Course variations

Course summary

The program explores the historic migrations, settlements, and encounters among peoples who have formed the American nation, focusing especially on Native American history and the construction of America's frontiers and borderlands. The notion of borderlands may be both geographical and metaphorical in defining spaces of cultural, political, and economic exchange.

Program modules

The modules include Amst 130 History of American Bodies , Amst 133 Introduction to American Indian History, Amst 140 Civil War and Reconstruction Era, Amst 141 The American West, Amst 162 African American History: From Emancipation to Present, Amst 188 The Colonial Period of American History, Amst 189 FORMAC, 1750-1876, Amst 190 FORMAC, 1876-1919, Amst 191 FORMAC, 1920 to the Present, Amst 204 Literature NOW, Amst 207 American Cultural Landscapes, Amst 210 Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Amst 213 History of Mexican Americans since 1848, Amst 215 Nationalism, Style and Taste: Nineteenth-Century American Decorative Arts and Domestic Architecture, Amst 216 American Art: Colonies to Cold War, Amst 217 Craft, Design and Art: Twentieth-Century American Decorative Arts and Domestic Architecture, Amst 246 Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, Amst 259 Colonial Literatures of America, Amst 260 Modern American Literature, Amst 261 The American Novel since 1945, Amst 270 Women in America: From the Colonial Period to 1900, Amst 271 Women in America: The Twentieth Century, Amst 272 Introduction to Asian American History, Amst 275 New Immigrants in the U.S., Amst 294 African American Literature I, 1740-1900, Amst 295 African American Literature II, 1900-1970, Amst 296 African American Literature III, 1970-Present, Amst 311 Religion in American Society, Amst 312 Religion in Modern America, HSAR 214 Anglicization of America: Architecture and Decorative Arts of Colonial America, Seminars (300 level): Amst 251 Asian American Literature and Culture, Amst 258 Wilderness in the North American Imagination, Amst 292 Interracial Literature, Amst 307 American Culture in Revolutionary America, Amst 321 Interraciality and Hybridity, Amst 325 Indian-Colonial Relations in Comparative Perspective, Amst 349 Border Feminism, Upper Level Seminars (400 level): Amst 403 The History of Latinos in the United States, Amst 409 Northeastern Native America, 1850 to Today, Amst 412 Film and History, Amst 419 Land, Homelands, and American Indian Histories, Amst 433 Representations of Miscegenation in U.S. Literature and Culture, Amst 434 International Migration and Refugee Movements I, Amst 445 Politics and Culture of the American Color Line, Amst 450 Representing Islam: Conflict, Myth, and U.S. Policy in the Twentieth Century, Amst 456 Making America Modern, 1880-1920, Amst 458 Northeastern Native America to 1850, Amst 475 Food, Culture, and Power in the Twentieth Century, Amst 476 Baseball in the United States and the World, Non Am Stud Courses (sample): Eng 127 Introduction to the Study of American Literature, Eng 369 Adoption Narratives, Hist 116 The American Revolution, Hist 148 Jews in America, 1684-present, Hist 174 American Intellectual Life in the 20th Century.

Entry requirement for international students

Students will be selected based on their academic performance. They should have Either the SAT I and two SAT II Subject Tests, or the ACT, with only two exceptions. Students whose home countries (e.g., mainland China) do not have a testing center are exempt. In addition, students enrolled in A-level programs may use completed A-level results as a substitute for the SAT II Subject Tests on a one-for-one basis provided official test results arrive at Yale by February of the application year. Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) for any applicant whose first language is not English and who has not received at least two years of his or her secondary education in an English-medium curriculum. A minimum score of 600 is expected on the paper-based TOEFL; a minimum score of 100 is expected on the Internet-based TOEFL; a minimum score of 7 is expected on the IELTS exam.

Qualification

Bachelor degree

Awarding body

Yale University

Department name

Yale College