Core courses

AMER1050 Foundations of American Studies, I: The origins of the nation 6 credits
AMER2050 Foundations of American Studies, II: Reconstructing the nation 6 credits
     
AMER2021 On the road again: Field trip in American Studies 6 credits

Elective Courses

American Studies | Comparative Literature | English | European Studies | Fine Arts | History | Music | Philosophy | Politics and Public Administration | Sociology

American Studies
AMER2002 The road in American culture 6 credits
AMER2014 A dream in the heart: varieties of Asian American culture 6 credits
AMER2015 The American city 6 credits
AMER2018 Show me the money: doing business with Americans 6 credits
AMER2022 What’s on TV? Television and American culture 6 credits
AMER2029 Current perspectives on the U.S. 6 credits
AMER2033 Asia on America's screen 6 credits
AMER2035 Addicted to war? The US at home and abroad 6 credits
AMER2037 Institutions in American life: home, education, work and play 6 credits
AMER2038 American film, from Golden-Age Hollywood to New Hollywood & beyond 6 credits
AMER2039 The art of crime and its detection in the United States 6 credits
AMER2040 Creating culture in the world: American creative industries in the age of globalization 6 credits
AMER2041 How the West was won: The frontier in American culture and literature 6 credits
AMER2042 Consuming culture: decoding American symbols 6 credits
AMER2043 Born in the USA: U.S. youth cultures 6 credits
AMER2044 Wall Street: Issues in American business 6 credits
AMER2045 Film beyond the mainstream: American art cinema 6 credits
AMER2046 Legal fictions: United States citizenship and the right to write in America 6 credits
AMER2047 Religion in America 6 credits
AMER2048 American literature 6 credits
AMER2049 Immigrant nation: The cultural legacy of immigration in the United States 6 credits
AMER2050 Foundations of American Studies, II: Reconstructing the nation 6 credits
AMER2051 Extended essay in American Studies 6 credits
AMER2052 Studies in American culture and society 6 credits
AMER3007 Dissertation in American Studies 12 credits
AMER3008 American Studies internship 6 credits
AMER3050 Foundations of American Studies, III: Capstone 6 credits

Comparative Literature
CLIT2045 Colonialism/postcolonialism 6 credits
CLIT2076 Fashioning feminities 6 credits
CLIT2084 “New” cinemas across national boundaries 6 credits
CLIT2092 Modern American poetry: Politics and aesthetics 6 credits

English
ENGL2055 American gothic: Haunted homes 6 credits
ENGL2089 Making Americans: Literature as ritual and renewal* 6 credits
ENGL2099 Language, identity, and Asian Americans 6 credits
ENGL2104 Language in the USA* 6 credits
ENGL2139 American modern* 6 credits

European Studies
EUST3018 European empire: Comparative British and French imperialism* 6 credits
EUST3020 The making of the West: From Descartes to Rorty* 6 credits

Fine Arts
FINE2020 American art 6 credits
FINE2029 Modernity and its discontents 6 credits
FINE2031 The rise of modern architecture in Western culture 6 credits
FINE2033 Cross-cultural interaction in the 19th century 6 credits
FINE3009 Perspectives in Western art 6 credits

History
HIST2015 The United States before 1900 6 credits
HIST2016 The United Statessince 1900* 6 credits
HIST2031 History through film* 6 credits
HIST2053 The Cold War 6 credits
HIST2069 History of American popular culture 6 credits
HIST2092 The United States and Asia* 6 credits
HIST2107 The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1931-1952* 6 credits
HIST2113 New worlds: Exploring the history of Latin America* 6 credits
HIST2118 Chinese and Americans: A cultural and international history 6 credits
HIST2126 The American family: Histories, myths, and realities* 6 credits
HIST2131 Growing up ‘girl’: Histories, novels and American culture* 6 credits

Music
MUSI2031 American music 6 credits

Philosophy
 
PHIL2002 Early modern philosophy* 6 credits
PHIL2035 Philosophy of the Enlightenment* 6 credits
PHIL2360 Political philosophy* 6 credits
PHIL2380 Philosophy and literature* 6 credits

Politics and Public Administration
POLI2105 Introduction to comparative politics* 6 credits
POLI2106 Introduction to international relations* 6 credits
POLI3005 Capitalism and social justice* 6 credits
POLI3010 Democracy and its critics* 6 credits
POLI3044 American democracy* 6 credits
POLI3047 United States foreign policy* 6 credits
POLI3079 Global justice* 6 credits
POLI3080 Global political economy* 6 credits

Sociology
SOCI2011 Gender and crime* 6 credits