Learning Goals & Outcomes

• To understand and apply a range of methods for analyzing American culture across the disciplines, including historical, sociological, and literary or aesthetic analysis

• To understand the significance of diversity in the U.S. through the analysis of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality or other group identity formulations in a U.S. cultural context

• To understand how major U.S. institutions and structures, including governmental and cultural institutions, reflect and shape American society

• To construct and communicate arguments in written and oral forms addressing the significance of primary texts or material artifacts from American culture, such as works of literature, painting, photography, historical records and music

• To conduct scholarly research on American Studies related topics