BA American Studies (single honours)

BA American Studies students taking the single honours programme study six courses in Year One out of those offered (see below).

In Years Two and Three students take six more courses in each year from those listed below.

BA American Studies (combined honours)

BA American Studies students who are taking a combined studies programme with another subject take three courses in Year One from those listed below.

They then take 2, 3 or 4 courses in American Studies in Years Two and Three from the courses mentioned below.

Year One courses:

• American Dream: US Politics and Society (core course) 
• The American Colossus: From Pearl Harbour to 9/11
• American Cinema Since 1950 
• American Revolution to Civil War, 1607-1865
• American Tragedy: The Native Americans
• American Literature, 1607-1880
• American Studies Project
  
  

Year Two courses:

• Civil War to Civil Rights, 1865-1968
• Native Americans in the USA since 1865
• The Modern Presidency: Roosevelt to Nixon
• American Independent Cinema
• American Modernism: Literature and Art, 1880–1960
• Uneasy Neighbours: The USA, Latin America and Canada since 1865
• Consensus and Conflict in American Society
• Extended Essay
  
  

Year Three courses:

• The Black Freedom Movement
• The Native American Renaissance
• The Contemporary Presidency: Reagan to Obama
• The Cinematic City
• American Post Modernism: Literature and Art since 1960
• In Castro's Shadow, the USA, the Caribbean and Latin America since 1945
• The Supreme Court: Law and Politics in the USA
• Individual Study