BA (Hons) American Studies (3 years)
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary degree offers a comprehensive exploration of the United States through its literature, history, politics, and culture. You will analyze the key events, debates, and artistic movements that have shaped the American nation and its global influence. The program provides the option to study in the U.S., offering invaluable firsthand experience to complement your academic studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Examine pivotal themes including race, gender, civil liberties, and U.S. global power
- Analyze diverse cultural materials from great novels and films to comics and photographs
- Optional semester abroad in the United States during your second year
- Develop critical analytical tools to understand the relationship between culture and politics
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the forces that forge nations and transform societies
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary degree offers a comprehensive exploration of the United States through its literature, history, politics, and culture. You will analyze the key events, debates, and artistic movements that have shaped the American nation and its global influence. The program provides the option to study in the U.S., offering invaluable firsthand experience to complement your academic studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Examine pivotal themes including race, gender, civil liberties, and U.S. global power
- Analyze diverse cultural materials from great novels and films to comics and photographs
- Optional semester abroad in the United States during your second year
- Develop critical analytical tools to understand the relationship between culture and politics
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the forces that forge nations and transform societies
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
