该跨学科专业向学生介绍了许多角度，从这些角度可以研究美国的社会和文化生活。我们所做的工作从以下前提开始：“美国”本身是一个世纪以来一直存在争议的术语，并且自称为“美国人”的人们一直在围绕该术语的含义进行对话。我们的课程通过对种族，阶级，性别和性行为帮助构成美国机构和人民的方式的批判性分析，对全球范围内的美国过去和现在进行调查。从我们的入门课程（“美国身份”和“美国梦，美国现实”）到各种密集的顶峰讨论会，学生将学习理解文本和上下文的能力，以及对政治产生最大影响的表象和现实。和美国的美学景观。
This interdisciplinary major introduces students to a number of perspectives from which to study American social and cultural life. The work we do begins from the premises that ?America? itself has been a contested term for centuries, and that the people who call themselves ?American? have consistently been engaged in conversations over and around the meaning of that term. Our courses offer investigations of America's past and present in a global context through critical analysis of the ways that race, class, gender and sexuality help constitute American institutions and people. From our introductory courses (?American Identities? and ?American Dreams, American Realities?) through a variety of intensive capstone seminars students develop the ability to understand the texts and contexts, and the representations and realities that have most powerfully shaped the political and aesthetic landscape of the United States.