| • Core courses | 
        
          | AMER1050 | Foundations of American Studies, I: The origins of the nation | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2021 | On the road again: Field trip in American Studies | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2050 | Foundations of American Studies, II: Reconstructing the nation | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER3050 | Foundations of American Studies, III: Capstone | 6 credits | 
        
          | • Elective Courses | 
        
          | 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 | 
        
          | 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 | 
        
          | 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 | 
        
          | AMER2051 | Extended essay in American Studies | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2052 | Studies in American culture and society | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2053 | History of US-China relations | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2054 | Business and culture in the 21st century: US/Greater China connections | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2055 | From Slavery to the White House: African American History and Culture | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2056 | American capitalism | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2057 | African American cinema | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2058 | Art and law in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2059 | 20th century American rock music in a global context | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2060 | US/Latin American cultural interactions | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2061 | Argentina and Chile dictatorships: Building resistance in literature and film | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2062 | Disability and human rights in American Studies | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2063 | American art and politics, 1945-today | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2064 | Art, time, and new media | 6 credits | 
        
          | AMER2065 | Radical artistic practice in the shadow of Hollywood | 6 credits | 
		
		        
          | AMER2066 | Art and crime | 6 credits | 
		
				        
          | AMER2067 | Making money: Art, culture, and economics | 6 credits | 
		
				        
          | AMER2068 | Magical realism in Latin American literature and film | 6 credits | 
		
		        
          | AMER2069 | Contemporary Latin American Theatre and Dramatists | 6 credits | 
		
		        
          | AMER2070 | Connecting East Asia and the Americas: A Multimedia Odyssey | 6 credits | 
		
		
        
          | AMER3007 | Dissertation in American Studies | 12 credits | 
        
          | AMER3008 | American Studies internship | 6 credits |