圣路易斯大学的美国研究硕士课程为学生提供了该领域的起源，发展，实践和理论框架的坚实基础，并帮助他们从事独立研究和学术写作。MA是在艺术和文化机构，图书馆，博物馆，历史学会，公共人文科学，非营利机构和其他场所工作的独立学位。有些学生可能会修读SLU的美国研究硕士课程，以作为进一步学位的前奏，例如专业的文学硕士或博士学位。圣路易斯大学屡获殊荣的美国研究系经过专门培训。大多数人都获得了美国研究的博士学位，所有这些人都在该领域从事学者和教师的广泛工作。我们作为教学老师的时间和精力都集中在美国学习的学生身上。同时，
Saint Louis University's M.A. program in American studies gives students a solid grounding in the origins, development, practices and theoretical framework of the field, as well as aiding them in the pursuit of independent research and academic writing. <br><br>Saint Louis University's award-winning American studies faculty are trained specifically in the discipline. Most have earned their Ph.D. in American studies, all have worked extensively in the field as scholars and teachers. Our time and effort as teaching faculty are focused on American studies students. At the same time, we enjoy productive and cordial relations with our colleagues in other departments who teach and conduct research in related fields, and students may take carefully selected courses in those departments, as students in other departments do in American studies.<br><br>Our faculty has particular strengths in cultural studies, the studies of cities, regions, and place, American religion, American musics, American education, and the study of U.S. empire. Right now, faculty research interests are in the intersection between American religion and the carceral state, interracial intimacy, St. Louis's civil rights history, literature and regional identity, environmental humanities and indigenous studies, and late 20th-century popular culture.