Oct 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

AMS 100 - Introduction to American Studies

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
This course meets the Arts & Humanities General Education Requirement.  This course meets the Social and Behavioral Sciences General Education Requirement.

Learn American culture and its many expressions. Investigate the various ways the American experience has been described from the earliest explorations to the present. Examine primary ideas and themes in the development of American culture through participation and observation.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC) and Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

Course Outcomes:
1. Identify the disciplinary foundations of American Studies.

2. Contrast competing notions of American identity.

3. Synthesize scholarship from many disciplines with non-academic writing.

4. Evaluate the utility of considering America to be an empire, while examining the anxieties that are associated with this concept.