美国文化研究是一个跨学科课程，它利用大学内各个系和学院的丰富课程提供的优势。通过“美国文化研究”计划，您将研究专门因美国社会文化多样性而产生的问题。对美国文化的研究使学生和教职人员能够：解决种族/民族，教育公平，社会和文化理论，社会经济阶层以及性别和性取向等问题，同时分析社会认同的形成。专注于美国化进程和美国文化制度和/或美国文化价值观。检查并质疑特权，沉默和声音的概念。成为批判性思想家，他们将为社会变革做好充分的准备。
American Cultural Studies allows students and faculty to analyze power dynamics, inequality, and agency, at the intersection of race, gender, status, religion, class, and ability. Our courses place particular emphasis on minoritizing and other exclusionary practices shaping limits to national belonging, and how those experiences are lived. We pay attention to the roles of institutions, policies, discourse, and other socio-cultural processes. We educate students in historical and social inquiry, textual analysis and interpretation, and critical theory and practice. We expose students to theoretical foundations in Settler Colonialism, Queer and other Feminisms, Critical Race Theory, Borders, and Transnationalism.<br><br>ACS serves those students and faculty who are interested in the study of such processes. The program allows students the opportunity to study issues that are key to nation building as an unequal social process. The program draws on the rich curricular offerings of the various departments and colleges within the university.