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Graduate Programs:
MAIS Packages: American
Studies
America is an idea, a history, a culture, a way of life, and a
global power. The MAIS program in American Studies combines several
disciplines to explore how American society combined freedom and
power in a uniquely influential way. Combining materials from
intellectual, political, economic, and social history with studies
of advertising, popular culture, cultural classics, and minority
cultures, the American Studies package explores the growth of
America from its idealistic, democratic origins to its supremacy as
a cultural icon and world superpower.
The curriculum will pay special attention to the moral ideal of a
democratic society and the institutions of power. The standard of
democratic freedom and justice provides a framework for
understanding the innovations, successes, and failures of the United
States as a free and progressive society. Likewise, materials from
gender and ethnic studies will provide perspectives that have moved
from the margins to the headlines of American life.
Core Courses
Introduction to
interdisciplinary studies: The analytic tools that allow
students to analyze problems across the disciplines of humanities
and social sciences
Ethics: A developmental view of the relationship between
individual freedom and social obligations
Social philosophy: An examination of democracy as a solution
to the problem of power in politics, economics, and culture
Interdisciplinary research: A guided project combining
resources from several concentrations
Literature
Democracy as popular culture:
How modernism in America has come to reflect the influence of
advertising, corporate society, mass culture, ethnic pluralism, and
youth culture
American literature: From the search for cultural identity,
through literary mastery, to contemporary expressions
Literature and ideology: A study of the relations between
literature and society including both mainstream, subcultures, and
counterculture
History
American thought I & II:
The main currents that shaped American life from the 18th
to the 21st century
America on the world stage: How America's emergence as a
world power has redefined the mission of American democracy
Minorities in American history: The progress of American
society toward racial, ethnic, and gender equality
Contact Info
For more information about this program contact
Bud Fairlamb.
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