American Studies

Immerse yourself in American culture and history

Do you feel like you want to "study everything" and create your own major out of your interests? American Studies offers you this opportunity. Our majors examine the breadth and diversity of the American experience. American Studies is an interdisciplinary program that integrates the study of history, popular culture, media, politics, literature, art and religion in order to critically analyze American society, culture, institutions and intellectual traditions.

As an American Studies major, you’ll be encouraged to question what constitutes American culture, and how cultural expressions reflect and reveal American values, beliefs, prejudices, pleasures and perceptions.

American Studies majors gain competency in American cultural studies by mastering theoretical and intellectual methods of study and by learning to interpret and analyze primary documents. Our students often double major or minor with other fields such as history, politics, and media and popular culture. American Studies students are lifelong learners, and majority go on to pursue post-graduate degrees.