Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in American Studies
The field of American studies extends across a broad spectrum of disciplines to offer integrating perspectives on American experience, thought, and expression. In this respect, American studies is decidedly interdisciplinary in its approaches, but at the same time it is very much a field unto itself, generating its own lines of inquiry concerning the American cultural mosaic. The minor in American studies offers students the opportunity to understand the American experience in a broader context than is usually possible through the study of a single discipline. More specifically, it provides students with courses that focus on matters that have been traditionally at issue in the study of American civilization and culture.
A minor in American Studies (AMST) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course,
- Six credits must be completed at IU Indianapolis
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Minor Requirements:
- AMST-A 101: Introduction to American Studies (3 cr.) and
Four additional courses listed offered under the American Studies prefix or cross-listed in American Studies (12 cr.) each semester. Students are encouraged to consider the general education course in Asian-American Culture as one of those courses.
AMST-A 102: Asian-American Culture (3 cr.)
American Studies courses at the 300-level
AMST-A 354: Literature of Rock n Roll
AMST-A 356: American Supernatural
AMST-A 357: American Conspiracy Theories
Cross-Listed Courses
Every semester, AMST cross-lists courses with other departments and programs. Any four of those courses can be used to complete the minor
