The Program in American Studies is the home of three undergraduate certificate programs: American studies (AMS), Asian American studies (ASA), and Latino studies (LAO). We offer these certificates as focal points for interdisciplinary inquiry and generative perspectives for dialogue. We highly encourage thinking between and across these fields.
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Students in “America Then and Now” visit the Princeton University Art Museum collection of American art and the Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Students in “The Asian American Family” present original creative work connecting race and kinship. Photos by Sarah Malone
Our courses bring together students and faculty from the arts, humanities and social sciences to cross disciplinary boundaries and explore questions of migration, colonization, race, borders, and diaspora; of art, culture, and language; of law and public policy; of gender and sexuality; of ongoing redefinitions on our campus and in the world. American studies undergraduate students approach complex issues of identity through the history, literature, art, politics, society and culture of the United States in all its diversities, engaging with texts that manifest and originate ideas of America. They write on topics including public health; foreign policy; graphic narrative; urban history, design and planning; food; television and digital media.