The Interdisciplinary - American Studies major gives students a wide range of critical tools to analyze the society and culture of the United States and the Americas. Our majors are able to choose among electives across time periods, topics, fields, and approaches, including courses outside the American Studies department. Students thus complete a rigorous program of study that focuses on their own interests, offering a generous amount of academic flexibility while still remaining rooted in a shared and coherent curricular experience.
The department’s faculty are trained not only in American Studies but in literature, history, media studies, politics, music, anthropology, and other fields as well. Our majors learn to draw on theories, methods, and approaches from these and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in order to more fully understand the nation and the world. After they graduate, our majors pursue careers in a wide range of fields, including education, law, health and medicine, academia, museums, entertainment, business, foreign affairs, and social work.