BA (Hons) American Studies
Course Overview
This degree offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the United States, examining its history, politics, and culture through literature, film, and historical documents. You will spend your third year abroad in the U.S. or other global destinations, gaining invaluable firsthand experience. The course equips you with the analytical tools to understand America's role in shaping and being shaped by the modern world.
Key Program Highlights
- Interdisciplinary study of U.S. history, literature, and culture
- Spend your third year studying abroad in the United States
- Examine critical themes like race, gender, and U.S. global power
- Analyze a diverse range of materials from novels to film and comics
- Develop critical analytical skills to understand key global issues
Course Overview
This degree offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the United States, examining its history, politics, and culture through literature, film, and historical documents. You will spend your third year abroad in the U.S. or other global destinations, gaining invaluable firsthand experience. The course equips you with the analytical tools to understand America's role in shaping and being shaped by the modern world.
Key Program Highlights
- Interdisciplinary study of U.S. history, literature, and culture
- Spend your third year studying abroad in the United States
- Examine critical themes like race, gender, and U.S. global power
- Analyze a diverse range of materials from novels to film and comics
- Develop critical analytical skills to understand key global issues
Requirements
Modules
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES I
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE I
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES II
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE II
- INTRODUCTION TO 2OTH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING
- THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE
- THE INTERNATIONAL COLD WAR
- AMERICAN MUSIC AND POLITICS
- U.S. EMPIRE
- TRANSATLANTIC CULTURES
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- DISNEY AND AMERICA
- CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION
- GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
- DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE
- PROPAGANDA
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- GENDER AND POWER
- THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
- AMERICAN STUDIES DISSERTATION
- UNDERSTANDING NATIONALISM: POLITICS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY
- BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
- 1960S: CULTURE, COUNTERCULTURE, POWER, AND PROTEST
- BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
- CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- MAGA: DONALD TRUMP AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICA
