Chair/Director: Catherine Gunther Kodat

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $43,890 (all-inclusive fee includes tuition, room, and board)

Deadlines: Admissions January 15

Enrollment (2006-07): 3 concentrators

The American Studies program offers students an opportunity to study American culture from a variety of perspectives and through the methodologies of different intellectual disciplines. Specialized studies in all fields of learning dealing with the United States are included in the program, and the impact of these studies is reflected in the work of the American Studies introductory course (201) and the Senior Seminar (420). Students work closely with faculty members in developing a plan of study that brings at least two disciplinary perspectives to bear on major issues in American culture. The concentration consists of 10 courses. Required courses include 201, usually taken in the sophomore year; 420, taken in the spring of the senior year; two courses in American literature, and two courses in American history. Of the remaining four courses, at least two must be at the 300-level or higher. The departments and programs in Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Environmental Studies, Government, Hispanic Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre, and Women's Studies all offer courses on issues pertinent to American Studies.

Faculty Teaching in American Studies

KODAT, Catherine Gunther (Ph.D., Boston University , 1993), Associate Professor of English; 20th century literature; dance; film; music; cultural studies.

YAO, Steven (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1997), Associate Professor of English; modernism; poetry; translation studies; Asian-American literature and culture.

ISSERMAN, Maurice (Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1979) Professor of History; 20th century labor, radical history, mountaineering.

Degrees Awarded: Concentration, Minor

A concentration in Africana Studies consists of nine courses: Introduction to Africana Studies; a 400-level seminar taken in the senior year; the Senior Program; and six approved electives. No more than three electives may be chosen from either the social and historical sciences, or the arts and humanities, and at least three must be above the 200 level.

Before electing a concentration in Africana Studies, students must meet with the director to design a program of study, planning in advance so that they will be able to complete departmental prerequisites for courses counting toward the concentration. Students must submit a concentration proposal to the Africana Studies Program Committee (which consists of the director and at least one other faculty member), explaining the relations between the areas to be studied.

Students participating in the Africana Studies Program as concentrators are encouraged to minor in a discipline such as Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, French, Geology, Government, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish and Women's Studies. In the past, students have elected a double concentration in such diverse areas as Africana Studies and Physics, or English, Philosophy and Creative Writing.

Faculty

HALEY, Shelley (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan) Classics Department

KODAT, Catherine (Ph.D., Boston Univ.) English Department

MWANTUALI, Joseph (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania) Romance Languages Department

ODAMTTEN, Vincent (Ph.D., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook) English Department

ORVIS, Stephen (Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin) Government Department

PAQUETTE, Robert (Ph.D., Univ. of Rochester) History Department

TEWKSBURY, Barbara (Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado) Geology Department

WOODS, Michael (D.M.A., Univ. of Oklahoma) Music Department
 

American Studies
Humanities and Arts
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: 413/549-4600, ext. 5518
E-mail: stracy@hampshire.edu

http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=8850

Chair/Director: Susan Tracy

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $24,280 per year

Deadlines: Admissions 2/1 (Fall), 11/15 (Spring)

Program Specializations: Student-designed curriculum

American Studies at Hampshire is part of the college's overall commitment to inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to critical inquiry. Students design their own concentrations, and may draw on all of the appropriate disciplines in order to study American culture.

American Studies Faculty

BERMAN, Aaron (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of History

BREITBART, Myrna (PhD, Clark Univ.) Professor of Georgraphy and Urban Studies

COLES, Robert (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) Associate Professor of Afro-American Literature

GLAZER, Penina (PhD, Rutgers University) Professor of History

JORDAN, Amy, Assistant Professor of African American History

KENNEDY, L. Brown (MA, Cornell Univ.) Associate Professor of Literature

RAKOFF, Robert (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Professor of Politics and Environmental Studies

TRACY, Susan (PhD, Rutgers Univ.) Associate Professor of American Studies
 

History of American Civilization Program
Barker Center 225
12 Quincy St
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617/495-3325
Fax: 617/496-6377
E-mail: amciv@fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/

Chair/Director: John Stauffer

Degrees Awarded: PhD

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2008-2009): 42

Tuition: Full tuition (including health fees) is $34,244 per year during the first two years; reduced to $10,966 in the third and fourth years, and $4,868 in the fifth year and beyond (2007-2008 rates)

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid, January 2

Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships through other departments in the university; tuition remission; living expenses; work-study

Affiliations and Internships: Internships available through the Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, local and regional museums, historical societies and area organizations
Program Specializations: History and literature; History

Program Specializations: History and literature, history

The doctoral program in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University was established in 1937. Its purpose is to provide its students with a broad but disciplined understanding of the history of American life. The work of the students is conducted under the direct guidance of a committee of members of the faculty representing several of the departments concerned with the various phases of the history of American civilization. Regularly represented on the committee are the Departments of African and African-American Studies, Economics, English, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, History of Science, Literature and Comparative Literature, Music, Romance Languages and Literature, and Sociology. The committee also usually includes professors from the graduate schools of business, design, divinity, education, government and law.

American Studies Faculty

The History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary program drawing extensively on the faculty and courses of a variety of departments and programs on campus, including African and African American studies, business, design, divinity, economics, education, English, government, history, history of art and architecture, history of science, law, music, and sociology. In 2008/2009 the faculty members serving on the committee are:

BECKERT, Sven (Ph.D., Columbia Univ.) Professor of History

BERNSTEIN, Robin (Ph.D., Yale Univ.) Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
and of History and Literature

BIEL, Steven H. (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Senior Lecturer on History and Literature

BRAUDE, Ann D. (PhD. Yale Univ.) Senior Lecturer on American Religious History
(Divinity School)

BROOKS, Lisa T. (PhD. Cornell Univ.) Assistant Professor of History & Literature
and of Folklore and Mythology

BUELL, Lawrence (PhD, Cornell Univ.) Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

CARPIO, Glenda (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English

CHAPLIN, Joyce E. (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

COHEN, Lizabeth (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies

COTT, Nancy F. (PhD, Brandeis Univ.) Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History

CRAWFORD, Margaret Lee (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory (Design School)

DESAN, Christine (J.D./M.A.L.D, Yale Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) Professor of Law (Law School)

GATES, Jr. Henry Louis (PhD, Clare College at Cambridge Univ., U.K.) Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor

GOLDIN, Claudia (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Henry Lee Professor of Economics

HEMPTON, David Neil (PhD, Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland) Alonzo L. McDonald
Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies (Divinity School)

BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, Evelyn (PhD, Univ. of Rochester) Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

HORWITZ, Morton J. (PhD, Harvard Univ., LL.B., Harvard Law School) Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)

JEWETT, Andrew (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor of History and Social Studies

JOHNSON, Walter (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Professor of History and African and African American Studies

KELSEY, Robin E. (PhD, Harvard Univ.) John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

KENNEDY, Randall (JD, Yale Law School) Michael R. Klein Professor of Law (Law School)

KEYSSAR, Alexander (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (KSG)

KLOPPENBERG, James (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Charles Warren Professor of American History

LAMBERT-BEATTY, Carrie (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies

LEPORE, Jill M. (PhD, Yale Univ.) David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History

MAYNOR LOWERY, Malinda (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Assistant Professor of History

McGIRR, Lisa (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of History

MENAND, Louis (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English

O’DONOVAN, Susan E. (PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego) Associate Professor
of African and African American Studies and of History

OGLETREE, Charles (JD, Harvard Law School) Jesse Climenko Professor of Law (Law School)

OJA, Carol J. (PhD, City Univ. of New York) William Powell Mason Professor of Music

REUBEN, Julie A. (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Professor of Education (Education School)

ROBERTS, Jennifer L. (PhD, Yale Univ.) Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture

SHELL, Marc (PhD, Yale Univ.) Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English

SOLLORS, Werner (PhD, Freie Universität, Berlin) Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies

SOMMER, Doris (PhD, Rutgers Univ.) Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance
Languages and Literature and of African American Studies

STAUFFER, John (PhD, Yale Univ.) Professor of English and Professor
of African and African American Studies

ST. JOHN, Rachel (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Assistant Professor of History

STEVENS, Jason W. (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Assistant Professor of English

THATCHER ULRICH, Laurel (PhD, Univ. of New Hampshire)
300th Anniversary Univ. Professor

UNGER, Roberto Mangabeira, (S.J.D. Harvard Law School) Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Law School)

Chair/Director: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Degrees Awarded: BA, PhD

Tuition: $26,400

Deadlines: Early January

Financial Aid: Stipend, fellowships, teaching

Enrollment (2001-2002): 6 (program started last year)

Undergraduate Studies: Afro-American Studies is an interdisciplinary concentration that brings together scholars and scholarship from many disciplines to explore the histories, societies, economies and cultures of people of African descent in the New World.  The Department of Afro-American Studies’ approach is not only interdisciplinary but also comparative and cross-cultural.  Because it is interdisciplinary, the Department is able to bring to bear many theoretical perspective on thinking about African American cultures and history.  Because it is cross-cultural, the Department believes that African-American Studies contributes importantly to broader debates about race and ethnicity at other times and in other parts of the world. 

PhD Program:  The Department of Afro-American Studies offers a graduate program in the field of African American Studies. The aim of this program is to combine an interdisciplinary training in African American cultural and social studies with a focus in a major disciplinary field, leading to the PhD in African American Studies. The program admits four or five students a year into a five- to six-year program. While there are no specific prerequisites, typically students either have undergraduate majors in African American Studies, or have majors in fields such as anthropology, comparative literature, English, history, history of art, music, philosophy, sociology, and religious studies, and have done some undergraduate work in the field of African American studies. It is this interdisciplinary, comparative, cross-national approach to African American subjects in the Humanities and the Social Sciences that makes our PhD program unique. Students study these topics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, participating in graduate seminars in anthropology, government, history, literature, and sociology, for example. Thus, they are able to ask and answer questions from a wider variety of perspectives than traditional disciplinary approaches allow. This interdisciplinary approach enables a student to produce richly contextualized analyses while retaining a principle focus within one discipline. The core seminar assures that students have familiarity with the essential social, political, economic and cultural background, and a body of established established questions central to the field.

Faculty in the Undergraduate Program

GATES, Henry Louis, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities (Chair)

BLIER, Suzanne P., Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Director of Undergraduate Studies

BOBO, Lawrence D., Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies, Director of Graduate Studies

DaCOSTA, Kimberly, Assistant Professor in Afro-American Studies & Social Studies

HIGGINBOTHAM, Evelyn Brooks, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies

MATORY, J. Lorand, Professor of Anthropology and of Afro-American Studies

O'DONOVAN, Susan, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History

SHAW, Gwendolyn, Assistant Professor in Afro-American Art

SHELBY, Tommie, Assistant Professor in Afro-American Studies & Social Studies

SOLLORS, Werner, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies

WEST, Cornel, Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor and Professor of Afro-American Studies (FAS) and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion (Divinity School)

WILSON, William Julius, Harvard University Professor and Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy (Kennedy School)

Faculty in the Ph.D. Program

BLIER, Suzanne, Afro-American Studies, History of Art and Architecture

BOBO, Lawrence, Afro-American Studies, Sociology

DaCOSTA, Kimberly, Afro-American Studies, Social Studies

GATES, Henry Louis, Jr., Afro-American Studies, English, American Civilization

GLAESER, Edward, Economics

HIGGINBOTHAM. Evelyn Brooks, Afro-American Studies, History, American Civilization

MATORY, James Lorand, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology

SHAW, Gwendolyn, Afro-American Studies, History of Art and Architecture

SHELBY, Tommie, Afro-American Studies, Social Studies

SHELEMAY, Kay Kaufman, Music

SOLLORS, Werner, Afro-American Studies, English, American Civilization

WEST, Cornel, (University Professor) Afro-American Studies, Divinity School

WILSON, William Julius, (University Professor) Afro-American Studies, Kennedy School
 

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Department of American Studies
Moore Hall 324
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822-2318
Phone: 808/956-8570
Fax: 808/956-4733
E-mail: amstuh@hawaii.edu
www.hawaii.edu/amst

Chair/Director: David E. Stannard

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD (Grad. Certificate in Historic Preservation and Grad. Certificate in Museum Studies)

Degrees Awarded (2006-2007): 12 (B); 7(M/D)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Semester--In-state undergraduate $2568, out-of-state $7200 (12 credits or more); in-state graduate $3432, out-of-state $8160 (12 credits or more)

Deadlines: 3/1 (fall), 9/1 (spring); financial aid, 2/1

Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships, tuition wavers, loans

Enrollment (2006-2007): 45 undergraduate majors; 57 graduate students

Affiliations and Internships: Historic Preservation internships possible with various area organizations; Museum Studies internships possible with various area organizations and museums.

Program Specializations: Asian-Pacific-American relations, historic preservation, museum studies

Number of Undergraduate Courses Offered by Program: 54

Number of Undergraduate Courses Offered by Other Programs: 9

Number of Graduate Courses Offered by Program: 44

Number of Graduate Courses Offered by Other Programs: 5

The Department of American Studies offers a unique program that combines the field's traditional focus upon domestic concerns with the university's own strengths in international and intercultural studies. Established in 1961 as part of the East-West Center--a federally-sponsored cross-cultural education and research institute adjacent to the University--and reorganized in 1964 as a regular academic department within the University, it has grown to become one of the nation's largest American Studies programs. It awards the BA, MA, and PhD degrees plus a dual American Studies/Library Science MA and a Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. A diverse faculty offers approximately 98 undergraduate and graduate courses as well as standard student academic services. No other American Studies program provides a similar opportunity for students to explore the Asian and Pacific dimensions of the American experience, and few others offer the historic preservation option. The BA in American Studies requires 30 semester credit hours of coursework (a 15-credit minor is also available), the MA requires 33 credits (thesis and non-thesis options are available), and the PhD requires 48 credits.

American Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

CHAPMAN, William R. (DPhil, Univ. of Oxford, 1982) Professor; historic preservation

GONZALEZ, Vernadette V. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2004) Assistant Professor; American empire, tourism & militarism, gender & sexuality, ethnic & cultural studies

GONZALVES, Theodore S. (PhD, Univ. of California, Irvine, 2001) Assistant Professor; Asian American culture, history & politics, ethnic & cultural studies, performing arts

HELBLING, Mark I. (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1972) Professor; cultural theory, African American studies, literature

KOSASA, Karen K. (PhD, Univ. of Rochester, 2002) Assistant Professor; visual & cultural studies, museum studies, critical Pedagogy

MATSON, Floyd W. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1960) Professor; social thought, film & popular culture

OGAWA, Dennis M. (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1969) Professor; intercultural and Japanese American studies

PERKINSON, Robert (PhD, Yale Univ., 2001) Assistant Professor; crime and punishment, southern and western history, race & class, American empire

STANNARD, David E. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1975) Professor; social and cultural history, race & racism, theory and method

YOSHIHARA, Mari (PhD, Brown Univ., 1997) Associate Professor; Colonialism & orientalism, women’s & gender studies, literary & cultural studies, U.S.-Asia relations
Visiting Faculty (Spring only)

HORTON, James O. (PhD, Brandeis University, 1973) Professor; Race, 19th century social history, antebellum south, slavery and the Civil War, public history

HORTON, Lois E. (PhD, Brandeis University, 1973) Professor; Race, gender and ethnicity, urban history, social change

Affiliate Faculty

KIKUMURA-YANO, Akemi (PhD, Univ. of California - Los Angeles, 1979) American literature and culture

MURTAGH, William J. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1962) Affiliate Professor; historic preservation

SPICKARD, Paul (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1983) Affiliate Professor; multicultural studies

YAMAZATO, Katsumori (PhD Univ. of California, Davis, 1987) American literature and culture

Cooperative Faculty

STANTON, Joseph C. (PhD, New York Univ., 1988) Cooperative Professor, Comparative Arts

Emeritus Faculty

HOOPER, Paul F. (PhD, Univ. of Hawaii, 1972) Professor; regional and international studies

HUGHES, Judith R. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1967) Professor; politics and women's studies

LUTZKY, Seymour (PhD, State Univ. of Iowa, 1951) Emeritus Professor; history and social background

Chair/Director: Dean T. Alegado

Degrees Awarded: B.A. and Certificate

Ethnic Studies (ES) is an interdisciplinary unity with emphasis on undergraduate education. Initiated in 1970, ethnic studies at UHM combines traditional and contemporary methodologies with new perspectives on issues of race, ethnicity, and class. The focus is Hawai'i' with its rich legacy of multi-ethnic heritages, but the research, teaching, and service components also involve the U.S. as a whole and comparative studies of societies around the globe.

Ethnic Studies provides introductory and advanced courses on theories of ethnicity, race, class and migration. The program also offers courses on the history and experiences of specific groups, including African Americans and Native Americans. Among groups in Hawaii, Caucasians, Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos are subject of separate courses. There are also courses dealing with critical topics such as ethnic identity, land tenure issues, social movements, labor history, multiculturalism, and comparative ethnic conflict.

Students may earn a BA or the Certificate in Ethnic Studies. Our graduates have gone on too successful work in public service, social service, business, law, labor organizations, education and other fields that require sensitivity to people and their backgrounds.

Faculty

ALEGADO, D. T. (Ph.D.), Chair and Associate Professor, Filipino American > experience in the US/HI, international labor migration and diaspora, US-Philippine relations.

AOUDE, I.G., (Ph.D.), Professor, political economy and social movements in Hawai'i and the Pacific, Middle East politics

FAN, C. (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, Chinese American experience, Asian Pacific gender issues, Asian and Chinese history

KELLY. M. (MA) land tenure and use history in Hawai'i, modern Polynesia, contemporary issues in the Pacific Island area

KENT, N. (PhD) political economy in Hawai'i and the Pacific, American ethnic relations

McGREGOR, D. (PhD) Associate Professor, Hawaiian history, South Pacific social movements

TAKARA, K. (ABD) Assistant Professor, African-Amercian experience and literature
 

Department of English/American Studies
Hillsdale, MI 49242
Phone: 517/437-7341
Fax: 517/437-3923
E-mail: michael.jordon@hillsdale.edu
http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/majors/amstudies.asp

Chair/Director: Michael M. Jordan

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $13,220

Deadlines: Selective admission, until available slots are filled

Financial Aid: Six one-half tuition Merit Russell Kirk Scholarships

Affiliations and Internships: Oxford, Washington Hillsdale Internships Programs, Washington Journalism Internship

Program Specializations: American literature, American history, American political thought

As an interdisciplinary field of concentration, American Studies is a return to a concept of general education as opposed to specialization within departments. American Studies broadens a student's study of American history, American literature and American political science. The aim is a synthesis of knowledge, an intellectual process whereby the student conducts intensive study with considerable flexibility.

American Studies at Hillsdale College is not pursued in isolation from parallel influences. An interdisciplinary focus requires a concentration on the problems of diffusion and the transmission of ideas and behavior from one culture to another. American civilization is firmly set within the context of Western civilization. With its emphasis on integration, American Studies encourages students to pursue parallel studies, pinpointing other orientations relating to American culture.

American Studies Faculty

BUSCH, Christopher S. (PhD, Notre Dame Univ., 1993) Associate Professor of English

CRAIG, Mickey (PhD, Claremont Graduate School, 1986) Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Professor in History and Political Science

EDEN, Robert (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1974) Professor of Political Science

GILBERT, Arland K. (MA, Univ. of Delaware, 1957) William and Bernice Grewcock Professor of American History

JORDAN, Michael M. (PhD, Univ. of Georgia, 1989) Associate Professor of English

KALTHOFF, Mark A. (ABD, Indiana Univ.) Assistant Professor of History

KNECHT, Samuel J. (MFA, Univ. of Michigan, 1976) Director and Professor of Art

OLSON, Peter D. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1988) Director and Associate Professor in English

SOMERVILLE, John N., Jr. (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1991) Barara Longway Briggs Chair in English Literature
and Associate Professor of English

WILLSON, John (PhD, Syracuse Univ., 1969) Salvatori Professor of History and Traditional Values
 

Chair/Director: Eric Patterson and Lee Quinby

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment: (2001-2002): 51 majors and minors

Tuition: $25,664 plus room and board

Deadlines: Early decision,11/15, 1/1 (financial aid); Regular admissions and financial aid 2/15

Financial Aid: Merit-based scholarships, Pell Grants, FSEOG, Federal work study, Stafford loans, TA

Affiliations and Internships: Local museums and historical societies

Program Specializations: African-American Studies, Women's Studies, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Men and Masculinity Studies, Media Studies, Environmental Studies

The American Studies Program interprets American culture from an interdisciplinary point of view that combines critical social science and humanities approaches. The program provides a basis for graduate study in a variety of fields as well as an excellent background for law, journalism, and other professional careers.

Requirements for the major: Interdisciplinary, 12 courses. AMST 100, 101, and 201; two courses from the American studies introductory group; six courses from the American studies advanced group chosen to balance between the humanities and social sciences, five of which must focus on a student defined topic; and senior seminar AMST 465.

Requirements for the minor: Interdisciplinary, 6 courses. AMST 100 or 101, an introductory course from a field relevant to American Studies and four courses from the introductory or advanced groups, three of American studies which center on a major issue or theme. These should include courses from two different divisions.

American Studies Faculty

BAYER, Betty (PhD, Carleton, 1989) Associate Professor of Social Psychology

DEUTCHMAN, Iva (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1984) Professor of Political Science

GUNN, Christopher (PhD, Cornell, 1980) Professor of Economics

HARRIS, Jack (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1979) Associate Professor of Sociology

JIMENEZ, Marilyn (PhD, Columbia, 1981) Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Modern Languages

LYON, Elisabeth (PhD, Berkeley, 1992) English

MASON, Richard (PhD, Toronto, 1978) Associate Professor of Sociology

PATTERSON, Eric (PhD, Yale Univ., 1978) Associate Professor of English and American Studies; American literature, mass media, gender studies

QUINBY, Lee (PhD, Purdue Univ., 1984) Harter Chair in Humanities; American literature, general education, women's studies

RIMMERMAN, Craig (PhD, Ohio State, 1984) Professor of Political Science

SINGAL, Daniel (PhD, Columbia, 1976) Professor of History

Coordinator: Marilyn Jimenez

Degrees Awarded: Minor (in African-American or Latino-American studies)
 
 

Chair/Director: Mark Landis

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $14,500 per year

Deadlines: Rolling admissions, financial aid 6/30

American Studies Faculty

COUSER, G. Thomas (PhD, Brown Univ., 1977) Professor; American literature, American autobiography

KRIEG, Joann P. (PhD, City Univ. of New York, 1979) Professor; American literature,

LANDIS, Mark (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1973) Professor; American politics

Department of Afro-American Studies
Room 311, Founders Library
2400 6th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
Phone: 202/806-7242

http://www.founders.howard.edu/aas/index.htm

Degrees Awarded: BA (in Afro-American Studies)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate $8,320

Deadlines: Admissions: rolling; financial aid 6/30

Financial Aid: University Scholarships, tuition remission, designated scholarships

Affiliations and Internships: Afro-American Studies Resource Center

Program Specializations: Political, social, and cultural analysis

The primary mission of the Department of Afro-American Studies in the next decade and beyond is to provide an interdisciplinary, comparative undergraduate instructional program centered on the collective experiences, problems, and prospects of African Americans, other American minorities, and African Caribbeans. The department also explores the relationship between selected social science approaches, theories, and research and the structures, processes, and functions of minority group experiences in the Western hemisphere. Teaching and research provide the context for illuminating and developing solutions to problems of minority status.