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This page uses javascript to help render elements, if you have problems please enable javascript.California State University, Fullerton Site Menu College of Humanities and Social Sciences American Studies Main Navigation Academics Show Extended Undergraduate Program Credential Program Courses Internships Students Show Extended Student Association The American Papers Careers Advising Show Extended The Major The Double Major The Minor The MA Program Graduate Program Show Extended Applying Advising Courses Thesis or Comprehensive Exam Faculty Show Extended Faculty Books Alumni Show Extended Alumni Profiles Books by Alumni Scholarships Show Extended Napolin APC Undergraduate Scholarship David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship Mike and Lucy Steiner Study Abroad Scholarship Academic Achievement Award American Studies Community Engagement Award Outstanding Reentry Student Award Susan Flinkingshelt Student Association Service Award Brown-Barraza Graduate Student Scholarship Earl James Weaver Graduate Essay Prize Support our Department Community Show Extended California American Studies Association Community College Board Contact If you need a class permit or assistance related to American Studies, please contact the department by phone (657-278-2441) or email Sandra Medina, samedina@fullerton.edu or amerstudies@fullerton.edu . For advising please contact the Department Chair, Dr. Terri Snyder, at snyder@fullerton.edu or 657-278-3748. You can also schedule a meeting with H&SS American Studies Advisor Raymond Gandara. You can contact him at rgandara@fullerton.edu or 657-278-1069 (HUM 112). For further COVID-19 information and updates, please see: http://coronavirus.fullerton.edu/ Department of American Studies American Studies at Cal State Fullerton is an independent department which takes as its primary subject American culture in its historical development. Our courses examine American cultural life in the past and present, always with the aim of helping students better understand their experiences and their society. We study how Americans have thought about and experienced such matters as gender, ethnic, racial, and regional identities, humor, religion, crime and violence, childhood, family, the built environment, community, mental health and sickness, cultural ideals, and cultural criticism. We are a department of engaged, energetic professors from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. In an American Studies class you will encounter a wide range of cultural sources for study. You may read one or more novels or autobiographies, examine movies and television as cultural documents, consider the visual arts and music, or view examples of the built environment. You will also be exposed to the most recent scholarship in the rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of American culture studies. Critical thinking and writing skills are the warp and woof of all our courses. All exams in American Studies are essay exams. All classes emphasize discussion and classroom dialogue rather than pure lecture. Students regularly write response papers in which they critically evaluate and synthesize what they have read and discussed. Students regularly conduct library and ethnographic research and write up the results of that research in ways which integrate their own findings with ideas and evidence presented in the classroom. In our General Education courses, you will study the broader dimensions of American culture, as it developed in the past and as it exists in the present. Our upper-division electives are open to all students with an interest or background in the specific topic. These courses reflect the research or interest specialty of the faculty giving the course, so you will receive the benefit of both the professor’s specialized knowledge and his or her enthusiasm for the topic. To learn more about our department: Watch a video of our students talking about their experiences in AMST. Learn more about an American Studies degree. Visit the American Studies section of the University catalog. Read the Department of American Studies Student Learning Goals and Outcomes. Read about what you can do with a major in American Studies. Why Choose American Studies? Or contact us directly by phone or email. News & Headlines Congrautations to Shannon Anderson for being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Giles T. Brown Thesis Excellence Award for her thesis Remembering the Bernals: Untangling the Relationship Between Race, Space, and Public Memory in Fullerton, California"! The Department is deeply saddened to pass along news that our beloved colleague Jesse Battan recently passed away unexpectedly. Jesse was a member of our department for more than 40 years, 15 of which he generously served as department chair. He was a wonderful friend and colleague and we will miss him deeply. Check out out Summer/Fall 24 Course Schedule! Congratulations to Dr. Snyder for being named to the Huntington Library’s Board of Governors ! Check out the newest edition of The American Papers ! Congratulations to the student writers and editors for such a beautiful and enlightening issue! Congratulations to Professor Craig Loftin for being named CSUF’s Outstanding Lecturer for 2023! Congratulations to Professor Battan for winning the HSS Scholarly Achievement Award for his essay "What is the Correct Revolutionary Proletarian Attitude toward Sex?”: Red Love and the Americanization of Marx in the Interwar Years” that can be found in Marxism and America: New Appraisals ! Check out Professor Loftin in the new documentary LA: A Queer History which will debut in June. The documentary will feature not only an interview with Professor Loftin but also actors reading letters from his book Letters to ONE: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s. Congratulations to Professor Abnet for winning the HSS Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Creativity! Congratulations to Graduate Student Marisol Rivera for receiving the CSUF Alumni Association’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2022! Congratulations to Professor Golub on the publication of his forward to a special issue of Crime Fiction Studies entitled "Criminal Crossovers"! Congratulations to Professor Snyder on the publication of her chapter "Slavery, Resistance, and Memory in the Lowcountry: The Commemoration of the Stono Rebellion," in the edited collection Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World ! Read more about it in the Titan Spotlight! Congratulations to Professor Lewinnek on the publication of her new book: A People’s Guide to Orange County ! This site is maintained by Department of American Studies . Last Published 5/7/24 To report problems or comments with this site, please contact dabnet@fullerton.edu . © California State University, Fullerton. All Rights Reserved. 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