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Course Overview

The American Studies Minor takes you on a journey through the variety of cultures and ethnicities that all come together to create our unique society. Your courses will teach you how to understand and think critically about this interconnected web of culture. This cultural knowledge is your passport to the future.

Courses Include:

  • Introduction to American Studies
  • Art in New York City
  • Latinos in the Americas
  • Popular Music
  • Constructing Gender in American Literature and Culture
  • American Evangelicalism
  • American Philosophy
  • Latin American Philosophy
  • Walt Whitman’s America
  • Crime, Justice, and American Fiction
  • New York on Location: Walking Tours in the City
  • Art of Social Change
  • Topics in Public History
  • The Atlantic World
  • Capstone Seminar

The American Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program bringing together the methods and insights of many departments to give the SFC student a complex, rich, and sophisticated understanding of American culture as well as the context for understanding America’s interactions with the larger world.

Goals & Objectives

  • Develop skills of critical thinking, effective oral and written communication, and research.
  • Endorse interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary learning in order to give students a complex understanding of American culture and expose them to historical, artistic, literary, social, political, and economic perspectives.
  • Examine the city as a “text” or platform for encountering, critiquing and engaging American culture.
  • Promote cultural events that support an appreciation for the complexity of American culture and America in a global context.

Entry Requirement 

Admission Requirements:

  1. Submit your High School transcripts translated into the English language.
  2. If your previous institution was outside the United States, you will be required to have a course-by-course evaluation of your transcript. It is recommended that you use the SpanTran evaluation service 
    • We also accept transcripts that have been evaluated by any credential evaluation service that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).
  3. Submit proof of High School completion (diploma)
    • If you are currently still in High School please let us know your expected graduation date
  4. SAT/ACT scores are optional (with the exception of Student-Athletes and Nursing students)
  5. Provide TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo, PTE, or ITEP exam results.

Note: This requirement may be waived for students attending International schools.

Degree Requirements:

TEST UNDERGRADUATE
TOEFL iBT 70
IELTS 6
Duolingo 95
PTE 50
ITEP 3.7

Fees

Undergraduate Commuter Student Fee: $27188

Tuition (12 – 18 credits): $13344 per semester


This information was accurate on : 19/01/2021
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