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American Studies 1 Each concentrator will create an individual FOCUS consisting of at least three courses in consultation with the Concentration Advisor. The focus is American Studies the flexible core of the concentration. Here each student builds a coherent and dynamic interdisciplinary cluster of related courses that develops his or her compelling interest in some aspect of American experience. Up to Chair three courses from outside of AMST and ETHN can be counted for credit Matthew Guterl within the concentration if they relate to the concentrator's focus area. The Department of American Studies at Brown remains committed to Of the 10 required classes, four must be seminars, and two must be the interdisciplinary study of the American experience, drawing on a classes offered under the AMST or ETHN prefixes that have been tagged range of methodologies and practices to understand American society with a specific method. Each class must be tagged with a different and cultures. As one of the oldest departments of American Studies, method. These seminars and tagged classes can count for any other Brown’s program has an almost seventy year history of activist teaching concentration requirement. faculty fully engaged in research; prize-winning and productive graduate All seniors are required to do a capstone electronic portfolio. students who now teach their own students around the world; and curious and exciting undergraduates who use their educations in a wide range Some concentrators may elect to do an Honors Thesis and are of fields from medicine to law; from social work to library science. In encouraged to take AMST 1800, the Honors Seminar, in the Spring of 2005, in collaboration with the Center for Public Humanities (http:// their Junior year. Students pursuing honors are required to take two www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/), that administers the independent study courses (AMST 1970) in their senior year, n addition to degree program, American Studies began an A.M. in Public Humanities, the regular concentration requirements (for a total of 12 credits), in order to based on our revitalized undergraduate curriculum that fosters a publicly write their honors thesis. engaged scholarship and the John Nicholas Brown Center's mission to Requirements for the American Studies Concentration support and strengthen the work of arts and cultural organizations that strive to preserve, interpret, and make the humanities, meaningful and Junior Seminar: A course from the AMST 1700 Series, for 1 accessible. Faculty and students have together pioneered new avenues in example: transnational research, exploring the role of the United States in the world AMST 1700B Death and Dying in America and the importance of the world in the United States, and expanded our AMST 1700C Slavery in American History, Culture and research and teaching into digital scholarship. Memory For additional information, please visit the department's website: https:// AMST 1700D Race and Remembering www.brown.edu/academics/american-studies/ AMST 1700F American Publics AMST 1700I Community Engagement with Health and American Studies Concentration the Environment Requirements Senior Seminar: A course from the AMST 1900 series taken 1 during the senior year, for example: The concentration in American Studies seeks to understand American society and cultures as emerging from historical and contemporary AMST 1900A The Problem of Class in America processes at work in local, national, and global contexts. Concentrators AMST 1900B America and the Asian Pacific: A Cultural study four broad themes: social structure and the practices of identity, History space and place, production and consumption of culture, and science, AMST 1900C Narratives of Slavery technology, and everyday life. The concentration is predicated on the ideal AMST 1900D America as a Trans-Pacific Culture of scholarly engagement with the public, so students take junior seminars AMST 1900F Transnational Popular Culture that engage some aspect of the public humanities such as public policy, memorialization, community studies or civic engagement. Study abroad is AMST 1900G Movements, Morals, and Markets supported and encouraged. AMST 1900I Latina/o Cultural Theory Interested students may contact the director of undergraduate studies. AMST 1900J Race, Immigration and Citizenship A concentrator in American Studies will be able to: AMST 1900K China in the American Imagination • Analyze texts, contexts, and data from multiple disciplinary and AMST 1900L Cold War Culture The American Culture in historical perspectives the Cold War • Synthesize research as verbal, visual and/or digital presentations AMST 1900N Ethnicity, Identity and Culture in 20th • Explore the theory and/or practice of the engagement of scholarship Century New York City with a broader public AMST 1900O Filipino American Cultures • Understand how American society and cultures have been and are AMST 1900P Essaying Culture being shaped by global flows of people, goods and ideas AMST 1900Q From Perry to Pokemon: Japan in the • Experiment with new media as critical tools for scholarship United States, the United States in Japan Concentrators have gone on to a vast variety of careers, including law, AMST 1900R Gender, Race, and Class in the United public humanities, politics, public service, academics, business, creative States arts, and medicine. AMST 1900S Green Cities: Parks and Designed Requirements for Students Who Declare Landscapes in Urban America AMST 1900U Immigrant Radicals: Asian Political Spring 2021 and After: Movements in the Americas 1850-1970 The concentration requires 10 classes. AMST 1900V Immigrants, Exiles, Refugees, and Citizens in the Americas Each concentrator must take at least 8 upper-level courses including a Junior Seminar (an AMST 1700 level course) and a Senior Seminar AMST 1900W Latina Literature: The Shifting Boundaries (AMST 1900 level course). Students may take as many AMST 1900 level of Identity courses as they wish, however, for the course to count as a senior seminar AMST 1900X Latina/o Religions: Encounters of it must be taken during the senior year. Contestations and Transformations Students may count up to two lower-level classes (below 1000-level). AMST 1900Y Latino New York AMST 1900Z Latinos and Film American Studies 1 2 American Studies Two additional upper-level seminars taken from the AMST 1700, 2 Senior Seminar: A course from the AMST 1900 series taken 1 AMST 1800, or AMST 1900 series during the senior year, for example: Four upper-level lectures or seminars numbered between AMST 4 AMST 1900A The Problem of Class in America 1000 and AMST 1900, including those AMST 1900s listed AMST 1900B America and the Asian Pacific: A Cultural above. Some examples of past seminars include: History AMST 1250G Topics in Material Culture Studies: The AMST 1900C Narratives of Slavery Arts and Crafts Movement in America AMST 1900D America as a Trans-Pacific Culture 1880-1920 AMST 1900F Transnational Popular Culture AMST 1596 Education Beyond the Classroom Walls: Teaching and Learning in Cultural AMST 1900G Movements, Morals, and Markets Institutions AMST 1900I Latina/o Cultural Theory AMST 1600D Sports in American Society AMST 1900J Race, Immigration and Citizenship AMST 1601 Health and Healing in American History AMST 1900K China in the American Imagination AMST 1611M Trauma and the Shame of the AMST 1900L Cold War Culture The American Culture in Unspeakable: The Holocaust, American the Cold War Slavery, and Childhood Sexual Abuse AMST 1900N Ethnicity, Identity and Culture in 20th AMST 1901D Motherhood in Black and White Century New York City AMST 1902Z Radio: From Hams to Podcasts AMST 1900O Filipino American Cultures AMST 1904V Decolonizing Minds: A People's History of AMST 1900P Essaying Culture the World AMST 1900Q From Perry to Pokemon: Japan in the AMST 1905N War and the Mind in Modern America United States, the United States in Japan AMST 1905Q Laboring Women: Work, Reproduction, AMST 1900R Gender, Race, and Class in the United and Leisure since Reconstruction States AMST 1906H Beauty Pageants in American Society AMST 1900S Green Cities: Parks and Designed AMST 1906I Decolonizing Museums: Collecting Landscapes in Urban America Indingenous Culture in Taiwan and North AMST 1900U Immigrant Radicals: Asian Political America Movements in the Americas 1850-1970 Two additional courses under the AMST or ETHN prefix 2 AMST 1900V Immigrants, Exiles, Refugees, and Ungraded Capstone ePortfolio Citizens in the Americas AMST 1900W Latina Literature: The Shifting Boundaries Total Credits 10 of Identity Requirements for Students Who Declare Prior AMST 1900X Latina/o Religions: Encounters of Contestations and Transformations to Spring 2021: AMST 1900Y Latino New York Each concentrator will take 10 upper-level courses, four of which must be AMST 1900Z Latinos and Film seminars, including a Junior Seminar (an AMST 1700 level course) and a Two additional upper-level seminars taken from the AMST 1700, 2 Senior Seminar (AMST 1900 level course). Students may take as many AMST 1800, or AMST 1900 series AMST 1900 level courses as they wish, however for the course to count as a senior seminar it must be taken during the senior year. Six upper-level lectures or seminars numbered between AMST 6 1000 and AMST 1900, including those AMST 1900s listed Each concentrator will create an individual FOCUS consisting of at least above. Some examples of past seminars include: three courses in consultation with the Concentration Advisor. The focus