Coordinator: Laura Henigman
Email: henigmlx@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-3752
American Studies Minor Website
Program Description
The minor in American studies fosters an understanding of the complexity of U.S., colonial North American and North American indigenous societies through employing a range of disciplinary approaches and topics. 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.
Minor Requirements
The requirement is the successful completion of 18 hours. In addition to AMST 200, 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.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| AMST 200 | Introduction to American Studies [C2HQC] | 3 |
| 3 |
| 15 |
| Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| Contemporary American Culture | |
| American Art to 1870 | |
| American Art from 1870 |
| Art of the Americas | |
| Early American Literature | |
| Antebellum American Literature | |
| Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature | |
| The American Novel to 1914 | |
| Modern American Novel | |
| Contemporary American Literature | |
| Studies in African American Literature | |
| Introduction to Ethnic American Literature | |
| African American Fiction | |
| African American Poetry | |
| Native American Literature | |
| Introduction to Asian American Literature | |
| Latinx Literature | |
| Virginia's Place in #VastEarlyAmerica | |
| Native Peoples of the United States | |
| The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| The History of Latinos in the United States | |
| Global History of Sport | |
| The Life and Times of James Madison, 1751-1836 | |
| Women at Work in U.S. History | |
| Women in U.S. History | |
| Jim Crow South | |
| The Old South | |
| How Cars Changed Everything | |
| Makers, Users, Skeptics and Thieves: Americans and Their Technologies | |
| We the People?: The American Revolution Considered | |
| United States Urban History | |
| Selected Themes in U.S. History | |
| History of Today | |
| Pills and Potions: Histories of U.S. Health Care and Medicine | |
| Advertising America | |
| Virginia | |
| African American History since 1865 | |
| American Material Religion | |
| The Southern Plantation | |
| War and Society in U.S. History | |
| Environmental Thought and Activism | |
| Contemporary United States | |
| The Unfinished Journey of People of Color in the U.S. | |
| Music in America [C2VPA] | |
| History of Jazz | |
| American Philosophy | |
| American Political Thought | |
| The U.S. Presidency | |
| The Role of Religion in American Politics | |
| Minority Group Politics | |
| The U.S. Congress | |
| Religion in America | |
| Latinx and Latin American Christianity | |
| Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora | |
| Born Again Religion | |
| New Religious Movements | |
| African American Religion | |
| Free Speech in America | |
| Media History | |
| Sociology of Immigration | |
| Race and Ethnicity | |
| Sociology of Education | |
| Sociology of Disasters | |
| American Theatre | |
| 15 |
| Total Credits | 18 |
