american studies courses

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• 250 Introduction to American Studies I (3)
• 251 Introduction to American Studies II (3)
• 300C American Social Film: Silver Screen and the American Dream (3)
• 301 American Studies: IS/Tutorial: Themes in the American Popular Arts (4)
• 302 Survey Of American Studies (4)
• 303WI Methods & Problems in American Studies (4)
• 340 Seminar: Critical Issues in American Culture (3)
• 340P American Material Culture: The 1950s (4)
• 341 American Material Culture: Objects and Images (4)
• 342 American Material Culture: Museums (4)
• 350 Medical Humanities and American Studies (3)
• 375 Censorship and Popular Culture in America (3)
• 380 Decade of Dissent: The 1960s (3)
• 400 Special Studies (1-3)
• 430 American Studies Internship (1-6)
• 440WI Senior Seminar (3)

related american studies courses

It must be stressed that the courses mentioned below are just a few examples of the many possible options American Studies undergraduates take to fulfill their requirements. This list is put together in order to encourage students to imagine the widest array of courses in order to explore their interests from various interdisciplinary perspectives.

• American Literature I & II
• Introduction to African-American Studies
• Mass Media, Culture and Society
• History of the Film Industry
• Contemporary Issues in the Mass Media
• Principles of Advertising
• Urban Economics
• Film as Art
• African American Literature Survey I & II
• Women in Literature
• Urban Journalism
• American History to 1877
• American History Since 1877
• Immigrants and Immigration in American History
• Indians of North American to 1789
• Kansas City: History of a Regional Metropolis
• American Government
• Social Psychology
• Racism in American Culture
• The American West in Mass Culture
• Silver Screen and the American Dream

Depending on your interests and focus you might also consider choosing one or two theoretical and methodological courses, these might include:

• Methods of Sociological Research
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• Methods of Anthropological Research
• Scope and Methods of Art History
• Theory and Practice of Composition
• History of Economic Thought
• History and Systems of Psychology

The UMKC American Studies Program is a division of the College of Arts & Sciences

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