American Studies

Students in American studies engage in an interdisciplinary approach to American literature and culture.

Several core seminars on models, methods, and materials for interdisciplinary study, plus courses from other relevant disciplines, provide the groundwork for students to pursue theoretically informed, integrative research into their special interests.

Many courses offered through Hampshire's School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies and School of Critical Social Inquiry encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the study of American history, politics, literature, and culture.

• Reimagining American Literature and Identity
• American Literary Landscapes
• American Strings: Old Time and Bluegrass
• American Voices, American Lives
• Border Matters: Mexico and the United States
• The Contested American Countryside
• Directing Contemporary American Drama
• Ecology of New England Old Growth Forests
• Introduction to American Studies
• The "Good War:" Interrogating the History of the Homefront During WWII
• Mapping Jewish-American Generations
• Media in a Time of War: WWII and U.S. Popular Culture
• One Nation Indivisible: Federal Indian Law, Tribal Sovereignty, and Individual Rights
• The Politics of the Second World War
• Southern History and Literature
• Southern Writers: A Sense of Place
• This Land is Your Land: Land and Property in America
• U.S. Labor History
• U.S. Literature Between the Wars
• U.S. Literature Since 1960
• Women's Bodies, Women's Lives: Biocultural
• Dialogues of Women's Health in America
• The American Dream (AC)
• Asian Pacific American Studies (AC)
• Globalization and Culture in the U.S. (SC)
• Methods in American Studies (SC)
• Seminar in American Orientalisms (MHC)

Requirements

• Common Application
• An academic paper in English
• Supplemental essay responses
• Current transcripts
• School report, including guidance counselor recommendation
• At least one letter of recommendation from a teacher
• Certification of Finances form
• TOEFL or IELTS score (Minimum TOEFL score of 91 or a minimum IELTS score of 6.5. Predicted grades for IB English A1 or A2, or for A-level English, will also be considered.
• Additional letters of recommendation, up to three

Scholarships

• MacArthur Foundation Grant Making Programs
• American Association of University Women
• Fulbright International Scholarship Program for non-US students