We offer a ten-course undergraduate major and a six-course minor in American studies. We provide many elective courses for students with an interest in American social and cultural history and racial/ethnic and media/popular culture studies. Our undergraduate program provides a track for students interested in certification to teach high school history.

We also offer “course clusters” pertinent to the Liberal Arts requirements for students in the Colleges of Nursing and Management.

We welcome first-year students to “try out” the major in our American Studies 100 course, “American Identities,” or its General Education Equivalent, G110. Students interested in teaching can serve as mentors in our first-year seminars. For sophomores and juniors, we offer two intermediate General Education seminars: AMST G212, “The U.S. Since the 1980s,” and AMST G240, “War in American Culture.”