Degree Requirements
The Master of American Studies requires 30 hours of course work selected from the following list of courses and a comprehensive examination. Students are advised (and will be actively advised by the American Studies graduate director) to take a broad array of courses both with respect to department or discipline and temporally. Students may petition to have additional courses from English, History, and Politics, as well as from other departments such as Art, Classics, Economics, Theology, and Philosophy, counted toward their American Studies degree. No thesis or foreign language is required.
Courses
English Courses:
ENG 5319
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ENG 5352
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ENG 5323
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| ENG 6333 | Milton | 3 |
| ENG 6336 | Thomas More | 3 |
ENG 6337
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ENG 6338
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ENG 6361
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ENG 6362
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| ENG 6364 | Liberty in Literature | 3 |
ENG 6369
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ENG 6370
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ENG 7316
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ENG 7352
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ENG 7366
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History Courses, all 5300-level courses:
History. Seventeenth-Century America.
History. Eighteenth-Century America.
History. The Scottish Enlightenment.
History. American Military History.
History. Age of Jefferson.
History. Jacksonian Era.
History. The Civil War.
History. Texas History.
History. The American West.
History. America 1880–1920.
History. America since 1920.
History. American Catholic I & II.
History. American South.
History. American Intellectual History.
History. American Women's History.
Politics Courses:
POL 530X
| The Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy | |
POL 530X
| The American Founding | |
POL 530X
| Politics and Parties | |
POL 530X
| Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau | |
POL 530X
| Progressivism | |
POL 530X
| 20th Century Political Thought and Policy | |
POL 530X
| Modernity and Post-Modernity | |
| POL 7376 | Aristotle's Politics | 3 |
POL 6312
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| POL 6321 | Lincoln | 3 |
POL 6323
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| POL 6326 | The Presidency | 3 |
POL 6327
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POL 6328
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| POL 6377 | Special Studies | 3 |
Courses in American Studies
AMS 6377, AMS 6378, and AMS 6379: Courses offered according to student interest and faculty availability.