American Studies, B.A.

Take the following courses:

• AMST 300 - Introduction to American Studies (3 units)
• AMST 350 - California Culture (3 units)
• AMST 498 - Senior Seminar in American Studies (3 units)

Take 9 additional units in AMST-designated courses, which include

• AMST 142 - Race and Hollywood (3 units)
• AMST 152 - Surfing and American Culture (3 units)
• AMST 310 - Foodways in Contemporary America (3 units)
• AMST 325 - Beauty Matters: Culture, Politics, Labor (3 units)
• AMST 351 - Celebrity in American Culture (3 units)
• AMST 360 - Explorations in American Popular Culture (3 units)
• AMST 361 - Sports in American Culture (3 units)
• AMST 419 - The Suburbs (3 units)
• AMST 421 - Animals in American Culture (3 units)
• AMST 426 - The American Studies Mixtape (3 units)
• AMST 453 - Television Borders: Cultural crossings in the US Southwest and South (3 units)

•      (same course as HIST 453)

• AMST 467 - Histories and Cultures of Long Beach (3 units)
• AMST 495 - Selected Topics in American Studies (3 units)
• AMST 499 - Directed Studies in American Studies (1-4 units)

Take 3 units from the following courses:

• HIST 477A - American Cultural History (3 units)
• HIST 477B - American Cultural History (3 units)

Elective pattern (15 units):

Students choose a five-course elective pattern in consultation with the program advisor in one of the following areas of concentration. No more than two courses in this elective pattern can come from any one academic department.

1. American Institutions, Ideas, and Experiences
2. Diversity and Difference
3. Popular Culture, Media, and Consumerism
4. Public Culture and Civic Engagement
5. America and the World
6. Student Designed Area of Concentration