3

GOVT 235American Foreign Policy

3

GOVT 305Theories of American Democracy

3

GOVT 335/COMM 335/JOUR 335Elections, Public Opinion and The Media

3

SOCI 340Social Inequality

4

Peoples of the Americas:

ANTH 371Mesoamerican Archaeology and Cultural History

3

HIST 397Topics:

3

HIST 261History of Latin America 1450-2010

3

HIST 230Cultural History of Mexico from the Aztecs to the Zetas

3

NAST 180/HIST 180Red, White, and Black: The People of Early America

3

NAST 320/SOCI 320Native American Social Systems

3

NAST 252/HIST 252History of the Lakota/Dakota

3

SPAN 341Latin American Civilization and Culture

3

SPAN 362History of the Literature of Latin America

3

SPAN 370Modern Latin American Novel

3