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.1005	Rise of Hip Hop and Rap	3
AMS.1050	American Voices	3
AMS.2021	American Places I: Cities on a Hill	3
AMS.2022	American Places II: Frontier Nation	3
AMS.2040	American Hero in Text and Image	3
AMS.3998	Senior Evaluation	3
AMS.4495	Independent Study	1-4

Courses approved for credit in the American Studies major or minor

ARH.2013	American Art I: Colonial to 1850	3
CAM.2021	Public Relations	3
CAM.2022	Advertising	3
CAM.3030	History of Television and Radio	3
CAM.3071	Minorities and the Media	3
DTH.2216	Dance History II: Contemporary Traditions	3
ENF.2080	American Film	3
ENG.1016	Introduction to American Literature	4
ENG.2052	American Modernism	3
ENG.2076	American Literature After 1945	3
ENG.3100	Americans Abroad: Transatlanticism and the 19th-Century Novel	3
HIS.1011	Development of America I	3
HIS.1012	Development of America II	3
HIS.2009	American Civil War	3
HIS.2012	American Sports History	3
HIS.2020	American History Through Film	3
HIS.2024	American Economic History	3
HIS.2036	History of New York City	3
HIS.2048	American Places I: Cities on a Hill	3
HIS.2060	Reconstruction and the New South	3
HIS.3007	Gilded Age of America: 1865-1900	3
HIS.3014	African-American History	3
HIS.3040	Harlem Renaissance	3
HIS.3067	Topics in American Sports History	3
HIS.3160	Senior Colloquium	3
MUB.2021	Pop Songs and the Music Business	3
MUH.2016	History of Jazz	3
MUH.2235	American Musical Theatre: Then and Now	3
MUH.3002	History of American Music	3
MUH.3050	The 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.