American Studies Minor

Graduate students in other programs at Montana State University may acquire a minor in American Studies by completing AMST 5XX/6XX, Methods in American Studies, AMST 5XX/6XX, Research and Writing in American Studies, and 9 additional credits selected from the from the list of courses below (see Additional Courses in American Studies).

Additional Courses in American Studies

AMST 401, Seminar in American Studies

ARCH 425, Western Architectural History

ART 419, 20th Century Art

ART 450, Contemporary Art

ART 463, 19th Century Art

ENGL 414, Literature of Place

ENGL 420, Critical Theory

ENGL 431, Studies in a Major Author

ENGL 441, Studies in Emergent Literatures

ENGL 510, Studies in Critical Theory and Practice

ENGL 540, Studies in Theory and Practice of Literary History

GEOG 401, Historical Geography

GEOG 503, Settlement Geography

HIST 402, Trans-Mississippi West

HIST 403, Gender in the U.S. and Canadian West

HIST 404, Montana and the West

HIST 406, Anti-Communism in the Truman-Eisenhower Years

HIST 408, Gender in America

HIST 412, Race and Class in America

HIST 422, History of the American Constitution

HIST 447, History of the North American Indian

HIST 455, History of American Technology

HIST 456, American Thought and Culture

HIST 457, Museum History

HIST 464, History of Yellowstone

HIST 466, U.S. Environmental History

HIST 502, Public History

HIST 503, History of America Before 1860

HIST 505, U.S. History 1860 to Present

HIST 513, Topics in Social and Cultural History

HIST 515, The American West

MTA 504, Film and Documentary Theory

NAS 405, Gender Issues in Native American Studies

NAS 415, Native Food Systems

NAS 425, Pan-Indianism in American Society

NAS 430, American Indian Education

NAS 520, Feminist and Gender Theories in Native American Studies

NAS 521, Tribal Government: Yesterday and Today

NAS 523, American Indians and Minorities in Higher Education

NAS 524, Contemporary Issues in American Indian Studies

NAS 525, Indigenous Philosophies of Sacred Ecologies

NAS 530, Federal Indian Law and Policy

NAS 540, Theoretical Positions in Native American Studies

NAS 541, A Critical Approach to NAS Methodologies

NAS 560, Native American Literary Traditions

POLS 409, Constitutional Law and Public Policy

POLS 415, Montana Local Politics and Policy

POLS 452, American Public Policy

SOC 427, Sociological Analysis

SOC 445, Sociology of Religion