American Cultural Studies - Bates College

American Cultural Studies from Bates College is a Campus Bachelor American Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. What does it mean to be American? Students in this interdisciplinary major at Bates reflect on this question in multiple ways. Through American Cultural Studies core courses and classes from other relevant disciplines, they ponder the changing meanings of nation and citizenship in both the United States and in the Americas. They consider how groups of Americans see themselves and each other, and investigate how institutions have constructed such differences as race, gender, class, and sexuality. These discussions assume that what has been deemed natural or inevitable is in fact dynamic and changeable, and that what has been socially invisible must be brought to light. All American cultural studies students are grounded in African American studies and use this groundbreaking method of inquiry to better understand the meaning of belonging, privilege, and exclusion. Among current American cultural studies courses are those that focus on cultural geography and cultural politics, borderlands, disaporas, film and media, gender, history, literature, music, performance, queer theory, and race theory. View more details on Bates College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related American Studies courses.