Respecting diverse claims to truth as changing also allows them to be understood as changeable. The major in American cultural studies requires ten courses in addition to a senior thesis. These electives should include advanced courses in at least two disciplines and constitute a coherent area of concentration. The proposed area of concentration and sequence of courses should be worked out with the faculty advisor and approved by the fall semester of the junior year. Interdisciplinarity involves more than a meeting of disciplines.
Practitioners stretch methodological norms and reach across disciplinary boundaries.
Through examination of a single topic, this course introduces students to interdisciplinary methods of analysis. Students examine what practitioners actually do and work to become practitioners themselves. This course is the same as African American Studies 250 and Women's Studies 250. Open to first-year students. Independent study of selected topics by individual students.