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American Studies (Interdepartmental Programme)

Overview
Prerequisites
Requirements for a Major
- Second and Third Year
Requirements for Combined Honours in American Studies

Overview

Convenor: To be advised.

The Faculty of Arts offers an Interdepartmental Programme in American Studies housed in the Department of Political Science.

Prerequisites

Entry into the American Studies major is available from second year. Students planning to enter the American Studies major may wish to take one of the following subjects at first year :

106-109 The American Political Mind: Witch Hunts, Outlaws and Frontiers (First semester)
111-105 Introduction to Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema (First semester)
131-103 The Age of Revolutions A (First semester)

A major in American Studies requires the completion of at least five subjects at second and third-year level, which must include the core subject 'The Making of State and Society in the USA', together with four subjects selected from the list of second and third year subjects below.

Second and Third Year

166-230/330 The Making of State and Society in the USA (core subject) (Second semester)

and four of the following:

English:

106-233/333 Modernist Poetry (Not available in 1996)
106-234/334 Modernist Fiction (Second semester)
102-250/350 Introduction to African-American Literature (First semester)
106-273/373 American Liberals and Moderns (First semester)
106-296/396 Imagining Hollywood (Second semester)

Fine Arts:

111-247/347 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Not available in 1996)
111-255/355 Genre Study (First semester)
111-320 Art and Mass Culture in the 1960s (Not available in 1996)

History:

131-256/356 People in North America, 1780-1880 (First semester)
131- 257/357 People in North America, 1880-1990 (Second semester)

Political Science:

166-201/301 American Politics and the Civil Rights Agenda (Second semester)
166-211/311 American Politics and Society (First semester)
166-226/326 Issues in American Foreign Policy (Second semester)
166-230/330 The Making of State and Society in the USA (Second semester)

Requirements for Combined Honours in American Studies

(Available from 1997)

Students must take two single semester American Studies subjects from the following list (or alternative subjects if approved by the Convener of the American Studies Interdepartmental Programme). Entry into Combined Honours is available to those who have qualified for entry into combined honours in the combining area of study and have completed a major in American Studies with an average of H2A or above. Prospective Combined Honours students should submit an outline of their proposed course of study and a thesis proposition form to the Convener of the American Studies Programme by the end of the academic year preceding commencement of Honours. Students should enrol in the Honours Thesis subject in the Department in which supervision will be provided.