Graduate School

American Studies

American Studies

libarts.wsu.edu/amerst

Please note: we are not accepting applications for the 2010-2011 academic year.

The graduate program in American Studies is currently being restructured. There is a hiatus on accepting applications for the 2010-2011 academic year. Your interest is appreciated. Please revisit our website in the future or notify us if you wish to be contacted with new information as it is available.

                                                     Degrees offered:

M.A., Ph.D.

                                 Faculty working with students:

35

                                                 Graduate Students:

42

    Students receiving assistantships or scholarships:

90%

                                                    Priority deadline:

Fall - January 10

                                                              Campuses:

Pullman

                                                      Tests required:

TOEFL or IELTS

Admission Requirements

  • Send to the Graduate School An official application form and official college transcripts sent directly from each institution attended.
  • Send to the American Studies program: A 3 to 5 page statement of purpose describing your areas of interest and why the program at WSU is a good place for you to pursue them and a recent sample of your scholarly or critical writing (15-20 pages)
  • Non-native speakers of English who seek teaching assistantships must submit an audiocassette with a two-minute sample of improvised conversation demonstrating their abilities with spoken English.

Program Description

American studies use interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the United States as a multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural society, embedded in transnational forces. The program has especially strong ties to our comparative ethnic studies and women’s studies departments, as well as longstanding ties to the history and English departments. We also work with faculty in anthropology, communication, digital technology and culture, education, fine arts, philosophy, political science, and sociology. In addition to the American studies courses, we coordinate faculty and courses from these departments, and draw them together in rigorous interdisciplinary synthesis. The program offers a broad array of possibilities, with strengths in ethnic studies, feminist studies, multicultural American West, environmental cultural studies of race, class, gender, sexuality and empire, popular culture, social movements, activist research, labor history, and cyberculture studies.
 

Program in American Studies

Contact Information
Rose Smetana
Washington State University
PO Box 644010
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
Telephone: 509-335-2605
Fax: 509-335-8338
E-mail: rsmetana@wsu.edu

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