美国研究提供了跨学科的学习课程，从而获得了文学硕士和哲学博士学位。该系的研究和教学重点是两个知识分子主题：日常生活文化以及身份和差异的文化建构。这些主题推动了我们对美国境内，整个美洲以及跨国界的多种文化的考察。他们还采用多种文化研究方法，包括物质和视觉文化，人种志和生活史，大众文化和媒体研究，同志研究，身体和性研究，性别研究，食品研究，数字文化，关键种族研究和文化风景和地理。学生将学习多种方法的专业知识，并在大学的多个系中上课。该部门得益于庞大而多样的会员学院，与史密森尼博物馆等文化机构的牢固关系，并可以
American Studies offers an interdisciplinary program of study leading to the Masters of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Research and teaching in the Department focus on two intellectual themes: the cultures of everyday life, and cultural constructions of identity and difference. These themes drive our examinations of multiple cultures within the U.S., across the Americas, and transnationally. They also embrace numerous cultural studies approaches, including material and visual culture, ethnography and life history, popular culture and media studies, queer studies, studies of the body and sexualities, gender studies, food studies, digital cultures, critical race studies, and cultural landscapes and geography. Students develop expertise in multiple methodologies and take courses in many departments across the University. The Department benefits from a large and diverse affiliate faculty, strong relationships with cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian museums, and ready access to many other museums in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, government agencies, archives and historical societies, and multiple local communities. Students may also take advantage of graduate certificate programs for which our courses apply, including Museum Scholarship and Material Culture, Critical Theory, Historic Preservation, and Women's Studies. The program in U.S. Latina/o Studies is contained within the Department, and we have a leadership role in developing Native American Studies.