American Studies Courses

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

AMS courses regularly offered include:

AMS 1000THE AMERICAN DREAM

3

AMS 1005The Rise of Hip Hop and Rap

3

AMS 1050American Voices

3

AMS 2041Americans Abroad

3

AMS 2021American Places I: Cities on a Hill

3

AMS 2022American Places II: Frontier Nation

3

AMS 2040THE AMERICAN HERO IN TEXT AND IMAGE

3

AMS 3998Senior Evaluation

3

AMS 4495INDEPENDENT STUDY

1-4

Courses approved for credit in the American Studies major or minor

AFS 3014AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

3

AFS 3033THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN L. KING JR.

3

ARH 1021COLONIAL AMERICAN ART & LIFE

3

ARH 2013AMERICAN ART I

3

ARH 2014AMERICAN ART II

3

ARH 3033ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

4

ARH 3077Mexican Muralists

4

CAM 2021Public Relations

3

CAM 2022Advertising

3

CAM 3030History of Television & Radio

3

CAM 3071Minorities and the Media

3

CSCH 3019Anarchy in the USA

3

DTH 2216Dance History II: Contemporary Traditions

3

ENF 2080American Film

4

ENG 1016Introduction to American Literature

4

ENG 2047THE JAZZ AGE

3

ENG 2050Early American Literature

3

ENG 2052American Modernism

3

ENG 2076American Literature After 1945

3

ENG 3015Fitzgerald and Hemingway

3

ENG 3057Hawthorne, Melville, Poe

3

ENG 3085IMAGES OF THE CITY IN U.S. LITERATURE

3

ENG 3126Sylvia Plath in Context

3

HIS 1011Development of America I

3

HIS 1012Development of America II

3

HIS 2005Recent American History

3

HIS 2009The American Civil War

3

HIS 2012American Sports History

3

HIS 2020American History Through Film

3

HIS 2024American Economic History

3

HIS 2036HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY

3

HIS 2048AMERICAN PLACES I

3

HIS 2060RECONSTRUCTION & THE NEW SOUTH

3

HIS 3001CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN WEST

3

HIS 3007GILDED AGE OF AMERICA 1865-190

3

HIS 3014African-American History

3

HIS 3015Civil War Writers

3

HIS 3040Harlem Renaissance

3

HIS 3052History of Women in U.S.

3

HIS 3067Topics in American Sports History

3

HIS 3072American Transcendentalists

3

HIS 3086EARLY AMERICA

3

HIS 3123The Mississippi

3

HIS 3113American Assassins

3

HIS 3160Senior Colloquium

3

MUB 2021Pop Songs & the Music Business

3

MUH 2016History of Jazz

3

MUH 2235American Musical Theatre: Then & Now

3

MUH 3002History of American Music

3

MUH 3050The Blues

3

Many courses that do not carry the AMS prefix (i.e. courses offered in other 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 Division Chair.