Graduate School

American Studies

American Studies

libarts.wsu.edu/amerst

Degrees offered
M.A., Ph.D.
Faculty working with students
35
Students
42
Students receiving assistantships or scholarships
90%
Priority deadline
Fall - January 10
Campuses
Pullman
Tests required

TOEFL or IELTS

Admission Requirements
To apply to the American studies program, send to the Graduate School:

  •   An official application form and official college transcripts sent directly from each institution attended.

Send to the American studies program:

  •   A 3 to 5 page statement of purpose describing your areas of interest and why the American studies program at WSU is a good place for you to pursue them (also mention any foreign language preparation and any teaching experience if you are applying for a teaching assistantship).
  •   A recent sample of your scholarly or critical writing (15–20 pages).
  •   Non-native speakers of English who seek teaching assistantships must submit an audiocassette with a two-minute sample of improvised conversation demonstrating their abilities with spoken English.

Program Description
American studies use interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the United States as a multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural society, embedded in transnational forces. The program has especially strong ties to our comparative ethnic studies and women’s studies departments, as well as longstanding ties to the history and English departments. We also work with faculty in anthropology, communication, digital technology and culture, education, fine arts, philosophy, political science, and sociology. In addition to the American studies courses, we coordinate faculty and courses from these departments, and draw them together in rigorous interdisciplinary synthesis. The program offers a broad array of possibilities, with strengths in ethnic studies, feminist studies, multicultural American West, environmental cultural studies of race, class, gender, sexuality and empire, popular culture, social movements, activist research, labor history, and cyberculture studies.

Faculty Interests and Course Details

Contact Information
Jean Wiegand
Washington State University
PO Box 644013
Pullman, WA 99164-4013
Telephone: 509-335-1560
Fax: 509-335-8338
E-mail: wiegandj@wsu.edu

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