American Studies
Welcome to the American Studies Undergraduate Program
As an American Studies student, you can attend a top-ranked research university while building networks with faculty and peers in small, interdisciplinary classes and events featuring internationally renowned scholars.
The American Studies Undergraduate Program, housed within the Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS), is right for you if you are excited to learn from and with students and faculty in a truly interdisciplinary environment. Our small and topical core American Studies courses allow you to engage intellectually with a changing world and to ask, “what is America, to who, and how can we study it?” If you are passionate about approaching topics through international relations, geography, political science, history, cinema studies, our courses in these and other affiliated departments make this program an excellent fit for you.
Through engaging colloquiums, public lectures and conferences on and a fully student-led undergraduate journal, you have countless opportunities to learn from exceptional academics and gain skills that you can use to excel in all your future endeavours.
"The ability to unpack the unseen layers across multiple disciplines is something I learned from American Studies"
— Khushi Nansi, Minor in American Studies, ‘21
Images of the United States: A Visual Research Exhibition
This event will give students with course-related research on the United States a chance to represent their research with a single image. The submission will also include a 250-word abstract tying the image to the student’s research project. A committee will award prizes to exceptional research. On November 20, at 315 Bloor St, an exhibition will share these images with the Munk School community.
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