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Minor

Minor in American Studies

James Madison University James Madison University 67 courses

About This Program

Students will enroll in the gateway course AMST 200 , and then they will select from a list of courses drawn from a variety of disciplines including literature, history, the fine arts, philosophy and the social sciences. The minor program in American studies is open to all undergraduate students at JMU. The requirement is the successful completion of 18 hours. Students must take five additional courses from the list below. No more than two courses may be from the same program. See the program coordinator for additional courses that may be substituted.

Degree Requirements

Core Requirement: 3 Credit Hours

Code Course Title Credits
AMST 200 Introduction to American Studies 3

Electives: 15 Credit Hours

Choose five of the following courses:

Code Course Title Credits
ANTH 265 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean 3
ARTH 380 or ARTH 382 American Art to 1870 or American Art from 1870 3
ARTH 484 Art of the Americas 3
ENG 342 Early American Literature 3
ENG 343 Antebellum American Literature 3
ENG 344 Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature 3
ENG 352 The American Novel to 1914 3
ENG 356 Modern American Novel 3
ENG 357 Contemporary American Literature 3
ENG 359 Studies in African American Literature 3
ENG 360 Introduction to Ethnic American Literature 3
ENG 361 African American Fiction 3
ENG 362 African American Poetry 3
ENG 363 Native American Literature 3
ENG 364 Introduction to Asian American Literature 3
ENG 367 Latinx Literature 3
HIST 303 Virginia’s Place in #VastEarlyAmerica 3
HIST 304 Native Peoples of the United States 3
HIST 307 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 3
HIST 313 The History of Latinos in the United States 3
HIST 315 Global History of Sport 3
HIST 316 The Life and Times of James Madison, 1751-1836 3
HIST 319 Women at Work in U.S. History 3
HIST 320 Women in U.S. History 3
HIST 322 Jim Crow South 3
HIST 323 The Old South 3
HIST 326 How Cars Changed Everything 3
HIST 327 Makers, Users, Skeptics and Thieves: Americans and Their Technologies 3
HIST 336 We the People?: The American Revolution Considered 3
HIST 338 U.S. Urban History 3
HIST 339 Selected Themes in U.S. History 3
HIST 343 History of Today 3
HIST 345 Pills and Potions: Histories of U.S. Health Care and Medicine 3
HIST 347 Advertising America 3
HIST 350 Virginia 3
HIST 356 African American History Since 1865 3
HIST 362 American Material Religion 3
HIST 374 The Southern Plantation 3
HIST 397 U.S. Military History 3
IDLS 381 Environmental Thought and Activism 3
IDLS 382 Contemporary United States 3
IDLS 385 The Unfinished Journey of People of Color in the U.S. 3
MUS 203 Music in America 3
MUS 356 History of Jazz in America 3
PHIL 370 American Philosophy 3
POSC 330 American Political Thought 3
POSC 380 The U.S. Presidency 3
POSC 382 The Role of Religion in American Politics 3
POSC 384 Minority Group Politics 3
POSC 385 The U.S. Congress 3
REL 210 Religion in America 3
REL 324 Latinx and Latin American Christianity 3
REL 330 Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora 3
REL 332 Born Again Religion 3
REL 334 New Religious Movements 3
REL 336 African American Religion 3
SCOM 346 Free Speech in America 3
SMAD 372 Media History 3
SOCI 318 Sociology of Immigration 3
SOCI 336 Race and Ethnicity 3
SOCI 341 Sociology of Education 3
SOCI 357 Sociology of Disasters 3
SOCI 368 or ANTH 368 Contemporary American Culture or Contemporary American Culture 3
THEA 485 American Theatre 3

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