AMERICAN STUDIES (AMST)

This course uses archaeological and historical scholarship to consider the histories of the Southern Indians from the Mississippian period to the end of the 18th century.

This course explores birth and death as essential human rites of passage that are invested with significance by changing and diverse American historical, cultural, ethnic, and ethical contexts. Honors version available.

This course examines 20th-century American Indian art within the context of critical topics in the field such as sovereignty, colonialism, modernity, modernism, gender, and representation.

This research seminar provides a grounding in American Indian law, history, and literature. Students will conduct research for presentation on Wikipedia.

This seminar looks at the culture, history, memories, and meanings of mobility for a diverse range of people in southern cultures. In particular, students will read and discuss books and articles by scholars on roads, cars, access, and diverse southern cultures.

Students will develop their own sense of Black feminist thought and practice through exploring the lives and works of several key Black feminist figures with ties to North Carolina: Harriet Jacobs, Anna Julia Cooper, Pauli Murray, Ella Baker, Nina Simone, Jaki Shelton Green, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Students will put these figures in context of Black feminist thought and will do hands-on activities that reflect Black feminist practices including poetry, dance, and painting.

This introductory Ethnic Studies course explores how race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and nationality shape power in society. We'll study how these forces have impacted Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American communities through systems of violence like slavery, labor exploitation, land theft, and war. At the same time, we'll learn how these communities have resisted and imagined new ways of living. Drawing from Third World, Black, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, Feminist, Queer, and Indigenous Studies, students will engage with key ideas and practices that have built solidarity and shaped movements for justice.

The linguistic landscape of the United States in historical and contemporary perspective: American English dialects, language maintenance and shift among Native American and immigrant groups, language politics and policy.

This course examines how food representations establish, reproduce, and also counter cultural and social assumptions about individuals and communities. We will consider the impact of the history of advertising in America on our national food habits and practices, the issue of authenticity in food and its intersection with the American immigrant food experience, the complicated gender politics of resistance baking movements, and the literary voices that shape ideas about American food politics and ethics.

Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. Honors version available.

What does it mean to study "America"? This course introduces students to American Studies, an interdisciplinary field that asks how people's everyday lives, cultural practices, and social struggles shape the meanings of "America" across time and place. Through readings, discussions, and analysis of primary sources, literature, film, music, and visual culture, students will explore topics such as race and citizenship, music and popular culture, urban and rural life, and America's place in the world. By examining both well-known and overlooked voices, students will consider how the U.S. has been defined, contested, and reimagined from its founding to the present.

Examines the role of memory in constructing historical meaning and in imagining the boundaries of American cultural communities. Students will understand more fully the processes through which the past is made to matter and how memory studies enables critical and creative investigation of the complexity of cultural meaning and power. Previously offered as AMST 384.

An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience.

Introduction to food studies covering a variety of topics including how food was consumed over history, land use and aquaculture, food in the arts, food and culture in the American South, food politics, and nutrition science. Previously offered as ANTH 175.

A study of interdisciplinary methods and the concept of American Studies with an emphasis on the historical context for literary texts.

What does it mean to study American culture through history? This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary methods of American Studies, emphasizing historical and cultural analysis. Students explore a range of sources including literature, film, music, photography, journalism, court decisions, government documents, and digital media, while practicing approaches such as archival research and close analysis of texts and images. We examine how U.S. institutions and culture have been shaped by the frontier, expansion, and overseas ambitions, as well as how those processes have affected people beyond U.S. borders. Topics include contemporary debates over the meaning of national belonging.

Introduces students to the disciplines comprising American Indian studies and teaches them how to integrate disciplines for a more complete understanding of the experiences of American Indian peoples.

How might we understand the American South as both a geographic region and a cultural idea? Emphasizing the region's diversity and complexities, this course explores the evolution of the concept of Southern identity through themes including race, class, religion, the environment, and politics. Students will analyze a wide range of materials including historical records, literature, films, photographs, and music to explore how conceptions of the South have been shaped, remembered, and contested. Designed as an interdisciplinary introduction to Southern Studies, this course helps students connect the many ways in which the South is understood in the U.S. and the world.

How do works of literature, art, and expressive culture help us imagine the American South? This course explores Southern cultural identity, literary imagination, and the elusive concept "sense of place" through fiction, foodways, art, music, architecture, music, folklore, and more. Students will examine the South's histories and contemporary realities while experimenting with their own modes of expression. Readings and discussions combine literary analysis with cultural studies, while a semester-long creative project invites students to craft original work in dialogue with regional traditions. This hands-on introduction to Southern Studies helps students develop skills in critical interpretation and analysis, and creative practices.

This interdisciplinary examination of 'Asian America' takes a rigorous approach via both primary and secondary texts to study the different groups most often identified as Asian American, their histories, legalities, sociology, and culture, and how they have developed within and in relation to the United States.

This course is an introduction to "animal studies," through animal rights, animal welfare, food studies, and the human/animal distinction in philosophical inquiry. We will read work from dog and horse trainers, and explore the history of the American racetrack. This course builds a moral and ethical reasoning skill set.

Enrollment by instructor permission only. This course explores the history of the death penalty in America between the colonial era and the present.

This course will address scandals, from past to present, in U.S. sports. Through an American Studies approach, we will focus on the relationships between sports and other elements of society, particularly capital(ism), competitive advantage, bodily wellbeing, and surveillance. In the process, we will consider how sports scandals -- both the original events and subsequent discussion/debate -- offer windows into the socio-political issues of a given time. Our over-arching goal is to address a question that is both social and personal: What is right and wrong?

This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. Honors version available.

Students will learn and practice the art of stand up comedy via structured assignments, group workshops, live performances and conversations that build on topics introduced in AMST 225. Class size is limited to 15 students. Instructor permission required.

Covers the histories of American Indians east of the Mississippi River and before 1840. The approach is ethnohistorical.

This course is designed to introduce students to the histories of American Indians living west of the Mississippi. We will examine the historical processes and issues that have shaped the lives of Indigenous Americans over the past five centuries from creation stories to the late 20th century. Given the expansive chronology we will examine the broad themes of each era while spending time diving into the histories and cultures of a select few Indigenous communities.

This course introduces students to a tribally specific body of knowledge. The tribal focus of the course and the instructor change from term to term. Honors version available.

This course deals with the political, economic, social, and cultural issues important to 20th-century Native Americans as they attempt to preserve tribalism in the modern world.

This course provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the health and healthcare issues facing Native American communities in the United States. Students will gain an understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political factors that shape the health status of American Indian populations, with an emphasis on the unique challenges and disparities they face. Topics include the impact of colonization, Indigenous perspectives of wellbeing, and government policies on Native health, as well as contemporary issues such as access to healthcare, mental health, substance use, and chronic disease management.

What is country music---a type of sound? Certain lyrics? Music for a particular region? Music for a type of person, and if so, which communities? This question might seem straight forward, but as we'll discover music fans have disputed country music's meanings for its entire existence. Rather than interpret it as a genre universally identifiable, we'll analyze country music as a marketing category. In looking at its history, we will also use it as a lens to think about larger questions in U.S. history regarding race, gender, class, region, age, politics, and capitalism.

Offers a historically, politically, and culturally contextualized examination of Native America through oral, written, and visual storytelling. Covering a wide range of genres, including oral narratives, novels, and visual arts, this introductory course showcases the fluidity of Indigenous artistic forms and their continuing centrality in Native America.

The first goal of this super course is to give students real tools for how to address multiple modes of difference and identity formations like race, gender, class, and sexuality.

A survey of the Jewish experience in the United States from colonial times to the present, that examines connections and disjunctures with the experiences of Jews in the Americas more broadly. Topics include the social patterns and communal constructs of the various Jewish immigrations; modes of political engagement; and the diverse cultural practices through which American Jews have shaped their identities.

This course examines the diversity of Muslims in America and the variety of creative expression created throughout this long history of transcultural involvement.

This course examines the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present and explores how gender shaped this journey.

This course examines a broad range of topics (race, class, sexuality, gender, and/or disability for example) that focus on power in the United States. We will move across a range of interdisciplinary sources and historical moments to understand who and what we are to one another in our national landscape.

We remember the 1950s as a period of relative tranquility, happiness, optimism, and contentment. This course will consider a handful of countertexts: voices from literature, politics, and mass culture of the 1950s that for one or another reason found life in the postwar world repressive, empty, frightening, or insane and predicted the social and cultural revolutions that marked the decade that followed.

Investigates the significance of Herman Melville as a representative 19th-century American author. Includes issues of biography, historical context, changing reception, cultural iconography, and the politics of the literary marketplace.

Examines how representations of captivity and bondage in American expression worked to construct and transform communal categories of religion, race, class, gender, and nation.

Explores the significance of tobacco from Native American ceremony to the Southern economy by focusing on changing attitudes toward land use, leisure, social style, public health, litigation, and global capitalism.

This course explores the intersection of public history and curatorial methodology, focusing on the principles and practices that shape the presentation and interpretation of history for diverse audiences.

What aesthetics and politics do Black people produce when their gaze is turned inward? This course examines representations of the inner lives of African American people in media such as film, visual art, and music to understand the Black private sphere. This survey course is intended for intermediate level undergraduate students.

This course approaches Chinese migration to the United States as both a historical subject and a methodological challenge. Rather than limiting this history to events and communities only within the borders of the United States, we ask how law, geopolitics, and gendered experiences shaped the transpacific Chinese communities. At the same time, we take up the questions: How do we know what we know about the past? and How can we read against the bias of the archive to recover marginalized voices? Students will work with diplomatic records, petitions, letters, personal essays, memoirs to grapple with these problems of evidence.

Examines the relationship between cinema and culture in America with a focus on the ways cinema has been experienced in American communities since 1896.

Interdisciplinary examination of the married condition from colonial times to the present. Themes include courtship and romance, marital power and the egalitarian ideal, challenges to monogamy.

This research-intensive course examines the forms and materialities of popular games in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present, with special attention to games as ''scriptive things'' that provide insight into the activities and beliefs of Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will examine a variety of games, with attention to historical contexts, circumstances of production, and other cultural developments, to understand their shifting moral and social meanings.

In this course, we will explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity.

How have Americans understood their role in the world? How have others around the globe responded? And how might different visions of the future emerge from those encounters? This course investigates America's place in global debates related to the environment, especially in terms of culture and politics. We will explore issues such as climate change and migration while also considering how views of nature, identity, and power intersect and shape America's actions abroad and at home. Readings and activities draw from historical texts and contemporary debates.

This course explores the social history and culture of crime, deviant behavior, and punishment in America between the pre-revolutionary period and today. It traces the history of longstanding institutions; examines elements of American history from a criminal justice perspective; and seeks historical origins and continuities for contemporary problems.

What can a drink tell us about society, power, and identity? This course examines the social, political, and cultural roles of alcohol in American life, from colonial taverns and temperance movements to Prohibition, southern moonshining, and contemporary "sober curious" trends. Students investigate who drank what, where, and why, analyzing how drinking practices reflect and shape social identities, class, region, and national belonging. Through historical research, media analysis, and ethnography, students produce creative projects including zines, podcasts, exhibits, and data visualizations that synthesize evidence and interpretation to reveal the complex historical and cultural significance of alcohol in the United States.

This course investigates how we make and signify meaning through images, ranging from art to advertising to graffiti, and provides the critical tools to understand the visual worlds we inhabit.

Introduces students to how legal education is conducted in the United States by mimicking the "1L" experience, or first year in law school. Students gain a baseline knowledge of the US legal system, learn legal vocabulary, and develop the ability to read and analyze case law, providing necessary skills for continued legal education. The subject matter covered will include contracts, property, torts, criminal law, civil procedure, and constitutional law.

This course examines Jewish American literary works in various genres from the nineteenth century to the present day. Together, we will interpret and critique the aesthetic and moral "worldview" of each work while simultaneously situating these works in the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.

Special topics in American studies.

An interdisciplinary seminar in American studies addressing ethical issues in the United States.

Topics in American history in American studies. Honors version available.

Topics in arts and literature from the perspective of American studies.

This course explores historical traditions of dissent as key political forms through which important rights and principles of American democracy were formed, have been developed, and still are pursued.

This course explores crucial challenges to privacy by changing technological, governmental, and corporate practices of surveillance. We will explore how technological and biometric tools are employed to capitalize upon and control populations. We will examine constitutional rights and privacy laws as well as practices and protections that can enable us to become more ethical citizens in the digital age.

An interdisciplinary approach to the history of adoption and related practices in the United States, employing the provisions society has made for the welfare of children deemed to be orphans as a powerful lens into changing values and attitudes toward childhood, race, class, gender, reproduction, parenthood, and family.

This course will move through prevalent critical theories in American Studies. Students will come away with advanced understanding of theoretical concepts and be able to ascertain both the advantages and pitfalls of their landscapes. Students will become familiar with critical race (postcoloniality and settler-colonialism, for example), feminist, "queer" theories, historical materialism, new materialism, political economy, just to name a few. Previously offered as AMST 420.

This course focuses on the contemporary art and social change movement. We will learn how to use site-specific and performative art interventions to make invisible borders, boundaries, and other issues visible and innovatively to create engaged and sustained dialogue.

This course is about Hollywood's portrayal of Indians in film, how Indian films have depicted Native American history, and why the filmic representation of Indians has changed over time.

This course seeks to understand how American Indian individuals and communities survived a century that began with predictions of their disappearance. To answer that question, we take a broad view of politics and activism, exploring everything from the radical protest to art and everyday forms of resistance.

This course examines this art form's development by indigenous writers as a mode of storytelling that explores the continuing effects of settler colonialism upon indigenous peoples and foregrounds indigenous notions of land, culture, and community.

An interdisciplinary exploration of Native America during the "long 1960s" (1954-1973), this course focuses on how American Indian experiences intersected with and diverged from those of non-native groups via topics such as the youth movement, women's rights, nationalism, civil rights, radical protest, and creative expression.

Analyzes material culture created by Native artists throughout the United States and portions of Canada. Examines the role of art and artists and how material culture is studied and displayed. Students study objects, texts, and images, exploring mediums such as painting, sculpture, basket making, beadwork, and photography.

This is a project-based course that explores settler colonial appropriations of American Indian knowledge. Students then use new technologies as a means of engaging in the digital re-representation and return of this knowledge. Instructor and topics vary.

This course will explore the Indigenous world in various settler colonial contexts. We will come to understand the communities who claim Indigenous status, commonalities among Indigenous peoples, and differences that create important distinctions in places like the U.S. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. We will also learn how Indigenous peoples around the world continue to respond to various aspects of colonialism, including but not limited to law and policy, representation, art, and human rights.

Drawing from Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, the course explores the political histories and lived experiences of Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans in North Carolina. Students will consider issues relevant to NC Southeast Asian communities such as food justice, labor organizing, mental health support, anti-racism work, transnational connections, etc. Course materials will include both written academic works and first-person narrative accounts from local community members.

This course will survey Asian American graphic form: written and/or drawn works from the late 1900s to present. We will begin by considering orientalism in both American popular culture and modernist aesthetics. We will then examine works by Asian American writers and artists in a range of mediums including graphic memoir and novels, comics, animation, manga and anime, illustrated books, zines, textual art, and visual poetry.

This course maps the South Asian American experience during indentured labor, pre-1965 immigration, anti-colonial efforts, post-1965 immigration, and post-9/11 era. We will examine South Asian diasporic cultural objects, including music, film, and literary works. Using interdisciplinary frameworks to analyze how South Asians have been constructed in relation to class, caste, religion, and other systems of difference, we will trouble the notion that South Asians in the United States have historically been a "model minority," and unearth histories of resistance. This will reveal connections to critical issues facing South Asians Americans today, including civil rights, assimilation, and expansion of state surveillance.

Traces the origins of detective fiction and major developments in the history of the genre in the U.S. and beyond, with a focus on women authors and protagonists. Examines fiction, television and film, with close attention to historical and social contexts and to theoretical arguments relating to popular fiction, genre studies, and gender.

An interdisciplinary seminar that explores stylistic choices and representational modes available to LGTBQ artists in the United States since 1950. We will relate shifts in cinematic and literary representations and aesthetic strategies to developments in political, social, and economic life.

Students explore, analyze, and research the politics and ethics of food debates in contemporary American culture. These include the struggles of the National School Lunch Program, the Minimum Wage Act's effect on the restaurant business, and the impact of social media on body image. Through engaging a combination of media discourse on food politics, scholarly articles, and narratives of people working in the food system, students are invited into vibrant debates. By the end of the course, students will not only analyze food systems but also design and conduct original research projects that contribute to ongoing debates in Food Studies. Restricted to Food Studies Minors and American Studies majors.

Seminar in American studies topics with a focus on historical inquiry from interdisciplinary angles.

How the language, ideas, and cultural products of religious outsiders responded to and influenced mainstream ideas about what American religious communities could and should look like in terms of gender, race, economics, and faith-based practices.

Permission of the department. Directed reading under the supervision of a faculty member.

Explores history and theory of volunteerism and service learning in America. Includes a weekly academic seminar and placement in a service learning project.

This course examines how indigenous artists have negotiated, shaped, and pursued markets and venues of display ranging from "fine" art markets, galleries, and museums to popular markets associated with tourism.

This course explores the relation of American Indian poetry and music in English to the history and culture of indigenous communities and their relation to the United States.

This seminar studies art and cultural expression to explore how interdisciplinary forms of storytelling are an essential part of collective work for social engagement. The course examines how varied aesthetic forms, multimedia creations, and digital platforms relate to important issues such as land and environment, migration and race, and power and social justice.

Students analyze how archives shape our understanding of history, study contemporary creative approaches to documentary, and learn practical skills for film production.

Covers the definition and documentation of communities within North Carolina through research, study, and field work of communities. Each student produces a documentary on a specific community. Previously offered as AMST 275. Honors version available.

Examines the ways in which films communicate the values of American culture and raise questions about American experiences.

This course explores ethnicity in the South and focuses on the history and culture of Jewish Southerners from their arrival in the Carolinas in the 17th century to the present day.

This course explores, through lecture and discussion, the experiences of everyday life from 1600 through the early 19th century, drawing on the evidence of architecture, landscape, images, and objects.

A reading seminar that examines multiple critical perspectives that shape the reception and interpretation of objects, with a particular emphasis on things in American life.

Permission of the department and the instructor. Internship. Variable credit.

Graduate or junior/senior standing. Examines American civilization by studying social and cultural history, criticism, art, architecture, music, film, popular pastimes, and amusements, among other possible topics.

This course gives an introduction to the American government's law and policy concerning tribal nations and tribal peoples. We examine a number of legal and political interactions to determine how the United States has answered the "Indian problem" throughout its history and the status of tribal peoples and nations today.

This course explores the history of Native interaction with the American legal system in order to understand how the law affects Native peoples and others today. Students are encouraged (but not required) to take AMST 510 before enrolling in this course.

This class will explore the intersection between race and American law, both in a historical and contemporary context. It will ask how both of these major social forces have informed and defined each other and what that means for how we think about race and law today.

This is a hands-on research based course focused on learning key geographic concepts through place-based education at the site of the university itself. We will learn approaches to geography based in Indigenous, Black, and Anticolonial Geographies, and develop theoretical frameworks, policy approaches, and public-facing research embedded in this place that we share. This will include archival research, qualitative and quantitative methods such as interviews and surveys, as well as mapping.

This advanced seminar and food-writing workshop focuses on the in-depth study of archival American cookbooks and the production of an original cookbook as the final project. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, the course emphasizes in-depth research, recipe development, and food writing. Each student will produce four well-researched, kitchen-tested recipes with accompanying headnotes based on fieldwork (e.g., interviews, archival research at Wilson Library). Students will also write an extensive introduction and include visual elements such as photographs or illustrations. Weekly seminar sessions will explore fieldwork methods, recipe writing, and narrative techniques, with peer feedback and practical food writing exercises.

Introduces the theory, politics, and practice of historical work conducted in public venues (museums, historic sites, national parks, government agencies, archives), directed at public audiences, or addressed to public issues.

Directed independent research leading to the preparation of an honors thesis and an oral examination on the thesis. Required of candidates for graduation with honors in American studies who enroll in the class once permission to pursue honors is granted.

Directed independent research leading to the preparation of an honors thesis and an oral examination on the thesis. Required of candidates for graduation with honors in American studies who enroll in the class once permission to pursue honors is granted.

This course will acquaint students with the texts, contexts, issues, and controversies in American Studies as a field of study. It is required for most American studies graduate students and open to graduate students in other departments.

This course will focus on techniques of American studies investigation. Various faculty members will make presentations highlighting approaches including Southern studies, American Indian studies, Material Culture studies, and new media.

This course takes a specific topic to explore in depth, and through this investigation critically examines contending perspectives on the field. Topics will change depending on faculty interest.

This course explores the theoretical underpinnings, history, and contemporary controversies around incarceration in the United States. It begins by exploring early articulations of the need for imprisonment as punishment, examines how that history unfolded in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and engages with contemporary debates about mass incarceration and its impacts on American communities.

Community Histories and Public Humanities explores how communities have been, are, and might be preserved, documented, represented, and remembered. Focuses on the use of digitized primary sources and tools to engage communities in public history/humanities initiatives using interdisciplinary approaches informed by American Studies and Folklore. Participants have opportunity to work on ongoing community history/archiving projects. Project-based work is supported by reading in memory studies, representation, sites of trauma, community archiving, and oral history.

Seminar traces the intellectual tradition of refugees, migrants, and forced movers transiting the United States. Beginning in the 19th century and progressing to the 21st century, we will examine the works of anticolonial thinkers, Caribbean philosophers, journalists of the African American and Latinx traditions, labor movement musicians, activists in the Long Civil Rights Movement, Marxist organizers, and social and political reformers. We analyze how their dislocations and multi-sited lives have created spaces for philosophical interventions.

This seminar introduces graduate students to critical food studies--a dynamic, interdisciplinary subfield that uses food as a lens to examine systems of power, measures of social belonging, and concerns about environmental sustainability. Drawing on methods from anthropology, literature, history, public health, and beyond, we engage with diverse readings--including ethnographies, biographies, farm records, community and chef cookbooks, novels, oral histories, and documentaries--to investigate American food communities as well as the uses and meanings of food within them. Rather than defining food studies, we explore its interdisciplinary questions and methods while reflecting on the ethical responsibilities of researchers in this evolving field.

An opportunity for students to translate theory into practice as they make meaningful contributions to digital humanities projects. Field experience can be tailored to fit the intellectual and professional needs of individual students, who may choose to work on projects in cultural heritage institutions or within academic departments on campus.

This course is devised to provide graduate students interested in theoretical interdisciplinary work with a sense of prevailing questions and critiques important to CES. CES takes on the more difficult questions of intersectional work, as it thinks through sovereignty and emancipation, identity and ontology, place, space and temporality. Each iteration of the course works itself through new perspectives in the field, challenging students to create new methodologies for their own work.

This course, explores the application of digital technologies to the materials, questions, and practices of humanities scholarship, particularly as related to enduring topics in American Studies scholarship and community engagement. Students will work on group digital history projects in collaboration with local cultural heritage organizations.

This practicum blends graduate seminar discussions with hands-on training in the digital humanities. Students will work in the Digital Innovation Lab, contributing to real-life projects while developing their own professional development goals. Students will emerge with a deeper understanding of and experience with digital humanities approaches, practices, and issues.

Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history.

Topically focused examination of social and cultural aspects of cinema and media history in the United States, including cinema/media audiences, reception, and historiography.

Graduate seminar exploring selected topics in the theory and practice of American Studies.

Permission of the instructor. Independent reading programs for graduate students.

Permission of the instructor. Topics and credit hours vary according to the needs and interests of the individual student and the professor supervising the research project.

This is the last required course for PhD students in the Department of American Studies. It is intended to scaffold you into "ABD" status: the concentrated period of research and writing that leads you to the completion of dissertation research and writing. This seminar supports you through the design and writing of your dissertation prospectus, to be completed and defended by the end of the fall term.

This course introduces graduate students to research methods in Native American history, including the methodology of ethnohistory and the techniques of compiling a source base, taking notes, and outlining.

Non-Thesis Option

Master's Thesis

Individual work on the doctoral dissertation, pursued under the supervision of the Ph.D. advisor.