AMST 101 United States Redux: Introduction to American Studies

This course introduces the major topics and perspectives of the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Students will explore the diversity of U.S. culture critically: in its official and unofficial histories, its self-representations in the arts, its complicated intersections of ideals and realities. The class is recommended for potential American Studies majors, or for anyone wanting to understand better the relations between culture and identity in the United States.