American Studies Courses

Any course carrying the AMS prefix can be counted toward the major or minor.

AMS courses regularly offered include:

AMS 1000	THE AMERICAN DREAM	3
AMS 1005	The Rise of Hip Hop and Rap	3
AMS 1050	American Voices	3
AMS 2041	Americans Abroad	3
AMS 2021	American Places I: Cities on a Hill	3
AMS 2022	American Places II: Frontier Nation	3
AMS 2040	THE AMERICAN HERO IN TEXT AND IMAGE	3
AMS 3998	Senior Evaluation	3
AMS 4495	INDEPENDENT STUDY	1-4

Courses approved for credit in the American Studies major or minor

AFS 3014	AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY	3
AFS 3033	THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN L. KING JR.	3
ARH 1021	COLONIAL AMERICAN ART & LIFE	3
ARH 2013	AMERICAN ART I	3
ARH 2014	AMERICAN ART II	3
ARH 3033	ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM	4
ARH 3077	Mexican Muralists	4
CAM 2021	Public Relations	3
CAM 2022	Advertising	3
CAM 3030	History of Television & Radio	3
CAM 3071	Minorities and the Media	3
CSCH 3019	Anarchy in the USA	3
DTH 2216	Dance History II: Contemporary Traditions	3
ENF 2080	American Film	4
ENG 1016	Introduction to American Literature	4
ENG 2047	THE JAZZ AGE	3
ENG 2050	Early American Literature	3
ENG 2052	American Modernism	3
ENG 2076	American Literature After 1945	3
ENG 3015	Fitzgerald and Hemingway	3
ENG 3057	Hawthorne, Melville, Poe	3
ENG 3085	IMAGES OF THE CITY IN U.S. LITERATURE	3
ENG 3126	Sylvia Plath in Context	3
HIS 1011	Development of America I	3
HIS 1012	Development of America II	3
HIS 2005	Recent American History	3
HIS 2009	The American Civil War	3
HIS 2012	American Sports History	3
HIS 2020	American History Through Film	3
HIS 2024	American Economic History	3
HIS 2036	HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY	3
HIS 2048	AMERICAN PLACES I	3
HIS 2060	RECONSTRUCTION & THE NEW SOUTH	3
HIS 3001	CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN WEST	3
HIS 3007	GILDED AGE OF AMERICA 1865-190	3
HIS 3014	African-American History	3
HIS 3015	Civil War Writers	3
HIS 3040	Harlem Renaissance	3
HIS 3052	History of Women in U.S.	3
HIS 3067	Topics in American Sports History	3
HIS 3072	American Transcendentalists	3
HIS 3086	EARLY AMERICA	3
HIS 3123	The Mississippi	3
HIS 3113	American Assassins	3
HIS 3160	Senior Colloquium	3
MUB 2021	Pop Songs & the Music Business	3
MUH 2016	History of Jazz	3
MUH 2235	American Musical Theatre: Then & Now	3
MUH 3002	History of American Music	3
MUH 3050	The Blues	3

Many courses that do not carry the AMS prefix (i.e. courses offered in other programs at Manhattanville) can be fully counted as electives in American Studies.

Any liberal arts course the content material of which is at least 80% focused on North American society and culture may be approved for American Studies major or minor credit by the Division Chair.