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:
History Courses, all 5300-level courses:
Check with the History Department for the correct course numbers and descriptions. Below are a sample of courses that have been completed in the past.
HIS 5302
| America 1880 - 1920 | 3 |
HIS 5303
| American Intellectual History | 3 |
HIS 5303
| The Scottish Enlightenment | 3 |
HIS 5304
| Eighteenth-Century America | 3 |
HIS 5305
| The Age of Jefferson | 3 |
HIS 5305
| American Women's History | 3 |
HIS 5306
| American Catholic History I | 3 |
HIS 5306
| America since 1920 | 3 |
HIS 5306
| Seventeenth-Century America | 3 |
HIS 5307
| American Catholic History II | 3 |
HIS 5307
| The American West | 3 |
HIS 5308
| The American South | 3 |
HIS 5309
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HIS 5337
| The Civil War | 3 |
HIS 5339
| Texas History | 3 |
HIS 5342
| The Jacksonian Era | 3 |
Politics Courses:
Check with the Politics Department for the most current course numbers and descriptions for 5000 level courses. Below are a sample of classes that have been completed in the past.
POL 530X
| 20th Century Political Thought and Policy | |
POL 530X
| Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau | |
POL 530X
| Modernity and Post-Modernity | |
POL 530X
| Politics and Parties | |
POL 530X
| Progressivism | |
POL 530X
| The American Founding | |
POL 530X
| The Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy | |
| POL 6312 | Plutarch / Augustine / Machiavelli | 3 |
| POL 6321 | Lincoln | 3 |
| POL 6323 | Constitutional Law | 3 |
| POL 6326 | The Presidency | 3 |
| POL 6327 | Civil Rights | 3 |
| POL 6328 | Congress | 3 |
| POL 6377 | Special Studies | 3 |
| POL 7376 | Aristotle's Politics | 3 |
Courses in American Studies
AMS 6377, AMS 6378, and AMS 6379: Courses offered according to student interest and faculty availability.