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| UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
IN AMERICAN STUDIES |
It’s my pleasure to welcome
you to the American Studies Undergraduate Program. Our department boasts
of some of the most exciting and esteemed faculty members and courses offered
at the University of Minnesota. In an American Studies classroom, you can
expect to engage questions about culture, race, gender, sexuality, and
globalization. You can also assume that you will unpack these complex issues
and processes through a variety of media--film, music, literature, history,
and art. Moreover, because our faculty members come from several different
disciplines, we teach our students to approach course objectives from many
scholarly vantage points.
Thinking with that kind of skillfulness is more important today than
ever before. In our department, we have tried to adapt to a world that
presents information in diverse venues (tv, movies, newscasts, texts,
newspapers) by making sure that our students have the skills to critically
analyze knowledge from a range of locations, giving students the tools
to navigate the profundities of an informational society. We are convinced
that equipping students to navigate a global world means teaching them
to reflect deeply on issues of equity and cultural diversity. As a result of our departmental vision, American Studies majors go on
to disseminate the knowledge gained in our classes to a wide array of
fields, changing the landscapes of and taken-for-granted assumptions
in business, education, art, law, medicine, and politics. Over and over
again American Studies majors prove the immeasurable value and awesome
applicability of liberal arts training and education. We firmly, stubbornly,
believe that giving students the resources to think critically, globally
and multiculturally is what a modern university does in order to achieve
relevance for the world in which we live.
If this is the world that you want to be a part of and if this is the
way that you would like to live in that world, we encourage you to become
apart of our undergraduate community.
See you soon.
JENNIFER PIERCE
Director of Undergraduate Studies
204 Scott Hall
e-mail: pierc012@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 624-0852
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